Sentences with phrase «led by our union»

In early 2012 we ended up raising a $ 5 million Series B round led by Union Square Ventures.

Which may be one reason why investors are interested: on August 6, the Toronto - based startup will announce that it raised $ 4 million in funding led by Union Square Ventures.

Two year old RealtyShares has raised a $ 20 million Series B, lead by Union Square Ventures.

In 1948 an anti-colonial, independence rebellion (1948 — 1971), led by the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), resulted in bloody repression by French troops.

What's most galling is that the Democrats — led by the union - backed Working Families Party, as usual — are trying to present this taxpayer shakedown as reform, using recent Albany and New York City scandals as a false rallying cry.

Plus, the powerful anti-charter movement led by unions and superintendents is fully capable of blocking charters in some cities.

In our state, the status quo has consistently been led by our union.

The group is led by a union lobbyist who is based at New York City's United Federation of Teachers headquarters.

Other Bitcoin - based companies that have recently landed significant investment include Coinbase, which raised a $ 5 million Series A led by Union Square Ventures, and BitPay, which has received about $ 2.5 million to date from Founders Fund and various angel investors.

Wattpad, an online writing community that lets users share and collaborate on stories across platforms including mobile apps, has closed a $ 3.5 million first round of funding led by Union Square Ventures.

The company raised $ 7.5 million this year, led by Union Square Ventures.

The investment was led by Union Square Ventures and will be spent on hiring more staff and covering operating costs.

A bitcoin blockchain - based Internet is a step closer to reality thanks to this $ 5.3 m investment in Blockstack led by Union Square Ventures.

Not exact matches

According to the European Commission, a fully integrated economic and monetary union would need a Treasury led by a EU finance minister, who could chair the meetings of the euro zone finance ministers — currently known as the Eurogroup.

Union Grove Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by Disney, Interpublic Group, MDC Ventures, Time Warner, A+E Networks, TGM, Draper Associates, and Ambition VC.

The second generation, led by Kim Il Sung's son Kim Jong Il, were mostly educated in the Eastern Bloc, particularly the Soviet Union or China, and often in the technocratic fields.

The European Union executive is planning a law to deal with complaints about unfair trading practices by leading online players such as Apple and Google.

LONDON — Tory peer Michael Heseltine believes Brexit will be so damaging that he would rather see a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn in power than see Britain leave the European Union.

Kensington Capital Partners led the round, and was joined by Samsung NEXT, John Hancock / Manulife, WTI, Hedgewood, Union Square Ventures, Rho Canada Ventures, and Version One Ventures.

The group led by Stephen Riady's Overseas Union Enterprise threw in the towel after Thailand's TCC Assets, headed by billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, raised its takeover offer for F&N to S$ 9.55 a share last week and bought additional stock in the open market to build its existing F&N holding to more than 40 percent.

The round was led by Icon Ventures, with Union Square Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Owl Ventures and Altos Ventures participating in follow - on investments.

Bob White and the auto workers captured the attention of many Canadians by breaking away from their American parent union in 1985 and then leading an inspired campaign against the Mulroney government's proposed free trade agreement with the United States.

The Elon Musk - led company went a step further as well, stating that the piece was an «ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla.»

Miramax has secured a multi-bank revolving credit facility for $ 300 million led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and MUFG Union Bank that extends for...

The European Union is, after all, an economic superpower in its own right — far too big and rich for America to have much direct influence — led by sophisticated people who should be able to manage their own affairs.

The European Union, prompted by safety and environmental concerns, lead a campaign to tighten controls on the production of GMO foods and implemented a labelling rule in 1997.

Well known as investors in Twitter and early backers of Foursquare, which recently raised $ 20 million in Series B funding, Union Square Ventures is lead by Brad Burnham, Fred Wilson, and Albert Wenger.

RealtyShares is raising a $ 28 million Series C round led by Cross Creek Advisors, with participation from existing investors including Union Square Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, and Menlo Ventures.

What if, at the start of the year, you had a crystal ball and you knew January and February would see severe stock market declines leading to the worst start of any year, Britain would shock the financial markets by voting to exit the European Union, and Donald Trump would be elected President?

The law was proposed by a leading trade union, Solidarity, which said employees deserved Sundays off.

Yet she on earth hath union With God the Three in One, And mystic sweet communion With those whose rest is won, With all her sons and daughters Who, by the Master's hand Led through the deathly waters, Repose in Eden land.

We have seen times when hatred led to the division of our union, and other times when our cities were set afire by racial injustice.

Add to the mix the childless Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte and the childless prime minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, and something quite striking comes into focus: Of the six founding members of what has evolved into the European Union, five are now led by childless prime ministers or presidents, a situation that would have been unimaginable to one of the founders of modern «Europe,» Konrad Adenauer, who was the father of eight.

Interpreting Ezekiel 38 Pat Robertson free - quotes:»... when Israel is regathered from the nations... I am going to put hooks in the jaws of the confederation that is going to be led by someone named Gog in the land of Magog (the Soviet Union).

We can understand this more fully if we reflect on the Collegial Consecration carried out by the Pope and the bishops of the world in March 1984, which led to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union.

It led the Soviet Union by one - tenth of a point with five of six events completed.

Tim Welke, secretary - treasurer of the World Umpires Association, the new union that rose from the ashes of the Richie Phillips - led group that collapsed after the resignation fiasco, says such a small number easily could be absorbed by Major League Baseball.

Led by the Leading Association for Catering in Education (LACA), the group consists of chefs, caterers, Unions, head teachers, campaigners and People 1st.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) today announced that it will be leading an interactive forum to discuss important issues highlighted by the European Union's CEO Coalition «to make the Internet a better place for kids.»

Two of the four Democrats running in NY - 6 — Assemblywoman Grace Meng and Assemblyman Rory Lancman — were endorsed by two related unions that have been leading the charge against Wal - Mart's effort to build a store in NYC.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) headed by Masoud Barzani, (who is also the President of Iraqi Kurdistan since 2005) together with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan led by Jalal Talabani, have been the two principal Kurdish parties in northern Iraq for the last few decades.

The optimum way for the United Kingdom to exit the European Union is by leading a reform of the European Economic Area (EEA).

Employers need to lead the charge Employers should lead on skills development and government should enable them to do so, by encouraging greater collaboration between businesses, unions and the workforce in regions, sectors and across supply chains

The UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum (CSF - a body led by Government but including the chemical industry, NGO's, trade unions and others)-- has launched new advice on Authorisation.

After years of setbacks and declining membership nationally, labor groups were seen as being on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major union - led effort that initially began by focusing on fast food restaurants.

In its effort to unionize flight attendants at JetBlue, the Transport Workers Union has found an uncommon array of allies — top New York City and state officials led by Cuomo.

Igor Dodon, de facto leader of the Socialists, has not only once stated its intentions to denounce the Association Agreement with the European Union and join the Eurasian Economic Union led by the Russian Federation, based his entire campaign on criticizing both EU and Romania («The Romanian gendarme will not be our master»).

The failure of Labour's «In Place of Strife» labour market reform proposals in the late 1960s had led to a situation where union power was increasingly stifling markets by keeping wages high.

The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the defeats suffered by the trade union movement, as well as the decline in influence of the British Communist Party, led to a strengthening of the position of Labour party members who were opposed to Marxism.

It was formed by a merger between two of Britain's» leading unions, the TG and Amicus.