Sentences with phrase «lack of venture capital»

It is particularly difficult to start businesses in Canada due to the conservative (risk - averse) business culture and lack of venture capital or traditional investment.

A downturn in the global economy, a lack of venture capital flowing in to start - up and expansion - phase companies, and the general tightening of corporate belts has led to poor job growth in the biotech and pharma industries.

Despite the lack of venture capital funding, millennials are a good investment, Coleman said.

Not exact matches

While roughly a third of its portfolio companies are in St. Louis, the fund also invests in startups located in places where founders face a similar lack of access to venture capital.

There's no definitive answer as to why female founders raise less venture capital than male founders, but one of the main theories is the lack of female VCs.

In addition to the difficulty that many potential business owners face in accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capital.

Canadian startups are enjoying more and bigger venture capital deals (in the first quarter of 2016, venture capital investments reached $ 838 million, nearly double what they were for the same period the year before), but the VC community, lacking size and versatility, is not keeping pace with their funding needs.

Going against the Silicon Valley orthodoxy, the venture capitalist has urged technology start - ups to go public as soon as they are able, instead of continuing to take venture capital funding: Taking on too much venture funding, he has said, can fuel a lack of discipline.

Founders wind up with punishingly low stakes in their own venture and growth stunted by lack of capital to scale — this causes death by atrophy or ugly exits that likely bring no treasure to founders and typically involve the company and / or technology disappearing or being assimilated into a better financed competitor.

While these scandals expose the harmful reality of venture capital's male - dominated culture on women entrepreneurs, they have helped highlight an equally important issue — the extreme lack of gender diversity in all aspects of venture capital.

There are a lot of markets that have lacked innovation because of the homophilic nature of the people making decisions in venture capital.

The lack of understanding of venture capital and the importance of tech start - ups among politicians is strange given the number of people from both sides of Parliament who have enjoyed the largesse of the Israeli government and travelled there.

The venture has been repeatedly delayed over several years amid changing state regulations for coal seam gas and a lack of capital to move forward after the collapse in oil prices.

I don't know that venture capital investing necessarily means investing without a margin of safety, but I agree that many early stage investments lack a margin of safety.

(a) The Claimants» case on the point at the hearing was made by reference to a Dubai Court of Cassation decision (Central Bank of Sudan v Africa Alpha Capital 1 Co Ltd, Appeal no 480/2012 Commercial, where the defence was put forward that the court lacked jurisdiction under the Vienna and Riyadh Conventions because the Bank was a «public venture forming a part of the government entities of the Republic of Sudan that enjoys immunity from judicial proceedings and is not subject to the jurisdiction of the State Courts».

«For all the types of assets that are very liquid, things like real estate, art, or investments in start - ups or investments in Venture Capital, tokenizing those assets to provide liquidity is a major advantage for investors because it basically eliminates the number one problem of these investments which is the lack of liquidity», shared Domingo.

Previously, Augur co-founder and cryptocurrency venture capital firm chief investment officer Joey Krug publicly expressed his concerns regarding the lack of developers and open - source projects working on scaling solutions to enhance the Ethereum network.

Given Valve's lack of history in the venture capital space, Nitero must be working on something very unique to capture the gaming company's interest.