Sentences with phrase «lead the fund since»

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The startup has since expanded to other neighborhoods in Los Angeles County and San Diego, and on Tuesday it announced it had raised $ 15 million in venture - capital funding led by Craft Ventures to support its expansion throughout the US.

It has received $ 594 million in funding, led by Google (GOOG), since its founding in 2012.

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.

Cuban has been involved in every funding round since he led the seed round with half a million dollars of his own funds.

It was before mutual and pension funds became leading players in colossal late - stage funding rounds, linking the retirement accounts of middle - class Americans to the fates of hot but unpredictable startups at a rate not seen since the dot - com crash of 2000.

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously boosted sanctions on North Korea since 2006 in a bid to choke off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, banning exports including coal, iron, lead, textiles and seafood, and capping imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products.

Since its founding in 2010, the eyeglass retailer has raised $ 115.5 million in venture - capital funding (most recently taking in $ 100 million in a round of funding led by T. Rowe Price in April), opened 16 storefronts in nine cities and become a «unicorn» with a valuation of $ 1.2 billion.

The startup is valued at about $ 400 million, and raised $ 40 million in January in a series B round of funding led by General Catalyst Partners and Thrive Capital, bringing its total amount of venture capital raised to $ 54 million since its launch in 2013.

Since 2009, Sullivan has led one of the world's largest corporate funders and a vast employee volunteer operation that contributed some 2 million hours of service in a recent year.

The world's leading authority on exchange - traded funds, ETF.com has delivered clear, independent and authoritative news, analysis and education about ETFs online and in print since 2001.

Marking its 15th anniversary year, BFS Capital, a leading small business financing platform, announced it has now extended over $ 1.7 billion in financing since funding its first deal in 2002.

To answer the first question, we looked at the top 100 venture firms globally, based on longevity (active since 2010), recent activity (investing in 2014 and 2015), rounds led and fund size.

«Our revenues have grown three-fold since 2013 when we received our first round of funding from Sequoia, and we are doubling our lead generation Y - O - Y.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The iShares MSCI ACWI Index Fund (ACWI A-96), an ETF that tracks the MSCI All World Index, is up 4.4 percent since the beginning of the year, with non-U.S. stocks leading the most recent charge.

Also in 2015, divergence in monetary policies unsettled developed currency markets: the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan continued quantitative easing programs while the Federal Reserve rhetorically led markets on a long, slow walk to the first increase in the fed funds rate since the global financial crisis.

Since inception, we have invested in 23 leading businesses through 4 committed funds resulting in a proven track record of successfully partnering with entrepreneurs, management teams and family - owned businesses.

This is a missed financial opportunity since the data shows that newer funds, smaller funds, and investments in women - led companies (in which gender diverse GPs tend to invest), all outperform.

Since 2008, over 100 women investors have been involved in supporting angel investing and 519 women - led ventures have inquired about angel funding, with 80 companies moving forward for investor presentations.

I started this fund after (knowing I wanted to be in VC in Austin) learning that women - led companies perform significantly better financially, yet are an untapped market since only 2 % of venture dollars are going to female founded start - ups.

She has been leading the Americas Hedge Funds sales segment since 2015.

«I would say the primary role I've had is I've been a leading advocate on CHIPs funding,» O'Mara said, «and infrastructure funding for many years now since I've been in the Senate.»

The Steering Group agreed the terms of reference for the review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (2012).

Norman Seabrook, who has led the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association since 1995, was arrested at his home in the Bronx on fraud charges for allegedly accepting a bribe in exchange for investing millions in union funds in a hedge fund.

Since then, Stefanik has delivered a steady stream of funding to local health care centers and has made funding Children's Health Insurance Program, which offers coverage to low - income residents, a leading issue.

The second «leading contenders» debate is scheduled for November 1 and it remains to be seen if Dietl — who is not automatically included in the debate since he is not a participant in the CFB's public matching funds program — will be invited by the debate sponsors.

The Business Stimulus Loan Fund has provided more than $ 800,000 to three fast - growing Erie County firms since its establishment last fall, leading to expansion of their workforces and client rosters.

