Sentences with phrase «led fund raising»

Successfully organized and led fund raising campaigns and grant writing activities, securing funding from American Bar Association and other major law firms.

Advanced Equities is leading the fund raise.

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Culture Trip, an online travel magazine, raised $ 88 million in a series B round of funding led by the venture arm of PPF Group, a Netherlands - based conglomerate.

The New York - based startup raised another $ 325 million in funding led by Wellington Management, Fidelity Investments, Kleiner Perkins, and True Ventures.

Elon Musk - led SpaceX Corp is raising $ 507 million in a new round of funding, valuing the company at around $ 26 billion, according to a filing seen by Reuters.

• Nubank, a Brazil - based financial startup, raised $ 150 million in funding.DST Global Investment Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital LP and QED.

Last summer the company raised $ 4 million in an early funding round led by First Round Capital and RRE Ventures.

• Kespry, a Menlo Park, Calif. - based aerial intelligence solution provider, raised $ 33 million in Series C funding led by G2VP, and was joined by investors including Shell Technology Ventures, Cisco Investments, and ABB Ventures

• Wonolo, a San Francisco - based staffing platform enabling businesses to fill their immediate labor needs, raised $ 13 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital.

• Pilotworks, New York City - based a community of food entrepreneurs formerly known as FoodWorks, raised $ 13 million in Series A funding led by Techstars Ventures and Acre Venture Partners.

• Noodle Partners, a New York firm that helps colleges decrease the cost of online higher education, raised about $ 14 million in Series A funding led by Owl Ventures.

Indian music streaming service Gaana has raised $ 115 million in a funding round led by Chinese tech giant Tencent.

• LaunchDarkly, an Oakland, Calif. - based feature management platform, raised a $ 21 million in Series B funding led by Redpoint Ventures and Vertex.

• Grab, a ride - sharing company serving Southeast Asian markets, plans to raise more than $ 1.5 billion in a funding round led by SoftBank, according to Bloomberg.

It raised $ 4.4 billion in funding from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund over the course of several months; bought the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building for $ 850 million to serve as its new headquarters; is adding a second headquarters at the new Salesforce Tower in San Francisco; led a $ 32 million funding round in New York startup The Wing; and has bought several other startups, most recently spending $ 200 million on Meetup.

• Spin, a San Francisco - based provider of bikeshare services, raised $ 8 million in Series A funding led by Grishin Robotics with participation from Exponent and CRCM.

Raider managed to raise $ 4 million in seed funding led by New York venture firm Thrive Capital.

In this regard, an early - stage venture called Carmel Organics very recently wooed leading VC firm Ankur Capital to raise undisclosed Series A funds.

• Costello, an Indianapolis - based deal management platform, raised $ 1 million in funding led by Dundee Venture Capital with participation from Elevate Ventures, M25 Group, and Service Provider Capital.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

So far, it has raised $ 56.2 million from Liberty Interactive, Founders Fund, Buchanan Investments and Quid chairman Charles Lho, publisher of Korea's leading English - language newspaper.

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.

Recently, it made the move into RegTech by leading the investors in backing the US - based open banking platform Token, which raised $ 15.7 million in a Series A funding round in April.

Meal - delivery startup Freshly has raised $ 77 million in new funds, financing that was led by Swiss - based food giant Nestle.

3D printing startup Carbon3D has raised $ 100 million in a funding round led by Google's venture capital arm.

Didi's latest cash infusion, received from investors including Japan's SoftBank Group and Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi state fund, follows a $ 5.5 billion fund - raising round in April, also led by Softbank.

In April, VideoSurf raised $ 16 million in a round of funding led by Israel's Pitango Venture Capital.

The former Dropbox executive raised $ 140 million for her first fund and says that while bigger funds have a clear advantage when it comes to leading the largest deals, her dual focus — A.I. and diversity — gives her a leg up.

Mehta has words of advice for the new AI entrants, he states that following the below mentioned approaches, startup owners could gain confidence while dealing with leading venture capitalists as far as raising post-Series A funding is concerned:

U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm raised its offer to buy NXP Semiconductors to $ 127.50 per share on Tuesday, and said it has the backing of the shareholder group led by hedge fund Elliott Management that opposed its previous proposal.

The bid was raised after the company was pressured by shareholders led by activist hedge fund Elliott Management.

Farmer's Business Network has raised $ 110 million in a new venture funding round led by T. Rowe Price and Temasek.

On Tuesday, the food delivery startup hoping to reinvent frozen's reputation in the era of clean eating announced that it had raised some $ 43 million in a second round of funding, led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaun White.

When in reality success is almost always the result of years and years of hard work, tough decisions, execution, hiring, marketing, fund raising and the countless other actions that lead to business success.

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.

Ride - hailing service Lyft just raised $ 1 billion in a funding round led by CapitalG, Alphabet's investment arm.

The company just raised $ 38 million in a Series B funding round led by Colony NorthStar and Lerer Hippeau.

This ultimately led to a successful crowdsourcing campaign that raised $ 1.3 million in funding.

Leading companies including major defense contractor Raytheon, secure - password - solution provider SQRL and security - analytics startup Rapid7 call the Boston area home and continue to raise millions of dollars in funding.

Republicans and some Wall Street analysts warn that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to blow up the filibuster on presidential nominations will lead to an even darker period of partisan acrimony, throwing into question the ability of Congress to pass a bill to fund the government past January and raise the debt limit in February.

BIG AI DEAL: Element AI, a Montreal - based artificial intelligence startup, has raised $ 102 million ($ 137.5 M Canadian) in Series A funding led by DCVC with participation from BDC, Fidelity Investments, Hanwha, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, National Bank of Canada, Nvidia, Real Ventures, Tencent, and multiple sovereign wealth funds.

U.S. drugmaker Turing Pharmaceuticals, led at the time by hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, caused outrage last year by raising the U.S. price of Daraprim, an old anti-infective drug, by more than 5,000 % to $ 750 a pill.

The startup also announced that it raised $ 25 million in funding, led by Breyer Capital, whose CEO sits on the board.

Nomad Health, a startup that's set up a platform for a new generation of doctors and nurses to pursue gig work that meets their own needs, has raised $ 12 million in a Series B funding round led by Polaris Panthers, the company announced Tuesday.

• Lyft, a San Francisco - based ride - hailing company, is seeking to raise up to $ 500 million in additional funding in an extension of the CapitalG - led round, according to Axios.

• WorldRemit, a London - based digital money transfer service, raised $ 40 million in Series C funding led by LeapFrog Investments and was joined by investors including Accel and Technology Crossover Ventures.

• ForceManager, a Barcelona - based mobile CRM platform, raised $ 12 million in Series B funding led by AXA Strategic Ventures.

• Prevoty, a Los Angeles - based autonomous application protection firm, raised $ 13 million of Series B funding led by Trident Capital Cybersecurity and was joined by investors including USVP.

• Eko Communications, a Bangkok - based provider of mobile communications tools for large organizations, has raised $ 5.7 million in Series A funding led by Gobi Partners.

• Klaviyo, a Boston - based platform for ecommerce email campaigns, has raised $ 1.5 million in VC funding led by Accomplice.