Sentences with phrase «funds raised before»

The Queens Democrat has millions in campaign funds he raised before a sexting scandal forced him to resign from office nearly two years ago.

In addition, a further $ 1.3 million has been raised through a placement at the same issue price, bringing total funds raised before costs to $ 13 million.

Not exact matches

There are many options for raising funds to start building your mobile app before you get to the investor.

As we've noted before, VC firms are raising larger and larger funds, pumping capital into venture - backed companies at the various stages, and likely inflating already - inflated tech valuations.

Before seeking venture funding, the company should raise about $ 1 million and bring in some helpful angels.

Female Founders Fund estimates that even before the very recent venture capital slowdown, an entrepreneur's chances of raising an A round to follow a seed funding were only about 30 percent.

«And we are going [to their investors], «Just so you know, we're going to be fund - raising after this, so before you decide whether you want to invest in them, just make sure you know that we are going to be fund - raising immediately after.»»

Exchange - traded funds that track high - yield bond indexes have been the beneficiaries of a cash surge in recent weeks as market participants figure the central bank probably won't raise rates in 2015, and it could be well into 2016 before anything happens.

So before you set out to develop a pitch and raise money for your new business idea, understand the truth behind a few of these popular funding myths.

FORTUNE — There are three ways to raise a first - time seed fund when you've never even been a VC firm partner before.

And Juicero raised over $ 100 million in venture funding before closing down this year.

Jawbone scored a valuation of $ 3 billion and had raised $ 930 million in venture funding before liquidating its assets.

Njoy raised $ 181 million in venture funding and achieved a $ 1 billion valuation before Homewood Capital acquired its assets.

Passion for change is the first quality that all social enterprise founders start with before embarking on a journey to raise awareness, grow funding, solve problems and meet needs.

Startups should make certain that they raise enough seed funding to provide a comfortable runway to successfully meet benchmarks and collect enough data to show success before considering subsequent series A funding.

The company raised $ 220 million through three rounds of funding before it even launched, giving it a $ 600 valuation.

Raising the pressure on Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras before a euro zone summit on Tuesday, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to keep a tight grip on funding to Greek banks.

Tesla has consistently fallen short of its promises on car production and has promised in the past it would not need to raise funds, before doing just that.

The other two companies that have raised funding in the similar range are Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. that secured $ 1.6 billion in 2011 and Facebook Inc. that raised $ 1.5 billion before it went public in 2011.

Ant Financial, the electronic financial services firm owned by Alibaba, is going through one final fund - raising round before it also decides whether to list its shares publicly late this year or early next year, according to these people.

Borqs International Holding Corp, which operates Internet of Things (IoT) device developer Borqs, has raised an undisclosed amount in its Series E round of funding led by Qualcomm Ventures, weeks before the firm is set to undergo a reverse merger, it said in a statement.

I've sat in numerous fund raising pitches before when I was in banking and in my personal private equity investments.

The Fed first has to raise their Funds Rate significantly above zero and not cause a recession before we get to see if this is true.

Bitcoin news site Bitcoin.com ran a survey that found that out of 902 companies that sought to raise an ICO, 142 failed before closing funding, and 276 failed after fundraising.

Before raising funds, an entrepreneur must remain cognizant of his or her responsibility towards providing investors a reasonable exit.

TORONTO (Reuters)- The owner of adultery website Ashley Madison had already been struggling to sell itself or raise funds for at least three years before the publication of details about its members, according to internal documents and emails also released by hackers as part of their assault on the company in recent weeks.

Kevin Irwin, President & CIO of Knollwood Investments, stated, «Based on their prior investment track records and successful investments such as Imperva and Athena Health, I sought out Aspect even before they raised their Fund I. I was pleased to be an investor in Fund I, and it is terrific that just a few years in an Aspect portfolio company in the cybersecurity arena has already done a successful IPO.

Rather than raise two separate funds, as we had done before (an early stage fund and a special opportunities fund), we decided to raise a single fund that would focus on spectacular entrepreneurs independent of stage.

Agolo has raised a number of smaller seed rounds of funding before now, but with its latest cash injection the company said it now plans to «transform the way financial service analysts do their jobs» by expanding its platform to cater to asset managers and investment banks.

The pair went on to make a number of investments that first year before deciding to raise funds more formally from outsiders, like a conventional venture firm, and early in 2015 announced a $ 150 million fund.

Although some people will raise a red flag about increasing debt levels, Edmonton only has about half the debt level of Calgary and a repayment plan was in place before any funds were borrowed (a requirement under provincial law.

But even before raising this new fund, it had co-founded and invested in many dozens of companies.

Managers must also recognize that running a quant fund raises unique operational and marketing challenges, not least because of the extremely high standard of due diligence that many institutional investors are likely to apply before making allocations.

Before HPM Partners, Pierre was at Two Sigma Investments, where he raised capital for the firm's quant hedge funds and he invested capital in private deals in Mainland China and elsewhere.

Like my Park Service friend, we could profit by keeping our own photographs of vanished legacies before us, placed alongside the church budget report, as a reminder that stewardship has always meant more than fund - raising.

He traveled to New York to raise funds to rebuild the church and the YMCA, but while walking down Wall Street, he felt what he described as «a presence and power» as he had never known before, so much that he cried aloud, «Hold Lord, it is enough!»

He was raising starter funds before getting going.

Also read today that AFC is still interested in Lemar and VVD, needing to raise funds for the transfers but AFC hoping to get it done before the deadline... I know, another rumor to build our hopes lol.

We all read about how Wenger was desperate for Lemar, why didn't AFC offer the money... well offer a good figure before arranging sale of Alexis to raise the funds for the transfer?

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Tottenham Hotspur is making a donation to the Burns Unit and the Premier League will be matching funds raised by fans collecting before the game outside White Hart Lane.

The 25 - year - old is available for transfer, according to the Daily Mirror, as PSG look to raise funds before splashing out on new players.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli noted today that the state's general fund has run a negative balance every day so far this month, which raises questions about whether there will be sufficient funds on hand to pay billions of dollars worth of bills that will come due before June is out.

And even though Gov. Andrew Cuomo is 1) sitting on $ 19.3 million worth of political cash as of mid-July; 2) fresh off hosting one of his biggest fund - raising events of the year — his 55th birthday bash at the Waldorf Astoria for which tickets ranged from $ 1,500 to $ 50,000 a pop; and 3) pushing for campaign finance reform; he's still interested in squeezing some additional dollars out of his donors before reporting his latest haul to the Board on Jan. 15.

De Blasio will have to appear in two debates before the September primary now that his chief Democratic rival, Sal F. Albanese, has crossed the threshold of fund - raising and campaign spending needed to qualify.

Margaret recounted that, even before the grand finale, all the 20 contestants were asked to raised funds to make a donation to Korle - Bu's maternity ward.

Before his administration was one year old, Mayor Bill de Blasio had begun fund - raising for Democratic candidates for the State Senate.

Rep. Pete Sessions (R - TX)-- the chairman of the Republican committee tasked with raising funds to elect more House Republicans — told us that he saw no conflict with his members raising money from the oil industry just about an hour before BP was scheduled to appear for questioning.»

The lawsuit, which is being filed by a lawyer representing former staff members, claimed in the two years before closing, the hospital also paid $ 17 million for «management consultants,» $ 3.8 million on «professional fund - raising» and $ 104 million on unspecified costs.

The simplest and most straight - forward way would be to make it illegal for any member of congress to participate in any fund - raising activities in any way shape or form until 60 days before their election.