Sentences with phrase «funding round backed»

Coinbase has raised $ 75m as part of a Series C funding round backed by a host of impressive first - time bitcoin investors including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Fortune 500 financial services group USAA, Spanish megabank BBVA and Japanese telcom giant DoCoMo.

In 2017, Getaway closed a $ 15 million funding round backed by L Catterton, a firm that's invested in start - ups like Pure Barre, Snap Kitchen and Bliss.

The firm led Coinbase's $ 25 million funding round back in 2013, with the startup raising more than $ 200 million in venture capital to date.

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In addition to catapulting EverFi into the ed tech big leagues, the fundraising round marks the debut deal for lead investor Rise, a newly established social impact investing fund managed by TPG Growth, a private equity firm that has also backed Internet hotshots like Uber and Airbnb.

The key is learning what to do to ensure there is another tank (a new funding round or other capital raise) waiting for you when you head back up to the surface.

So when I had to terminate all employees, and ask 12 of them to volunteer their time for three months (on the hopes of me raising a new round of capital and getting their volunteered back - pay funded), that was a monumental ask.

LONDON, April 24 - Less than two weeks after the latest round of U.S. sanctions plunged Russia's rouble to 16 - month lows, some global funds have already stepped back in to buy rouble - denominated sovereign bonds and take advantage of the weaker currency.

The venture - backed startup has raised a bit less than $ 3 million in two funding rounds.

Recently, it made the move into RegTech by leading the investors in backing the US - based open banking platform Token, which raised $ 15.7 million in a Series A funding round in April.

That being said, even if you have a startup short sale (i.e. selling for less than the valuation you did in your last round), you basically pay back the last round of funding first and start splitting the money on a percentage basis after that.

They must have completed at least one round of venture - backed funding.

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.

Local rivals like Didi Kuaidi — itself valued at $ 16.5 billion with backing from Chinese behemoths like Tencent and Alibaba (baba)-- have kept pace with Uber's investment in the country (Uber's China business is valued at around $ 8 billion based on its latest funding round in January).

HeyLets is venture - capital backed, based in San Francisco, and is currently raising its next round of funding.

When it closes a reported $ 160 million funding round from Index Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, and DST Global, the company will have a $ 2.8 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable venture capital - backed businesses in the world.

The Georgian Co-Investment Fund, which took part in the round alongside DRW Venture Capital and iTech Capital, backed BitFury's previous rounds in May and October of 2014 with investor Bill Tai.

Harry's raised $ 75 million in venture funding in November 2014 and another $ 75.6 million in a Series C round in July, not to mention the $ 122.5 million they received back in January 2014.

HONG KONG / SHANGHAI China's state - backed semiconductor fund is near to closing a 120 billion yuan ($ 18.98 billion) investment round for a second fund to support the domestic chip sector and help cut reliance on imports amid a bruising trade standoff with the United States.

If markets pick back up venture funding will return as it was before the 3 - day, 10 % correction but if the VIX goes up (a measure of expected volatility in the stock market) then expect rounds to take longer.

Bench, the TechStars - backed bookkeeping service for SMBs, has today announced the close of an $ 18 million B - 1 funding round led by iNovia Capital.

Located in the impressive Alphabeta Building in Shoreditch and hot off the back of a # 2.4 million funding round, the team are making the final finishing touches.

The direct fund leads and participates in Series B through D rounds into leading companies, primarily backed by the managers we support.

Fried laments that such obsession with venture - backed startups is leading those who create startups to convince themselves their goals should be to secure three rounds of funding and then hope for an exit strategy where they sell their product to Facebook or Google.

Europe also saw over $ 1B in funding, led by the Rocket Internet - backed trio of Delivery Hero (raised a cumulative $ 673M across 2 rounds), Foodpanda ($ 210M across 2 rounds), and HelloFresh ($ 211M across 2 rounds).

The funding round was backed by the Europcar Group, a leader in European car rental services, as well as existing investors Autobinck Group and Startup Studio Founders.

