Sentences with phrase «include venture firms»

Investors include venture firms such as NEA and Lux Capital betting on advanced technologies and corporations likely to use the start - up's printers in their own operations.

Other investors include venture firm Altimeter Capital, Tencent Holdings Ltd., and Foxconn Technology Group, according to the Essential website.

Not exact matches

There have been roughly 140 acquisitions of artificial intelligence startups since 2011, including 40 this past year alone, the venture capital research firm says.

Eric Hippeau, a managing partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, is well - known in the venture community for his firm's blockbuster investments including Birchbox, BuzzFeed, Casper, and Warby Parker.

For the past five years, venture capital firms have pumped 25 percent to 100 percent more than they've raised into a diverse array of investments, including clean energy technology, health care, and pharmaceuticals.

• Stateless, a Boulder, Colo. - based firm allowing network functions to be consumed through the «as a service» model, raised $ 1.4 million in a seed round led by Speedinvest and was joined by investors including Techstars, EVO Venture Partners, PV Ventures, and Service Provider Capital.

Earlier this week John Doerr, the illustrious investor and chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, proselytized his bible for business management — a system he calls «objectives and key results,» or OKRs — in a video conference call with several Fortune staffers (myself included).

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.

According to a story last month in Recode, big - name venture firms including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are participating in the deal.

Investors would get a (then) 35 % tax credit on money invested in a portfolio of startups managed by his firm, GrowthWorks Capital (now part of Matrix, a public holding company he created to bring together different divisions of his empire, including venture capital and mutual funds).

Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures noted that some firms, including hers, have begun steering their most promising portfolio companies toward «modern venture firms that have women and people of color in investing positions,» according to TechCrunch:

Hamilton and her staff — she now has a full team that includes Kimberlin as a venture partner — don't expect to see any returns on their investments within the next five years, so in the meantime, it's important that they, like many other top VC firms, help these founders get to the next stage.

Well - known venture capital firms, including Greylock Partners, Tiger Global Management and Samsung Investors, are also attracted to Pure Storage's technology.

Prior to going public, GrubHub had raised about $ 84 million from venture and private equity firms including Warburg Pincus Private Equity, GS Capital Partners, and Benchmark Capital Partners.

That seed round also included Steve Case's Rise of the Rest fund, perhaps the best - known venture capital firm focused on startups outside of Silicon Valley.

This venture capital firm invests in different business segments, including those that focus on compliance issues.

The most recent round of funding for fuboTV included Sky UK, a telecommunications company with 11 million United Kingdom customers as of 2015; Scripps Networks Interactive, the parent company of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel; 21st Century Fox, whose stable of entertainment properties includes the Big Ten Network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Regional Networks, and the YES Network; and Northzone Ventures, a London - based venture capital firm that mainly invests in early stage software and technology companies.

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.

They include Bill Gates, Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.

DST Global, a company that was early investors in Facebook and Spotify, led the funding round, which included other high profile venture capital firms Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital.

Thiel, who is also a founder of a hedge fund and a venture capital firm and has been on outspoken voice on issues including education, is no stranger to Gawker.

Jess Lee, who was most recently the CEO of fashion shopping site Polyvore is joining the venture capital firm, whose investments have included Apple, Google, PayPal, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

But while the attendees might opt to keep their fortunes out of the press, they are putting those funds to work; everyone at the gathering was a limited partner, tasked with allocating large amounts of private, family - owned capital into various investments, including many of Silicon Valley's venture capital firms.

Ideally, benefits of this special 8 (a) program to the protà © gà © firm — which can have only one mentor at a time — will include technical and management assistance; options to enter into joint - venture business agreements with mentor firms to compete for government contracts; financial assistance in the form of equity or loans; and qualification for other SBA assistance programs.

The company's investors included Bain Capital Ventures, Google's venture arm GV, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and Lightspeed Foundation Capital, Al - Naji said.

Its investors include media company Condé Nast, which once owned Reddit and later spun it off, as well as venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia...

Including investments in consumer companies he holds through Maveron, a venture capital firm he co-founded — and the tens of millions of dollars of equity he owns in Groupon (GRPN) as a director — his net worth is in the neighborhood of at least $ 2 billion, which isn't bad for a kid who grew up in the projects of Brooklyn, on the seventh floor at 1560 East 102nd St. Obama himself, according to Schultz, said he was «very aware of my personal story.»

