Sentences with phrase «never led a funding»

Until now, however, it has done so only as an institutional investor at later stages in the life cycle of companies, and has never led a funding round, Isenman told Entrepreneur.

Not exact matches

With a biotech startup, it may seem the potential is all in the science, but investor Amy Schulman, a venture capital partner at Polaris Partners, which led SQZ's $ 5 million funding round, says the main reason she decided to put money in SQZ is because of Sharei, even though he's young and had never started a company before.

(I have often heard it said that it's easier for people to give money to a project than time, but I have never seen the resulting flood of funds that this would lead one to expect.)

While the leading experts around the world — with well - funded, never - ending resources at hand — were trying (and dramatically failing) to become the first to fly, it was these two bicycle mechanics who didn't have a college education, who saw each new problem standing in their way of flight as one amazing step closer to solving the problem.

Those principles have never wavered and have always been to build a movie studio led by a board of directors made up of a majority of independent women, save about 150 jobs, protect the small businesses who are owed money and create a victims» compensation fund that would supplement existing insurance coverage for those who have been harmed.

So far I've heard Matt Walter (who departed the state GOP to run Rick Lazio's campaign after a pre-primary shake - up and never returned), Chapin Fay (campaign manager for state comptroller hopeful Harry Wilson), Free Enterprise Fund Executive Director E. O'Brien Murray and (here's a new one) John Rogers, who's currently managing the campaign of Bob Cohen in the yet - undecided 37th SD race where Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer is currently leading by 504 votes.

«Bob's work has always been controversial but he has never shrunk from confronting that controversy,» says Martin Johnson, professor of reproductive sciences at the University of Cambridge and author of a recent paper detailing what led the MRC to refuse funding for Edwards's work.

But, in reality, it never ended.The continuing celebration of all things brain extends, once more, with the unveiling of a mammoth Web site devoted to neuroscience.Brainfacts.org — funded with $ 1.53 million project over six years by the Gatsby and Kavli Foundations — amasses basic information from leading organizations, ranging from the National Institutes of Health to the International Brain Research Organization in France, chronicling both how the brain works as well as major brain diseases.

Although her legacy is yet to be fully written and those who will benefit the most from her incredible work may never know her name, as the leading force behind the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding [CCJEF], Dianne has been and will remain the most vital force behind the historic effort to ensure that Connecticut's public schools are adequately and fairly funded and that every Connecticut child is provided with the education, knowledge and skills they need to live more fulfilling lives.

After all, if people had only used index funds and never been in the funds that I managed as I led the pack, many who told me they put their kids through college, bought houses, and had strong retirement assets, could not have done those things.

The cultural need for supporting poor elderly people will lead funding to continue, unless it makes the government, and the culture as a whole fail in the process, and that would never happen, right?

It is common for loan companies to contact a lead who is interested but for whatever reason never materializes into a new submission or funding.

Rich acknowledges that it was still a work in progress when he left SF SPCA in 1998 to lead Maddie's Fund because they never fully tackled all the treatable animals or all the pit - bull terriers at ACC.

If Konami had their way, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night would never have left the drawing board; this seems odd for a Kickstarter project that raised $ 5,545,992 with 64,867 backers (one of the highest amounts of Backers in Kickstarter history) however as Koji Igarashi explains it, Konami wanted nothing to do with the project, which led him to strike out on his own, reaching out with Kickstarter in order to fund the project.

In sum, no matter how intensive or extensive any lobbying efforts for increased public funding for legal aid may be over any period of time, they will never lead to an allocation of funding at a level sufficient to close the justice gap in the US.