Sentences with phrase «of early funding»

In 2016, he was part of a team of reporters who won a Loeb award for their investigation finding that just 158 families had contributed half of the early funding for the presidential campaign.

An important chunk of early funding — $ 360 million — came from the U.S. Department of Education through a program called Race to the Top.

Much of the early funding was made available via the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — an initiative launched by George W. Bush, US president at the time.

But whereas most of the earlier funding programs acted countrywide, the Career Center is a more focused approach to bringing together partners with a scientific and industrial background.

And this past May Guardant Health announced it had raised $ 360 million from investors, on top of earlier funding, with the goal of deploying its liquid biopsy test to one million people over the next five years.

Localized in French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Italian languages, The Banner Saga was one of the earlier funding successes on Kickstarter, which originally launched in partnership with independent games publisher Versus Evil.

However, SWFs are not confined to energy resources; Asian funds reinvest general trade surpluses and, believe it or not, one of the earliest funds, in Kiribati, derives its wealth from phosphate - rich deposits of bird guano.

Pantera Capital, one of the earliest funds to invest in bitcoin, will also pass on the Telegram ICO.

Not exact matches

«There are few early - stage funds such as ours that dedicate the majority of their investment to New York, so we felt that was a very good way to build a portfolio.»

«Most of the startups Bloomberg Beta invests in and works with have an open plan,» says Karin Klein, a partner at Beta, a Bloomberg venture fund that invests in early stage technology companies.

Golden Seeds, a group of mostly ex-Wall Street women, has been providing early funding to female - run companies since 2005; Cindy Padnos's Illuminate Ventures was formed in 2009.

Thiel, an earlier investor in Facebook and creator of Founders Fund, and Y Combinator's Sam Altman are two of Silicon Valley's more outspoken voices and, when it comes to politics, they land in very different places.

Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.

All of those funds in the early 2000s haven't paid out yet.

The $ 75 - million Bloomberg Beta fund was created to back early - stage technology companies with the potential to transform the future of work.

To do that, fellow panelist Edith Yeung, a partner at Mountain View, Calif. - based early - stage venture fund and seed accelerator 500 Startups, advised venture - seekers to attend so - called «demo days» to watch fellow entrepreneurs pitch, because «it's a good way to get a sense of the language.»

They're already convincing investors — New Millennium just received close to $ 1 million in a round of financing led by Toronto - based venture capital fund Hedgewood Inc. — and a burgeoning array of early adopters, including pioneering chefs, adventurous retailers and corporate partners that could soon include Google.

That might sound like a lot of companies getting funded, but in terms of the number of deals it's actually quite a steep drop — 19 percent from a year earlier — and the lowest number since the first quarter of 2012.

This is what this online course from the University of Maryland covers, as professor Michael R. Pratt explains what you need to do in the early stages of your business to prepare for funding, where to source funding, how to pitch investors and venture capitalists, as well as how to close funding.

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

«$ 5tn in five years is a stunning and unprecedented figure,» said Ellen Dorsey, at the philanthropic Wallace Global Fund, one of the earliest backers of the fossil fuel divestment movement.

He is also the general managing partner of G2T3V and Chicago High Tech Investors, both early - stage venture funds; a member of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's ChicagoNEXT Innovation Council; and Governor Bruce Rauner's Innovate Illinois Advisory Council.

While much of the launch fundraising was in later stage investments, there have been 11 early stage deals (also known as seed and Series A funding rounds) so far this year, including the $ 15 million round of Australian satellite company Myriota.

Larson: Departures of amateur investors at the early stages of the market have created funding gaps.

«The elimination of federal funding to CPB would initially devastate and ultimately destroy public media's role in early childhood education, public safety, connecting citizens to our history, and promoting civil discussions - all for Americans in both rural and urban communities,» Harrison wrote.

With her $ 5 million fund, Hamilton looks to capture 1 percent ownership in early - stage companies that are seeking their first round of funding.

Startup accelerators are an innovation in the process of funding early - stage, high - potential ventures.

We got the idea of raising seed venture capital so we could fund the early stages of projects and then introduce the ideas to funding sources.

United (UAL) has refused to appoint Bethune as chairman, ending months of talks with the funds in early March, the source and two other people familiar with the matter said.

«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

• Grail, a life sciences company focused on early cancer detection that operates as a subsidiary of Illumina Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN), raised more than $ 900 million in Series B funding.

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.

President Trump endorsed Strange in early August, and mainstream GOP funders including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce refused to support Moore after his primary victory.

GDP inched upwards only 0.7 % in the third quarter from a year earlier, and the International Monetary Fund is forecasting mere 0.2 % growth for all of 2014.

The $ 21 million in participating security funds invested in Virginia businesses constitutes nearly 6 percent of all seed and early - stage funding in the state last year.

Many of the best known investors, like Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, say they don't want to do early stage deals any more — small investments don't move the needle for their huge funds.

The funding round was led by DST Global, the investment vehicle of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner who was an early investor of Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and Airbnb, among others.

Elie Wurtman, managing partner at early stage VC fund Pico, highlighted that a number of Silicon Valley venture capital companies have shut down their Israel funds or folded them into their larger US funds in recent years.

In the defence filed in Anita Bell's lawsuit, O'Leary Funds said the market was slowing as early as the end of 2009.

Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Chris Handy, an entrepreneur who successfully funded his idea for a new type of card game on Kickstarter earlier this year.

Einhorn, fund manager for Greenlight Capital, accused Apple of cash hoarding earlier last week and is encouraging shareholders to vote against Apple's proxy because he thinks proposition two will kill the option of Apple issuing preferred stock.

This naturally pushes early stage investing to smaller investment sources; angels and government sources like SBIR's, economic development funds, and state focused specific funds for a start - up's first round of investment.

The sometimes - activist hedge fund, founded by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, also said it owns about 593,000 shares of Sprouts, which earlier this year held preliminary talks to be taken private by Cerberus Capital Management and merged with its Albertsons Cos. brand, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

Similarly, when Slava Menn, 32, launched a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year to fund the production of a theft - resistant bike light, his backers also helped him improve the product.

A number of funds bet heavily on an oil rally early in the year, boosting long futures positions to a record in late February, before oil went into a prolonged slump as global supply remained elevated despite cuts from OPEC.

«There are very few early - stage funds active in Virginia now,» says Thomas Dann, managing director of ECentury Capital Partners, an SBIC in McLean.

«There are at least 50 active funds in Turkey looking at investments,» says A. Mete Cakmakci, a member of the Istanbul Venture Capital Initiative, a Turkish investment fund, at a panel discussion at the Dell women's event earlier this month.

According to a report published by Morningstar in 2015, U.S. equity index funds account for about 37 % of the total market share of mutual - fund assets, up from 26 % five years earlier.

The investors want to eliminate the «valley of death» between the early promise of a new energy concept and commercializing it into a viable technology, which «neither government funding nor conventional private investment can bridge,» the group said in a statement.

«So in the early days of MailChimp, it never occurred to me to borrow money or get funding to grow my business.»