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Industry - wide, female founders received 2 % of all venture funding last year.

Female founders received 2 % of all venture funding last year.

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In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

To realize his vision, Katzenberg has been pitching two different constituencies: myriad tech and telco giants he could partner with to bring the content to the masses and the biggest producers capable of supplying content.When he shared his vision exclusively with Variety last year, he was seeking $ 2 billion to fund the venture.

She took her concept to venture capitalists and secured a total of $ 10.4 million in two funding rounds — the first, in 2013, led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures; the second, last year, led by Thrive Capital and including Bonobos founder Andy Dunn.

If all that sounds kind of gooey, well, that's truly the broader mission of the digital health wave too — a movement that attracted a record $ 5.8 billion in venture funding last year, according to Rock Health.

But, at least in the venture capital world, funding for companies focused on tackling heart disease, respiratory disease, and other mass population conditions — i.e., those that afflict millions upon millions of people — has dropped sharply in the last decade.

«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.

Financial technology («fintech») startups have received more than $ 11 billion in venture capital funding so far this year, 83 % more than all of last year, according to CB Insights.

What's more, the news - reading public has grown accustomed to announcements of multi-million-dollar investments over the last 15 years, a period of extremely active venture capital funding, which reached new highs in 2015.

Just last month, financial powerhouses Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered PLC raised their investment in the operator of e-wallet MoMo by $ 28 million, while Silicon Valley - based venture capitalist 500 Startups announced a $ 10 million Vietnam - focused fund.

Last September, the federal government set aside $ 400 million to create venture - capital funds led by the private sector, and also promised to give the Business Development Bank of Canada another $ 100 million to reinforce its venture - capital activities.

Each week in tech brings us momentous news (a major product release, a lawsuit development), inconsequential news (a startup that will never make it receiving funding from a venture capital firm that doesn't care if does), and even sad news (like last week's passing of former Intel (intc) CEO Paul Otellini).

To fund the development of the app, AVOS, the company behind MixBit, raised venture capital money in April last year from Google Ventures, the China - based incubator Innovation Works, Madrone Capital and New Enterprise Associates.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

Pantera, which has roughly $ 724 million in assets under management, also announced the launch of its third blockchain - focused venture fund last month.

It's raised a total of $ 238.4 million in venture capital, and its last funding round was in December 2016.

That may seem like a bold prediction, but consider that Gemvara, which is just more than a year old, had a $ 10 million run rate at the end of last year and, as of this spring, is venture capital funded to the tune of more than $ 25 million.

According to the now (in) famous Kauffman report last year, just 20 % of venture funds generate returns that beat a public - market equivalent by more than 3 %.

According to figures that the National Venture Capital Association diligently collects through primary research and publishes on their Web site, last year was somewhat typical in that 1,334 start - ups got funded, but only 13 % as many achieved an IPO (81 last year) or an acquisition large enough to warrant a public disclosure of the price (95 last year).

The startup Formspring.me was just four months old when it closed a $ 2.5 million angel round of funding last month from 10 name - brand investors, among them angel funds, individual entrepreneurs — even a venture capital firm.

In its last funding round, the company had raised an undisclosed amount of venture debt investment from InnoVen Capital India in July 2015.

A handful of digital currency funds have emerged over the past year, including Polychain Capital, which has raised about $ 15 million from venture capitalists and investors the last few months.

«In just the last 48 hours, I've spoken to a female tech executive who was grabbed by a male C.E.O. at a large event and another female executive who was asked to interview at a venture fund because they «feel like they need to hire a woman,»» said Dick Costolo, the former chief of Twitter, who now runs the fitness start - up Chorus.

Last week, Bengaluru - based Terra Blue, which operates as TerraBlue XT, received a commitment of Rs 2 crore from The North East Venture Fund, the first dedicated venture capital fund for northeasternVenture Fund, the first dedicated venture capital fund for northeastern InFund, the first dedicated venture capital fund for northeasternventure capital fund for northeastern Infund for northeastern India.

White Paper by Roland Reynolds & Ken Wallace September 2009 INTRODUCTION Two key trends have dramatically altered the venture capital industry over the last three decades: the rise of larger fund sizes and the decline of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) as an exit market for venture - backed companies.

Social Capital kicked off a trial of Carroll's model last year with a referral program of sorts — the fund asked other venture capital firms to direct promising early - stage companies to apply through the system.

