Not exact matches
The
latest positivity comes
as institutional investors start to push harder into the cryptocurrency world, with CME having recently announced plans to trade bitcoin futures and Coinbase offering a custodian service for hedge funds.
Until now, however, it has done so only
as an
institutional investor at
later stages in the life cycle of companies, and has never led a funding round, Isenman told Entrepreneur.
As a result, returns - hungry
institutional investors have turned to
late stage venture to try and grab their piece of the pie.
Institutional investors view a Fed rate rise
as the biggest threat to their investment portfolios, according to the findings of the
latest Risk Rotation Index by NN Investment Partners, conducted in October, in the midst of an unprecedentedly intense presidential race.
It is the
latest mini-victory for a quietly revolutionary coalition of
institutional investors known
as «Aiming for A».
Other backers in the ride - hailing startup's
latest financing round included a venture capital fund jointly run by Indian industrialist Ratan Tata and the University of California's investment arm,
as well
as several U.S.
institutional investors, people familiar with the deal said, asking not to be identified talking about a private deal.
The
latest, and arguably most prominent, is Arthur Levitt Jr., the longest - serving chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who will serve
as an adviser to BitPay, the Bitcoin payment processor, and Vaurum, an exchange for
institutional investors.