Sentences with phrase «largest raise this year»

Zola's round also represents the sixth largest raise this year by a startup with a female founder, according to data from PitchBook.

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BEIJING / HONG KONG, May 3 - Chinese smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi is bringing its blockbuster initial public offering to Hong Kong, where it could raise about $ 10 billion in the largest listing globally in almost four years.

HK] filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday that could raise $ 10 billion and become the largest listing by a Chinese technology firm in almost four years.

The firm raises more than 20 million chickens a year for McDonald's in the world's second largest economy.

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.

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.

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.

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

Larger rival Home Depot Inc raised its full - year forecasts last week after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma spurred demand for emergency supplies and rebuilding materials even as the retailer benefits from a multi-year recovery in the housing market.

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.

A few years ago, after an earthquake in Nepal, the Facebook community raised $ 15 million to help people recover and rebuild — which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.

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.

The world's largest retailer raised wages for its hourly workers to $ 10 per hour earlier this year, but labor groups have called the raise inadequate.

Even BuzzFeed, the other company that often gets mentioned as a new - media success story, is a relative pipsqueak by comparison: It raised $ 50 million in a financing last year, one of the largest rounds in the media industry, but that values the company at just $ 800 million.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

But in the last five years venture growth capital has exploded, offering young companies the ability raise very large growth rounds while staying private.

This year, content - recommendation platform Taboola became a unicorn — a startup valued at more than $ 1 billion — after raising millions from Baidu, China's largest search engine.

Sticking to Asian companies and the mobile market, Chinese phone maker Xiaomi filed to go public in Hong Kong and raise up to $ 10 billion, which would easily rank as the largest initial public offering of the year and third all - time among tech companies, trailing only Alibaba and Facebook.

BEIJING / HONG KONG (Reuters)- Chinese smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi is bringing its blockbuster initial public offering to Hong Kong, where it could raise about $ 10 billion in the largest listing globally in almost four years.

This raises questions as to the large declines in 2013 - 14 and 2014 - 15, well after the final year of the Economic Action Plan.

LivingSocial, the main competitor to daily deal company Groupon, has struggled recently and had to make large concessions to investors, including Case, when it raised new financing earlier this year.

Identity verification business Onfido raised $ 25m Series B round led by Idinvest Partners, which was the largest deal in the sector in London last year.

Grail, a year - old, Menlo Park, Ca. - based early cancer screening startup that spun out of the DNA - sequencing giant Illumina is reportedly looking to raise up to $ 1.7 billion in fresh funding to launch a large - scale clinical trial.

In 2016, we began to see breakout companies develop and make the leap to raising larger series A and even B rounds of financing — 26 % of investments made during the year were for series A and B rounds.

In July, Calpine's larger rival NRG Energy (NRG.N) had laid out plans to raise about $ 4 billion through asset sales and slash debt by $ 13 billion over the next six years.

Netflix today said it was raising a very large lump of debt for the typical laundry list of uses that you'll find in a filing with the SEC — though, the timing comes as its content costs may hit as much as $ 8 billion next year.

Walmart Canada's annual campaign for disaster relief and preparedness raised a total of $ 3.27 million for the Canadian Red Cross this year, including an $ 818,000 contribution from Walmart which makes us the largest corporate donor to the Canadian Red Cross.

After three years, and 60 + investments closed on his own, Jeff built a team and raised a larger, $ 55M Fund III that invested in 55 companies.

SINGAPORE (Reuters)- NetLink NBN Trust, the broadband unit of Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel)(STEL.SI), is set to price its IPO near the bottom of expectations, raising about $ 1.7 billion in Singapore's largest listing in more than four years.

The iPhone maker is raising its quarterly dividend by 16 percent to 73 cents per share, matching the largest increase since Apple restored the payment under shareholder pressure six years ago.

Much larger sums could be raised by lifting the cap on Social Security payroll contributions, which is currently set at $ 118,500 per year.

The iPhone maker is raising its quarterly dividend by 16 percent to 73 cents per share, matching the largest increase since Apple restored the payment six years ago.

And nine companies have raised more than $ 1 billion in their debuts so far in 2013, the largest number in at least five years.

Good luck can certainly lead to a great fund (and the opportunity to raise larger amounts of capital in subsequent investment funds); there clearly are some investors (or dart throwers) who in the past few years invested early in what became decacorns (including Uber and Airbnb) and are managing larger pools of capital as a result.

The funding is the largest the live streaming service has raised since it was founded two years ago by Wang Sicong, the only son of China's second - richest man Wang Jianlin.

Canada's largest health startup showcase takes over MaRS Discovery District in Toronto on May 7 Last year's winners scaling their companies internationally, raising more than $ 36 million in combined funding On May 7, MaRS HealthKick 2015 gives 39 health startups the chance to pitch cutting - edge health technologies and products to an audience of more than 350... Read More

What do I mean, to start off the year major stock market were down anywhere from 5 - 10 % because the Federal Reserve was discussing raising interest rates, which in turn made everyone extremely skeptical of investing any more money in stocks, and actually selling off a large portion.

HSBC raised $ 30.9 billion for its clients in 175 bond issues last year in the UK, including several large British sovereign bonds.

Twitter could raise $ 2.1 billion if an underwriters» over-allotment is exercised, as expected, making it the second largest Internet offering in the United States behind Facebook Inc's $ 16 billion IPO last year and ahead of Google Inc's 2004 IPO, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Chinese smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi is bringing its blockbuster initial public offering to Hong Kong, where it could raise about $ 10 billion in the largest listing globally in almost four years.

A year and a half ago, the SEC opened the doors to a new era in startup fundraising: founders can now raise capital for their US - based startups from the public at large, via equity crowdfunding.

Open Avenue is staking the claim as the first Canadian real estate crowdsourcing company, though the notion of raising large sums through small investments from many people — crowdfunding — has been popular in the U.S. for a few years.

GFI is entirely supported by grants and donations.79 Their three largest donors provided a total of around 25 - 40 % of their funding in 2016, and we would expect those donors to provide a similar, perhaps slightly larger, amount of funding in 2017 — though GFI's intention is to raise significantly more money overall.80, 81 GFI's fiscal management strategy is to spend each year what it raised the prior year; this enables them to budget on a rolling 12 - month timeframe.82, 83 Overall, we think that while their funding sources are not especially diverse, they do rely on a relatively broad donor base and take a responsible and sustainable approach to their finances.

You just had Bill Gross leave the largest bond fund, the Pimco bond fund, because he said that he didn't think the Federal Reserve was going to be able to raise interest rates on a 10 year bond over 2 %.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- 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.

Given that the United States is Canada's largest export market and the two economies are inextricably linked, there are expectations that should the Federal Reserve raise short - term rates later this year, the BOC may follow as it has done in the past.

DISH DBS, a unit of DISH Network, the second - largest US satellite TV services provider, raised $ 1.5 billion in a sale of 10 - year bonds.

Press Release — DENVER, CO, June 28, 2017 — 24 - year - old entrepreneur Matt Hyder has partnered with WeFunder, the largest regulation crowdfunding portal connecting startups with investors online, for his company's first capital raise.

Deutsche Bank was appointed depositary bank for the initial public offering of trivago, the largest DR capital raising in Europe last year.

Among the issues raised were the $ 2 trillion valuation Saudi Arabia wants for the world's largest oil producer, the scale of dividends Aramco's prepared to pay and the impact of the shale boom on oil prices over the next few years.