Sentences with phrase «investing arms of»

With the presence of investing arms of corporations growing in the VC world, startups can't ignore the potential source of money, says Silicon Valley startup incubator 500 Startups partner Emily Chiu.

Viva Aerobus, the smallest of the upstarts, is backed by Mexican bus company IAMSA and Irelandia Aviation, the investing arm of the Ryan family of Europe's Ryanair.

MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.

Toronto, August 21, 2013 — MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.

Managing Director at Ghana Growth Fund Company (GGFC,) the investing arm of GN, Kwame Asomaning, in a welcome address explained that, GN now owns a major stake in the factory and therefore has plans of expanding to other parts of the sub-region.

Managing Director of Ghana Growth Fund Company (GGFC,) the investing arm of GN, Kwame Ofori Asomaning, in a welcome address said that Dr. Nduom has a vision to halt rice importation, which takes $ 1.2 billion yearly to Thailand, Taiwan, America and Chinese farmers.

The transaction includes an investment by two new long - term investors, the Relationship Investing arm of Ontario Teachers» Public Equities division, and Tencent, a share buy - back by Ubisoft, an acquisition of shares by Guillemot Brothers SE and an Accelerated Bookbuilding with institutional investors.

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In total, they will invest a historic $ 400 million in the politics and policy arm of the network, 60 percent more resources than they've ever spent during a cycle.

They include: Acre Venture Partners, a fund that invests on behalf of Campbell Soup; Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; GV (Google's venture arm); and DBL Partners.

SAIL Venture Partners, the early - stage venture arm of SAIL Capital Partners, and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., have set up a $ 100 - million fund to invest in companies that have developed innovative products ready for market.

Big Food manufacturers have increasingly announced either full takeovers of startup brands, or in more recent months, have set up venture capital arms to invest in a slew of smaller brands with an option to eventually acquire some of those brands later (if they become successful hits on grocery store aisles).

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, JingChi.

Joining the round is London - based VC Amadeus Capital Partners, investing $ 2 million, while the first closing of Iyzico's Series C was led by Vostok Emerging Finance, with participation from previous investors, International Finance Corporation (the World Bank's investing arm), and Istanbul - based VC 212.

Qualcomm Ventures, the venture investment arm of wireless technologies and data solutions major Qualcomm Inc., plans to invest...

NYSE - listed Alibaba Group Holding, along with its financial - services arm Ant Financial, has invested a significant amount of capital to own close to a 41 % stake in One97.

Mr. Robertson, president of Potomac Global Advisors, an international strategic and financial consultancy based in Washington, DC, announced that based on an internal market analysis, the U.S. arm of the company is prepared to invest as much as 50 million USD in the market, including 20 million USD in the first year.

Drummond is now chairman of Google's investment arms, Google Ventures and CapitalG — the same unit that is investing in Lyft.

CapitalG, the venture capital arm of Alphabet Inc, may have quietly invested an undisclosed amount in Snap Inc, owner of popular messaging app Snapchat.

In October 2015, International Finance Corporation, the private - sector lending arm of the World Bank, invested around $ 25 million (Rs 163 crore) to pick up an undisclosed minority stake in the online grocer.

A new group of miners is emerging armed with custom built computers and looking to invest in the next progression of mining hardware.

The venture investing team has come almost entirely from outside Microsoft, from a diverse set of backgrounds including traditional venture firms, corporate venture arms, and startups.

Another entry of a prominent Wallstreet firm was the partnership of the Rockefeller family arm of investing, Venrock, with crypto startup, Coinfund.

Dominic is a director of the Aberforth Geared Income Trust Plc a # 200m closed end fund investing in UK smaller companies and chairs the investment committee of the # 250m Armed Forces Common Investment Fund.

Overall, the firm has invested nearly $ 2.8 billion in India so far, according to VCCEdge, the data research arm of News Corp VCCircle.

The aim of this article is to simply arm you with the fundamental knowledge you need, with respect to stock market investing.

Remember how French financial authorities including the head of the country's central banktook up arms when reality TV star Nabilla Benattia encouraged hers fans to invest in bitcoin?

For many folks out there, the word «investing» conjures up an intimidating picture: traders on the floor of the stock exchange frantically buying and selling stocks by yelling and waving their arms about.

Why you should embrace market - timing with open arms The so - called gold standard of investing — the near - universally revered Buy & Hold strategy — has become obsolete in the brave new world of machine - dominated markets.

