Sentences with phrase «invested by venture capitalists»

In 2013, over $ 450 million was invested by venture capitalists in the Avvos, LegalZooms and Rocket Lawyers of the world.

In the past three years, there has been a six-fold increase in the total dollars invested by venture capitalists in the space and a tripling of the number of deals.

Nearly $ 27 billion dollars was invested by venture capitalists in 2012.

Women founders received less than two percent of the $ 85 billion invested by venture capitalists last year, according to Fortune Magazine.

So, after a multi-year decline in Canadian venture capital funding — hitting a low of just $ 1 billion in 2009, despite US$ 132 billion invested by venture capitalists south of the border over the past five years — the March budget finally screamed an end to business as usual.

Women - led teams received just $ 1.9 billion of the total $ 85 billion invested by venture capitalists in 2017, which is just 2.2 percent of the year's total, according to data from VC database PitchBook, an M&A, private equity, and VC database, reported by Fortune.

Not exact matches

With help from Citi Community Development, Village Capital recently hosted three pitch competitions, each designed to show venture capitalists and other investors that they really are missing out by not investing in women and people of color.

Venture capitalists tend to invest in men for their potential, but women are judged by their current performance.

There are even venture capitalist companies investing in people by offering entrepreneur scholarships.

So are venture capitalists, who since 2007 have invested US$ 4.7 billion in 356 online - ad firms according to Dow Jones VentureSource, a research firm owned by News Corp..

Venture capitalists can invest in startups or growing companies — however, it's worth noting that the number of businesses funded by venture capitalists has gone down in recentVenture capitalists can invest in startups or growing companies — however, it's worth noting that the number of businesses funded by venture capitalists has gone down in recentventure capitalists has gone down in recent years.

It's also interesting to note that Aspect Ventures, a fund founded by two female venture capitalists, invested in two of the deals listed above.

Nvidia also announced that its venture arm has joined a group of investors led by Chinese venture capitalist firm Qiming Venture in investing $ 52 million in a Chinese self - driving - car startup, Jventure arm has joined a group of investors led by Chinese venture capitalist firm Qiming Venture in investing $ 52 million in a Chinese self - driving - car startup, Jventure capitalist firm Qiming Venture in investing $ 52 million in a Chinese self - driving - car startup, JVenture in investing $ 52 million in a Chinese self - driving - car startup, JingChi.

We define ourselves by a love for the craft of early stage investing, and Sarah's career - long desire and commitment to be one of the world's great venture capitalists make her an ideal addition to the Benchmark team.

Nevertheless, across a significant number of studies using different methodologies and performed by different researchers, a consistent picture is emerging about the effects of patent litigation: it costs innovators money; many innovators and venture capitalists report that it significantly impacts their businesses; innovators respond by investing less in R&D and venture capitalists respond by investing less in startups.

A coalition of venture capitalists led by the Sprout Group, Venrock Associates and Oxford Bioscience Partners invested $ 48 million.

MAA typically invests in companies in the Kansas City region and provides early - stage commercialization funding in the «seed round» investment range not typically served by venture capitalists ($ 250,000 — $ 1.5 M).

Speaking of investing in supply chain technology, over $ 4 billion was invested in AI by U.S. venture capitalists in the past year.

At his blog 500 Hats (one of the most - read blogs by venture capitalists, according to the Wall Street Journal), he provides an inside view into the world of venture capitalism and angel investing.

The board of directors does all the «big picture» business thinking and will likely include someone appointed by a venture capitalist who has invested in the company.

Therefore the venture capitalist earns a return when there is an exit — an acquisition by a larger company, or an initial public offering in which shares are sold to the investing public.

However, some venture capitalists have begun to invest exclusively in seed stage startups where often the only previous capital raised by the startup is that raised from the founding team's family and friends.

Clicker is backed by veteran venture capitalists Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital and Geoff Yang of Redpoint Ventures, who have invested close to $ 8 million in the company.

Growth in the cryptocurrency market has been driven largely by venture capitalists investing in technology infrastructure, and other investors seeking to profit from price fluctuations, rather than by consumers actually using cryptocurrency.

Marc Andreessen, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has invested heavily in Bitcoin, responded by saying Buffett and others like him are «old white men crapping on new technology they don't understand.»