Sentences with phrase «led venture funds»

with the best parts of a leading venture fund and the technical insight, scale and experience of a strategic investor.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, April 25 - Venture capitalist Peter Thiel on Wednesday abandoned his effort to buy the irreverent news website Gawker.com, as part of a settlement freeing the billionaire from possible lawsuits for having secretly funded litigation that led to its demise.

Ascent Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by Delancey Street Partners and Randstad Innovation Fund.

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.

Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.

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

NEW YORK, April 25 - Billionaire Peter Thiel on Wednesday abandoned his effort to buy the irreverent news website Gawker.com, enabling the Silicon Valley venture capitalist to avoid a possible legal fight over his having secretly funded litigation that led to its demise.

Accion Venture Lab led the round and was joined by investors including Omidyar Network, Mulago Foundation, Choiseul Africa Capital, Mercy Corps» Social Venture Fund, and several angel investors.

They're already convincing investors — New Millennium just received close to $ 1 million in a round of financing led by Toronto - based venture capital fund Hedgewood Inc. — and a burgeoning array of early adopters, including pioneering chefs, adventurous retailers and corporate partners that could soon include Google.

Insight Venture Partners led the round and was joined by investors including Matrix Partners, Underscore VC, and Leaders Fund.

Versant Ventures and Novartis Venture Fund led the round.

• 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.

She took her concept to venture capitalists and secured a total of $ 10.4 million in two funding rounds — the first, in 2013, led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures; the second, last year, led by Thrive Capital and including Bonobos founder Andy Dunn.

Madrona Venture Group led the round, and was joined by investors including X Factor Ventures, Brilliant Ventures, The Helm, PLG Ventures, Portland Seed Fund, Founders» Co-Op, and Start It Labs.

The federal governments has been making efforts to boost entrepreneurial outcomes, with a new startup visa for foreign - born entrepreneurs and $ 400 million in funding to create venture - capital funds led by the private sector.

«You can't just sit back and enjoy the moment you have,» says John Ruffolo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm one of Canada's leading pension funds.

«But in the course of the last three years, we've seen a dramatic explosion,» says Fortino, who now leads the Ann Arbor office of venture capital firm Mercury Fund.

She put together a report, called Project Diane, to show just how much venture capital goes to women of color, and the results are bleak: Of 10,284 venture deals funded from 2012 to 2014, just 24 were with startups led by black women.

Only 2.7 percent of venture - funded companies are led by women, according to a 2014 report by Babson College.

Lewis & Clark Ventures and Prelude Ventures led the round, with participation from Fall Line Capital, S2G Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, Cultivation Capital, iSelect Fund, Mercury Fund, Middleland Capital, Missouri Technology Corporation, Prolog Ventures, and TechAccel.

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.

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 Denver - based Inspirato, a critical part of its latest $ 20 million funding round, led by tech - savvy firms W Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners, was its plan to open five «experience centers» in upscale U.S. malls.

Colorado Impact Fund led the round, and was joined by Bootstrap Incubation, Three Leaf Ventures, Rockies Venture Fund, Service Provider Capital, Sand Hill Angels, and New York Angels.

The Venture Reality Fund and Inventure led the round.

The Rise Fund led the round, and was joined by investors including T. Rowe Price Associates, GT Healthcare Capital Partners, and existing investors Sofinnova Partners, KCK Group, Venrock, Pfizer Venture Investments, and Johnson & Johnson Innovation.

Last September, the federal government set aside $ 400 million to create venture - capital funds led by the private sector, and also promised to give the Business Development Bank of Canada another $ 100 million to reinforce its venture - capital activities.

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.

DST Global, a company that was early investors in Facebook and Spotify, led the funding round, which included other high profile venture capital firms Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital.

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

In the mornings, the VCs and execs led how - to seminars on cracking the U.S. marketplace and securing American venture funding.

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

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:

Kensington Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including Trend Forward Capital, Innogy Ventures, Amazon Alexa Fund, BDC IT Venture Fund, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners and Relay Ventures.

Similarly, Box, which is led by Aaron Levie, Inc. magazine's 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year — is about to close a new round of venture capital funding.

Shipt, a grocery delivery startup, has closed a $ 40 million in Series B funding led by Greycroft Partners, with participation from and e.ventures and Harbert Venture Partners.

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 Shaunventure capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and ShaunVenture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaun White.

Venture - capital funding increased slightly in the second quarter from the previous quarter, with software and biotechnology companies leading the pack, according to a report released today.

Co-founder and executive chairman Hoffman, who is also a partner at Greylock Partners, the venture capital firm that led a $ 10 million funding round in LinkedIn in 2004, started the company in 2002 in his living room.

Other universities are watching carefully and will likely follow Stanford's lead, says Chris Lesmes, former director of the Big Red Venture Fund, a student - run $ 2 million investment fund targeting startups at Cornell University and financed by alumni, not the schFund, a student - run $ 2 million investment fund targeting startups at Cornell University and financed by alumni, not the schfund targeting startups at Cornell University and financed by alumni, not the school.

In 2009, it was able to get $ 13.75 million in initial funding, supported by the Canadian government's Sustainable Development Technology fund, led by Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital.

The Venture Reality Fund led the round.

Lead author of the study and Babson professor Donna Kelley points to studies that show women are less likely to receive venture capital funding.

Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which led the most recent funding round (a round that included Institutional Venture Partners and China Media Capital) is also optimistic about its chances.

New Enterprise Associates led the round, and was joined by investors including Lundbeckfonden Ventures, Omega Funds, Aperture Venture Partners, and TPG Biotech.

On Wednesday, the company announced $ 100 million in new funding led by new investor Founders Fund, with existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Jefferies participating.

Health Velocity Capital led and was joined by investors including BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Noro - Moseley Partners, and Sandbox Advantage Fund.