Sentences with phrase «last year funded»

Columbia Pacific Advisors, which last year funded $ 250 million of bridge loans against commercial properties, expects to increase its volume this year to $ 350 million to $ 400 million.

He was instrumental in raising $ 150,000 for the organization, and his personal donations and event sponsorships last year funded 13 mentorship matches.

So last year she funded two $ 1,000 college scholarships at the local high school.

He was instrumental in raising $ 150,000, and his personal donations and event sponsorships last year funded 13 mentorship matches for youth, many of whom are at risk for dropping out of school, using drugs or alcohol, or getting into trouble with the law.

Last year I funded a new NES game and completely forgot about it, until I got it in the mail yesterday!

They helped fund some of the surgical suite equipment, they funded the play yard improvements and last year the funded general dog care!

This came just a few months after Cynthia Vanier, a mediator from Ontario who conducted a fact - finding mission to Libya last year funded by SNC - Lavalin, ended up in prison in Mexico.

Last year the fund received $ 70 million from emitters, representing $ 4.7 million tonnes.

As the surge docket first got underway, many did not have lawyers — though Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced last year funding to ensure all of them had legal representation.

Last year the fund soared 138 % in value thanks to a huge bet that Burry had made on the subprime mortgage market.

Two core funds in the Complete Couch Potato are the Vanguard Total Stock Market (VTI) and the Vanguard Total International Stock (VXUS), and last year these funds delivered returns of 16.40 % and 18.22 % respectively.

Not exact matches

Investors and hedge funds were freaked out last year when the price for Arabica beans shot through the roof, thanks to a drought in Brazil.

She can invest $ 10,000 in an S&P index fund right now with the anticipation that the next 40 years will not be too different from the last 40 years.

Perhaps not surprisingly, VC funding for ed - tech startups was estimated to approach $ 3 billion last year, according to CB Insights.

Lauzon's Middlefield Income Plus Class Series A fund won a Lipper Award last year for the best - performing Canadian equity balanced fund over a 10 - year period.

From January to July of last year, investors sank $ 3.5 billion into U.S. - based retail ESG funds and ETFs.

Last year, Eric Migicovsky was scrounging for funding to mass - produce a smart watch.

We have a trading mentality that should not affect long - term investors, but ETF investors have earned a 5 percent return in the last 12 years and investing in traditional index funds has returned about 8 percent.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

-- Ilya Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of touch technology company Sensel, which has raised more than $ 10 million in funding and raised over $ 500,000 for its crowdfunding campaign last year

And last year, the Sentry Small / Mid Cap Income Fund was selected as the best of its kind in Canada by Morningstar.

Financed primarily by large mutual and hedge funds, the exchange opened for business last year.

Last year, Ripcord raised $ 85 million in four separate funding events from investors including Kleiner Perkins, the Lenovo - affiliated Legend Star, Telstra Ventures, and GV (formerly Google Ventures).

And the amount of money these mutual funds are pouring in is worth noting: «Last year alone, global mutual fund investors poured $ 23.7 billion into 192 VC transactions — the highest amount of capital invested ever and a 66 % increase from the year prior,» states the release.

Late last year, she accepted a job as a senior consultant on ocean governance for World Wildlife Fund Canada, which provides her with new mentors, new skills and the chance to go home at the end of the day.

Last year, Blum's pension fund conducted $ 34 billion in transactions.

Its net interest income, the «spread» between what it charges on loans and pays for the deposits that fund those borrowings, jumped from by $ 900 million or 9 % to $ 11.2 billion, compared with Q2 of last year.

To realize his vision, Katzenberg has been pitching two different constituencies: myriad tech and telco giants he could partner with to bring the content to the masses and the biggest producers capable of supplying content.When he shared his vision exclusively with Variety last year, he was seeking $ 2 billion to fund the venture.

CASE: The fund came out of our work around Rise of the Rest over the last four years where we've visited 33 cities, completed six different tours, and met a lot of entrepreneurs and regional investors.

The company has about $ 168 million in funding and processed $ 2 billion worth of transactions last year.

-- David Kalt, founder and CEO of Reverb, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear that has raised about $ 5 million in funding and expects to do $ 130 million in transactions this year, up from $ 40 million last year.

She took her concept to venture capitalists and secured a total of $ 10.4 million in two funding rounds — the first, in 2013, led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures; the second, last year, led by Thrive Capital and including Bonobos founder Andy Dunn.

Industry - wide, female founders received 2 % of all venture funding last year.

It raised $ 80 million in funding in 2012 and another $ 85 million last year.

The space industry started the first quarter of this year the way it ended the last — with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private funding flowing into commercial space companies.

If all that sounds kind of gooey, well, that's truly the broader mission of the digital health wave too — a movement that attracted a record $ 5.8 billion in venture funding last year, according to Rock Health.

Many great companies sat out the IPO market last year for a myriad of reasons, including the abundance of private capital, funds flow out of conventional funds ($ 224 billion in outflows, to be exact), and more «blackout» windows than normal — post-Brexit and post-Trump in particular — where companies were afraid of political uncertainty.

Dan has spent the better part of the last 20 years as a proprietary equity & options trader at hedge funds (SAC, Exis & Cheyne Capital) and within the equity derivatives group of Merrill Lynch.

At last year's gathering, Trump was unofficially represented by hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci, who would later last just 10 days as the White House communications director.

Chicken, pork, and beef producer Tyson Foods made headlines last year when it debuted a venture capital fund that will invest as much as $ 150 million into food startups.

«But in the course of the last three years, we've seen a dramatic explosion,» says Fortino, who now leads the Ann Arbor office of venture capital firm Mercury Fund.

The fund is reportedly being raised to help Sequoia compete with Japanese tech giant SoftBank, which announced a huge new $ 100 billion (# 75 billion) fund last year that is now being used to back promising tech companies worldwide with tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

Female founders received 2 % of all venture funding last year.

Also impressive to Golden was that Nexage had signed up major customers, including CBS and Internet video company Divx, despite a shoestring budget — ey'd lasted two and a half years on $ 2.5 million in angel funds raised when the company launched.

Yet it is still struggling to stop the bleeding from its actively managed equity mutual funds; investors pulled $ 58 billion out of the products last year.

Amazon is reportedly paying less than that, which means the acquisition price is significantly lower than the company's $ 1 billion valuation when it raised funding last year.

Sovereign wealth funds made 12 investments in U.S. startups last year to the tune of $ 12.4 billion.

The IMF said last year that it would provide Greece with 1.6 billion euros ($ 1.93 billion) in funding, after an agreement on debt.

Financial technology («fintech») startups have received more than $ 11 billion in venture capital funding so far this year, 83 % more than all of last year, according to CB Insights.

Documents tabled in the legislature include an email from Bill Hawkins, then the chief of staff to federal International Trade Minister Ed Fast, dated a week before Dunderdale announced the fishery fund last year.