Sentences with phrase «in startup funding»

RealtyShares raised another $ 10 million in startup funding this year on top of $ 20 million in prior funding from tech startup heavyweights like Menlo Ventures and Union Square Ventures.

Facebook's latest imbroglio is still too recent to expect a visible impact in the startup funding arena.

The Broad Foundation provided $ 500,000 in startup funding.

Vida recently raised $ 5 million in startup funding from venture firms including Khosla Ventures, Aspect Ventures and Signia Venture Partners, as well as individuals like Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

These regions saw an average drop in startup funding of $ 56.7 million over the same period.

A team of researchers with a hot idea or newly granted patents can find venture capital funds eager to provide millions of dollars in startup funding.

Players at the show are currently competing for prizes ranging from backpacks and beauty products to free avocados for life and $ 50,000 in startup funding.

His Sept. 30 visit will give Buffalo companies the chance to compete for $ 100,000 in startup funds.

Not exact matches

• Meicai, a China - based startup that helps farmers sell vegetables to restaurants, raised $ 450 million in funding.

For hundreds of entrepreneurs in Austin, he offered the potential for their startup to win funding, and the kind of high - profile attention that could bring their company to the next level.

«Most of the startups Bloomberg Beta invests in and works with have an open plan,» says Karin Klein, a partner at Beta, a Bloomberg venture fund that invests in early stage technology companies.

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At $ 89,734, the cost of living comfortably in San Jose may seem like a bargain compared to San Francisco, but it's still very painful, especially if you're trying to stretch those startup funds into the longest possible «runway.»

Thalmic Labs raised the second biggest funding round in domestic startup history.

Last fall, Boston - based Third Rock Ventures launched a startup called Decibel with $ 52 million in funding.

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

Last month, Atomico announced that it had raised $ 765 million to invest in EU startups — among the largest European investment funds to date.

In the spirit of the series, rather than harping on the shrinking funding, I talked to a number of startup companies — Toronto - based Clickfree and SecureKey and Edmonton - based Empire Avenue — that have been successful in attracting venture capital money to find out how they did iIn the spirit of the series, rather than harping on the shrinking funding, I talked to a number of startup companies — Toronto - based Clickfree and SecureKey and Edmonton - based Empire Avenue — that have been successful in attracting venture capital money to find out how they did iin attracting venture capital money to find out how they did it.

Several innovative, well - funded startups already have taken notice and are busy muscling their way in with products and services designed to change the status quo.

• Starsky Robotics, a San Francisco - based self - driving truck startup, raised $ 16.5 million in funding.

Despite the slow start, the team managed to cobble together $ 720,000 in seed funding from angel investors including Naval Ravikant, CEO and founder of the startup network AngelList, and investment firms such as Pantera Capital and Shanghai's Fenbushi Capital.

• Heptio, a Seattle - based startup that helps companies Kubernetes open - source container management software, raised $ 25 million in Series B funding.

It's unrealistic to expect that an unsophisticated investor picking startup projects on the Internet will fare any better, and downright misleading to suggest that equity crowd funding allows the masses to participate in the next Google or Facebook, as proponents have done, Isenberg argues.

The New York - based startup raised another $ 325 million in funding led by Wellington Management, Fidelity Investments, Kleiner Perkins, and True Ventures.

Launched in 2009 by three Yale alums — Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory — and refined during a stint with the well - known startup incubator Y Combinator, the company was completing the details of a massive $ 40 million funding round by one of the top investors in tech, a piece of news they had agreed to announce as part of a profile on Business Insider.

It's a great addition to have a fund like this to provide capital with connections for nascent startup economies in Middle America.

Since Daly began working on crowdfunding campaigns in June 2012, she has consulted for everything from indie documentaries to journalism startups — funding all 26 campaigns to or past their goals.

«Rough patch» might be a charitable way to describe the graveyard of on - demand companies that closed their doors in 2016 and the 50 % cut in funding given to on - demand startups.

The startup, which has $ 9.3 million in funding from Napster cofounder Parker, won't share specifics on how many users it has in total.

In a statement, the well - funded startup Coinbase responded publicly: «We remain concerned over specific components of the BitLicense that were left unchanged, including state - specific AML rules that are inconsistent with federal guidelines.

• M.io, an Austin, Texas - based startup developing a universal messaging network, raised $ 5.75 million in funding.

WeWork has raised $ 4.4 billion in funding from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund, the office - sharing startup announced Thursday.

Of course I fund people outside of that age range but statistically startup founders of VC - backed tech companies are more likely in that range.

Contently, a startup transforming the way journalists and marketing companies do business, has raised $ 9 million in Series B funding.

There are at least six rivals in the space, including a startup that has attracted $ 14 million from hip - hop artist Snoop Dogg's fund and other backers.

• Nubank, a Brazil - based financial startup, raised $ 150 million in funding.DST Global Investment Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital LP and QED.

• MishiPay, a London - based mobile self - checkout technology startup, raised # 1.65 million ($ 2.2 million) in seed funding, according to TechCrunch.

Regalii, a YCombinator startup, had a clear conflict in judges David Lee and Chris Dixon — through SV Angel and Start Fund.

• StreamLoan, a San Francisco - based mortgage lending startup, raised $ 2 million in seed funding.

A VC firm started by OpenTable founder Chuck Templeton has closed its second fund at $ 180 million to invest in food tech startups.

But the startup community points to the already tough climate for funding, and argues the need to find a workable model for equity crowd funding is urgent in Canada, as the U.S. is already moving ahead.

In recent years, an increasing number of tech startups have turned into big - time investments opportunities for VCs, and as a result, these funds have wanted to get in on the action to bolster investor returns toIn recent years, an increasing number of tech startups have turned into big - time investments opportunities for VCs, and as a result, these funds have wanted to get in on the action to bolster investor returns toin on the action to bolster investor returns too.

Plus, BMW acquires ParkMobile and a Boston - based online retail startup raises $ 55 million in series C funding.

• Blueprint Income, a New York - based fintech startup, raised $ 2.75 million in seed funding.

In this period of peak startup funding — and competition for capital, don't make the pitch mistakes I did.

The startup is tiny right now, with only seven employees, but the founders have attracted a number of institutional and angel investors to help fund expansion in the face of demand from new customers.

The rapid development in this nascent field has spawned venture capital funds, like Data Collective and Bloomberg Beta, that invest with a focus on MI startups.

With that in mind, although a young startup has dozens of challenges they're trying to address (and $ 50,000 of free money can pretty much solve anything), we adapted our application to narrowly focus on using the grant funds to solve a very specific issue.

But the reality is corporations — including Cenovus Energy, Suncor Energy and Enbridge — have been using their capital funds to invest in oil and gas startups in Canada for years.

With $ 9.5 million in funds from investors, the serial entrepreneur predicts her latest tech startup will encourage people to rediscover their sense of wonder.