The company, which was bootstrapped in its early days, quickly raised funding from Indian Angel Network, and also raised a debt round from SIDBI (which has been paid back).

We are a Chicago based venture fund that backs the most promising Midwestern tech companies and teams raising their first round of institutional capital.

Following a Superfunds Round Table last November hosted by Visy and The Australian Financial Review at which business leaders and financiers backed a push for super funds to increase their lending to companies, a leading fund manager said that more discussions were taking place between lenders, borrowers and intermediaries.

If you opened the business section of the morning newspaper during the past year, you likely saw an article that highlighted the latest funding round of another venture capital backed start - up.

In what is believed to be the largest venture - backed funding round in the Kansas City area's history, C2FO is lighting the fuse on its global expansion with a $ 100 million capital raise.

We have a track record of acting boldly and backing founders from the earliest stages of company formation and with evergreen funds we can follow our investment with additional funding rounds as your business grows.

Speaking further, Sahil said, «We are proud to be backed by people like Roger Ver (who has single handedly funded the seed rounds for the entire first generation of Bitcoin businesses), Amit Bhardwaj (who is leading the march for Bitcoin Adoption in India), Michael Terpin (he co-founded BitAngels, the first angel network for investments in bitcoin / digital currency companies) and more Bitcoin Pioneers.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose Chan Zuckerberg Initiative led Andela's Series B funding round, visited our Lagos campus back in August last year.

We don't know if Paterson can get the legislature back, or if the lame duck senate can pass anything, or if the Payroll Mobility Tax would be exempt from this round of back - door dedicated fund diversions.

In both rounds, even Labour supporters back local freedom over ways to find extra funding.

Compass raises another $ 100M in funding Venture capital - backed real estate firm Compass raised another $ 100 million in a new funding round, bringing its total...

The Round Up ready protein has properties of a dust mite allergen it shows the World Health Organization's criteria designed to prevent allergic proteins from then being introduced to genetically modified crops so those who are allergic to dust might end up being constantly triggered but getting back to our BT toxin, once the pro-GMO UK government that was funding this gene transfer study discovered the genes actually transferred and survived digestion, they pulled funding of the study, so we never looked at BT toxin.

The government - backed Careers & Enterprise Company announced the successful bidders for its latest round of funding from its Investment Fund which will target almost 20,000 students across the country.

Grants manager Eleanor Stringer writes about the new EEF funding round, which opened on FridayTake yourself back to the afternoon 4th October 2011.

Attempts to send the first round of funds last week failed due to a technical glitch, and funds set for disbursement this week were held back after Hobgood's ruling.

Directing DOT to shorten the application process for the 2012 round of TIFIA funding, which will accelerate projects and put workers back on the job more quickly.

Now, the company — backed by a group including Peter Thiel of PayPal — has raised two investment rounds and a total of $ 4 million in venture funding.

Since its launch, Funding Circle has raised $ 273M in equity capital from the same investors that backed Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Betfair and recently raised $ 150 million in another round that is sure to boost the platform's capabilities.

Real estate crowdfunding platform Fundrise, the most well - financed of a new crop of startups pooling investors to back real estate projects, has added another $ 3.6 million to its Series A funding round, taking total funding to $ 38 million.

Teatime Games, the Icelandic social games company, has announced a $ 7.5 million Series A funding round and a prior $ 1.6 million Seed round, both led by Index Ventures, a venture capital firm that has backed some of the world's most successful games companies including King, Roblox and Supercell.

Mighty No. 9 is heading back for a second round of crowd - funding in order to add English voice acting to the game.

Seedcamp is a first round fund that backs founders of tech - driven companies across several sectors, including legal.

* Magic Circle powerhouse Slaughter and May has backed A.I. platform Luminance in its $ 10M funding round.

Elman has dealt with this before, having hyped text fiction app Hooked whose seed round Greylock funded before it backed competing app Yarn's parent company Mammoth Media with Elman joining its board.

Simply put, it's a round of fund - raising similar to an initial public offering (IPO), only the shares don't have a vote, investors can't buy a majority stake, and there's no underlying assets backing the investment.