Sentences with phrase «investors as technology companies»

Julianna Balicka, an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in San Francisco, says that when Lending Club and OnDeck went public in 2014, they were both marketed to investors as technology companies.

While the company has routinely disavowed being a media entity for a variety of reasons (including the fact that media companies are not valued as highly by investors as technology companies), Facebook clearly plays a huge role in how people get news and information about the world.

Not exact matches

«As the company runs out of reasons why the technology won't work, and gets closer and closer to illustrating that it will work, I think it's entirely possible that they will raise the billions of dollars they will need to prove this concept out,» he says, noting that it was Cenovus's investment, more than that of Bezos, that turned heads among investors.

North Perth - based tech company Scancam has raised $ 1.2 million from investors as it seeks to expand sales of its anti-fuel theft technology into new markets.

The New York City - based company positions itself as a simple and more transparent stock exchange offering fees and technology that are better for individual investors.

Investors can participate in the potential of companies such as TIO Networks Corp. (TSXV: TNC), an expedited bill - payment processor, which recorded $ 36.5 million in revenues in 2011, an increase of almost 50 % over the previous year, and Verisante Technology Inc. (TSXV: VRS), a medical device company that commercializes cancer detection systems using a platform developed by the BC Cancer Agency.

«This is a reminder that investors should give heightened scrutiny to penny stock companies that have switched their focus to the latest business trend, such as cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, or initial coin offerings,» Michele Wein Layne, director of the Los Angeles regional office for the commission, said in a statement.

Top tech investor Paul Meeks told «Squawk Box» on Wednesday, that might be in the form of an offer from private equity, since he doesn't see obvious candidates — other technology companies like Microsoft or Alibaba — as interested.

You might even know him as a technology investor, making well - timed bids for parts of high - flying companies like Uber, Snapchat, and Spotify.

Technology troubles: One investor who passed on the company several times said that Rubicon seemed like «a trash brokerage business masquerading as a tech company.»

As an example, Adamson tells of a Toronto high - net - worth investor who was considering investing about half a million dollars in an information technology company about to go public in June 2014.

The investor's comments come amid a slowdown in venture capital investment and as the public markets have seen hardly any activity in terms of private technology companies listing.

Indeed, Atlanta now has 11 innovation centers, where startups and enterprise companies can connect and engage, as well as conferences like Venture Atlanta and SuperNova South, where investors, founders and corporations can come together to network and be the first to see the newest, hottest technologies.

Wall Street investors, however, appear to be unphased by unprofitable technology companies as long as their finances indicate that they are rapidly growing.

Outside investors are an essential element of the «financing ecosystem» for technology companies if they are to grow, no matter what industry sector they're part of, as the Jenkins Panel has pointed out.

As the prices of stocks in the technology sector run up, investor perceptions of the potential impact of those technologies (and companies) begins to grow in an exponential fashion.

It is accredited investors that will be investing the largest amounts as they adopt the technology and become comfortable with the investee companies.

The support on the part of Chinese investors to help fund tech companies comes as some of China's leading technology players are seeing brisk business.

As dealmakers in technology, GP Bullhound provides independent strategic advice on mergers and acquisitions and private placements to entrepreneurs, companies and investors.

Smith & Wesson's parent company said it was wary of adding «smart - gun» technology to its weapons, as investors push the industry to address safety issues in the wake of recent mass shootings.

Apple Inc. earned $ 8.8 billion last quarter, but that still wasn't enough to keep its shares from plunging in after - hours trading as the technology company disappointed investors who expected more people to buy iPhones.

David has more than 35 years of experience in technology, serving as founder, CEO, investor, board member, and advisor for more than 40 companies over the course of his career.

Blockstream raised $ 21 million at the end of 2014 — a round during which it again managed to attract the top tier of tech investors — and whatever its critics might think, it looks as though the company is going to play a critical role in the advancing of bitcoin and blockchain technology going forward.

She has spent over 30 years working with a range of technology companies as a marketer, board advisor, mentor, and investor.

Formerly known as Bioptix Inc, the biotech company has changed its name and strategy to become an investor in blockchain technology, with a focus on bitcoin and ethereum.

«We are again delighted to have them as an investor in our Innovation Growth Fund and look forward to helping expand the Alberta technology ecosystem and scale world class technology companies.»

Over the last five years, Tesla has at times been one of the hottest stocks in the market and it has been widely owned by both individual investors and technology enthusiasts, as well as institutional investors excited about the long - term business prospects for the company.

In the past, raising money as a start - up required small companies to convince banks, investors and financial institutions to take big risks, by investing large amounts of money into unproven technology and ideals.

SoftBank Ventures Korea, a venture capital arm of Japanese telecoms and technology giant SoftBank Group, has joined tennis champion Novak Djokovic and former top - ranked golfer Greg Norman as investors in Playsight, an Israeli company that has invented a so - called tennis SmartCourt.

Prior to joining BPC, Kurt spent 4 years working as a consultant and corporate development executive with several technology and marketing companies, including NewView Technologies, Inc. (formerly eSteel, Inc.), a supply chain software company backed by $ 100 million in funding from leading venture capital investors (Goldman, Sachs & Co., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bessemer Venture Partners), and CM Media Inc., a leading new media company.

