Sentences with phrase «many venture firms»

That's partly because 94 percent of investing partners at venture firms are male and, female entrepreneurs say, less likely to understand the potential of a business that specifically targets women as customers.

ROBERTS: There are a lot of ebbs and flows in what venture firms do, like when everyone had to have a China or India effort in the 2006 - 2007 timeframe.

That's a function praised by Jeff Jordan, the Andreessen Horowitz partner who led the venture firm's early investment in Tilt.

None of this behavior is ever supposed to happen in the Valley, because who would want to do business with such a litigious venture firm?

In March of 2017, Ripcord announced that it had raised a Series A round of $ 9.5 million, led by legendary venture firm Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Wozniak himself.

• Section 32, a San Diego, Calif. - based venture firm, has set out to raise $ 250 million for a second venture fund, according to a filing with the SEC.

«The small number of venture firms with female founders and / or an unusually high percentage of female partners invest at elevated levels in female entrepreneurs,» according to a 2016 CrunchBase report on venture capital funding.

She then went to business school at Stanford to figure out her next step when she was introduced to the team at Maveron, a consumer - focused early stage venture firm.

More than 800 companies and venture firms signed their names to an open letter sent to the head of the FCC.

WOMEN IN VENTURE: As Floodgate's Ann Miura - Ko told Term Sheet yesterday, «I know for a fact there's a ton of announcements coming out relatively soon about women being recruited into venture firms.»

Some context: Binary Capital is a San Francisco - based venture firm founded in 2014.

Andreessen agreed to invest $ 50 million of his venture firm's money in the deal on the bold assumption that he and Durban ultimately would win the founders» trust.

Doug Mackenzie, a fan of Edmark's products and a partner at the prestigious venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, obliged by leading a round of equity investment that put $ 5.5 million into Edmark's coffers, paying the market price of $ 10 a share.

Blockchain Capital, among the first crypto venture firms, is steering clear of the ICO.

• Three partners from Black Coral Capital, a Boston - based venture firm, are raising up to $ 400 million for an inaugural fund as partners of a new firm, Spring Lane Capital, according to an SEC filing.

Van Espahbodi, managing partner of Starburst Accelerator LLC, a consulting and venture firm, added that the public - relations push behind Orion Span may be an effective way to help the company attract funding, too.

According to a story last month in Recode, big - name venture firms including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are participating in the deal.

If there isn't another fund, the venture firm just becomes a zombie.

• Atomic Labs, a San Francisco - based venture firm, is seeking to raise $ 100 million for its second fund, according to an SEC filing.

Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures noted that some firms, including hers, have begun steering their most promising portfolio companies toward «modern venture firms that have women and people of color in investing positions,» according to TechCrunch:

FORTUNE — In September 2009, Silver Lake Partners and venture firm Andreessen - Horowitz bought Skype from eBay, where it had become the Kurt Cobain of technology companies (wildly popular, deeply troubled).

Arrington suggests that one of the investors involved could be the newly - formed Andreesen Horowitz, a venture firm led by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape.

Raider managed to raise $ 4 million in seed funding led by New York venture firm Thrive Capital.

He said the pitch is having more success with traditional venture firms who've missed out on crypto to date — particularly bitcoin, ethereum and companies such as Coinbase — and are feeling the pressure to get in on the craze.

Venture firms with a woman partner are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with women CEOs.

In the days following the leaked memo, several tech blogs speculated about the potential beef between the incubator and venture firm.

But is it still a top venture firm now that John Doerr moved to green tech and Vinod Khosla left to start his own firm?

«Zynga is being punished in the public market,» says Jeff Clavier, a venture capitalist and managing partner of SoftTech VC, an early - stage venture firm that has invested in the social gaming industry.

Money follows money, so when hundreds of millions of dollars find their way into Snapchat's coffers, other venture firms take note and decide they want to throw millions of dollars at things, too.

Both got jobs, LaMontagne at the venture firm Highland Capital and Kallinis ultimately as an event planner for Gucci in Toronto.

Among venture firms, it can be argued that Kleiner's done a better job promoting women than many.

«At our venture firm, we continue to see an escalating stream of fascinating new bitcoin uses, cases and applications from entrepreneurs,» says legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

Additionally, JetBlue Technology Ventures is investing alongside GGV and other venture firms in a $ 36 million series C round of funding for Gladly, bringing the company's total capital raised to $ 63 million.

Mark McQueen, president and CEO of venture firm Wellington Financial in Toronto, recalls asking Balsillie at a conference a few years ago about what RIM was doing to help grow the tech scene in the region.

Walking through the deli's usual weekend bustle, the CEO of resource venture firm Pinetree Capital spotted Bill Ballard, a fellow mining investor.

Pishevar said in a statement on Tuesday that he would take a leave of absence from venture firm Sherpa Capital and transportation startup Hyperloop One.

As a result, venture firms are adjusting to this cash - rich environment by stocking their war chests with significant capital.

-- Gordon Ritter, founder and general partner of Emergence Capital, an enterprise cloud venture firm which was recently named Venture Capital Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association

-- Craig Howe, CEO of sports digital strategy and tech venture firm, Rebel Ventures

Venture firm G Squared and Asian financial technology company Capital Nine also participated in the funding round.

With the joint venture, SAIL Venture Partners becomes one of the first American clean technology venture firms to establish a presence in Toronto to capitalize on opportunities in Canada.

Talks were said to be underway with toy giant Hasbro in 2014 but were unsuccessful, and DreamWorks also reportedly talked to Japanese venture firm Softbank.

In a strange twist, Nintendo is apparently working with a San Francisco - based venture firm named Scrum Ventures to identify startups interested in creating Nintendo Switch hardware.

So far, the company has raised $ 129.5 million from venture firms Index Ventures, Greylock and Ribbit Capital.

In her current role as head of new ventures at Sultan Ventures, a startup catalyst and boutique venture firm, James leads a team tasked with identifying and recruiting potential portfolio companies; provides mentoring and support to make portfolio companies investor - ready; and works with local companies to provide business - development and deal - structuring strategies.

Slack has in the past raised money from venture firms GGV Capital, Spark Capital and Thrive Capital, among others.

Sponsors such as venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and marketing agency Ogilvy & Mather lent additional support, and in October 2012 digitalundivided hosted its first FOCUS100 conference, bringing together aspiring black female entrepreneurs, investors and tech thought leaders.

Last year, the company completed $ 19.5 million in financing from Cenovus Energy and Jeff Bezos's venture firm.

So the amount of venture capital available in Canada, the number of venture firms, and the size of the funds all declined.

Investors are increasingly unable to meet VC's capital calls and are unloading their investments at «deep discounts,» raising the prospect of the shutdown of weaker venture firms.