He's also an active angel investor who has
helped seed companies in neuropharma, online travel, personal financial management, medical billing, technology and more.
Not exact matches
Social responsibility is central to the operations of these
companies — they know it's smart business to consider global issues and the broader community, whether it is through offering discounted loans for electric cars (Vancity) or
helping to set up organic cotton
seed banks in India (Zara).
For more than a year, the AngelList founder and CEO has been trying to persuade institutional money managers to participate on his popular crowdfunding platform, which so far has
helped facilitate $ 205 million in investment for 650
seed - stage
companies.
Lentzsch participated in the
company's $ 2.45 million
seed round — along with former Orbitz chairman Jeff Clarke —
helping lead to dozens of deals with national carriers, including Greyhound.
Today, the
company operates an online marketplace that
helps farmers lock in fair prices on
seeds, fertilizers and other costly «inputs» they use to grow healthy crops, as well as sell their crops to buyers.
For example, the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) are
seed funds created by Congress to
help transform government - funded research into businesses; these invest about $ 2.5 billion in grants, annually, in more than 6,000
companies.
Green's firm, which is known for
helping to launch wildly successful e-commerce
companies like Warby Parker and Birchbox, provided
seed funding for Into the Gloss.
The first Female Founder event will
help hone the pitches of entrepreneurs whose
companies are at the
seed stage, with two more events focusing on firms at the Series A and growth stages scheduled for February and March, respectively.
«Content can build a brand for you and can also
help you scale that brand,» says Shaikh, who launched the
company in June 2014 after receiving $ 1 million in seed funding from the E.W. Scripps C
company in June 2014 after receiving $ 1 million in
seed funding from the E.W. Scripps
CompanyCompany.
I have
helped many
companies develop systems for identifying and tracking this information, which provides innovation
seeds capable of developing into product enhancements that strengthen the
company's position in the market.
Amidi, who is also a co-founding partner of
seed investment firm Amidzad Partners and founder of 14 other
companies, says Plug and Play started the accelerator to
help make Bitcoin more widespread and easier to use, and to add strong Bitcoin - related
companies to its investment portfolio, which includes PayPal and Zoosk.
Julia's primary responsibility at RA Capital is to identify compelling assets to
help facilitate new
company creation or investments in emerging
seed - stage
companies.
Garage makes
seed investments in promising early stage technology
companies and works intensively with them to
help them to the next step.
They were named one of Canada's «hottest innovative
companies» at CIX 2010, and also received an initial round of $ 500,000 in
seed money from the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF), which
helps grow new technology
companies in Ontario and positions them for further investment by angels and VCs.
Agolo, a New York - based startup that's setting out to
help companies fight information overload through AI - powered summarizations, has closed a $ 3.5 million
seed round of funding co-led by Microsoft's corporate investment fund, Microsoft Ventures, and CRV, with participation from Point72 Ventures and Franklin Templeton.
Furthermore, Edge's software will enable us to
help build value in
seed - stage
companies at the speed they require.
My global idea is ensuring more global mobility of senior talent so they can move around the world — and to Toronto — to
help build huge
companies and
seed home - grown talent.
In addition to offering free office space for six months, the incubator will also provide
companies with hands - on mentorship from Panagoulias and his co-founder, Raza Khan, shared business resources and discounts, weekly sessions to
help design, challenge, test and validate the business / concept and access to
seed funding and venture capitalists.
The
seed stage focus of this fund
helps meet a growing demand for early stage capital in Alberta, given the increasing number of young technology
companies entering the ecosystem year - over-year.
The firm's mission is to identify, invest in and partner with
seed, early stage, and middle market businesses with exceptional promise and
help them grow into market - leading
companies.
Seeds of Success Nightingale Farms Ltd.'s organic sister
company, Norfolk Organics, could
help Ontario become the organic capital of Canada.
In fact, working with limited resources could
help push you and your
company to think outside of the (compostable,
seed - embedded, scan - able and fully traceable) box.
