Sentences with phrase «in venture capital industries»

The presence of scientists in venture capital industries can help fill the gap.
Gouw and Fonstad are two of the highest - profile women in the venture capital industry, with Gouw having been a partner at Accel and Fonstad a managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad — who met 25 years ago at Bain and Company, their first job out of college, and have spent two decades in the venture capital industry — said they wanted to return to hands - on investing in companies when they are just starting and as they mature.
Back then I was listening to parallel conversations about the development of best practices - but then it was in the venture capital industry.
As the co-chair of the National Venture Capital Association's Inclusion and Diversity Task Force, Mitchell is painfully aware of the underrepresentation of women in the venture capital industry.
The vast majority of investment dollars in the venture capital industry come from «institutional investors.»
But it is also a sign of the deep - seated problems in the venture capital industry.
Besides the substantial increase in investment activities, there are many new developments in the venture capital industry.
«Minority Shareholder Oppression in the Venture Capital Industry: What You Can Do To Protect Yourself», Alabama Law Review (2010).
To folks in the venture capital industry, the prospect of getting a slice of the commercial real estate industry via an office management technology platform play is attractive.

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Recent business news is slick with reports about startups, usually in the tech industry, getting millions of dollars in investment capital, typically from the gold - plated venture capital names.
Melinda Gates told The New Yorker men who «demean, degrade, or disrespect women» have been able to operate in industries like tech and venture capital, and that «the asymmetry of power is ripe for abuse.»
China's SenseTime said Monday that it had broken the record for the largest venture capital investment in the AI industry.
«The people who understand those dynamics are the next group of folks that will be reshaping all industries,» says Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive from Toronto who founded the Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse Social + Capital Partners icapital powerhouse Social + Capital Partners iCapital Partners in 2011.
Why have venture capital investments become ever more concentrated along a single stretch of Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley, rather than diffusing out across the country as the industry has grown?
Green helped Weiss raise $ 2 million in seed funding, which she used to assemble a small team, including creative director Helen Steed, a beauty industry vet who'd helped build Bumble & Bumble, and COO Henry Davis, who came from the London office of venture capital firm Index Ventures.
In fact, policymakers may not have the tools to offset the natural tendency of the venture capital industry to become more and more concentrated there.
In an industry in which 89 % of partner - level investors are men, a venture capital firm run by three women is rarIn an industry in which 89 % of partner - level investors are men, a venture capital firm run by three women is rarin which 89 % of partner - level investors are men, a venture capital firm run by three women is rare.
According to a statement, the event aims to benefit and be of interest to audiences composed of institutional investors, fund managers, and other regional players in hedge funds and private equity / venture capital space, with a view to advance the region's investment industry.
«The bicycle industry is largely driven by enthusiasts,» says investor Brian Jacobs, a general partner at St. Paul Venture Capital, based in Bloomington, Minn. «There's not a lot of management depth.»
Data from the National Venture Capital Association — the industry's trade group — show that 23 percent of venture - capital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of theVenture Capital Association — the industry's trade group — show that 23 percent of venture - capital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of theCapital Association — the industry's trade group — show that 23 percent of venture - capital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of theventure - capital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of thecapital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of theventure - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of thecapital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of the 1980s.
Explaining the industry and what's going on takes the form of several audiences; one being the overly - optimistic entrepreneur who still has aspirations of raising capital to get their company to a liquidity event, another being the up and coming venture capitalist in training (think decades long training cycles) who recently finds themselves a free agent as the asset class shrinks and wants to start their own fund, and the final being ambitious MBA's switching careers and see venture capital as the preferred destination.
Corporations have been actively investing in venture capital since the mid-1960s, when the venture capital industry itself was just emerging.
The Firm has been a diversity pioneer in its industry and was one of the first venture capital firms to hire women as partners.
This U.S. venture capital company invests in numerous business segments, including its foray into RegTech thanks to Managing Partner Wayne Kimmel's decision to put money into KIND Financial, a regulatory and compliance platform for the cannabis industry and for the government to monitor those businesses.
