Sentences with phrase «many venture capital firms»

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders in 2017, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

In August, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and a handful of venture capital firms led a $ 17 million Series A round of fundraising for Memphis Meat.

Singaporean venture capital firm Vertex Ventures has raised $ 210 million to invest in start - ups around Southeast Asia and.

Gin Lane had never taken equity before, but Harry's had backing from a number of venture capital firms Shine knew well, and one of the Harry's co-founders had helped launch online eyewear company Warby Parker.

It may also spark a startup boomlet in the City of Angels, suggests Mark Suster, the founder of Santa Monica venture capital firm Upfront Ventures.

And during the first meeting with an investor at Kleiner Perkins, the storied venture capital firm, the host showed up 10 minutes late, declared that he had to leave 10 minutes early, and radiated uninterest throughout.

The co-founder of a venture capital firm shocked many by comparing wealthy Americans to Jews in Nazi Germany, Re-code reports.

The youngest successful founders were those who had received funding from New York City - based venture capital firms, although even then their average age was 38.7 — old enough to have been Mark Zuckerberg's parent when he started Facebook from his dorm room at 19.

Sandy Miller, IVP General Partner, weighs in on the Silicon Valley venture capital firm announcing a $ 1.5 billion dollar fund this morning.

Nevertheless, Dropbox has raised $ 600 million from venture capital firms BlackRock, Sequoia Capital, and others.

On this week's episode of Balancing The Ledger, Fortune's new show covering the future of finance, my colleague Jen Wieczner and I chatted with David Pakman, a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock, about the hardline approach tech giants are taking against the nascent cryptocurrency industry.

Chamath Palihapitiya, the CEO of venture capital firm Social Capital, says he's a big fan of Bezos» letters because they serve as a reminder to keep a long - term view, while keeping things simple.

Blockchain start - up Ripple is putting $ 25 million worth of its cryptocurrency into Blockchain Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to blockchain technology.

The next year, Aronson scored a US$ 40 - million investment from two venture capital firms — a figure he later claimed was inaccurate, but never corrected.

The new round of fundraising, led by venture capital firm Traingle Peak Partners, is worth $ 26 million.

It's within this context that I present today's newsletter: a Q&A with Myrna Soto, who has just been hired as the first female partner at Trident Capital Cybersecurity, a San Mateo, Calif. - based venture capital firm focused exclusively on digital security.

It is true that 2014 and 2015 saw dramatic increases in the amount of money flowing to rapidly scaling startups through venture capital firms.

• Qiming Venture Partners, a China - based venture capital firm, has set out to raise a $ 900 million sixth venture fund, according to a filing with the SEC.

For the past five years, venture capital firms have pumped 25 percent to 100 percent more than they've raised into a diverse array of investments, including clean energy technology, health care, and pharmaceuticals.

• Ventech Capital, a France - based venture capital firm, raised 140 million euros ($ 174 million) for its fifth fund, Ventech Capital V.

While three of the top five investors in unicorns are venture capital firms SV Angel, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, it's mutual funds snagging the remaining two spots: Fidelity Investments and T. Rowe Price.

Yet another Silicon Valley venture capital firm raising yet another fund isn't usually big news — it happens all the time.

For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf, partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman of cloud - based human resources company Workday, will discuss what the plethora of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, known as unicorns, are doing to markets and marketplaces.

Many minority and women business owners know that professional investors — whether Angel networks or Venture Capital firms — are highly unlikely to invest in their business.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

• DCM Ventures, a Menlo Park, Calif. - based venture capital firm, set out to raise a third $ 100 million A-Fund, according to an SEC filing.

Massenet cofounded Imaginary Ventures with Nick Brown, a former partner at New York venture capital firm 14W.

A number of venture capital firms are starting to invest in Initial Coin Offerings, despite the risks.

If you want to know what's really pushing things around, look beyond venture capital firms.

Kirsten Green formed Forerunner Ventures, an early - stage venture capital firm focused on commerce, in 2010 when she noticed a shift in commerce.

«I don't want to say this is a great day — because it will have a negative impact on human beings, and I want to be compassionate,» says Linkner, the founder of Detroit Venture Partners, a $ 50 million venture capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in the city.

«For entrepreneurs, if they can pull it off and raise money without giving out equity, it's very attractive,» says Oivind Lorentzen, an analyst who follows bitcoin and fintech for venture capital firm Oak HC / FT.

• Olympus Partners, a Stamford, Conn. - based private equity and venture capital firm, raised $ 3.04 billion for its seventh fund, Olympus Growth Fund VII.

The founder of venture capital firm Greycroft told CNBC he's not surprised by the heightened interest in privately held Boxed.

Anu Duggal took what she learned as an ecommerce entrepreneur to launch a venture capital firm called Female Founders Fund.

VC 100: U.S. venture capital firms ranked based on capital invested in U.S. early - stage deals in 2014 (in USD millions *).

«Probably for the foreseeable future, bitcoin is just a pure digital gold,» said the CEO, who is also a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital firm.

Notably, it's only Sequoia's second investment in a blockchain - related company in that venture capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated.

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 16, 2018 / PRNewswire / — Trident Capital Cybersecurity (TCC), a leading venture capital firm investing exclusively in cybersecurity, today announced the appointment of Myrna Soto as a Partner.

The Los Angeles - based seed - stage venture capital firm will pause seed investing «until the seed market corrects.»

«This is a stunt, and I don't think of it as a cryptocurrency,» Chris Burniske of venture capital firm Placeholder told Bloomberg.

• Altitude Life Science Ventures, a Seattle - based venture capital firm, is seeking to raise $ 125 million for its third fund, according to an SEC filing.

Check out this 2014 snapshot of the top 100 U.S. venture capital firms, corporate VCs, and other market players funding early - stage deals.

• Energy Innovation Capital, a Kirkland, Ill. - based venture capital firm, raised more than $ 130 million for its debut fund, according to an SEC filing.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

One of a handful of women to be a general partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Barr uses her influence to bolster emerging Canadian tech firms.

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.

A personal dissatisfaction with an old boys» club mentality in venture capital led Pocket Sun to co-found what she calls the first female - led millennial venture capital firm.

• Rally Ventures, a Minnetonka, Minn. - based venture capital firm, plans to raise $ 150 million for its third venture capital fund, according to an SEC filing.

• Baseline Ventures, a San Francisco - based venture capital firm, set out to raise Baseline Ventures 1819, according to an SEC filing.