Sentences with phrase «large raises of»

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It joins the ranks of more unconventional ICOs like «PAquarium,» which plans to build the world's largest aquarium (it raised a relatively small $ 620,000 (# 479,000)-RRB-, and Dentacoin, a blockchain for the global dentist industry (its ICO kicks off on October 1).

• Pager, a New York - based mobile - first patient engagement and care navigation platform for large health plans and health systems, raised funding of an undisclosed amount.

Privateer Holdings has now raised a total of $ 200 million, which it said in a statement was the largest private capital raise closed in the legal cannabis industry.

First, there were 125 men in one large room... The men were very considerate of each other, and I didn't hear a raised voice ever, much less an argument.

By the midway point of the gala, more than $ 3 million had been raised to support the efforts in Haiti, though the fundraising continued throughout the night toward what will amount to a larger number in the millions.

And let's not forget that, because of the size of Ontario's debt, it has had to raise money outside of Canada, in order to to tap into larger pools of capital.

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

While hedge funds are pressuring Tim Hortons Inc. to reconsider its U.S. growth strategy, the donut - maker's largest group of institutional investors are staying mum on the subject, raising the notion there may be a conflict brewing over which direction the donut - maker should follow.

Large though that figure may seem, analysts say it's within investor expectations: Delivery Hero, which brokers deliveries from a network of restaurants or brings the food to customers» homes via courier, was most recently valued at between 3.5 billion euros ($ 3.9 billion) and 4 billion euros ($ 4.1 billion), when it raised funding from Naspers, a South African e-commerce company.

A large 2014 study of more than 25,000 people with heart disease found that putting people on long - acting doses of vitamin B3 to raise their levels of «good,» or HDL, cholesterol didn't reduce the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, or deaths.

The firm has been investing under - the - radar in a mix of venture and private equity deals since 2014, but had not raised a large fund of pooled capital for deals until this year.

• Natilus, a San Jose, Calif. - based maker of large aircraft drones, raised seed funding of an undisclosed amount.

If, in contrast, the Fed were to raise rates now, before the economic recovery is fully entrenched, house prices might resume declines, the values of businesses large and small would drop, and, critically, unemployment would likely start to rise again.

Highlighting the difficult state of Norwegian's finances, the airline last month raised $ 168 million in a share sale after warning of a larger than expected first - quarter loss.

«A bigger move, say outside of a 20 percent band, might destroy confidence and make it harder for small business to raise money, or even to sell to larger companies who might be more worried about their viability, or ability to deliver on orders placed.»

To do so, Fisker has sold off large parts of the company to raise $ 1 billion of equity investment, since it only drew down a portion of the loan.

Eight years after a devastating recession opened an era of loose U.S. monetary policy, the Federal Reserve was set on Wednesday to raise rates for the first time since 2006, in a sign the world's largest economy had overcome most of the wounds of the global financial crisis.

NEW YORK, March 28 - China's largest coworking firm, Ucommune, is seeking to raise $ 200 million in financing to expand its global operations, a source told Reuters on Wednesday, in another sign of the growing market for shared office space.

Nevertheless, they did seek validation from a third party, which brings us to one of the world's most sought - after investors, Dr. Finian Tan, founder and Chairman of Singapore - based Vickers Venture Partners, which recently raised Southeast Asia's largest non-government linked VC fund of US$ 230 million (Fund V).

Which raises the question of politics: There are few organizations larger than the United States, after all.

Overall, the union is seeking a raise to as much as $ 15 an hour from an average of $ 10.71, Haicken said, and plans another, larger, protest next month.

In a leaked white paper, Telegram described plans to raise a large amount of money by selling a currency called «Gram,» which would serve as a payment companion to its messaging service.

Seattle's City Council on Friday released new draft legislation that would tax large employers in order to raise $ 75 million next year to counter the effects of rising rents and house prices.

Dacian Gold has reignited plans to undertake a large equity raising, announcing today a $ 110 million placement and entitlement offer to fund development of its Mt Morgans gold project near Laverton.

