Sentences with phrase «line venture firms»
(If the limited partners of these VC's acted like real fiduciaries rather than waiting for the end of life of the fund, more than half of old - line venture firms would have shut themselves down today.)
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Venture capital firms, in particular, have long been overwhelmingly averse to funding female - run enterprises, «and I don't see a trend line for any significant change,» added Trish Costello, CEO and founder of Portfolia, a platform designed to help women invest in entrepreneurial enterprises.
Silicon Valley is a unique environment where venture capital firms line the streets, share expertise and are unafraid of investing in the dreams of imaginative entrepreneurs.
The notion is encapsulated in the tag line of Thiel's venture capital firm, Founders Fund: «We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.»
Founder Jed Smith's concept for an on - line drugstore went straight to the top at Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins because Smith knew an assistant to partner John Doerr.
Prior to joining Experian in 2013, Aaron spent five years at Line 6, a venture - backed music technology firm where he held various positions in product and marketing.
Ben Horowitz has seen many generations of entrepreneurs, investors and companies from the front line: from his internship in the 1980s at Silicon Graphics (the Google of its day) to co-founding Opsware (sold to HP to $ 1.6 billion) to building US$ 2.7 billion venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
«There's Sand Hill Road,» he continued cheerfully, motioning toward the wide boulevard lined on both sides with big - name venture capital firms.
The lawsuit, which asks a judge to remove Uber founder Travis Kalanick from the company's board, reflects an aggressive posture from a venture firm that thinks Kalanick is hurting the company's bottom line.
SomruS, a Chicago - based line of liqueurs, has secured $ 3.6 m in growth funding from venture capital firm, Cleveland Avenue, and aims to achieve US national distribution in 2018.
John LaMattina, senior partner at the venture capital firm PureTech and former head of R&D at Pfizer, says he saw battle lines forming within hours of the report's publication.
As a result of this analysis, 21 new firms joined the top 100 firms for this report.2 The majority of these firms operate outside of the U.S., which is in line with the growth of venture activity we are seeing in both Europe and Asia.