Venture capital firms like Foragen partner with scientists, providing both
seed money and business know - how to
help create start - up
companies.
Adrian Smith, a
seed - fund manager for the start - up division Discovery Beach, a
company that
helps match entrepreneurs and investors, was at Venturefest looking for business opportunities that were «investment ready.»
In many cases, the hybrid
seeds had to be repurchased from
seed companies each year,
helping to turn a handful of American and European
seed breeders into corporate giants.
Foundation Venture Capital Group, LLC, uses impact investing to provide pre-
seed and
seed funding to health - related start - up
companies at organizations affiliated with its parent
company, New Jersey Health Foundation, to
help them advance toward and through commercialization.
Foundation Venture Capital Group, LLC provides pre-
seed and
seed funding to new health - related
companies in New Jersey to
help them advance toward commercialization.
In the article, Katz details two very different nonprofit social enterprise businesses
helped by
seed funding from Kessler Foundation — Hudson Community Enterprises, a document management
company in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Destination Desserts, a food truck enterprise in St. Louis, Missouri.
Tal Moise
seeded the New York - based
company alongside John Scully, former CEO of Apple Computer and Pepsi and founded Verified Person to
help restore confidence in Internet transactions.
Since he sold FriendFinder, Andrew Conru has been busy
seeding startups that
help social causes through his non-profit software development
company, compute.org.
But as the
seed of his idea grew, he went for it, without the
help of a publishing
company.
If an organization like USAID wants to
help us with a
company like Monsanto, we would hope that they would
help us to actually develop our own hybrids instead, not to import their foreign
seeds.
We
help companies and investors across the region on all types of cap raisings, including
seed and angel rounds, venture capital financing and private equity investments, and pre-IPO rounds.
Seed - stage startups attracting funding in 2017 include Juro, which
helps companies manage their contracts using AI.
This is how they're described on the Series
Seed website: The Series Seed Documents are a standardized set of documents that can be quickly and easily deployed for a seed investment: to help get a company financed properly, legally, quickly, and intelligen
Seed website: The Series
Seed Documents are a standardized set of documents that can be quickly and easily deployed for a seed investment: to help get a company financed properly, legally, quickly, and intelligen
Seed Documents are a standardized set of documents that can be quickly and easily deployed for a
seed investment: to help get a company financed properly, legally, quickly, and intelligen
seed investment: to
help get a
company financed properly, legally, quickly, and intelligently.
A year later, the Utah - based
company raised a $ 5.5 million
seed to
help grow the tech into a compact drone detection system.
This week will mark the beginning of the fund's
seed - stage investments and will
help companies and founders in the crypto and blockchain space get off the ground.
In the footage, Mark Turnbull, the managing director of Cambridge Analytica Political Global, also described the
company's process of discreetly
seeding compromising videos on the internet and
helping them go viral.
For more than a year, the AngelList founder and CEO has been trying to persuade institutional money managers to participate on his popular crowdfunding platform, which so far has
helped facilitate $ 205 million in investment for 650
seed - stage
companies.
The strategy of
helping sow as many blockchain
seeds as possible by investing in investors is designed to not only generate returns, but to
help the venture capital firm's $ 184 billion parent
company accelerate the rate at which it learns about the technology more generally.
The plan for Hololens is much like the early VR developer kits, too, in that it's there to
help seed the market with content and allow
companies to build their own augmented reality hardware and platforms.
Founded in 2013 they've
helped over 700 business and lent over # 7m
seed capital with the Start Up Loans
Company.
The
company has been set up specifically to
help startups get their
seed - stage funding, getting these projects out of the idea stage and into the real world.
In addition to offering free office space for six months, the incubator will also provide
companies with hands - on mentorship from Panagoulias and his co-founder, Raza Khan, shared business resources and discounts, weekly sessions to
help design, challenge, test and validate the business / concept and access to
seed funding and venture capitalists.