Sentences with phrase «leading seed company»

But now that a state - owned enterprise will own a leading seed company, the country's incentives reverse.

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• 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 fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.

Lentzsch participated in the company's $ 2.45 million seed round — along with former Orbitz chairman Jeff Clarke — helping lead to dozens of deals with national carriers, including Greyhound.

«I was sort of surprised that they weren't being swamped by more investors when I got in touch with them,» said Fritz Lanman, who sold his mobile recommendations company Livestar to Pinterest in 2013 and led the ClassPass» most recent financing and invested in their seed round.

Investment groups such as Golden Seeds and BELLE Capital USA, which bankroll women - led companies, have worked toward shrinking this financing gap for years.

This Thursday, the company announced an $ 8.5 million Series A round led by Floodgate, following an earlier $ 1.3 million seed round led by Norwest Venture Partners.

Cypher is the CEO and co-founder of Oak Labs Interactive, the company behind the interactive mirrors, which just announced it has raised $ 4.1 million in a seed round led by Wing Venture Capital to bring refine the technology and bring it to more retailers.

Leading seed investors in companies with at least one female founder include Y Combinator with 28, SOSV with 10 and BBG Ventures and Innovation Works at five investments each.

Noida - based digital healthcare company Sidqam Technologies has secured $ 1.2 million seed funding led by SQue Capital, a Mumbai - based...

Having led Routehappy's seed round in 2012, we are excited about this individual deal, but we're also thrilled about the continued trend of aggressive, future - thinking acquisitions by old - line companies.

Last week, TSF announced that Primary Venture Partners led a $ 2.0 million seed investment in the company.

Stasis Labs, a cloud - powered health monitoring company, has raised $ 5 million in its seed investment round led by RTP - Healthcare...

Moreover, we take a substantial lead role in the seed financing, so there is no negative presumption when we introduce the company to our VC friends for the next round of financing.

Expense management company Fyle Technologies has raised $ 400,000 (Rs. 2.67 crore) in its seed round led by early stage venture firm Pravega Ventures, the startup's founder Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan told Techcircle.

Chennai - based fintech company Kaleidofin has raised $ 2.8 million (Rs 18 crore) in a seed round led by Omidyar Network, the company...

I led all of the legal work on company formation and the VC negotiations on the seed round.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

Après, a digital - first company based in San Francisco offering a plant - based protein beverage developed specifically for premium whole - body replenishment, announced Tuesday the closing of a $ 1.1 million seed series fundraising round led by Rocana Venture Partners.

Sundaresan is CTO and co-founder of Trusted Key, which on May 2 also announced it raised $ 3 million as part of a seed funding round led by Founders Co-Op, an early - stage venture fund, with participation from Pithia, Inc., the venture capital company of The RChain Cooperative.

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).

The firm's mission is to identify, invest in and partner with seed, early stage, and middle market businesses with exceptional promise and help them grow into market - leading companies.

Monsanto Company (MON - $ 125) Monsanto is a leading global provider of seeds, biotechnology traits, herbicides and data analytics for farmers.

Speaking further, Sahil said, «We are proud to be backed by people like Roger Ver (who has single handedly funded the seed rounds for the entire first generation of Bitcoin businesses), Amit Bhardwaj (who is leading the march for Bitcoin Adoption in India), Michael Terpin (he co-founded BitAngels, the first angel network for investments in bitcoin / digital currency companies) and more Bitcoin Pioneers.

A simple desire to build a family - based produce business through hard work and a focus on quality was the seed that grew us into a leading global produce company.

A collaboration among leading organic food companies, including Annie's, Clif Bar & Co., Stonyfield Farm Inc., the Organic Valley cooperative, Whole Foods Market Inc., and others launched last year to increase acres of organic grains, pulses, and oil seeds.

With more than 1,200 international actors from 35 + countries, such as big pharma, emerging and small biotech, diagnostics companies, pre-seed / seed / Series A investors, as well as professionals from tech transfer, academia and research institutions, BioFIT is the leading partnering event in Europe for technology transfer, academia - industry collaborations and early - stage innovations in the field of Life Sciences.

Besides the North American seed market the company has recently opened up the Chinese and Indian markets by establishing multiple licensing and commercial product development agreements with leading Chinese and Indian seed and agricultural biotechnology companies.

Teatime Games, the Icelandic social games company, has announced a $ 7.5 million Series A funding round and a prior $ 1.6 million Seed round, both led by Index Ventures, a venture capital firm that has backed some of the world's most successful games companies including King, Roblox and Supercell.

Initial Capital led the seed round for industry leading companies such as Supercell, Hutch Games and Nexmo and co-invested in other leading mobile gaming companies, including Space Ape Games, Super Evil Mega Corp and Supersolid.

Just five companies (Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont, and Syngenta) own more than 60 % of the global commercial seed supply, and with many of the modern seed varieties being hybrids that won't breed true for home gardeners and small - scale farmers, or that have regulations outlawing the collection and replanting of seeds, today's growers are being locked into a cycle of reduced genetic diversity, which may lead to a potentially dangerous food security situation in the near future.

This 8.7 million funding round adds to ROSS Intelligence's 4.3 million Seed round which was also led by iNovia Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Real Ventures, Denton's NextLaw Labs, Hedgewood, Griver Capital Group, ACE & Company, The Family, and LinkedIn's former Director of Engineering, Diego Basch.

Following its seed and its $ 10 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins in 2014, the company has been break - even or cash - flow positive in more recent months.

Blockchain companies and investors from New York and Dubai led by Wamda Capital have completed a seed funding of the bitcoin exchange BitOasis.

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