Sentences with phrase «funding from private companies»

This gives university presidents more freedom to recruit staff, manage their assets and budgets, create partnerships with industry, and look for additional funding from private companies.

Initiated fundraising effort and procured funds from a private company to establish the school's library

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One would - be buyer, a private equity firm from New York City, said it lacked the funds to buy the company.

«From the time we started till now we have seen significant changes taking place in the renewable energy space,» he said, citing the major changes in the Indian scenario like change in pricing of the energy, private companies taking ownership in renewable energy business and both, favourable and not - so favourable behaviour of the banks in lending funds to the energy businesses.

Local company Prairie Mining has raised $ 15 million from UK - based CD Capital for the development of its Lublin coal project, with the potential for the private equity fund to invest a further $ 68 million.

Biotech Moderna, a company focused on creating treatments based on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, has raised a monster $ 500 million from private investors in a Series G funding round, valuing the firm at a whopping $ 7 billion.

Selling to a search fund can be a compelling option, particularly for company owners without a natural heir or those who want to avoid private equity restructuring or the brand dissolution can result from a corporate acquisition.

In total, 15 billion pages of data were stolen from at least 144 U.S. universities, 176 universities across 21 foreign countries, 47 domestic and foreign private sector companies, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the states of Hawaii and Indiana, the United Nations and the United Nations Children's Fund, the Justice Department alleged.

In 2012, Spectra7 Microsystems (TSXV: SEV), an analog semiconductor company based in California, received $ 11 million in funding from three Canadian venture capital and private equity firms, Celtic House Venture Partners, Ventures West Capital Ltd. and EdgeStone Capital Partners.

The new fund said it would seek to buy minority and majority interests in both private and public companies, from emerging businesses to established, multi-billion-dollar firms.

An 80 - year - old ban that has prevented private companies from publicly advertising their efforts to raise funds will lift on Monday.

It went from being owned and run by a second - time entrepreneur to a limited partnership that brought U.S. retail experience to the table — private equity funds Advent International and Highland Capital Partners acquired a 48 % stake from Wilson in 2005 — and finally a public listing that has enabled the company to accelerate the pace of expansion.

Helix, a San Carlos startup that analyzes and stores customers» genetic information online, has raised $ 200 million from venture capital and private equity funds, the company announced Thursday.

Founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, SpaceX is a private company owned by management and employees, with minority investments from Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Valor Equity Partners.

The venture capital database says it has selected from over 2,000 private companies in the AI field based on several criteria, which are: investor profile, tech innovation, team strength, patent activity, mosaic score, funding history, valuation, and business model.

Private equity firms have had to lengthen their investment horizons to create value with their portfolio companies, from 4.5 years in 2006 to 6 years in 2016; Blackstone, Carlyle Group and others have recently launched funds with longer target holding periods.

We've identified 34 digital health companies on our Tech IPO pipeline list, alongside 6 digital health companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for returns).

OPIC has also supported several of these businesses through financing to the Siraj Palestine Fund (Siraj Fund Management Company), a private - equity firm that has invested in businesses across a range of sectors, from agriculture to finance, from Internet content to gas distribution.

Driving its slump was the decision to spend $ 2.1 billion to acquire the Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Company from a private equity fund.

The company has a dedicated group of private equity professionals in Menlo Park, California called Evergreen Coast Capital Partners, but the funds to invest in buyout deals come from Elliott's two flagship funds, Elliott Associates and Elliott International.

When we examine the investment time horizon of clients — ranging from high - net worth private clients to pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and sovereign wealth funds — we find that the clients typically have time horizons of a decade or more, and, in many instances, have an explicit multigenerational objective (see Exhibit 5, which highlights typical clients» time horizons).

Higher valuations for later stage, more mature companies may be supported as companies are generating revenues earlier and remaining private longer, as well as accepting larger rounds of funding from typically public investors.

What's more, women - led startups last year obtained just 2.2 percent of all VC funding, Brand said, citing statistics from PitchBook, a Seattle company that tracks mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital.

Since its Kickstarter campaign in 2013, Virtuix raised $ 16MM from investors including 10 venture capital funds, two strategic investors, Mark Cuban Companies, and private investors.

With the ECB, BoJ and certainly the Feds, the dynamic hedges are missing from the market, but they are going to resurrect themselves as more paper winds up in the hands of private holdings whether it be by pension funds or insurance companies.

For further commentary from Wattenbarger, see «Proposed Volcker Rule and the Effect on Private Fund Sponsors and Investors» (Oct. 27, 2011); and «How Will the SEC's Pay to Play Rule Impact Mergers and Acquisitions of Hedge Fund Management Companies?»

