Sentences with phrase «of seed companies»

Over the course of a single decade, Monsanto devoured dozens of seed companies (and their patents) to become the largest seed corporation in the world and the only soybean seed superpower.

In return, says the panel, developing countries should respect the intellectual property rights of seed companies, most of which are in the developed world.

Different markets demand different variations of the seed the company produces.

Not exact matches

Among the investors that contributed to Wiivv's $ 3.5 million seed round in December was MAS Holdings, a Sri Lankan company that is one of the largest manufacturers of apparel and footwear for brands like Nike, Victoria Secret and Lululemon.

Sound Ventures managing partner Effie Epstein explained that the fund focuses primarily on seed stage through series B investments, but doesn't limit the types of companies it bets on.

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.

Other early seeds include the hot diabetes - drug company Intarcia Therapeutics (which I wrote about in November) and the Jonathan Bush - helmed athenahealth (now worth nearly $ 5 billion), which has become a prominent force in the age of the cloud - based doctor's office and hospital.

The company recently raised $ 1.3 million in a seed round of financing.

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.

Prior to that investment, Getaway raised $ 1.4 million in two rounds of seed financing from a number of investors, including Rough Draft Ventures and Fueled, according to the company.

Looking ahead: Moveline recently raised a $ 1.5 million seed round of funding, which it will use to expand the company to other major cities, add more staff and enhance the product.

• Pireta, a U.K. - based smart textiles company, raised seed funding of an undisclosed amount from Rainbow Seed Fseed funding of an undisclosed amount from Rainbow Seed FSeed Fund.

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.

My company, Recruiter.com, is in the middle of seeking a seed round of funding and I can tell you that my comfort level has varied, depending on the investor.

Monsanto (mon) put on hold the launch of a chemical designed to be applied to crop seeds on Wednesday following reports it causes rashes on people, in the latest instance of complaints about a company product that was approved by U.S. environmental regulators.

Social responsibility is central to the operations of these companies — they know it's smart business to consider global issues and the broader community, whether it is through offering discounted loans for electric cars (Vancity) or helping to set up organic cotton seed banks in India (Zara).

Major players: L.A. - based Seed Beauty has incubated two wildly popular and trendy cosmetic companies that primarily sell online: Colourpop and Kylie Cosmetics, launched by the youngest member of the Kardashian - Jenner family.

Some, of course, may be understated, others, like a video game your kids play, have to have certain stages attained before they can be accomplished, but the seeds for your company's goals all lie in the structure that you build long before the doors ever opened.

«Entrepreneurs who do business in the black will never be able to sell their companies,» says Carlos Adamo, one of Santiago Bilinkis's first investors and a founder of Aconcagua Ventures, a seed investment fund in Buenos Aires.

There was the founder who had a term sheet from an American investor canceled after the investor saw something on the Internet about a protest in Argentina; the founder who had given up 80 percent of his company to secure seed capital; and the founder who was so strapped for cash that he had had to raise an angel funding round just to go to a trade show in San Francisco.

While he says he's «definitely broke,» Hater is starting to gain ground and the company is in the process of raising a round of seed funding.

In November 2012, the company raised a $ 1 million seed round of funding from Expansion Venture Capital, based in New York City.

This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.

Traction: The Los Angeles - based company has no investors but has garnered $ 13,000 from various competitions such as $ 5,000 from the University of Southern California's 2014 New Venture Seed competition.

It recently received seed funding from J. Hunt Holdings, but the company's model is based on taking a percentage of the money players pay their coaches.

The two were lucky in that Levchin gave the company his seal of approval, getting in as a seed investor.

Lentzsch participated in the company's $ 2.45 million seed round — along with former Orbitz chairman Jeff Clarke — helping lead to dozens of deals with national carriers, including Greyhound.

For Mars, which is the sixth - largest privately held company in the United States, the deal offers a toehold into a world that touts the use of almonds, chia seeds, amaranth and buckwheat as selling points.

Although a majority of Inc 500 companies reported that they were profitable in 2001, the companies that started with the most seed capital were less likely to be.

«I was sort of surprised that they weren't being swamped by more investors when I got in touch with them,» said Fritz Lanman, who sold his mobile recommendations company Livestar to Pinterest in 2013 and led the ClassPass» most recent financing and invested in their seed round.

Ahern breaks down the challenge of scaling into three stages based on funding levels — Early (during which a company raises, seed, Series A and B funding), Growth (Series C and D), and Later (Series E to IPO).

Defy Ventures uses a pool of talent drawn from big companies to give inmates job skills, and even seed capital for a business.

CHICAGO, Feb 16 - An Arkansas judge on Friday dismissed a Monsanto Co lawsuit aiming to stop Arkansas from blocking the use of a controversial farm chemical the company makes, dealing a blow to its attempts to increase sales of genetically engineered seeds.

• Excision BioTherapeutics, a Philadelphia - based life science company focused on the development and commercialization of advanced gene editing therapeutics for the treatment of life - threatening disease caused by neurotropic viruses, raised $ 10 million in seed funding.

The software connects to the cannabis company's point - of - sale system as well as the state's seed - to - sale system, which follows marijuana plants from the grow house until they're sold to a customer, to monitor the business and ensure compliance.

But not everyone is over the moon about the tie up that will let one company control more than a quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides.

While Cambrian Genomics just raised $ 10 million in seed funding, it was on the verge of securing an even large amount — until the company's name started appearing in articles about misogyny in the tech industry.

The first Female Founder event will help hone the pitches of entrepreneurs whose companies are at the seed stage, with two more events focusing on firms at the Series A and growth stages scheduled for February and March, respectively.

Hey, he thought, I can do this at my company — we'll sign our names on our bags of seed corn; we'll make a personal statement about our quality.

Under the CPC program, groups of practised investors with business and public company experience provide a pool of seed capital to create a CPC.

The company decided to go beyond what the U.S. Department of Agriculture required seed - corn suppliers to provide on their tags, he says.

Business editors can't resist passing judgment on new or unknown companies; reading about the then $ 2 million business I detected no seeds of greatness.

The company, which has raised $ 1.25 million in seed capital, sells its platform as a software - as - a-service and will also charge for disputes resolved through its panels of mediators and arbitrators.

The seeds were innocently sewn a few years earlier when one of their sons became a finalist in a modeling contest for a national brand clothing company.

Bayer also said it had filed a request for approval of its planned $ 66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto with EU regulators, according to a Reuters report.

Last year, U.S. federal prosecutors investigated Allergan's promotional practices and accused the company of «vigorously» marketing the potion for non-approved (or «off - label») uses, effectively seeding the market for future approvals.

With any luck (and maybe recruitment fees), some of those clients will turn into 500 - to 1,000 - person companies and some of its new seed - stage clients will turn into large, venture - backed, paying clients.

Speaking at the Post.Seed Conference on Tuesday, the PayPal co-founder and Founders Fund principal offered what amounted to a critique of the generally accepted model for funding startups, wherein seed and venture investors make lots of small investments in early - stage companies in the hopes that a few will yield big payoffs.

Allbirds is becoming a ubiquitous brand throughout Silicon Valley, as evidenced by the company's ability to raise a $ 2.2 million seed round of funding.

Its growth curve has been remarkable, to say the least - the company recently completed a seed round funding of US$ 1.1 million, and Mendelsohn says that Mini Exchange founder Sarah Appleton has attributed 20 % of her revenues as having come through advertising on Facebook, with online sales being driven through its custom audiences and lookalike audiences tools to reach parents across the MENA region.