At the Washington Energy Conference of 1974, convened in the wake of the first Arab oil embargo, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prevailed on Saudi Arabia to buy U.S. arms and Treasury bonds, and to invest its «petrodollar» profits back in Western banks.

When an Australian scientist sought access to CRU data under the Freedom of Information Act, CRU director Dr. Phil Jones stiff - armed him, telling him that he had twenty - five years of work invested in his data set and wouldn't share it with anyone who intended to find fault with it.

Commenting on its investment plans, Jonathan Ovens, chairman of Arla Foods Milk Partnership and its investment arm, Milk Partnership, says: «Arla Foods's commitment to investing in the new dairy is another positive example of Arla securing a long - term future in the UK which in turn secures a home for AFMP members» milk.

Tyson Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods, Inc., has invested in food tech startup Memphis Meats, a leader in cultured meat produced directly from animal cells.

The difference from where we were before and where we are today as a result of this relationship between FIAL, ourselves, and CSIRO, is the fact that we did not have to invest in scientific capabilities that would take a number of years to materialise and to bear fruit, and we had immediate access to an existing knowledge base that was at arm's reach for us.

02 Feb 2018 — Clean meat innovators Memphis Meats has been getting a lot of attention from investors recently with billionaire businessmen Richard Branson and Bill Gates staking their claim in the pioneering company last year — and now the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods has invested in the food tech startup which lab - grows meat directly from animal cells.

Constellation Ventures Invests in Nelson's Green Brier Distillery Venture capital arm of Constellation Brands acquires minority stake in pre-Prohibition-era whiskey maker -LSB-...]

About Nimes Capital Nimes Capital is the private investment arm of Nazarian Enterprises which has a well - established track record of successful investing, including its role as a lead early - stage investor in Qualcomm, Inc..

My Ministers will invest in Britain's armed forces, honouring the military covenant and meeting the Nato commitment to spend 2 % of national income on defence.

«But, as captured in the memo, she insisted on three conditions: a. only a part, not the entire Abacha funds would be spent on the arms; the rest would be invested in developmental projects as originally conceived b. the money was to be treated as borrowed funds which would be paid back as soon as possible c. the NSA's office was to account for the spending to the president who was the commander - in - chief, given the fact that the minister of finance is not part of the security architecture and does not participate in the security council.

As the Army plans to lock down some forests of Kano, Plateau and Bauchi states in the operation, more attention should be invested on southern Kaduna given the peculiarity and the nature of the constant tragic attacks by armed herdsmen.

Updated 8:37 p.m. The Democratic House political arm is scrapping plans to spend a substantial sum of money on the Massachusetts 6th District race, but is still investing in the Boston media market on New Hampshire's two competitive House races, according to a source tracking media buys.

The United States Embassy in Ghana in denying reports that the US government is planning to establish a military base in Ghana, said «This year, the United States of America is investing over $ 20 million in training and equipment for the Ghanaian armed forces.

This year, the United States of America is investing over $ 20 million in training and equipment for the Ghanaian armed forces.

A former Presidential candidate of the People's National Convention (PNC), Hassan Ayariga, says he offered to pay the $ 20 million being invested by the United State into the Ghana Armed Forces this year as part of an agreement that will allow their troops to be stationed in Ghana.

Even more discouraging: apart from Bio One Capital, the private equity arm of the EDB, which has some US$ 800 million in private equity to invest globally in startups, venture capital is nonexistent.

Several reports released in 2003 by the European Commission (the political and administrative arm of the EU) indicate that the EU countries invest much less in research than the United States or Japan (1.9 % of GDP, compared with 2.8 % for the United States and 3.0 % for Japan in 2000).

What inspires me more than any arm balance or back bend is how people's faces soften over time and how, once a student is invested in the process of learning with me and with the community, they open in beautiful and surprising ways.

Well, if you have a really bad cold, invest in Lily Aldridge's Rosie Assoulin top, which could fit Costco - size batches of tissue boxes in each arm.

A key focus of the Board in 2014 will be to continue to invest in creative talent to help develop and deepen overall skills through the delivery of a diverse range of training programmes through our training arm Screen Training Ireland.»

However, we discovered that, armed with both more information about the benefits of learning to write and the tools to teach this, teachers were more likely to invest in developing this skill in the classroom.

Instead of placing an armed School Resource Officer in every New York City school, take action now and urge Governor Cuomo and state legislators to invest in delivering proven, evidence - based mental health services to our students by opposing S. 6798!