Lerer Hippeau, the New York - based early - stage venture firm, is taking over the $ 125 million debut fund created by Binary Capital, a young San Francisco - based venture firm whose cofounder's misdeeds became the talk of Silicon Valley last summer.

What's more, women - led startups last year obtained just 2.2 percent of all VC funding, Brand said, citing statistics from PitchBook, a Seattle company that tracks mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital.

Last year, Cordoba achieved a couple of important milestones, including a joint venture agreement with High Power Exploration Inc. (HPX), a private mineral exploration company indirectly controlled by Robert Friedland; exploration work at San Matias is fully funded by High Power.

Knowing that venture funds have plenty of cash on hand from last year's unprecedented run of fundraising ($ 41.6 billion in 2016) leaves us optimistic about the funding prospects for NYC's seed - stage startups over the next few quarters.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

Furthermore, by working on different aspects, especially the financial model in depth, I found the courage to enter Jazz Hands into a social venture competition at Stern and I just learnt last week that I won funding of $ 7000 which I intend to use for workshops in the summer.

She cited the cases of Dan Gertler, an Israeli diamond billionaire who was put under US sanctions last year, and Jean - Claude Bastos, the manager of Angola's sovereign wealth fund who was revealed to have invested its money in several ventures of which he was the beneficial owner.

Last year we passed Boston to become the second - largest recipient of venture capital funding for technology start - ups, behind only Silicon Valley.

Last October, the company announced $ 116 million in Series B funding from some of the big names in venture capital, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo's venture fund Bezos Expeditions, Mayo Clinic Ventures, Venrock, and ARCH Venture Paventure capital, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo's venture fund Bezos Expeditions, Mayo Clinic Ventures, Venrock, and ARCH Venture Paventure fund Bezos Expeditions, Mayo Clinic Ventures, Venrock, and ARCH Venture PaVenture Partners.

Last fall, Stacey Childress, CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund, and I started talking about what, if anything, we might do about that.

Last week in a press release, SoFi announced that Mike Bingle, managing partner at Silver Lake, the venture capital firm that led a recent $ 500 million round of funding for SoFi, Steven Freiberg, the former Chief Executive of E * Trade, and Robert Joss, Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, have joined the board as directors for SoFi.

Preston Silverman, founder of Raise.Me, with investors at a Business Plan Competition.Raise.me, a startup that hooks colleges up with high school students looking for scholarships, raised $ 12 million last week in venture funding which it will use to expand its service nationwide.The fresh round of funding was led by new investor Redpoint Ventures, the venture -LSB-...]

Utility Funding and Harwood Wealth Management Group are among key client wins of the last year; practice head Simon Court recently advised the latter on the tax aspects of its vendor cash out and admission to the London Stock Exchange, a venture with an initial market capitalisation of # 45m.

The loan is the third financing deal Hermes Investment Management has provided to the joint venture of Thor Equities and Chenavari Investment Managers following the funding of two central London properties — 145 Oxford Street and Dover Street — last year.

Lerer Hippeau, the New York - based early - stage venture firm, is taking over the $ 125 million debut fund created by Binary Capital, a young San Francisco - based venture firm whose cofounder's misdeeds became the talk of Silicon Valley last summer.

When Twitter last raised a round of venture funding in September 2009, it was only the second U.S. - based digital media company to raise $ 100 million - plus in a year and a half; one other company — Zynga — joined that club two months later when it raised $ 180 million in a round led by Digital Sky Technologies.

Last September, the Reserve Bank of India provided a much - needed clarity on the ability of banks to take part in venture funding.

Now, just a few months later, it's announcing that it's closed a $ 6 million series A funding round at the end of last year that was led by Social Capital, the venture capital firm started by Chamath Palihapitiya, an early Facebook executive.

Such a move was attempted last year when a hacker had exploited an ethereum code bug and made away with over $ 50 million worth of the digital currency from Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), which is a form of investor - directed venture capital fund.

A variety of hedge funds and venture capital firms began investing in bitcoin last year, most notably Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.

Last week, Cointelegraph reported on the Ethereum - based game CryptoKitties, which received $ 12 mln in funding from a group of investors led by two top venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures.

For ZipZap, which raised $ 2.2 million in venture capital funding last year, this area of activity has become a priority recently, with a special mobile app for migrants» money transfers having been introduced in January, 2015.

Moore says expect to see rising stock prices and more joint ventures with institutional partners, of the kind that Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust Inc. signed with a Morgan Stanley pension fund client last week for the acquisition of up to $ 1 billion worth of shopping centers around the country.