The company's biggest shareholders include venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson, U.S. Venture Partners and Coatue Manaventure capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson, U.S. Venture Partners and Coatue ManaVenture Partners and Coatue Management.

Then on Friday a shareholder group — including investors Shervin Pishevar, Ron Burkle and Adam Leber — demanded venture capital firm Benchmark divest some of its shares and step down from the board of the troubled start - up.

The workplace collaboration company is teaming with several venture capital firms — including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Spark Growth, and Social + Capital — to create an $ 80 million fund that will invest in software projects that complement its technology.

Today, Discord has raised more than $ 150 million in venture capital, counting money Citron had raised for the previous startup, from Silicon Valley's top firms, including Benchmark and Greylock.

Most venture - capital firms — Sequoia included — are used to the old equity model in which investors purchase private shares of a company, often while mentoring the founders to help the company reach its full potential.

For now, the firm is supported by venture funding, including an unspecified investment from Google Ventures last October.

It has been welcomed by some of Love Home Swap's early investors, including venture capital firm MMC Ventures.

Whether you're part of a company like Hartsock, an individual who volunteers or mentors in your community, represent a university that hosts on - campus events geared toward boosting entrepreneurship, or involved with an entrepreneurial financing firm that's expanding to include more entrepreneurial ventures, there are many ways to get involved.

He previously launched a series of technology - driven startups, including venture - backed big data analytics firm CANDDi.

The company has 6,000 customers, including well - known tech start - ups like MongoDB and Slack, and venture firms like Menlo Ventures and Union Square Ventures.

In addition to Munn, Chef's Cut is backed by CAVU Venture Partners, a firm that invests in food, beverage and consumer packaged goods companies, as well as public figures including baseball player David Ortiz and footballers Von Miller and Earl Thomas.

Participants in the latest round include Allegis Capital, a venture capital firm, which led the raise, as well as Blackstone Group (BX), the private equity firm, and angel investor Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of sales - tool giant Salesforce (CRM).

• AVORA, a London - based machine learning firm, raised # 1.5 million ($ 2 million) led by Crane Venture Partners, and was joined by investors including Peter Simon, founder of retailer Monsoon, and Steve Garnett, former chairman of Salesforce EMEA.

It is also a list of companies included in the portfolio of the elite Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

The new cash comes as more venture firms raise funds of more than $ 1 billion, including Greylock Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates, which this year raised a $ 3.3 billion fund.

Other investors included venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

The startup had recently closed a round of fundraising from three venture capital firms, including Lerer Hippeau Ventures, BoxGroup and SV Angel.

The company, based in Santa Monica, Calif., has raised more than US $ 20 million, with backers including the firm of Andreessen Horowitz, Mark Cuban, Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, and a number of prominent venture capital firms.

The list of signatures includes big name venture firms like Accel and Bessemer Venture Partners, accelerators such as 500 Startups and General Assembly and startups such as Casper and Flventure firms like Accel and Bessemer Venture Partners, accelerators such as 500 Startups and General Assembly and startups such as Casper and FlVenture Partners, accelerators such as 500 Startups and General Assembly and startups such as Casper and Flywheel.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

In March 2014, Saverin and seven other investors, including American venture capital firm, Bessemer Venture Partners, reportedly invested about $ 6.65 million in Singapore - based cloud computing start - up company, Nventure capital firm, Bessemer Venture Partners, reportedly invested about $ 6.65 million in Singapore - based cloud computing start - up company, NVenture Partners, reportedly invested about $ 6.65 million in Singapore - based cloud computing start - up company, Nitrous.

The Toronto - based company's backers include Canadian venture capital firm BDC Venture Capital, U.S. - based FundersClub and Y Combinator, and a dozen angel invventure capital firm BDC Venture Capital, U.S. - based FundersClub and Y Combinator, and a dozen angel invVenture Capital, U.S. - based FundersClub and Y Combinator, and a dozen angel investors.

Two years later, Camp, Smith, and a group of venture capital firms, including Accel Partners and First Round Capital, bought the company back for a reported $ 29 million.