Sentences with phrase «include angel investing»

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When I ask him why he left angel investing (which he was doing after selling Red Swoosh) to run Uber, his rambling, five - minute answer includes two hyperbolic claims, a mixed metaphor («It's so complex all you can do is swim in uncertainty»), childish whimsy («that is my happy place»), and, believe it or not, an unironic Braveheart reference.

Along the way, Gary became a prolific angel investor and venture capitalist, investing in companies including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Uber, and Birchbox before co-founding VaynerRSE, a $ 25M investment fund.

Ghaffary — who has been angel investing in and advising startups in recent years, including Strava, Optimizely, Pocket, Superhuman and Indigo Fair — says Social Capital has been writing checks of anywhere from $ 50,000 to $ 25 million.

Aimed at closing the gender gap in the tech sector, the startup challenge featured 10 finalists pitching their emerging tech ventures before a panel of prominent investors including Nisha Dua, Partner at BBG Ventures, Iana Dimkova, Director on Healthcare Investing Team at GE Ventures, John Ason, Angel Investor, and Erica Duignan Minnihan, Managing Partner, 1000 Angels.

After surveying our membership about the proposed changes to the taxation of CCPCs and how they might affect the availability of capital and active Angel support for entrepreneurs, we found that possible outcomes include decreased incentive and capital for Angels to invest and decreased access to early - stage capital, which may adversely influence the flow of funds and resources to Canadian entrepreneurs.

Manny is also an active advisor and angel investor globally and in Vancouver's tech community, having personally invested in local start - ups including Picatic, MyBestHelper, ShareShed, and MTT.

This will open up angel investing to an entirely new breed of accredited investors, including those who are seeking diversification from public markets and who do not have the time / expertise to professionally diligence and invest in the number of companies necessary to achieve diversification themselves.

The list of activities taking place in the Alimentaria Hub includes the International Mediterranean Diet Congress; the Innoval Awards and the new initiative, The Food Factory, which will bring together innovative start - ups with high growth potential and Business Angels willing to invest in them.

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Topics explored include: alternative payments, mobile technologies, legal issues, advertising methods, mergers, acquisitions, background search, business planning, angel investing, dating software, matchmaking software, and new technology.

Subjects at the convention include: wireless, payments, background search, angel investing, business strategies, partnerships, legal issues, traditional marketing, dating software, and new developments.

Topics covered include: dating / matchmaking software, marketing methods, mergers, acquisitions, mobile & wireless technology, business strategies, legislation, angel investing, personality profiling, payment systems, and new technology.

Topics discussed include: mergers, acquisitions, traditional advertising, legal issues, business strategy, angel investing, payment systems, wireless / mobile technology, personality profiling, mobile technology, and new technology.

Topics explored include: online marketing, dating software, legislation, background checks, angel investing, partnerships, payments, business planning, mobile technologies, and new developments.

You can check out last week's links including a look at the rapid rise in angel investing.

Gather Online's other backers include a collection of 10 investment bankers and angel inventors, as well as a South African hedge fund CEO who Price said has invested through a blind trust and wished to remain «anonymous».

Jason is also an active angel investor and has invested in a number of technology companies, including Lyft, Square, Matterhorn (now Lexis Nexis), and New York City companies Automotive Mastermind, Axial, and Thuzio.