Sentences with phrase «funding efforts with»

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Toronto - Dominion Bank, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and National Bank Financial led the effort, along with five pension funds.

Some have claimed that VC firms are building their war chests in effort to compete (or at least keep up) with SoftBank's mammoth $ 100 billion Vision Fund.

The federal governments has been making efforts to boost entrepreneurial outcomes, with a new startup visa for foreign - born entrepreneurs and $ 400 million in funding to create venture - capital funds led by the private sector.

As for that leverage: you can rest assured that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has long been funding research efforts to replace the rare - earth metals with other materials.

To spearhead the Eco effort, Camp said he is creating a new non-profit organization, the Eco Foundation, that he plans to fund with $ 10 million from himself and a small number of partners affiliated with Expa, his 4 - year - old startup accelerator.

Indiegogo has made a big effort in helping entrepreneurs and new businesses with more than just the funding stage and the platform helps the entrepreneur through the whole lifecycle of their project.

Airbnb is contributing to the effort by working with the NGO Vital Voices Global Partnership and the nonprofit Global Fund for Women to provide travel and free Airbnb accommodations to 160 women who are small business owners and activists.

«If the entrepreneur is really doing it, not just presenting an idea but has put a lot of effort into making it happen already in real life and could use the funding to move their business forward, that carries a lot of weight with the judges,» Behnke says.

The funding is expected to create or maintain 300 jobs by helping Bell and 18 industry and academic partners develop innovative technologies, including fully autonomous aerial systems along with efforts to reduce noise.

It gained traction in the sciences with its annual SciFund Challenge, an online effort to fund science projects.

And the effort will finally launch this weekend with anti-smoking ad campaigns funded by industry giants like Philip Morris USA owner Altria Group and Reynolds, reports the Associated Press.

The Washington Post reports that the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program, a six - year - old effort that the U.S. and other countries have funded with about $ 200 million, has been suspended while officials reexamine its goals.

But with the disease still killing a child in Africa every few minutes, those eager to finish the job are worried that the presidency of the United States — a crucial funding source for international malaria control efforts — is now passing to a man whose commitment to global health projects is uncertain.

In three rounds, the last of which concluded in 2014, the central bank credited itself with funds that it then used to buy debt — Treasurys and mortgage - backed securities, the latter in an effort to drive down rates on housing loans during the worst real estate market since the Great Depression.

To spearhead the Eco effort, Camp is creating a new non-profit organization, the Eco Foundation, that he plans to fund with $ 10 million from himself and a small number of partners affiliated with Expa, his 4 - year - old startup accelerator.

H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.

With such lack of accountability it is not surprising that Alphabet contributed substantial funds to the tech lobbying groups who are opposing federal legislative efforts to give additional options to prosecutors and civil trial lawyers to fight websites like Backpage (child sex trafficking) and prevent them from flourishing.

Underneath the claim was a genuine problem with the message, that people truly wishing to assist the protesters could do so simply by checking in rather than sending funds or supplies to support their efforts.

The organization is leading efforts to impact these numbers directly with Female Founder Office Hours supporting women who are seeking funding, to having tech founders and CEOs commit to increasing diversity in their team, board and investors.

Southeastern Asset Management, another institutional investor, worked with Mr. Icahn on another offer to buy Dell, and also supported an effort by Barington Capital Group, a hedge fund, to shake up the retailer Dillard's.

The Jenkins Panel promotes a higher proportion of direct funding support for innovation commercialization while retaining traditional tax credit based support for science and technology R&D efforts, more in keeping with what most other countries do.

With funds continuing to be raised for the B Strong Initiative, we are preparing once again to expand our efforts, and to include new partner agencies in disaster - impacted regions worldwide.

Franklin Templeton is firmly committed to international efforts to combat money laundering and the funding of terrorist and criminal activities, and as such it makes every effort to remain in full compliance with all applicable anti — money laundering («AML») and anti — terrorist financing («ATF») laws, rules and standards adopted in the jurisdictions in which it does business.

We create win - win liquidity solutions for private investments in companies and funds and support their growth efforts with patient, long - term capital.

It can also be beneficial to make note of patterns in the fiscal and calendar year, targeting your efforts to align with the seasons when B2B buyers are under pressure to spend the remaining funds in their budgets.

