Sentences with phrase «now lead the funding»

When asked about those who remain critical that the governor should have known about the dealings behind handing out the Buffalo Billion funding, Hochul said the Governor has named Howard Zemsky to now lead the funding for future projects.

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American companies have mostly picked the cupboard clean: Hinton now works with Google, LeCun leads Facebook's AI research lab, and Bengio is an adviser with IBM, whose work out of the University of Montreal has earned significant funding from Google and beyond.

«But in the course of the last three years, we've seen a dramatic explosion,» says Fortino, who now leads the Ann Arbor office of venture capital firm Mercury Fund.

Now the startup that Ford (F) tapped in the initiative has landed $ 100 million new in funding, led by Google Ventures.

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.

I wasn't an angel who was putting $ 25k into deals that was now suggesting I could lead them with a bigger fund.

Prior to that, he researched media, advertising and online education companies for a hedge fund within Fukoku Life New York and led sales for The Capital - Gazette, a large media and communications group now owned by Tribune Publishing.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

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Marking its 15th anniversary year, BFS Capital, a leading small business financing platform, announced it has now extended over $ 1.7 billion in financing since funding its first deal in 2002.

As a privately held company with an estimated $ 125 million in annual revenue, Birchbox secured a $ 60 million round of Series B funding led by Viking Global Investors, and is now valued at $ 485 million pre-money valuation.

Now Dig Inn has raised an additional $ 30 million in a Series D funding round led by AVALT.

It was assumed that hackers had gotten into the system, when the facts have now born out that the CEO was responsible for embezzling funds which led to the collapse.

Global Impact, which raises funds for leading international organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and UNICEF USA, is now accepting bitcoin donations.

Austin now ranks number six among U.S. cities for women - led businesses seeking equity funding.

They are now venture capitalists, [5] and have led a seed funding round for bitcoin payment processor BitInstant.

SAN FRANCISCO (February 9, 2009)-- Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC, a leading independent research and proxy advisory firm, today announced that its proprietary research is now available through Bloomberg L.P., a service that integrates real - time and historical information on about 5 million bonds, equities, commodities, currencies and funds.

Now, Rupp is a general partner at True Wealth Ventures, a new $ 20 million fund that invests in early - stage ventures led by women.

California, leading the Gadarene rush over the cliff as usual, now provides state - funded «sex - reassignment surgery» to prisoners; the first recipient of this «benefit» was Shiloh Heavenly Quine, a first - degree murderer / kidnapper serving a life sentence with no chance of parole.

From now through March 31, 2018, when adult beer lovers share photos of their «Staches — self - grown and groomed, drawn - on, or Guinness - enhanced — on social media (tagging @GuinnessUS and using #StacheForCharity), Guinness will donate $ 1 (up to $ 100,000) to the Guinness Gives Back Fund *, which supports nonprofits that contribute to the common good in our communities, including Team Rubicon, a veteran - led disaster response organization.

Yesterday I was browsing through YouTube saw the bayern match in 2001 season we took a 2 - 0 lead but lost it due to defensive issues and now fast forward to 2014 arsenal drew with andrelecht 3 - 3 what part of forgiveness does the manager need, he gets the funds to sign people and assign them accordingly with players like Monreal at CB and Calum at RB after the first goal he should have put Calum at CB and monreal at RB.

«I would say the primary role I've had is I've been a leading advocate on CHIPs funding,» O'Mara said, «and infrastructure funding for many years now since I've been in the Senate.»

The first time candidate and former hedge fund manager also managed to, as Siena spokesman Steve Greenberg put it, «bring home» Republicans, and is now leading among his fellow GOPs by 62 points, up from 36.

That's more saying it's important to avert a shutdown now than in September 2013, just before a budget fight over federal funding for some portions of the Affordable Care Act led to a partial government shutdown.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

The Republican - led Senate may be on board now that Cuomo proposed funding the implementation of early voting.

Much of this was caused by the country's involvement in the war in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1998 to 2002, and budgetary mismanagement that led to the International Monetary Fund withdrawing aid in 2002.

Senior Conservative ministers including Sajid Javid, Andrea Leadsom, Penny Mordaunt and David Gauke have used taxpayers» cash to fund the hard - Brexit European Research Group (ERG), which is now led by Rees - Mogg MP, who has been accused in recent days of trying to undermine Prime Minister Theresa May and oust her Chancellor, Philip Hammond.