A coalition of state and national environmental groups have raised concerns about water contamination and other impacts on Western Australia's largest national park.

This week brought the clearest demonstration yet of Chinese tech firms» global ambitions as Didi Chuxing raised $ 4 billion in new venture funding and signaled its interest in acquiring control of the largest taxi - on - demand service in Brazil.

Now private equity giant Blackstone (bx) is reportedly close to raising $ 5 billion, the largest for a fund of this type, dedicated to a buyout pool mimicking Warren Buffet's investing style, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter.

One of the largest online auction start - ups, Auctionata, went out of business earlier this year after having raised $ 97 million.

King Digital games currently have no advertisements, but the unit's head, Riccardo Zacconi, had in May raised the possibility of running ads on what he touted as one of the «largest untapped audiences for advertisers in the world.»

It is still not clear to me, but the company had only raised less than $ 2 million and after more than a year of fighting against a larger company, and after many hundreds of thousands of dollars, they finally settled out of court.

It's possible that large private equity firms are more willing to consider big buyouts of struggling enterprise companies in light of the blockbuster Dell and EMC deal, a complex transaction involving Dell raising $ 45 billion in debt financing to help carry it through.

In just six weeks, we raised $ 1.2 million to fight malaria, and it's now our largest campaign to date, having raised $ 48 million with small donations and saved millions of lives.

If you aren't generating press attention, raising a large round of funding will show the media that your organization is worth covering.

In the first quarter of 2013, real estate was the third largest sector by financing activity, with $ 1.9 billion raised.

But a merger of the nation's third - and fourth - largest mobile phone carriers would raise questions about whether regulators would allow the combination or block it on antitrust grounds.

The objective is to raise more than $ 327 million — which would be Canada's largest mining IPO in more than a decade — and the development of the company's African copper projects is riding on those funds.

We have carefully scheduled out how much we will need to establish our basic operations and, more important, cover the legal and marketing costs of our larger - scale capital raise.

From an anecdotal standpoint, I've known a large number of successful people, most of whom earned it the hard way but some of whom were raised by wealthy families, and those who went further in their careers and were happiest with their lives were the former, not the latter.

Britton served as an advisor of the on - demand participation network, which went on to raise more than 12 million in funding and is used by more than 100 of the largest brands and marketing agencies in the U.S.

It priced at $ 68 yesterday, meaning that it's raising around $ 21.8 billion, making it the largest IPO in the history of the US stock market.

Imagine a large company in New York City: It could easily find itself paying $ 50,000, or at least 5 percent of what it hopes to raise.

When the bubble is expanding rational entrepreneurs should focus on three things: a) raise a lot of money at a large valuation, b) getting a lot of customers (who are willing to spend), and c) selling.

The decline raises deeper questions alongside surveys showing large percentages of our population lack a sense of hope for the future.

Increasing exposure to larger deals (there is considerable evidence, anecdotal and otherwise, that lenders are seeking to raise their hold limits on syndicated deals) will create an uncomfortable dynamic in which the failure of some deals will be too painful to contemplate, suggesting drawn - out turnarounds as an approach to increase enterprise value and bailout lenders unable to take severe haircuts on large exposures.

Crowdfunding, the increasingly popular method of raising money, solicits small sums from a large number of people.

«Funds raised so far are undisclosed, but we have the backing of Axilor Ventures, and a large group of angels including those based out in Silicon Valley, apart from Kumar Vembu,» stated Saurabh Gupta to Entrepreneur India.

However, since most of the projects are still in very early stages, some worry about the rapid speed at which some projects are raising large amounts of money.

While Cambrian Genomics just raised $ 10 million in seed funding, it was on the verge of securing an even large amount — until the company's name started appearing in articles about misogyny in the tech industry.

Ophir raised 235 million pounds on listing which represented the largest ever E&P IPO in Europe and the most successful UK listing of 2011.

U.S. employers added the largest number of workers in nearly three years in November and wage gains picked up, a sign of economic strength that could draw the Federal Reserve closer to raising interest rates.