Sentences with phrase «number of firms from»

To complete the realignment of the in - house team as a business partner to National Grid, Kay refreshed its panel, cutting the number of firms from 15 to 12 in 2015 and changing the emphasis to ensure it was an extension of the in - house team, delivering a more agile service.

Indeed, while the share of number of firms from 1997 to 2017 grew from 26 % to 39 %, the share for employment only grew from 7 % to 8 % and for revenues, the share declined slightly from 4.4 % to 4.2 %.

Not exact matches

In the annual World Wealth Report from consulting firm Capgemini, the number of US millionaires reached 4.8 million in 2016, up 7.6 percent from 4.5 million in 2015.

The number of active Corporate VCs — which serve as the investment arms of giant firms and include Intel Capital, Bloomberg Beta and GE Ventures — has grown by 15.5 percent year - over-year between 2011 and 2015, compared to a growth rate of 12.8 percent overall for VCs of any type in the same period, according to data from CB Insights.

Gin Lane had never taken equity before, but Harry's had backing from a number of venture capital firms Shine knew well, and one of the Harry's co-founders had helped launch online eyewear company Warby Parker.

Former Grant Thornton partner Matthew Donnelly and former Perth Airport executive Fiona Lander have brought to seven the number of external recruits to join Deloitte's Perth partnership in the past five months, offsetting moves by other partners such as Jenn Morris, who has retired from the firm.

Crowdinvesting platforms are a recent development, and an interesting option for funding that, to some extent, lets you call the shots by spreading the equity over a larger number of investors (as opposed to securing the full investment from a handful of investors or a VC firm).

The number of people using the online room rental service on the continent rose by 143 percent to about 765,000 guests in 2016 from the year before, said Nicola D'Elia, the firm's Africa and Middle East chief.

Reseachers at the global professional services firm said they based their conclusions on a number of «key» economic and demographic factors — from average income levels and population to the number of ski resorts per capita, level of snow coverage and recent «form» at the Winter Olympics.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

The number of crypto funds rose to 245 this year, up from 167 last year and only 19 firms in 2016, according to the latest numbers from research firm Autonomous Next.

American Express» 2017 State of Women - Owned Businesses Report estimates that from 1997 to 2017, the number of women - owned firms increased by a rate of roughly more than 2.5 times the national average (114 percent vs. 44 percent).

According to Goldman's latest numbers, from July 2016, 22 percent of the firm's executives and senior «officials and managers» are women, while 82 percent are white.

VC firm Revolution Growth led the investment, which also included participation from Stonyfield Farm founder Gary Hirshberg, Behance's CEO Scott Belsky, restaurateur Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer, the founder of Shake Shack and a number of other restaurants.

One of the biggest supports to me psychologically over the past year setting up my firm is the number of unsolicited InMails I get from competitors.

Mobike raised the latest round from Chinese internet giant Tencent and renowned Silicon Valley tech investment firm Sequoia Capital, as well as a number of other investors.

Investment dollars from venture capital firms jumped nearly 40 percent in the second quarter to $ 13.8 billion, and the number of deals increased 11 percent compared to the first quarter.

From time to time, regulators may also conduct «sweep» examinations, where they focus on a particular area of interest or concern and conduct quick examinations at a number of advisory firms limited to that specific topic.

There are an equal number of senior people from each firm in senior Canadian roles.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

One year after it launched Etsy Hacker Grants, the number of female engineers at the firm grew from four to 20.

Social analytics firm SocialFlow said recently that the «reach» of a particular post on Facebook — meaning the total number of users who see it — has fallen for some publishers by as much as 52 % from January through July.

That's the conclusion of a report released Monday from IT security company Sophos, which found that the number of firms suffering attacks through social media jumped 70 percent between 2008 and 2009.

Perhaps the fear of Web 2.0 isn't that surprising when you consider that a similar survey from IT security company Sophos earlier this year found that the number of firms suffering attacks through social media jumped 70 percent between 2008 and 2009.

According to global consulting firm Mercer's 2015 cost of living ranking, Shanghai has the sixth - highest cost of living in the world this year, up four places from last year; Beijing has the seventh - highest, also up four places, and Shenzhen and Guangzhou are at 14th and 15th most expensive, both up a number of places from 2014 — making all those cities more expensive than New York City.

The number of servers sold worldwide grew just a scooch in the first quarter, while total server revenue dipped, according to new numbers from market research firm Gartner.

