Sentences with phrase «lot of venture capital funds»

Not exact matches

«A lot of Canadian startups, particularly when they get to Series A and onward, are funded by U.S. venture capital,» says Bannister.

«There's lots of positive momentum,» he says, pointing as well to the recent $ 80 - million venture capital investment by OMERS Ventures and the American venture fund New Enterprise Associates in Desire2Learn, a global provider of online education platforms, based in Kitchener, Ont.

«Now, there are a lot of things that are unique compared to other startup markets,» such as access to venture capital and angel funding.

«[Venture capital funds] tend to have a seven - to 10 - year lifecycle, so a lot of it is outside the scope of a single fund,» he says.

«I thought it was good idea, but when I spoke with a lot of prospective LPs, nobody believed me,» he recalled, using finance jargon for «limited partner,» the investors who put money in venture capital funds.

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Elsewhere, here is a breakdown of who gets venture capital funding (mostly men, a lot of Stanford grads, also a lot of college dropouts).

«Without venture - capital funding, not a lot of the fintechs have the business models to be profitable,» says Bill Sullivan, head of global financial services market intelligence at Capgemini.

«If you're an investor in a venture capital fund, typically you'll have to be putting money through a number of years and you won't get any money back until seven, eight, nine, potentially ten years which makes it not a viable option for a lot of people to invest», he said.

There's a lot of technical lingo and geek - talk that I'll spare you, but the long and short of it is that a major hack took place, abusing the Decentralized Autonomous Organization — a venture capital fund of sorts that operated within Ethereum and allowed investors to choose which decentralized apps would or wouldn't be allowed to run within the system.

«We're seeing lots of joint ventures with developers with a pulse on local markets, boots on the ground and the expertise to get projects entitled partnering with capital investors that are providing the majority of funding,» he says.

With 10 years of venture capital funding under its belt, Redfin has a lot of believers, at least among the «smart money.»