Sentences with phrase «into private companies»

The first signs of fragility are evident in the recent quarterly reports from Fidelity and Blackstone, two funds that have invested major fortunes into private companies over the last five years and are considered the first movers who started the current private companies investment trend.

That has translated, in practical terms, into private companies assuming responsibility for negotiating with First Nations through the development process, from inception to completion and beyond.

Private equity consists of investors and funds that make investments directly into private companies or conduct buyouts of public companies that result in a delisting of public equity.

Private equity funds pool investors money to invest directly into private companies.

However, in Egypt last year, many protesters found ways to bootstrap connectivity and bypass the shut - off, such as by using smartphones to communicate with the global Internet over cellular networks and tapping into private companies» Intranet connections.»

For a course on security auditing and penetration testing, they hack into private companies» computer systems, pinpoint vulnerabilities, and then advise the companies how to do a better job protecting their systems.

Many institutional funds and international companies have leapt into start - up investing as the number of initial public offerings has slowed, prompting investors to wade into private companies to find growth, according to Mark A. Siegel, managing director at the venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, which has invested in Uber.

The least liquid of the private investments are when you invest directly into private companies yourself.

The Tory leader backed the move following allegations that David Wilshire, MP for Spelthorne, had funnelled # 100,000 of public money into a private company owned by himself and his partner.

David Wilshire, the Tory MP for Spelthorne, announced last night that he will stand down at the next election after allegations that he had funnelled # 100,000 in parliamentary expenses into a private company owned by himself and his partner.

Not exact matches

Today, private companies are flying reusable vehicles into the atmosphere and beyond.

Controversies surrounding Uber tend to fall into two different categories: either horror stories of lapses in rider safety or the debate over whether the company's drivers should be considered employees as opposed to private contractors.

Gilliland notes private company Solara bested the government - funded Human Genome Project by hitting important milestones first, and Elon Musk's SpaceX found a way to send rockets into space for a fifth the cost of a NASA launch.

More than $ 2 billion in private investment has flowed into space industry companies this year, with 59 firms contributing capital.

Private investors poured $ 3.9 billion into commercial space companies last year, with over 120 firms making investments.

As VC firms raise larger funds and pump capital into venture - backed companies at various stages, they allow them to stay private longer.

Not only is it true that «a full 20 percent of CEOs on Inc. magazine's 500 fastest - growing private companies list indicated that they continued to work a paying job long after founding their organization,» Raffiee explains in a write - up of the research, but many of our entrepreneurial icons actually waded into starting up slowly, keeping a corporate job for quite awhile while they tested the waters.

The space industry started the first quarter of this year the way it ended the last — with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private funding flowing into commercial space companies.

In fact, some of the fastest - growing private companies in America are reaping success by tapping into niche industries, or inventing entirely new ways to make money.

«The Nordstrom family know this, which is one of the reasons why they looked into taking the company private.

Meanwhile, SpaceDev, the rocket motor supplier for SpaceShipOne, is also working on a manned orbital vehicle, funding itself not only through rocket motor sales but through contracts with NASA — which might eventually be willing to pay big bucks to a private company to get government astronauts into orbit.

That is because banks, private - equity firms and institutional investors have continued to pour money into the sector even as oil companies slashed billions of dollars in spending from their budgets and laid off more than 100,000 workers.

As for other private companies set up as C corporations, they should look into the advisability of becoming S corporations now — before they fall into the trap Jason has found himself in.»

Chen Tianqiao, who built game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment into what was once China's biggest internet company (big enough to rival Alibaba and Tencent), disappeared after leaving China and taking his company private in 2012.

Shares in local explorer Manas Resources have doubled in value on news the company has entered into an agreement to acquire the Victoria gold project in Tanzania from a private Italian group for $ US4 million ($ A5.4 million) in cash and shares.

For the Phelans, who had long threatened to take the company private again, that presented an opportunity Though they ran into opposition from institutional investors who criticized the initial offer as too low, the Phelans won out after slightly sweetening the bid.

Diversified construction and maintenance group EC&M has emerged as the private company that has entered into a partnership agreement with energy technology company Enerji.

As a private family company, we're not interested in getting into bidding wars.

In fact, he just bought into a company that it majority owned by a private equity firm whose co-founder is credited with coining the phrase «private equity.»

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

Yesterday, President Obama urged private companies to take over the job of transporting humans into space, a move that was heralded by the burgeoning private space industry.

Turning them into a publicly owned network, like today's interstate highway system, would give the government the responsibility to create clear, fair rules for private companies wishing to use them.

LONDON and SAN JOSE, Calif., May 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Permira, the global private equity firm, and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), today announced that a company backed by the Permira Funds has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cisco's Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS) business.

If the next decade of human space transportation is about private companies finding and developing cheaper and more efficient ways into Earth orbit, the decade following will be all about space agencies learning how to operate farther and farther from home, with an eventual eye to orbiting and eventually landing humans on Mars in the mid-2030s (per NASA's timeline).

Señor Paleta, founded in 2014, has grown from a tiny operation selling at festivals and private events into a profitable company, surrounded by new and exciting businesses springing up in the area's century - old buildings.

I'm happy to say the company's doing great as a private company and we're trying to expand into other opportunities.

In a leveraged buyout attempt that has turned into a long and contentious process, Michael Dell and his investment partners have upped their bid to take the company he founded private to $ 24.6 billion.

The board has been dealing with the volatility of publicly traded stocks and low returns from government bonds by diversifying into other forms of assets, including equity in private companies and investments in infrastructure such as highways and real estate.

«The future of the company is to make sure that we diversify, go heavily into private sector work, and grow nationwide and internationally,» says the entrepreneur, who's been able to focus his talent for construction and engineering on building a thriving business.

Utilizing shipping containers as private offices, the company turned the drab warehouse into a colorful and creative environment.

The space industry continues to receive private investment, as 2017 saw a record $ 3.9 billion flow into commercial space companies, according to investment firm Space Angels.

He has leveraged his formidable personality and network into a diverse web of businesses, building and investing in companies as far - flung as asteroid mining, credit cards, hospitality, nutritional supplements, private equity, sports teams, 3 - D printed prosthetics, and, most recently, wealth management.

These awards are the culmination of a race that began in 2010, when NASA began awarding funding to private companies to develop a capsule capable of carrying astronauts into orbit and back.

Alice seems a logical choice for Pivotal's first private - company investment, as it's run by two prominent female entrepreneurs — Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz — and was founded as a way to integrate more women into the startup ecosystem.

A share sale by San Francisco - based Dropbox, one of a closely watched group of high - profile private tech companies with multibillion - dollar valuations, would follow Snap Inc.'s disappointing step into the public markets.

She succeeds Russ Jones, who has been Shopify's CFO since 2011 and helped it grow from a 50 - person private company into a publicly traded business with more than 3,000 employees.

At issue: the IRS's claim that Redstone owed $ 737,625 in unpaid gift taxes, dating back to his 1972 transfer of stock in National Amusements, his family's private holding company, into trusts for his two children.

I think about going public, or maybe a partnership, but we're entering into a very high - risk, demanding phase of the company's development, and strategically I think being private will allow us to make some good long - term choices.

They may acquire one or more private companies to take advantage of higher earnings multiples that apply when these companies are swallowed into public entities.

It will demonstrate that the private company can get cargo beyond the space station, the moon, and into deep space.