On January 17, 2012, Judge Carol E. Jackson of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri granted the SEC's request for emergency injunctive relief (including an asset freeze and appointment of a receiver) against Burton Douglas Morriss as well as several investment management companies and private equity funds operated by Morriss in response to the SEC's complaint alleging that Morriss misappropriated more than $ 9 million in investor assets from 2005 through 2011.

Funds of a U.K. - based private equity and venture capital firm on the technology and outsourcing agreements developed in connection with its acquisition of a majority stake in an insurance software business from an Irish global management consulting and professional services company.

His clients range from startup companies in the earliest stages to well - established public companies, as well as private equity and venture capital funds.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

Dr Rosie Cooney is primarily an independent consultant, and receives funding from a range of consultancy clients, including governments and private sector companies, none of whom are linked to the kangaroo industry.

The private political preferences of our company officers, executives and Board members are not taken into consideration when making political contributions from corporate funds or from the Kraft Heinz Political Action Committee.

«As Director of Media and Publicity of the Jonathan / Sambo Campaign organisation I received money on behalf of the Directorate of Media and Publicity which I headed from private individuals and companies during the election campaigns but these were not public funds but rather private contributions specifically for the Presidential and other campaigns.

Enabling P3s would give the state access to capital from pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, private equity firms and concessionaires to supplement public dollars.

WhoSay has received $ 1.2 million from the In - State Private Equity Program, which invests in New York companies through the state common retirement fund.

* At one private fundraiser, Cuomo took $ 125,000 from five limited liability companies connected to Cor Development, the Syracuse company that saw its state - funded projects soar after it began making the donations and hired a now - disgraced former lobbyist, Todd Howe.

«We write to direct your urgent attention to the destructive role of these companies in the current crisis in Puerto Rico, in which massive hurricane damage and economic loss is being exploited by private equity funds seeking huge profits from human suffering,» says the letter, which was also signed by groups including New York Communities for Change and the Center for Popular Democracy.

It then uses this new money to buy assets, such as government bonds, from private sector businesses including high street banks, pension funds and insurance companies.

Those are broadcast as widely as possible, sometimes even not available in the country itself (France 24 was originally not available within France so as not to compete with private news channels) and have their own sources of funding (in the UK, BBC World News is run by a separate company that does not receive money from the TV license), possibly including money from the local ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The EFCC subsequently received a petition alleging that over N50bn from the Employee Compensation Scheme fund, paid by Ministries, Departments and Agencies and private companies as well as another N18bn, being the contribution of the Federal Government as take - off grant to the NSITF, was mismanaged and diverted into the personal accounts of Olojeme and Umar Abubakar, a former Managing Director of the NSITF.

Stringer then directed investment managers to liquidate all investments in companies that derive at least 20 percent of their revenue from private prisons, including both direct investments and stock owned as part of an index fund.

Adam, a $ 10,000 - a-month consultant for AbTech, eventually lost his job with the firm when he couldn't help expedite payments to AbTech from the Nassau contract, despite assurances his father was pushing legislation on public - private partnerships and a potential $ 800 million clean water fund that would have helped the company's bottom line.

DeltaPoint is a private equity firm that raises money from wealthy individuals, banks, insurance companies and other retirement funds to invest in businesses.

Stamets has no regular academic or institutional affiliation; his research is funded mostly by the profits from his private company, Fungi Perfecti, which sells gourmet and medicinal mushrooms (along with growing kits, mushroom - derived supplements and mushroom - related books and knickknacks) by mail order and at health food stores.

The institute, called the Institute for Genomic Research, is funded by a ten - year, $ 70 million grant from Human Genome Sciences, a private company set up by venture capitalists.

Frohlich and his colleagues analyzed data recorded by the EarthScope USArray, a National Science Foundation - funded network of temporary broadband seismometers, during September 2008 and May 2011, and from IHS, Inc., a private company that compiles information about petroleum operations from state regulatory sources.

Gig.U is holding a request for information (RFI) from September to November to solicit ideas from the local service providers for building out new networks, which would ultimately be funded by Gig.U members as well as any non-profits and private - sector companies interested in the project.

She's been looking into various funding opportunities — including E.U. funds, grants from the Dutch government, and support from private companies — to keep costs for the young researchers as low as possible.

Neither Christy nor Spencer receives any research support or funding from oil, coal or industrial companies or organizations, or from any private or special interest groups.

The small Burlingame, California — company has already attracted support from private investors and garnered a $ 1 million National Institutes of Health Challenge Grant, made possible by NIH's stimulus funding.