Since lead dust and paint chips inhaled and eaten by children often come from raising and closing old windows, the county is also earmarking $ 436,838 in leftover funds from earlier years of the lead prevention and remediation program to give out low - interest loans or grants for window replacements, based on a sliding income scale, over the next five years.

Since 1976, the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program has served as a leading source of analysis on funding and policy issues affecting federal support for research and development (R&D).

While Allison's early research that led to Yervoy was funded by the National Cancer Institute, «since then, there have been no major initiatives to accelerate progress in this area.»

Since 2000, novel, regionally driven and funded initiatives have led to the establishment of new research institutes, which have fostered significant change.

NIDA has provided funding for the survey since its inception to a team of investigators at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, currently led by Dr. Richard Miech.

Since 2011, core faculty members have led projects with more than $ 116 million in grant funding from federal and other sources.

Since then, TRDRP has funded further studies, including one in 2013 led by Berkeley Lab biochemist Bo Hang that found that thirdhand smoke can cause significant genetic damage in human cells.

Since 2003, Regenerative Medicine Foundation has built the strongest, most comprehensive and trusted global network for Regenerative Medicine, uniting the world's leading researchers, medical centers, universities, labs, businesses, funders, policymakers, experts in law, regulation and ethics, medical philanthropies and patient organizations.

Since then you've raised another $ 30 million round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

Since its inception, the Foundation has grounded its storytelling about innovations in education research and has even commissioned research from leading researchers in the field of learning; now, George Lucas decides that it's time to deepen the organization's commitment to research and creates a division dedicated to conducting and funding rigorous research in collaboration with university partners, leading educators, and research firms.

Since her election to this role in 2008, Weingarten has led a series of projects, one of which was the creation of the AFT Innovation Fund, which supports education reform projects developed by teachers in collaboration with their local unions.

Since winning a Minnesota Senate seat in 1992, the teacher - turned - legislator has become a prominent advocate for equitable school funding and a leading voice for improving public schools.

«Since this program saves taxpayers money and the legislature will need to appropriate more funding to return these students to the local public schools, which will lead to increase costs to the local district; the legislature should instead provide the funding for the scholarship program to allow parents to choose schools they believe will best educate their children,» Duplessis added.

Real terms cuts to school funding since 2015 have led to a big reduction in the number of secondary teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in England, says research published today by the School Cuts alliance of education unions.

Since joining the Association in June 2007, Eileen led the Association in notable efforts including: developing a model that measures «value - added» growth in achievement, which is used for A-F rankings of all Arizona schools; creating trainings that enable teachers and school leaders to collaboratively use data; launching joint purchasing programs; filing lawsuits for equitable funding for all K - 12 students; increasing positive public perceptions of charters; and, building a comprehensive program to support prospective charter school operators.

Real terms cuts to school funding since 2015 have led to a big reduction in the number of secondary teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in England, says research published today by the Sch...

Much has happened since the plaintiffs filed their lawsuits six years ago during an economic recession that led to substantial cuts in school funding.

Shelton Jefferies, the school system's superintendent, says his district has lost more than 1,400 students since 2011, leading to a net loss of about $ 13 million in federal, state and local funding, even though fixed costs for maintenance and renovation continue to climb.

But since the 1960s, successful efforts by teachers» unions to pass state laws forcing districts to bargain with them, along with school funding lawsuits and property tax reforms such as California's Proposition 13, have led to states taking a more prominent role in all aspects of education.

Urban Institute, one of the country's leading research institutions, reports Illinois is one of the few states whose funding has remained regressive since 1995.

Since then, more districts have joined in two other suits - the latest coming earlier this month led by one of the nation's most forceful civil rights organizations, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

With her mother Frances Moore Lappé, Anna leads the Cambridge - based Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education, and the Small Planet Fund, which has nearly half a million dollars for democratic social movements worldwide, two of which have won the Nobel Peace Prize since the Fund's founding in 2002.

Luckily, I saved all of our previous email correspondences as well as some training vids and screenshots; this will make it easier and save time and money (since every mistake due to lack of proper training can lead to wasted funds).