Sentences with phrase «investors in companies»

Most recently, Cuende co-founded Stampery, a Blockchain data certification startup backed by renowned venture capital firm Draper Associates, investors in companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, Skype and Baidu.

They're the venture capital rockstars of the social web as their jaw - dropping track records shows — they have been very early investors in companies like Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare.

According to Gore, the London - based firm invests money from institutions and wealthy investors in companies that are going green.

Last fall I devoted a lengthy post to the notion that future policies to address climate change expose investors in companies producing fossil fuels to a bubble in asset valuations.

«Investors in these companies should also question spending such budgets,» said Ekins.

These managers realized that as investors in these companies, they have power: they can vote proxies at a company's annual meeting, and they can file or support shareholder resolutions, such as resolutions asking companies to disclose or reduce their carbon emissions.

Just as those who give to charity want to see as much as possible of their money go to the intended beneficiaries rather than chief executives» salaries, and investors in companies want to see overhead and administration costs kept down, elected politicians want to show voters that they are running a tight ship.

The new regulations created mass confusion among the financial community last week, particularly investors in companies with high exposure to China.

Most recently, Cuende co-founded Stampery, a blockchain data certification start - up backed by venture capital firm Draper Associates, investors in companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, Skype and Baidu.

«If you go back five years, literally, tech companies were so apathetic about the political environment and just wanted to avoid politics,» said Conway, one of the earliest investors in companies like Google and PayPal.

That said, for investors in companies with steep balance - sheet challenges, the worries remain, because conditions need to improve substantially before these companies are back on solid ground.

Leading seed investors in companies with at least one female founder include Y Combinator with 28, SOSV with 10 and BBG Ventures and Innovation Works at five investments each.

Various media outlets reported in October that the investors in both companies were holding talks on how to engineer a merger.

The half - a-trillion-plus-dollars figure is the value of the 173 unicorns we counted, according to investors in the companies.

A: My partner, Stuart Goldfarb, and I are investors in companies and not managers.

The former Google lawyer was one of the earliest investors in companies like Twitter and Uber.

An investor in companies such as Flickr and del.icio.us, Dyson shares insights on building a thriving company.

Since a potential investor in the company was given this deck, that becomes problematic.

According to the article, the amount could reach into the hundreds of the millions and could include Alibaba Group, which is a former investor in the company.

The motivation to be attuned to shareholders is greater if directors are actual investors in the company.

Smith and Furbershaw became early - stage investors in the company.

Both Water Street and Mr. Walter will remain minority investors in the company.

In addition to credit and debit cards, Acorns also works with electronic purchasing methods, including PayPal (pypl)(which is an investor in the company) and Apple Pay, which is tied to the user's credit card anyway.

The company also hired its first chief financial officer Will Gaybrick, a venture capital investor in the company, formerly of Thrive Capital, and a software engineer.

Total return to investors includes both price appreciation and dividend yield to an investor in the company's stock.

Thiel was the first outside investor in the company and sold almost has made over $ 1 billion selling his shares.

«I think that no one in their right mind will want a thousand or 2,000 equity investors in their company,» he explained.

Keith Lowe is an experienced entrepreneur who is a founder and investor in companies in several industries.

He's also now a spokesperson for Cobinhood, a cryptocurrency trading platform, and an investor in the company's coin, COB.

An investor in the company said that the large potential market attracted them to invest, even before the product was launched.

Peter Guber, who chairs the NextVR advisory board and is an investor in the company, believes virtual reality opens up a great opportunity for the sport of boxing.

LeapFrog is a private equity investor in companies that provide financial services for individuals earning between $ 1.25 and $ 10 a day.

From a price perspective, «There are no longer deals to be had,» said Jeremy Liew, managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners and an investor in companies such as Flixster and RockYou.

They are either a sign of naive founders or naive investors (because they will quickly develop a reputation in the market and because future investors in that company will all demand your terms, which therefore will include a full ratchet).

Besides Fidelity, other existing investors in the company include Alibaba, which led its Series E; Benchmark (Series A lead); Coatue Management (Series C lead); General Catalyst; IVP (Series B lead); Saudi investment group Kingdom Holding Company; KPCB (series D lead); Lightspeed (Snapchat's earliest and most constant investor); SV Angel; WeChat owner Tencent and Yahoo.

In a show of good faith, Musk, who is the chairman and biggest investor in both companies, recused himself from voting on the deal at the Tesla board meeting.

In addition, investors in the company will not acquire an interest in Highland Capital Management.

Previous investors in the company include Crosslink Capital, Brick & Mortar Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Homebrew, Bee Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Madrona manages more than $ 1.3 billion and was an early investor in companies such as Amazon.com, Apptio, Rover.com, and Redfin.

Other investors in the company include Baseline Ventures and Vulcan Capital, the investment firm of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Prior to starting Lattice, Jack was the VP of Business and Corporate Development at Teespring, and an angel investor in companies such as Opendoor, Instacart, Pinterest, Gusto, LendUp, Soylent, and Patreon.

After spending almost 18 months following the company and developing a deep relationship with founders Nick Romito, Ryan Masiello and Karl Baum, Trinity Ventures was the first institutional investor in the company, leading the Series A funding round in 2013.

BGV was founding investor in both companies, which are typical examples of the biotech sector's ability to generate so - called «unicorns» delivering outsized returns for investors.

Other investors in the company include Singapore's state - owned investment firm Temasek Holdings Pte and General Atlantic LLC.

On the upside, Whitbread PLC shares WTB, -0.73 % jumped 7.2 % after Elliott Management said in a statement over the weekend that it has amassed a stake of more than 6 % in Britain's biggest hotel and coffee - shop operator and believes it's currently the largest investor in the company, whose businesses include the Premier Inn chain.

In an interview with CNNMoney, Buffett said the quiet response came from his promise to regulators to be a passive investor in the company.

The seller is the portfolio's developer, Philadelphia - based Dranoff Properties Inc. «The timing is right to sell six of our premier properties to Aimco and become a major investor in the company,» says Carl Dranoff, founder and CEO of Dranoff Properties.

More typically, the point of the IPO is to give the early investors in the company — venture capitalists, early employees, and founders — the opportunity to get their hands on cash so they can begin to enjoy the fruits of their work.

Nihal Mehta, an indirect investor in the company, told CNNTech that Silicon Valley is already plagued with «brogrammer» culture.

In late 2016, Buffett had defended his mum stance on the wrongdoing at Wells Fargo as part of his pledge to regulators to be a passive investor in the company.