Sentences with phrase «much of venture capital»

While much of the venture capital activity in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley, in recent years a sector of the economy with closer ties to Washington, D.C., than San Francisco has been upping its investments in start - up technology companies — America's defense industry.

«So much of venture capital is pattern recognition,» she says.

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This is at the heart of much of the excitement around ICOs: It's a totally new way of raising capital that does away with the traditional gatekeepers, financiers, and venture capitalists.

She put together a report, called Project Diane, to show just how much venture capital goes to women of color, and the results are bleak: Of 10,284 venture deals funded from 2012 to 2014, just 24 were with startups led by black womeof color, and the results are bleak: Of 10,284 venture deals funded from 2012 to 2014, just 24 were with startups led by black womeOf 10,284 venture deals funded from 2012 to 2014, just 24 were with startups led by black women.

With the ongoing liquidation of the Canadian Fund and the loss of Ontario and federal tax credits, how much remains of the dream of labour - sponsored venture capital in English Canada?

Lunar will take a portfolio approach, much like that of a venture - capital firm, setting return targets (30 % a year over five years for each investment).

And now, at last, you've landed one of those much - coveted meetings with a high - profile venture capital firm on Sand Hill Road.

As head of the venture capital arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, Ruffolo is injecting much - needed capital into the country's tech sector.

He says that part of the reason why Silicon Valley startups are gobbling up so much venture capital money is because many companies (especially unicorns) are choosing to stay private longer.

ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture - capital investments focused on so - called business - to - business Internet companies.

According to David Hartnett, serial entrepreneur and vice president of the Metro Economic Chamber, «While access to capital is essential to a startup, venture money is much more accessible to companies that can say they are already talking to and working with the UPS, Home Depot, Coca - Cola and AT&T s of the world.

With the increase in angel funding, many entrepreneurs forget how much harder it is to get to the next stage of venture capital.

Jay Simons: When you take a bunch of venture capital — and this is not a screed against taking VC — and you get a board full of VCs, and you have sold so much of your company to them, it is the nature of investing that they are very short - term oriented.

Meanwhile, the regulatory environment has stalled: banks aren't lending as much money, and the huge wave of venture capitalist and private - equity capital has died down.

Never in the history of venture capital have early stage startups had access to so much capital.

On a recent Ventured podcast, I spoke with KPCB general partner Randy Komisar about whether or not there's a tech bubble and the consequences of raising too much capital.

Venture capital funds usually invest according to a fund strategy, which pretty much always indicates the stage of companies they invest in.

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If venture investors across the spectrum could pull back just a little — resist investing in that marginal deal, maybe not stretch quite as much on valuation or perhaps provide a little less capital to a financing (giving the entrepreneur a chance to build a business with more capital efficiency); it certainly would be of significant help.

Venture capital activity in India, particularly at the Series A level, hasn't changed much even though the number of angel...

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Even in Silicon Valley's recent venture capital environment, where hundreds of millions of dollars and high valuations seem much easier to come by, Uber remains an anomaly.

While much business and consulting work can take place over the phone or over the internet, face - to - face communication is still essential, particularly when trying to land a new client or obtain sources of venture capital.

Going against the Silicon Valley orthodoxy, the venture capitalist has urged technology start - ups to go public as soon as they are able, instead of continuing to take venture capital funding: Taking on too much venture funding, he has said, can fuel a lack of discipline.

While in most companies the venture capitalists have to worry about their reputation along with their capital, in the case of Uber there is simply too much money at stake: transforming a $ 68 billion paper return to a real return (and guaranteeing a per partner return in the nine figures) is worth whatever reputational damage is incurred along the way.

We'll hear from Sam Altman of YC, Naval Ravikant of AngelList, Byron Deeter of Bessemer Venture Partners, Mamoon Hamid of Social Capital, Matt Ocko of Data Collective, John Somorjai of Salesforce / Salesforce Ventures, Nakul Mandan from Lightspeed, and so much more.

