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With the publication of the third edition of Venture Deals, we have done some interviews around the book.

However, in line with what we saw when looking at 2017's dollar volume breakdown between teams with and without women, the interim quarters showed a higher deal count at 15 and 16 percent of all venture deals.

From a deal volume perspective, Q1 2018 saw 14 percent of venture deals include at least one female founder.

The MaRS Cleantech Fund is pleased to announce the completion of a venture deal with CircuitMeter Inc., which offers a low - cost, circuit - by - circuit metering solution for commercial buildings to monitor and reduce energy costs.

The MaRS Cleantech Fund is pleased to announce the completion of a venture deal with Woodland Biofuels, positioned to become North America's lowest - cost producer of ethanol.

The MaRS Cleantech Fund is pleased to announce the completion of a venture deal with Toronto energy storage firm Hydrostor.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the first half of 2016 saw the number of precision ag venture capital deals climb 7 % from the same period in 2015, with the number of new investors in the space up 52 %.

In a complex deal, Fuji Xerox would buy back Fujifilm's 75 percent stake in their joint venture before Fujifilm would then purchase 50.1 percent of new Xerox shares.

Investors in Bugcrowd's latest round of funding have privately valued the company at $ 115 million, including the new funds raised, according to data provided by Pitchbook, a site that tracks venture capital deals.

The $ 20 billion joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical is an example of a deal that will support the broader Saudi Arabian economy, Seznec said.

«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

The number of venture capital deals declined sharply in the last quarter of 2015 as investors pulled back and got more cautious

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Check out this 2014 snapshot of the top 100 U.S. venture capital firms, corporate VCs, and other market players funding early - stage deals.

The deal came only days after Industrious, a co-working office space startup that competes with WeWork, raised $ 80 million in venture funding to grow its roster of corporate customers.

Zilis, who just turned 30 this year — she appeared in Forbes magazine's «30 Under 30: The Top Young Investors of Venture Capital» in 2015 — has co-led between 15 and 20 of the 68 deals Bloomberg Beta has closed since its founding in 2013.

The firm has been investing under - the - radar in a mix of venture and private equity deals since 2014, but had not raised a large fund of pooled capital for deals until this year.

Andreessen agreed to invest $ 50 million of his venture firm's money in the deal on the bold assumption that he and Durban ultimately would win the founders» trust.

Also avoid dealing with those at the other extreme, people who always talk about risks and lead an investor to believe that the venture has no chance of success.

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.

LivingSocial, another dailty deals website, has raised almost a billion dollars in venture capital funding, but it's laid off hundreds of people and is now half the size it used to be.

Venture capitalists invested $ 48.3 billion in 4,356 deals last year, with Internet - specific companies nabbing a huge chunk of the pot.

The report accuses Low of using PetroSaudi International, an oil company from the Middle East that signed a joint venture deal with 1MDB, as a front to siphon the money.

Data from the National Venture Capital Association — the industry's trade group — show that 23 percent of venture - capital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of theVenture Capital Association — the industry's trade group — show that 23 percent of venture - capital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of theventure - capital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of theventure - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of the 1980s.

And in the midst of its troubles throughout 2014 — Levi stepped back as president and CEO to become executive chairman in November — GrowthWorks was the recipient, along with BDC Venture Capital, of the «Deal of the Year» award from Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association following its sale of Layer 7 Technologies, a developer of security software for businesses.

One of the venture funds I work with specializes in seed investments: early - stage deals that are often made with young, bright, first - time entrepreneurs who've been working hard to get the chance to build their dream company.

Those findings jibe with just - reported data from the National Venture Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter iVenture Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter iventure - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter in 2013.

Since 5,753 venture - capital transactions worth $ 48.5 billion occurred in 2013, corporate ventures comprised nearly 20 percent of all deals and 40 percent of transaction value worldwide.

The most substantive results are eight deals done over the last 5 years that I have been involved with coming out of the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Venture Labs.

If you've gotten venture capital, that means your share structure has already been reorganized into different classes as part of the deal.

Given all these advantages, why isn't a larger proportion of total deals in the venture - capital space taken up by corporate funds?

Right from the start, the founders of San Franciscobased nonprofit Social Venture Network wanted a «safe harbor» where social - activist entrepreneurs could meet to commiserate, coinvest in deals, and share best practices.

In 2015, corporate venture participated in about one out of five deals in the United States or Europe, and one out of three deals in Asia.

A joint venture comprising BGC Contracting and Laing O'Rourke has won a contract to deliver the second stage of the Northlink WA roads project, with the deal believed to be worth in excess of $ 400 million.

Stratum Metals has become the sixth Western Australian company to cancel a backdoor listing deal in the past year, with the Nedlands - based business reviewing its future options, including plans for the East Menzies gold project, after walking away from a planned reverse takeover of a US technology venture.

With that deal, Molson Coors will get full control of roughly 26 % of the U.S. beer market — which it partly controlled through a joint venture with SABMiller.

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.

Indigenous contractor Yurra has formed a joint venture with BGC Contracting to provide services to Rio Tinto's rail work in Cape Lambert and Dampier, with the value of the deal undisclosed.

Applecross - based Kerman Contracting has won a $ 67 million deal for the design and construction of a grain export facility for Quattro Ports, a joint venture between Qube Holdings, Noble Group, Cargill Australia and Emerald Grain.

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.

Although the majority of unsolicited requests for venture capital are 30 - to 100 - page tomes, many of the deals that are financed shortcut the process with a killer executive summary and an introduction by a trusted advisor.

The managing director of Summerhill Venture Partners on the Radian6 deal, having a vision and why Canadian companies need to be global companies.

San Francisco led the way for cities that originate venture deals in the quarter, with 96 deals worth $ 2.3 billion, compared to 61 in New York, which came in second, with $ 860 million of financing.

I once pitched a deal to another venture capitalist who spent most of the time typing a message on his phone.

Mehta has words of advice for the new AI entrants, he states that following the below mentioned approaches, startup owners could gain confidence while dealing with leading venture capitalists as far as raising post-Series A funding is concerned:

But as with many a business venture announced in China with much fanfare, it's hardly a done deal — more of a memorandum of understanding.

«We've had the pleasure of consulting with both the SAIL Capital Partners team and the investment banking team at Stifel Nicolaus in the U.S. on various deals,» says Rob Peterman, Head of Business Development for the technology sector for TSX and TSX Venture.

Instead of simply cutting a licensing deal with a venture capital firm, the 32 - year - old Cox turned to Indiegogo for crowdfunding.

How does Elon Musk, leader of some of the world's most long - shot ventures, deal with risk?

According to venture capital database CB Insights, Chicago companies raised a total of $ 4.6 billion in 368 investment deals between 2009 and 2014.