«We're seeing a growing number of instances where contractor personnel are being bribed to steal» data from their clients, warns Jay Heiser, a research vice president with Gartner, the IT research and consulting firm, who recently wrote a report on data security.

Uber, which has been valued at more than $ 51 billion, is a comparative latecomer in China, where the number of mobile taxi - hailing app users is forecast to triple to 45 million by 2015 from 2013, according to Chinese research firm iResearch.

To illustrate, one report from research firm Aite Group demonstrated that better integration among teams» internal applications led to a deeper understanding of clients» needs, a 46 percent increase in revenue and a 57 percent increase in the number of clients served.

The most recent numbers from Crunchbase show that among the top 100 venture firms, 8 percent of investing partners are women.

After the first denial - of - service attacks (attacks that block legitimate users from accessing sites or applications) in 2001, a number of upstarts and existing security firms rushed to market with technologies to thwart so - called DOS attacks, and companies quickly moved to implement them.

From Intelsat's $ 13 billion deal for OneWeb to Cisco's $ 3.7 billion deal for AppDynamics, the firm's tech, media, and telecom mergers and acquisitions team had its busiest start to the year in terms of number of deals since 2000, announcing 18 deals in the first two months of the year valued at nearly $ 30 billion.

One year on from the EU referendum, it is difficult to tell whether this number is shaping up to be correct: too many firms have not made public announcements, numbers have been vague and, with the terms of Brexit unclear, there are too many hypotheticals.

The police operation, which involved help from Microsoft and ESET, a Slovakian cyber security firm, was significant both for the number of computers infected worldwidew and because Andromeda had been used over a number of years to distribute scores of new viruses.

The number of self - and hybrid - published business books has more than doubled in the past four years — from 9,839 in 2012 to 20,499 in 2016, according to the research firm ProQuest.

So, if you start connecting with a number of managers from competitive firms, you can bet your employer will put up a red flag.

The Department examined the dataset obtained from SBA which contains data on the number of firms by NAICS codes, including the number of firms in given revenue categories.

The number of woman and minority - owned private equity firms rose to 240 at year - end, up from...

A number of complaints levelled at HFT firms often reflect the fact that they are taking margin from the party complaining.

The number of woman and minority - owned private equity firms had risen to 220 at mid-year, up from approximately 185 at the end of 2016.

On Wednesday, SEBI eased rules for angel investments in young, fledgling firms and increased the upper limit for the number of angel investors in a scheme to 200 from 49, halved the minimum investment threshold to Rs 25 lakh and allowed investors to put money in firms that are up to five - years - old compared with three years currently.

Before joining BMO, Mr. Robertson held various senior positions with a number of major accounting firms, including Vice Chair, Deloitte & Touche, LLP in Toronto, from 2002 to 2008, and Canadian Managing Partner, Arthur Andersen, LLP, from 1994 to 2002.

Despite these criticisms, the proposed act has received tremendous support from a large number of firms currently active in the virtual currency industry.

Yahoo and Facebook, along with other tech firms, are pushing for the right to be allowed to publish the number of requests they receive from the spy agency.

Though they are yet to develop active ETFs, says Papazian, a number of firms, including Alliance Bernstein, BlackRock and JP Morgan, have already filed with the SEC for exemptive relief from certain rules of the Investment Company Act of 1940 — a process required to launch an ETF.

he served with KPMG from 1977 to 2002 and held a number of senior positions, including the general manager of KPMG's joint venture accounting firm in Beijing, the managing partner in KPMG's Shanghai office and a partner in KPMG's Hong Kong Office.

By the same token, he says, private equity firms face stiff competition from strategic buyers and a growing number of other financing options, including pension funds, family offices, sovereign wealth funds and special purpose acquisition corporations (SPACs).

Gilbreath explains that while other firms may have hundreds of clients, Ahalogy goes deep with a smaller number — they even turn down customers when they don't feel that they would benefit from the optimization and marketing assistance Ahalogy currently offers.

Economic pressures to reduce legal costs is the primary force behind a growing number of firms moving away from the billable - hours model to new alternative billing models such as fixed, flat, blended or capped fees.

However analyses by law firm Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) and Fitch Ratings show that a number of other changes to the tax code will also have significant effects upon the returns from renewable energy projects, the financing of these projects and the value of tax credits.