Sentences with phrase «more funds the company»

It seems more fund companies are pushing for non-US holdings to be a larger percentage of a portfolio than in the past.

«Having big ambitions and tremendous respect for the value added of this structure, I would like to have more fund companies signed up.»

Not exact matches

In other words, companies run by men got more than 16 times more funding than companies run by women.

The company has about 1,200 employees and has quietly taken on more than $ 200 million in venture funding.

As funding and prospects for exits thin, expect more companies to have a harder time justifying inflated valuations.

He?s a former software executive, entrepreneur and fund manager, and has founded or financed more than 40 companies that have launched more than 100 products with transactions exceeding one billion dollars of capital.

He also hopes the funding will help Crypt make more merchandise, which is a small but growing revenue stream for the company.

At the other end, funds such as OMERS Ventures and Georgian Partners, two of the country's most prominent VCs, are capable of investing large amounts of money in more mature companies.

The company's management (for more, see our feature on Costco in the Dec. 15 issue of Fortune) and history of earnings growth earn rapturous reviews from Don Kilbride of Wellington Management, who oversees Vanguard's Dividend Growth Fund: «I could talk forever about Costco.»

The 12 - year - old company, which calls itself «the front page of the internet» and boasts more than 300 million monthly users, has raised an additional $ 200 million in venture capital funding that gives Reddit a valuation of nearly $ 1.8 billion.

Of course I fund people outside of that age range but statistically startup founders of VC - backed tech companies are more likely in that range.

-- Ilya Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of touch technology company Sensel, which has raised more than $ 10 million in funding and raised over $ 500,000 for its crowdfunding campaign last year

Companies» venture funds poured more money into venture - backed start - ups in the last quarter than they have since the dot - com era.

Valeant's largest shareholder, billionaire and hedge funder John Paulson, has gained a seat on the drug maker's board, sending the beleaguered company's stock spiking more than 6 % in Monday trading (although it's still hovering at around the $ 13 mark).

The company — which doesn't release its exact finances, but reportedly has an annual revenue run rate near $ 1 billion — is said to be raising a new round of funding that would value it at more than $ 5 billion.

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.

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He took the riskier bet — and the company has now raised more than $ 1 million in funding.

Since the Great Recession, fund managers have been talking about rising fixed - income yields and their impact on equities and, more specifically, dividend - paying companies.

This year, the sector is on track to raise $ 2 billion in funding, with average deal sizes higher than ever, suggesting companies, at least in more instances, are attracting the capital they need to not just innovate, but scale.

The low - interest - rate environment has allowed it to borrow to fund operations at levels that are about half the 10 percent interest rate the company paid for its financing more than a decade ago, says Clark Balderson, the company's chairman and chief financial officer.

For context, SoftBank poured more than $ 7 billion (nearly Sequoia's entire growth fund target amount) into just one company, Uber.

Bloomberg attributes this boost to a recent surge in tech companies acquiring funding for the first time, indicating that investors are more willing than ever to take chances on startups.

The company has raised just under $ 1 million and plans to raise several million more in a Series A to fund clinical trials.

He told me that he expects more education companies to get funded in 2018.

The company will use the funding, and tap into Logan's network, to hire more engineers, and add more retailers and intelligence to the Drop app, Fung said.

Many great companies sat out the IPO market last year for a myriad of reasons, including the abundance of private capital, funds flow out of conventional funds ($ 224 billion in outflows, to be exact), and more «blackout» windows than normal — post-Brexit and post-Trump in particular — where companies were afraid of political uncertainty.

For example, many entrepreneurs pursue VC funding because 2 % of a $ 100 million company valuation is more than 100 % of a $ 200,000 company valuation.

• Grab, a ride - sharing company serving Southeast Asian markets, plans to raise more than $ 1.5 billion in a funding round led by SoftBank, according to Bloomberg.

In 2013, for example, Magnetar and several other hedge funds sued over the acquisition by 3M (mmm) of biometrics company Cogent, seeking about 55 % more money for their shares in the target, which they claimed were priced too low.

Many land at Haxlr8r, an accelerator that has graduated more than 50 companies using a now - familiar model: Learn the basics of manufacturing and develop a prototype; raise funds (and build buzz) in the United States through Kickstarter; manufacture the product; and drop - ship it anywhere in the world through the Pearl River Delta's unparalleled logistics networks.

His funders include the Chinese government, General Motors (gm) and spandex company Yantai, which are all investing in how to build smaller and more flexible power that you can sew, wear, and stretch.

Despite the fact that the company launched in the midst of a national economic crisis, it has since reeled in more than $ 45 million in funding from investors such as New York City - based General Atlantic as well as Endeavor Catalyst, an investing branch of the eponymous, global entrepreneurship support network.

The company is valued at more than $ 1 billion, and it is reportedly raising an extra $ 300 million to fund an expansion of its operations.

Each of the company's two $ 20 million funding rounds occurred prior to the lawsuit being filed, although a source familiar with the situation says that investors in the more recent financing were aware that a lawsuit was possible.

The Greenlight Capital hedge fund manager is shorting oil services company Core Laboratories (clb), whose stock fell more than 2 % after his presentation.

If companies trading in that market were to be listed on MSCI's index, that would attract more foreign investment to the Chinese firms as fund managers rebalance their portfolios.

• Wish, a San Francisco - based e-commerce company, is raising approximately $ 250 million in new funding at a valuation that could be more than $ 8 billion, according to Axios.

Correction: The Riverside Company raised more than 312 million euro ($ 371 million) for its fifth Europe - focused fund.

More CLO funds hold Valeant loans than any other company that has issued debt since the financial crisis, according to S&P LCD.

Looking ahead: Moveline recently raised a $ 1.5 million seed round of funding, which it will use to expand the company to other major cities, add more staff and enhance the product.

More than 50 % of them have to agree to allow Valeant to restructure, according to reports, so that means Valeant may have to get managers that represent as many as 377 funds to agree to whatever deal the company puts forward.

• Grail, a life sciences company focused on early cancer detection that operates as a subsidiary of Illumina Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN), raised more than $ 900 million in Series B funding.

Returns were lousy, the early - stage companies the funds invested in constantly needed more money, and Ontario had already decided to cancel its tax credit in 2010, which became a deal - breaker for many investors.

Activist hedge funds are launching more campaigns against larger companies this year, according to ActivistMonitor, a division of research firm Acuris.

In the past few weeks, it's been caught up in the valuation write - downs by mutual fund company Fidelity that have involved more than one multibillion - dollar unicorn, including Snapchat.

The New York City company has raised more than $ 100 million in funding.

Tech giants like Intel, Dell and AMD all have strong track records with their proprietary funds, and more companies like Microsoft and Salesforce are now entering the venture - fund game.

The startup had just landed $ 1 million in funding from Spark Capital when its TechStars program began, and the company went on to land $ 5 million more shortly after the program aired.

More so than funding issues or other operational obstacles, such disputes can sometimes break a company.