This U.S. venture capital firm invests in a diverse set of industries, including RegTech startups for a number of areas, including government, healthcare, and financial applications.
Canada's venture capital industry had a banner year in 2015.
As a result of these moves, the city enjoyed the highest job growth in the $ 20 - billion global mobile app industry, and it was the only region in the U.S. to have an increase in tech venture - capital funding.
Levin, 43, had cut his teeth in the entertainment industry with stints at Creative Artists Agency and The Walt Disney Company before founding venture capital and private equity firm Lynx Technologies in 1998.
Chris Arsenault, a venture - capitalist with iNovia Capital, a company with seven investments in the online - ad industry, says targeting technology can provide a better user experience than print or broadcast, despite concerns over privacy.
The Canadian venture capital industry has been missing in action for years.
That's because, rather than handing the capital over to any one of 17 government agencies with a finger in the innovation pie, or giving the money to the Business Development Bank of Canada, which deployed just $ 408 million of its $ 18.4 billion balance sheet to the venture capital industry, the Conservatives have decided to invest that money directly in entrepreneurs.
Taking a detour from her usual celebrity haunts, Lopez made an unusual appearance Wednesday at a venture capital conference in San Francisco to talk about potential business deals with the tech industry.
While there have long been small players in the venture capital community who defied the stats and were able to attract some LP money, they tended to be relegated to the fringes of the industry, with less access to sizable funds and the buzziest companies.
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The book explores the role of gender in the tech industry — at startups and venture capital firms — and the interaction between men and women in the two.
Dow Jones VentureSource released its U.S. venture capital report today showing where VCs were investing, both by industry and geographically in 2013.
Venture capital helps grease the wheels of industry, and in the case of the tech world, it's the life blood of many small companies that grow up to be disruptors and category killers.
Canadian Business» Western Editor Michael McCullough sat down with Rubinoff, Summerhill's Boston - based managing director, at the Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association annual conference in Vancouver on May 27 to talk about the state of Canada's venture capital inVenture Capital and Private Equity Association annual conference in Vancouver on May 27 to talk about the state of Canada's venture capital inCapital and Private Equity Association annual conference in Vancouver on May 27 to talk about the state of Canada's venture capital inventure capital incapital industry.
Plus, these funds are also much more inclined to invest in low - tech industries, multi-location service companies, franchise operators and Main Street manufacturing businesses than venture capital funds.
A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.
The data also showed that venture capital investment in London's fintech industry alone has topped $ 1 billion in the 16 months since Britain's decision to quit the European bloc.
For the third quarter in a row, the market for venture capital shrank, continuing a long - term trend in the industry.
With a new trend of investments in startups now being in place, to actually address ground - level issues plaguing our society, a relatively new venture called UrbanPiper that offers software solutions and Omni - Channel ordering along with loyalty programs for the hotel industry has raised undisclosed venture capital from veteran investor Kumar Vembu.
Hartfield is involved with the privately held Ghost Group, and he and his business partner Doug Francis just announced the launch of Emerald Ocean Capital, a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in marijuana businesses in the newly - legal inCapital, a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in marijuana businesses in the newly - legal incapital firm that seeks to invest in marijuana businesses in the newly - legal industry.
Startups in the food and grocery ecommerce and delivery industry attracted almost $ 500 million in venture capital over the last year, a 51 percent increase from last year, while big players such as Google and Amazon continue to outdo each other with new delivery options.
Something Ventured, a new documentary film directed by husband - and - wife team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, explores the lives of the men who, in the early 1960s when the venture capital industry was just beginning to take shape, risked social status (and their money) to back the companies they truly believed in.
And well, barring artificial genetic selection, those seeking gender equality in venture capital can at the very least rely on that as a steady undercurrent in the industry.
While much of the venture capital activity in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley, in recent years a sector of the economy with closer ties to Washington, D.C., than San Francisco has been upping its investments in start - up technology companies — America's defense industry.
Still, Hampton Creek has raised more than $ 200 million in venture capital and has a team of 60 working on R&D, including top cell biologists from academia and industry.
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