Prosecuting attorneys said Silver exploited his position of power to illegally gain the funds, and in the days leading up to the sentencing, revealed that the former legislative leader had two affairs, one with his former communications director, now a prominent lobbyist, and a former assemblywoman, who they say gained financially from the arrangement.

BY ANDY HUMM Ten major Olympic sponsors from Coke to Dow Chemical ---- none of which has acceded to calls that they speak out forcefully against Russia's laws making it a crime to be gay in public ---- are now being pressured by the $ 161 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, led by Comptroller -LSB-...]

Funding provided by the Cuomo administration is now $ 9 billion less than required by court orders, leading to deep cuts for the Syracuse City School District schools and all throughout the State.

This outstanding volunteer led organizations has stepped up to the plate to help care for dozens of abandoned dogs and cats, and now, we are trying to help them raise the funds necessary to stay open and continue this worth mission of care,» said Assemblyman Marcos Crespo.

This outstanding volunteer led organizations has stepped up to the plate to help care for dozens of abandoned dogs and cats, and now, we are trying to help them raise the funds necessary to stay open and continue this worth mission of care,»

The contours of that fund - raising strategy have become familiar, as state prosecutors and F.B.I. agents are now investigating an effort led by Mayor Bill de Blasio to channel donations to a group of Democratic candidates around the state in 2014.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «For years now we have seen religious teachers being given preference to work in state funded «faith» schools, not just when they would be expected to teach Religious Instruction or lead Collective Worship, but regardless of which subject they are applying for.

Matthew Oliver is a Conservative activist and former party agent, who now works for Unlock Democracy, the UK's leading campaign organisation for democracy, rights and freedoms, and long - time advocates for party funding reform.

Republican politicians know that whomever Adelson and his wife decide to support in 2016 will have what is now a required asset of any campaign — a well - funded super PAC that can provide additional armor against the inevitable attacks from opponents and which can lead the attacks against rivals who threaten their path to victory.

Syracuse has lost out on federal funding for lead removal in city homes for the first time in two decades and will have to now rely on the county's program.

You led the opposition to starve MTA of congestion pricing and other funds, and now you're posturing as a champion of schoo kids in NYC, spanking MTA for resisting picking up the tab for student MetroCards that are clearly the State's (and City's) reponsibility.

Tory ministers have used taxpayer cash to fund a secretive hard - Brexit pressure group, now led by outspoken government critic Jacob Rees - Mogg

Prosecuting attorneys said Silver exploited his position of power to illegally gain the funds, and in the days leading up to the sentencing, revealed that the former legislative leader had two affairs — one with his former communications director, now a prominent lobbyist, and a former assemblywoman, who they say gained financially from the arrangement.

Garcia has prosecuted several (now former) lawmakers for misuse of public funds, but is probably best known for the wiretaps that led to the prostitution scandal that forced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer from office.

He brings a civil engineer's understanding to it, fighting for lead testing in schools and now looking to establish a source of emergency funding to help schools resolve drinking water issues quickly.

That led to my current position at the Kirsch Foundation, where I am now charged with the challenging task of developing and implementing innovative strategies to fund medical and scientific research to cure disease.

Utility - scale solar power plants and second - generation biofuels such as algae have led the field in recent financing rounds, but funding is now branching into less developed technologies such as bioplastics, green building materials and water desalination.

The National Cancer Institute is now funding a study to determine what specific characteristics led to that trial's success, comparing two sets of modified immune cells in patients.

Now researchers led by Eve Roman, an epidemiologist with the Leukaemia Research Fund at the University of Leeds, have concluded that Gardner's theory «could not be disproved» on the basis of their findings.

Between 1997 and 2010, the Wellcome Trust was the leading funder of UK - awarded pneumonia research (then 44.8 per cent of the total, now 15.9 per cent).

Women with higher breast density — detected on mammograms — have more compacted breast tissue and are more likely to develop breast cancer, but until now the reasons for this have been unclear.Manchester scientists, funded by leading UK research organisation Breakthrough Breast Cancer, worked with IBM researchers and academics in the USA and Cyprus to uncover the biological mechanisms at play.

The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a coalition of organizations that rely on federal statistics, has funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a survey of how agencies now manage administrative records, says Kitty Smith, the council's executive director who for many years led the Economic Research Service, the chief statistical agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture.