Sentences with phrase «including venture investments»

She covers fields including venture investments, entrepreneurship and innovations in China and dedicates to delivering the Chinese message to the West.

Not exact matches

Other investments have included Sports Illustrated Play, a venture devoted to youth sports, and the acquisition of inVNT, which manages live events for companies.

6 Dimensions Capital and Curative Ventures co-led the round, and were joined by investors including Redmile Group, ArrowMark Partners, Hillhouse Capital Group, MiraeAsset Financial Group, Lucion Group, Sirona Capital, Alexandria Venture Investments, MPM Capital, F2 Ventures and Cathay Fortune Capital Investment.

GMP Securities and Fidelity Investments led the round, and were joined by investors including Vickers Ventures Partners, Graphene Venture Capital, FPV, Fenbushi, Bloomberg Beta and Rakuten.

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.

GMP Securities and Fidelity Investments led the round, and was joined by investors including Vickers Ventures Partners, Graphene Venture Capital, FPV, Fenbushi, Bloomberg Beta and Rakuten.

Women in general have less access than men to capital (including venture and private equity investment and government loans), markets, and networks.

Investors include Versant Ventures, Polaris Partners, AbbVie Ventures, Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, Yonghua Capital, Alexandria Venture Investments and New York Ventures.

Investors include BVF Partners L.P., Perceptive Advisors LLC, Nextech Invest Ltd., GV, Roche Venture Fund, 6 Dimensions Capital, Boxer Capital of the Tavistock Group, Driehaus Capital Management, 5AM Ventures, Canaan Partners, Celgene Corporation, WuXi Healthcare Ventures, and Alexandria Venture Investments.

ATX Seed Ventures led the investment and was joined by investors including included Okapi Venture Capital, Sway Ventures and NoName Ventures.

[This item has been updated to include the correct amount of money raised by Venture Investment Associates]

In addition to the difficulty that many potential business owners face in accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capital.

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.

In total, it has raised $ 589 million from prominent venture backers including Fidelity Investments, which led the last round, as well as Andreessen Horowitz and Venrock.

With 60 employees and about $ 23 million in venture capital investment over the past three years, the Des Moines - based company has grown wiser from its investors, which include Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

By the time of the venture capital investment, Etsy's rise had been well documented in the press (including Inc.).

The Rise Fund led the round, and was joined by investors including T. Rowe Price Associates, GT Healthcare Capital Partners, and existing investors Sofinnova Partners, KCK Group, Venrock, Pfizer Venture Investments, and Johnson & Johnson Innovation.

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.

He also has investments in U.S. tech ventures, including the Virgin One Hyperloop project,

Investors include ARCH Venture Partners, Flagship Pioneering, Fidelity Management and Research Company, the Alaska Permanent Fund, Alexandria Venture Investments, Qatar Investment Authority, Boxer Capital of the Tavistock Group, Sirona Capital, EcoR1 Capital and Casdin Capital.

The round also includes investment from Vulcan Capital, Tyler Florence Group, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Roth Capital, Correlation Ventures, and Relevance Capital.

Eight Roads Ventures and Cowen Healthcare Investments co-led the round, and was joined by investors including MPM Capital, F - Prime Capital Partners and ARCH Venture Partners, existing strategic partners Novartis, Medtronic and the JDRF T1D Fund, and new investors including ORI Healthcare Fund, Wu Capital, 6 Dimensions Capital and SinoPharm Capital.

Hyperplane Venture Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including Draper, Qualcomm Ventures, and the Hub Angels Investment Group.

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.»

It also offers specific policy recommendations including providing tax credits to promote venture capital investments in minority businesses, as well as tax credits for new low - income entrepreneurs, and encouraging the use by credit rating agencies of alternative data such as rent and utility payments in establishing credit histories.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

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

Investors include Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, CapitalG, Leerink Transformation Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Balyasny Asset Management.

Investors include Data Collective, Prelude Ventures, East Ventures, IDATEN Ventures and New Zealand Venture Investment Fund.

My Alarm Center raised approximately $ 10 million in venture funding from investors including Ironwood Capital, NXT Capital, OFS Capital Corporation, and Saratoga Investment Corp..

«It used to be that unicorns were these mythical creatures,» says Jason Green, a venture capitalist at Emergence Capital Partners whose investments include Yammer, which sold to Microsoft (MSFT) for $ 1.2 billion.

Investors included the Indian Angel Network, which made its first social venture investment, and Digital News Ventures, the seed - stage equity fund of the Media Development Investinvestment, and Digital News Ventures, the seed - stage equity fund of the Media Development InvestmentInvestment Fund.

So they went after private - equity capital, including venture capital, through deals known as «PIPEs,» which is short for private investment in public equities.

Israel has more venture capital investments per capita than any nation on earth, including the United States, and boasts the most non-U.S. companies listed on the Nasdaq after China.

Take the private - equity marketplace, a broadly defined investment sector that includes venture capitalists, large and small angel investors, hedge funds, private investment pools, and even insurance companies and other institutional players that either participate through money - management funds or make direct capital investments in growth companies.

Launched in April 2014, Casper has sold more than 50,000 mattresses and raised $ 70 million in total venture funding, including investments from celebs such as Ashton Kutcher, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire.

But it really isn't an apples - to - apples comparison, because the investment reports include monies disbursed by non-traditional sources like T. Rowe Price and Fidelity (i.e., big later - stage players), while the fundraising stats don't account for those capital pools (only traditional GP / LP venture structures).

First Round Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including You & Mr. Jones Brandtech Ventures, NYCA Investment Fund, Tessera Venture Partners, Auren Hoffman and Tod Sacerdoti.

In 2010, Hill's business — which had already raised $ 800,000 in funding from Access Venture Partners and Daylight Partners — caught the eye of Lightbank, the $ 200 million Chicago investment fund whose partners had already founded four successful internet companies, including Groupon.

One of the most notable celebrity tech investors, Kutcher has invested in more than two dozen companies through his venture capital fund A-Grade Investments, including mattress maker Casper, and e-commerce company Fab.

Sonae Investment Management led the round, and was joined by investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Knollwood Investment Advisory.

First, corporate investors including Google, Rakuten, Alibaba, Comcast and others have increased their investments in venture and often don't have the same profit motive (and thus pricing motive) as traditional investors.

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.

Floreani's company has raised nearly $ 30 million in funding thus far, including $ 21.2 million in Series B venture capital funding last year that came from a group led by DCM Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, along with other investors including Discovery Communications and World Wrestling Entertainment.

The others to sign the pledge include Vinod Kholsa, the venture capitalist; Richard D. Kinder, the founder of Kinder Morgan; Edward W. Rose, the Texas investment banker who once owned the Texas Rangers baseball team with George W. Bush, the former president; Harold C. Simmons, the Texas billionaire; and John Paul DeJoria, co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems.

For example, during 2008 and 2009, many third - party investors that invest in alternative assets and have historically invested in our investment funds experienced significant volatility in valuations of their investment portfolios, including a significant decline in the value of their overall private equity, real assets, venture capital and hedge fund portfolios, which affected our ability to raise capital from them.

This year's Venture North sponsors include BDC Capital, Donaldson and James, Globalive Capital, Ideaboost, CFC, iGan Partners, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, OMERS Ventures, Real Ventures, Ryerson Futures, TMX, The Working Group, and the Province of Ontario.

Fortune Senior Editor Dan Primack included Carrick's investment in Infrascale in the Venture Capital Deals section in «Deals of the...