Sentences with phrase «kind of venture capital»

This may in fact serve as a kind of venture capital fund for new promising practices.

True was born in 2005 out of a simple vision: create a new kind of venture capital firm that focuses on supporting the earliest stage Founders and their teams.

Next Coast Ventures was born in 2015 with a simple vision to create a different kind of venture capital firm focused company building, thought leadership and giving back to the community.

Next Coast Ventures was born in 2015 with a simple vision to create a different kind of venture capital firm focused on «Next Coast» businesses.

There's still $ 350,000 left to raise, and they're looking to secure it through AngelList, in a kind of venture capital Kickstarter campaign.

Not exact matches

Revlo is the kind of startup Lacavera wants to back for the long - term, especially now that he's turning his attention to venture capital investing.

Term Sheet typically focuses on one very specific kind of entrepreneurial success study: The kind where startup founders raise giant piles of venture capital to fuel hypergrowth, and then ride said hypergrowth to an IPO or sale.

«The skill set of starting my presidential campaigns — and building the kinds of teams that we did and marketing ideas — I think would be the same kinds of skills that I would enjoy exercising in the private sector... The conversations I have with Silicon Valley and with venture capital pull together my interests in science and organization in a way I find really satisfying.»

Aileron targets lower - tech businesses because high - tech entrepreneurs that are funded by venture - capital firms already get this kind of input, says Mathile.

Should governments pull the plug on megaprojects like ITER, it wouldn't stop private - sector players like Burnaby, B.C. - based General Fusion Inc., a year - old startup by former Creo Inc. managers that has so far attracted about half the $ 50 million in venture capital and federal research funds it says it needs to demonstrate a kind of «magnetized target fusion» by 2013.

The same kind of calculation should be made if the company undergoes expansion as a result of attracting new investors or venture capital.

Chen's crowdfunding pioneer, Kickstarter, enables quirky entrepreneurs and artists — the kind of folks who wouldn't normally qualify for venture capital — to raise money.

That's the kind of deep thinking unearthed in the latest Ideas to Invoices podcast featuring Mike Smerklo and Tom Ball, co-founders of Next Coast Ventures, an Austin - based Venture Capital Firm that invests in early stage companies.

Spending that kind of cash to fight a patent suit would be devastating to a young startup like FindTheBest, which has received $ 17 million in venture capital over its short life, according to a recent VentureBeat profile.

Aspect Ventures is the first women - led venture capital firm in Silicon Valley with this kind of focus.

At this mid-March meeting, at the Santa Monica offices of Upfront Ventures, venture capitalists Kara Nortman of Upfront and Eva Ho from Fika Ventures will host the first of its kind for Southern California founders, and they'll be joined by both Aileen Lee and Jess Lee; Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures; Dana Settle of Greycroft; Emily Melton of DFJ; Rebecca Kaden of Union Square Ventures; Jodi Sherman Jahic of Aligned Partners; Steph Palmeri of Uncork Capital; and, last but not least, Renata Quintini of Lux Capital.

It seems like the kind of story that should be later - revealed as a joke: a crazy simple app is released with $ 1 million in venture capital funding and then a few days later it gets hacked.

These funds allow investors to get the kind of instant gains that the venture capital firms will realize.

To be sure, long - shots can sometimes be offset by bonanza profits if success does occur, but that kind of investing is more in the nature of a venture capital operation than a value investing operation.

One of a kind conference connecting startups, venture capital, angel investors, strategic companies, and lawyers.

We raised, a few months ago, a series A round, for those not in the entrepreneur world, it's kind of the first big venture capital round.

The attacker stole the funds — denominated in ether, the cryptocurrency native to Ethereum — from a kind of automated venture - capital fund called the DAO.

Specifically, its coders intended the DAO to function like a venture capital firm — a kind of Kickstarter - like Kleiner Perkins.

And do you worry about kind of the existential question about — you've been at this for a long time, you obviously love the gig — about whether or not it's going to raise questions about the need for venture capital firms at all?

While many of Cambridge's contemporary competitors finance all kinds of different commercial real estate ventures, Cambridge's intentional and specialized focus has helped it to become America's leading provider of senior housing capital since it was first founded in 1983.