Venky Ganesan, managing director at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, said average corporate spending on cybersecurity will rise from about 0.25 percent of total revenue to as much as 2 percent of revenue in the coming years.

So much so, that in January, Buterin (who can speak some Mandarin) downgraded from «general partner» to «advisor» of Fenbushi Capital, a venture capital firm headquartered in China; opting to dedicate more time and effort to his brainchild, the Ethereum nCapital, a venture capital firm headquartered in China; opting to dedicate more time and effort to his brainchild, the Ethereum ncapital firm headquartered in China; opting to dedicate more time and effort to his brainchild, the Ethereum network.

Unlike the case of initial public offerings, where much of the value is already priced in at the IPO launch, or even the traditional venture capital system, an ICO allows investors to not only become financial backers but also early adopters, since the investment coin's long term value is in future products or services.

According to the report: «Much of the AI innovation [is] happening at the university level, and the graduating students joining cloud AI providers such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft (with lofty salaries) or launching their own startups to take advantage of the feeding frenzy of investments from the venture capital community.»

One in six institutional investors, in another survey, projected gains of more than 20 % annually on their investments in venture capital — even though such funds, on average, have underperformed the stock market for much of the 2000s.

Another lesson: While venture capital firms aren't as much like startups as investors would have you believe, one thing is true of both, and that's when things go really wrong, the wheels can come off fast.

While she and Gouw would not disclose how much of their own capital they plan to pool for the new venture, they expect to make up to two dozen investments over the next two to three years.

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Whereas traditionally a start - up with a promising idea would sell its business plan to interested angel investors, later commit to sequential funding rounds in which venture capital investors would provide scale - up financing in return for a slice of equity, before eventually pursuing an initial public offering (if very successful) to sell some or all of its shares to the general public, the ICO can offer a novel and much faster approach.

Backed by more than $ 250 million in venture capital funding, Bird, LimeBike, and Spin have dumped hundreds of scooters for adults on the city in recent weeks, much to the chagrin of regulators.

GFI reports that as their scientists investigate further, they have become more optimistic — because clean meat is so much more efficient than animal - based meat.102 One of their senior scientists, Dr. Liz Specht, has met with venture capital firms and other venture investors to present technology plans of specific clean meat companies and their pathways to commercialization.103 GFI further reports that, based partly on her analysis, many leading venture capital investors and firms have become much more interested in clean meat companies.

Instead, future advertising revenue was viewed as the primary source of eventual profits, but with so much venture capital money available there was little financial motivation for them to find a way to become self - sufficient.

GFI reports that as their scientists investigate further, they have become more optimistic — because clean meat is so much more efficient than animal - based meat.102 One of their senior scientists, Dr. Liz Specht, has met with venture capital firms and other venture investors to present technology plans of specific clean meat companies and their pathways to commercialization.103 GFI further reports that, based partly on her analysis, many leading venture capital investors and firms have become much more interested in clean meat companies.

«What we saw for much of the Obama era was the centrist Democrats — the venture - capital, charter - school supporter wing — really move to prominence,»

«What we saw for much of the Obama era was the centrist Democrats — the venture - capital, charter - school supporter wing — really move to prominence,» Hess, of the American Enterprise Institute, told me.

Although a number of the interns were originally interested in technology - transfer positions, it appears that exposure to the venture - capital industry and company culture has elicited much greater interest for many.

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All of this means that venture capital can not be counted on to take energy technologies through the valley of death, and that government will need to consider intervening much more seriously.

Bringing new clean energy technologies to commercial scale for the first time can require hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars, and private investors are either unable to fund projects that require this much capital, as is the case with many venture capitalists, or are unwilling to lend money to projects that use first - of - a-kind technology not fully proven at commercial scale, as is the case with most banks.

This was made evident, when, for example, a Chinese construction company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in a $ 60 million transaction and raised much need expansion capital at the very bottom of the stock market, in early March 2009.

Much of her work involves cross-border transactions and a variety of financing structures (both equity and debt) and includes private equity, venture capital, investment, joint venture and collaboration agreements as well as IPOs, M&A and takeovers (public and private).