While often true, at important turning points such as 2000 when overvalued small technology companies achieved large - cap status, investors were hit by the double whammy of risky small businesses combined with excessive valuations.

Stronger iPhone prices and hints by Apple Inc on Thursday that it could return more than half of its $ 285 billion in cash to shareholders eased concerns among investors, even as the world's biggest technology company gave a disappointing revenue outlook for the current quarter.

The investor, who is notably averse to technology, is taking ever bigger stakes in companies such as Apple.

The company faces stiff competition from deep - pocketed music streaming rivals such as Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) Apple Music and Sweden's Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N), whose results on Wednesday failed to enthuse investors.

GFI reports that as their scientists investigate further, they have become more optimistic — because clean meat is so much more efficient than animal - based meat.102 One of their senior scientists, Dr. Liz Specht, has met with venture capital firms and other venture investors to present technology plans of specific clean meat companies and their pathways to commercialization.103 GFI further reports that, based partly on her analysis, many leading venture capital investors and firms have become much more interested in clean meat companies.

In addition to the security, market volatility, and regulatory risks mentioned in our previous report, investors should be aware of potential fraud risk — as small public companies may try to take advantage of the investor interest in distributed ledger technology by renaming themselves or making announcements that associate them with the technology.

GFI reports that as their scientists investigate further, they have become more optimistic — because clean meat is so much more efficient than animal - based meat.102 One of their senior scientists, Dr. Liz Specht, has met with venture capital firms and other venture investors to present technology plans of specific clean meat companies and their pathways to commercialization.103 GFI further reports that, based partly on her analysis, many leading venture capital investors and firms have become much more interested in clean meat companies.

Gray, a Siena College graduate, is also CEO of a company called HashChain Technology that has set up data centers in Vancouver and in Montana and has successfully raised $ 29 million from investors as well.

The handful of companies that have emerged in the attempt to get these new energy technologies to market have a business model the same as any technology start - up: Identify a new technology, attempt to patent the idea, raise investor interest and secure funding, build prototypes and have demonstration events, and announce timelines for when working devices might be available for sale.

No matter whether you're presenting your abilities as a mass spectrometry expert to local clients or soliciting potential multimillion - dollar investors for a new biotech company, you'll need to be able to clearly and effectively talk about technology in front of an audience of people who you want to invest in you and your idea.

With more than 1,200 international actors from 35 + countries, such as big pharma, emerging and small biotech, diagnostics companies, pre-seed / seed / Series A investors, as well as professionals from tech transfer, academia and research institutions, BioFIT is the leading partnering event in Europe for technology transfer, academia - industry collaborations and early - stage innovations in the field of Life Sciences.

The OverDrive integration will allow for the checkout of ebooks from within Millennium or Sierra without jumping to the OverDrive interface; the June rollout of Decision Center, the company's new data - driven collection management tool that will compete with collectionHQ's product; a wave of hiring backed by the new investors, which has already increased the staff by 20 so far this year and will add another 40 by the end of the year (mostly in development and support), according to Massana, pushing the company past 400 employees; the creation of five «library relations managers» who serve as customer advocates at III; the complete integration of SkyRiver Technology Solutions into III along with the termination of SkyRiver's suit against OCLC on March 4.

Wong is a bottom up investor, so sectors don't matter as much to him as company fundamentals, though his portfolio does have a higher concentration of financials, information technology and consumer discretionary stocks.

Neil Gross, executive director of investor rights group FAIR Canada, says for the most part Canadian consumers are too complacent in terms of tolerating fees from companies such as banks, rather than switching to lower - cost options such as credit unions or some of the emerging financial technology startups.

A typical LSIF investor holds a diversified portfolio of small to mid-size companies, and may specialize in certain sectors, such as biotechnology or information technology.

The low beta, or relative risk and performance to the market, will show that these stocks tend to either perform better - or at least not as poorly - as cyclical stocks in bad times and will usually not be most investors» focal points during the boom part of the business cycle when investors are busy chasing technology stocks and high - growth companies.

Which has its pros & cons: Investors mostly adjust accordingly (i.e. reverse out some / all of this intangible expense), which explains why intellectual property companies (as in technology, media, pharmaceuticals, etc.) often trade on steep earnings multiples vs. the rest of the market.

«PupPod being selected as the 2017 Innovation Award winner highlights the increased interest that investors and enterprise companies have for emerging technology and data companies.»

But with three weeks until Election Day, it is the No on 23 coalition of environmentalists, investors and Silicon Valley technology companies that is raking in the cash, taking in nearly twice as much money as the Yes on 23 campaign.

As low - carbon policies and technologies continue to advance, companies, investors and policymakers are increasingly turning to carbon budgets as a core component for analysing the potential implications of a carbon constrained futurAs low - carbon policies and technologies continue to advance, companies, investors and policymakers are increasingly turning to carbon budgets as a core component for analysing the potential implications of a carbon constrained futuras a core component for analysing the potential implications of a carbon constrained future.