Sentences with phrase «need more venture capital»

In an ecosystem that needs more venture capital, OMERS is investing significantly.

The Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute released a report that says Kansas City needs more venture capital for its biotech industry.

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But the company's raised more than $ 1 billion in venture capital — and those investors need a way out, even if it takes a bit longer than expected.

Canadian startups are enjoying more and bigger venture capital deals (in the first quarter of 2016, venture capital investments reached $ 838 million, nearly double what they were for the same period the year before), but the VC community, lacking size and versatility, is not keeping pace with their funding needs.

In order to offset this trend, there need to be more funds like Revolution Growth and Binary Capital dedicated to steering some venture capital money away from Silicon Capital dedicated to steering some venture capital money away from Silicon capital money away from Silicon Valley.

These more general biases and hurdles, along with the issue of male confusion at women's needs and problems, help explain why femaleentrepreneurs take home a pathetically small share of venture capital — less than 5 percent.

The 10 - week program started in June 2009, and Ms. Cannon began building relationships with Austin's angel investor community (she believes most start - ups don't need venture capital funding, which typically is for larger amounts and requires the entrepreneur to surrender more control).

The Financial Post article by Danny Bradbury captures it well: «Things are looking up for venture capital funding in the tech industry but in the middle [of a venture's development from startup to exit] is a chasm that needs more cash input.»

«We need to get more women starting funds and investing,» said Brand, founding general partner of True Wealth Ventures, an Austin venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early - stage, women - led startups in the consumer health and sustainable products sectors.

The company has raised ~ $ 110M from Sequoia Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures and Fayez Sarofim & Co. and doesn't need any more venture funding, he said.

In other words, we may need to see more schools take what Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture - capital firm, calls the «full - stack start - up» approach — the idea that a start - up builds a «complete, end - to - end product or service,» and controls even the nontechnology components of a solution if those will perform better when integrated with the technology.

Also, if you're interested in business class or first class award redemptions, you're going to have to spend much, much more on your Capital One Venture card than on a card like the Chase Sapphire Preferred to earn anywhere near the miles needed for those redemptions.

As venture capital affects the scale of Silicon Valley innovation, garage - based start - ups are more myth than reality these days; in turn, SJMA may also need to adjust the frame for their Beta Space series.

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.

ICOs let startups and other companies raise capital much more easily and quickly than, for example by selling shares or bonds or getting loans, since the market is still largely unregulated and they don't need to deal with venture capitalists or banks.

It's mainly young startups that are becoming more conservative about their growth needs as venture - capital investors pay close attention to how their money is spent, Roeder said.