The agreement also includes disaster relief for areas still coping with hurricane and wildfire cleanup efforts and additional funding for opioid treatment, each a priority for Democrats.

Despite efforts from the likes of Shell, BP and Exxon to reassure investors their business models are compatible with a low - carbon economy, some 71 per cent of fund managers said they have not yet decided whether they think oil companies can make a successful transition to a low carbon economy, and 41 per cent do not have a strategy for engaging with oil companies on the issue.

With both Bitcoin and Ethereum price hitting all - time highs in the past seven days, cyber-criminals have stepped up efforts to search and steal funds stored in these two cryptocurrencies.

CIFF has indicated a significant interest in funding up to 50 % of Living Goods» costs for 2015 - 2018, with the condition that Living Goods raises approximately $ 1 for every $ 1 CIFF contributes.152 Regardless of CIFF's decision, Living Goods is actively seeking funding from new and existing donors to fill its funding gap and plans to use these funds to support scaling up in Uganda and its partnerships and advocacy team's efforts to help organizations replicate the model in other places.153

The effort was partly successful, with the taxpayer's leaving Connecticut but agreeing to keep the hedge fund here.

The ailing nation is the first non-European to give to the fund's euro bailout effort with a $ 60 bln commitment.

Overall, GVBOT is pleased with the increased funding for research and efforts to encourage workforce participation from underutilized sources of labour.

And after working on various low - profile GOP political efforts in 2014, Cambridge landed a major job with a Mercer - funded Super PAC supporting Ted Cruz's presidential candidacy.

As Congress continues to consider hurricane relief funding, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget re-released its «A Mini-Bargain to Improve the Budget» proposal with a new plan to help finance disaster relief efforts.

We will be developing tools to track development funds for projects and welcome the development teams to work with us to communicate thier efforts to investors.

Although discussions of monetary policy since the crisis have mainly had to do with the quantity of money, and central banks» efforts to expand that quantity so as to stimulate spending, the effects of the crisis, and of governments» response to it, on the quality of money, and especially on the investments its holders have been funding, deserve at least as much attention.

Because of that, content creation itself has very little to do with the winners in these niches — the victor often has manipulated (or used extreme creativity, depending on who you ask) their way into 95 % percent of their link profile that probably had nothing to do with their on - page content — beside its reciprocal ability to fund link building effort.

In addition to its corporate efforts, Marriott Vacation Club Owners and guests at its seven Central Florida resorts will also soon be able to get involved by rounding - up their final folio balance to the nearest dollar, with the additional funds supporting the campaign.

Dalio, the mercurial chairman of hedge fund behemoth Bridgewater Associates, suggested Trump's efforts to pump up the economy with massive tax cuts and surging spending could backfire.

Suppose that at 11:58 a.m. some farsighted bacteria realize that they are running out of space and consequently, with a great expenditure of effort and funds, they launch a search for new bottles.

«We are thrilled to receive this donation from Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. and to work in partnership with All Hands Volunteers with their hurricane relief efforts in the Caribbean islands and the Florida Keys,» said Petra Nemcova, Founder of Happy Hearts Fund.

In fact, he's probably right when he says that many investors won't put in the effort to identify attractive funds, and of those that do, many won't have the courage to stick with them when they encounter inevitable difficult times.

Postmates, the San Francisco startup best known for food delivery, has hired the investment bank founded by famed Silicon Valley dealmaker Frank Quattrone to advise it on fund - raising efforts or a possible sale, according to three people familiar with the arrangement.

In an effort to bypass the rules and costs associated with getting listed on an exchange, many startups now are opting to raise funds by issuing their own digital currency based on blockchain technology.

That's the center of a new effort by GFT, a financial services firm that works with 9 out of 10 of the world's largest banks and well - known hedge funds.

It's about the determination of Republicans to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, National Public Radio and the Environmental Protection Agency - efforts that have absolutely nothing to do with the deficit.

With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.

The remainder of our group who have done a lot to raise funds have determined to give these groups everything we've made along with a «God bless you in your efforts,» type note.

Both churches in town needed larger buildings to accommodate their larger numbers, and the Methodists characteristically executed their funds campaign with aplomb, and with some smugness because the corresponding efforts of their Baptist neighbors were «down in the doldrums... God just doesn't seem to want us to build right now.»

Several efforts in the Philadelphia presbytery and in the general assembly to cut off Avodat's funding met with failure.