Sentences with phrase «make more venture capital»

$ 400 million over three years through the Business Development Bank of Canada for a «venture capital catalyst initiative» to make more venture capital available to Canadian entrepreneurs.

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Schneider's vision to make women's health more transparent has attracted $ 15.5 million in venture capital funding and a cult - like following most vitamin companies can't boast.

In an opinion piece for the Globe and Mail, David Teten, a partner with New York — based FF Venture Capital, wrote, «The dropping Canadian dollar makes investing in Canada significantly more attractive.»

Bannister says venture capital firms on both sides of the border are taking more time to make investment decisions, adopting a wait - and - see approach before diving in.

In June, Uber closed more than $ 1 billion from a number of venture capital companies, led by Fidelity Investments, making it the priciest startup ever with a value or more than $ 18 billion.

Gobs of venture capital money have been tossed at the taxi - app space in the past few years, as various companies try to make the process of ordering a cab more convenient and efficient.

The growth of the venture capital industry — VCs raised $ 28.5 billion last year, up from $ 3.8 billion in 2002 — coupled with a tepid market for initial public offerings has made the competition among VCs for good deals more intense than ever.

Requiring the reduction of carbon emissions will make coal - based energy more costly, while solar and wind technology are expected to be priced more competitively, thereby supporting those alternative energy industries, says Jason Blumberg, chief executive and managing director of Energy Foundry, a Chicago - based cleantech impact venture capital fund.

Examine if gender and / or geographical biases are part of venture capital decision - making process, and do more to seek out early - stage, women - led businesses, including those in states across the country

This was where the venture capitalists» unique skill - set came into play: they identified the startups worthy of funding through little more than a PowerPoint and a person, and brought to bear the level of upfront capital necessary to make that startup a reality.

His nascent company, The Guru, which offers an augmented reality app that makes museums, zoos and aquariums more interactive and immersive, last year scored $ 225,000 in venture capital.

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It makes more sense to consider this other all - around travel credit cards over the Priceline Visa: the Capital One ® Venture ® Rewards Credit Card.

Precursor Ventures is not yet a big name in venture capital, but it's taking on a big mission: Making sure more entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds get an equal shot at venture capital dollars and their Silicon Valley dreams.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

As well as major capital projects, he cites Wyn Jones» new venture capital fund to help more small - and medium - sized businesses make progress; his ideas for «Copper Kingdom» and a red squirrel visitor centre to attract tourists; and the «exciting» recent geopark status granted by the EU.

«On the negative side,» he says, «concerns about drug safety will make the FDA more cautious and might start to dry up some of the venture capital for biopharmaceuticals.»

In return, True & Co. — which raised just $ 13 million in venture capital, a relatively small amount compared to some of its competitors — will be able use PVH's network of suppliers to make better products more cheaply.

TECH CRUNCH — Feb 7 — Jobster, which has raised nearly $ 50 million in venture capital, is making a dramatic business model shift starting tonight, by making all job listings free (and much more).

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The combination of the bonus categories and the ability to redeem for up to two cents per mile makes this card more valuable than other fixed - value currencies, such as Barclaycard Arrival miles or Capital One Venture miles.

Finally, if you're transferring a bank currency to a hotel or airline worth less than 1.5 cents per point, does a simple Capital One Venture Rewards card make more sense at that point, or even a 2 % cashback card?

General travel cards with flat - rate rewards, such as the Capital One ® Venture ® Rewards Credit Card, can help you to go on vacation every once in a while without making it more difficult to earn rewards.

Plus, with the Capital One ® Venture ® Rewards Credit Card, you earn two miles per $ 1 spent on all your purchases, making this an excellent card for people who don't want to worry about earning more rewards for purchases in certain categories or keeping track of a spending cap.

In essence, that makes the Altitude Reserve a souped up travel cash back card, more like the Capital One Venture or Barclays Arrival Plus.

On the Alphabetization of Google from a venture capitalist: «The way I see it, Google is the cash cow that finances all the big bets Larry and Sergey are making inside Alphabet... For $ 445bn, you get $ 70bn of cash, Google, which does $ 70bn of revenue and produces $ 20bn of operating cash flow (probably more now that is it not going to burdened by all of these other investments), and all of these big bets, including Google Ventures and Google Capital, which are about the biggest investors in the VC sector right now.»

Corporate venture capital, for example, is nothing new (even though it has gotten more attention in recent years thanks to a flood of new companies getting involved and a meaningful increase in the number, and total value of, investments being made, thanks to the likes of Google Ventures, Intel Capital, Salesforce Ventures, and Comcast Vencapital, for example, is nothing new (even though it has gotten more attention in recent years thanks to a flood of new companies getting involved and a meaningful increase in the number, and total value of, investments being made, thanks to the likes of Google Ventures, Intel Capital, Salesforce Ventures, and Comcast VenCapital, Salesforce Ventures, and Comcast Ventures).

Earlier this month Bessemer Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm, helped make the concept of cloud computing much more concrete by creating and publishing the Bessemer Cloudscape, a «visual to track the leading companies in this revolution.Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm, helped make the concept of cloud computing much more concrete by creating and publishing the Bessemer Cloudscape, a «visual to track the leading companies in this revolution.venture capital firm, helped make the concept of cloud computing much more concrete by creating and publishing the Bessemer Cloudscape, a «visual to track the leading companies in this revolution.»

The inalienability of Aboriginal land held does not necessarily significantly restrict the capacity of Indigenous people to raise capital for business ventures or to make commercial use of inalienable freehold land, as there are a number of methods of raising finance and securing loans against the land other than mortgages.137 In addition, land use agreements, similar in concept to Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), could be used to establish unique agreements within communities covering many issues.138 Government attention is more appropriately directed to assisting Indigenous people to overcome any difficulties they have in meeting financial obstacles to such solutions than to overturning legislation that has done simple justice to a people who have been deprived of their land without their consent and without compensation.