Sentences with phrase «lead investor for»

They made a point of getting to know us long before we needed their support and that early relationship contributed significantly to our confidence in selecting them as our lead investor for our growth round.»

Investors in the current round, which was oversubscribed, include IrishAngels (the lead investor for the round), Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Wintrust Ventures, Foley Ventures, Nelnet Inc., Meridian Street Capital, and Golden Angels Investors.

David is the chairman and cofounder of an artificial intelligence company with customers that include over 50 major firms on Wall Street; a seed investor in Broadcom, Access 360 (IBM), Fulcrum Microsystems (Intel); and the lead investor for Innovent (BRCM).

They made a point of getting to know us long before we needed their support and that early relationship contributed significantly to our confidence in selecting them as our lead investor for our growth round.»

In May, Globalive secured the position of lead investor for a raise by TimePlay Inc., a Toronto - based company that makes an interactive gaming app for movie theatres.

Join leading investors for a dialogue on the potential risks and rewards of investing in China.

EVP introduced us to the lead investors for our second round and helped us close the deal on favourable terms.

Its investor list reads like a Who's Who in Silicon Valley: Chamath Palihapitiya's Social Capital, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, and Accel have all been lead investors for Slack's funding rounds.

Not exact matches

«It's a shame that the coffee price issue obscured the real story here for so many people, but, once again, this kind of «one - way» data point thinking led investors astray... when it was actually quite strong,» said the «Mad Money» host.

ATHENS, April 19 - Greece has accepted a 535 million euro offer from a consortium led by Italy's Snam for a majority stake in gas grid operator DESFA, naming it the «preferred investor,» its privatization agency said on Thursday.

Investors were looking for any indication that Facebook's wave of recent scandals had led people to flee the service.

«Single - purpose vehicles allow small investors to invest alongside a sophisticated lead investor with a fiduciary duty to advocate for their interests.

Yet Silicon Valley investors, paid millions for their Midas touch, still give male - led startups about 34 times the venture funds.

• Elsen, a Boston - based platform - as - a-service company for large financial institutions, raised $ 2.4 million in a seed extension round led by Hyperplane Venture Capital and was joined by investors including Accomplice and Launch Capital.

This is a must have for boards, leading executives and investors.

The production studio had received an offer in March from an investor group led by Maria Contreras - Sweet for $ 500 million, but the deal fell through after raising questions about the company's financials.

«Right now you've got a bizarre situation where two groups of investors, one led by Carl Icahn,... the other led by Starboard Value... [are] fighting for control of Newell's future.»

FirstMark Capital led the round and was joined by investors including Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, Amplo, Trail Mix Ventures, Combine and The Chernin Group.

In addition to catapulting EverFi into the ed tech big leagues, the fundraising round marks the debut deal for lead investor Rise, a newly established social impact investing fund managed by TPG Growth, a private equity firm that has also backed Internet hotshots like Uber and Airbnb.

«Fragmenting liquidity in the closing auction would impact the DMM's ability to provide this service and could lead to increased volatility for our investors.

Oak HC / FT led the round and was joined by investors including Propel Venture Partners, Two Sigma Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Mastercard and Partnership Fund for New York City.

Only time will tell whether Tilk is the right guy to lead Potash into the future, but, at least for now, investors have no need to panic.

• An investor group led by Stone Point Capital and KKR (NYSE: KKR) agreed to acquire a majority stake in Focus Financial Partners, a New York - based wealth management firm, for around $ 2 billion.

Only about a quarter of those sites contained any content at all, which leads the agency to believe they are serving as placeholders for future crowdfunding portals, perhaps readying to launch once the SEC implements its investor guidelines.

The potential to connect with investors — often hundreds of them — at an accelerator Demo Day is a huge draw, albeit one that can lead to pitfalls for participants.

Adapting services to include new digital platforms is a key focus for the major players in Perth's communications sector led by Cannings Purple, which has maintained its top spot on the Business News ranking of the state's largest public and investor relations firms.

In January, a special acquisition corporation led by investor Mark Klein acquired the chain for $ 27 million in cash and an additional $ 39 million in stock.

In 2016, she and 23 other celebrities became investors in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), after the company was purchased for $ 4 billion by a group of investors led by talent agency WME / IMG.

While market turmoil has led investors to safety in the form of Treasurys and muni bonds, the outlook for the tax - exempt market is murky.

Power down A hunt for dividend income led investors to pour money into high - yielding utility stocks in 2016.

In October, the top two stock ETFs for new flows from investors were S&P 500 funds, which is a change from recent months during which overseas stock ETFs had led over US stock portfolios in flows.

A conversation with investor Sam Altman, for example, led the entrepreneur to change the way he was marketing his product.

The investor group, led by American private - equity firm Silver Lake, now has to figure out how to convince more Skype users to actually pay for the communications service, all the while fending off Google, which is becoming a major competitor.

«New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle,» she said at the October 2013 investor conference, sponsored by Goldman Sachs.

• Baidu Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU) is selling a majority of financial services business to an investor group led by TPG and Carlyle Group for about $ 1.9 billion.

But investors across Silicon Valley have been humming about the round for weeks since it shows the power of SoftBank, led by CEO Masayoshi Son, to reshape the funding landscape and amounts in Silicon Valley.

That's largely thanks to lead investor Founders Fund, Peter Thiel's firm known for backing Airbnb and Spotify.

«The fact that we have seen over # 1 billion worth of venture capital investment into London fintech companies since the EU referendum vote offers further proof that global investors still believe London will remain a leading fintech hub for many years to come,» Rajesh Agrawal, London's deputy mayor for business, said in a statement Thursday.

«I think since, really, I'm a conservative investor, that experience of being in debt and also the experience of seeing things happen to people who took too much financial risk and got hurt, led me to be pretty conservative — I'm a guy that looks for singles and not home runs,» Bach said.

Furthermore, many institutional investors close their books at the year - end, a deadline for taxation and performance reporting, a time seen leading to dollar selling pressure, analysts said.

This not only boosts existing shareholder trust and support, but also shortens preparation time for new rounds, enables new investors to better assess historical results and leads to less of a need for future data points for validation.

BlueRun Ventures led the round, and was joined by investors including Cervin Ventures, Serra Ventures, TiE and Capital for Founders.

An IPO could lead to softness in SoftBank Group shares for a while as some telecoms - focused investors sell their holdings to buy shares in the newly listed entity, said Chris Lane, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein.

Dalio's firm led the list with a nearly $ 50 billion gain for its investors since inception through 2017, adding a $ 300 million profit in 2017 despite mediocre percentage returns.

The bankruptcy led investors to dump the city's municipal bonds on Friday but Orr deflected criticism that it will be hard for investors to lend the city money again.

Ironically, Ackman's 3 - year - long «for profit species of holy war,» as Parloff dubs the investor's extended Herbalife siege, has forced the company to shake off many of its most unsavory operations, like its dogged lead generation businesses.

In the lead - up to Fed Chair Janet Yellen's testimony before Congress next week, investors will be looking for rate clues from three regional Fed presidents Friday.

That tends to be positive for any stock, since it leads more institutional investors to automatically buy its shares.

While New Zealand's official cash rate is already at a record - low 2 % after the latest cut in August, it is still the highest in the developed world — a major draw for yield - hungry investors and a complication for the central bank as a higher kiwi further dampens imported - led inflation.

Once they do mount, another quirk of human nature comes into play — one that Baruch alluded to: the tendency for stubbornness to give way to panic, leading investors to dump their holdings at a bottom.