Sentences with phrase «of tech funds»

Allows for use of tech funds to pay for data connectivity.

The fund's sustainability rating ranks it in the top 22 % of tech funds.

Great plan and wish I had started out like this instead of tech funds and tech stocks

Not exact matches

Two years ago, Ben Kaufman, then - CEO of well - funded consumer product startup Quirky, delivered one of the most awkward, and candid, on - stage interviews I've ever witnessed at Fortune's annual Brainstorm Tech conference.

The program resembles Amazon's Alexa Fund and reflects the extent to which Google sees the success of its smart assistant as a driver of future growth, as both companies (and other tech giants) vie for dominance in the home.

Insiders believe a slew of big - money exits will strengthen the scene by funding new tech entrepreneurship

Launched in 2009 by three Yale alums — Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory — and refined during a stint with the well - known startup incubator Y Combinator, the company was completing the details of a massive $ 40 million funding round by one of the top investors in tech, a piece of news they had agreed to announce as part of a profile on Business Insider.

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In the latest sign that the luster of many of Silicon Valley's tech superstars continues to fade, the mutual fund firm T. Rowe Price recently marked down the value of many of its priciest tech investments.

Steve Case's new $ 150 million venture fund dedicated to the flyover states is great, tangible proof of the tech world's interest in bringing the rest of the country along for the economic growth that comes from the innovation economy.

In recent years, an increasing number of tech startups have turned into big - time investments opportunities for VCs, and as a result, these funds have wanted to get in on the action to bolster investor returns too.

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.

With $ 9.5 million in funds from investors, the serial entrepreneur predicts her latest tech startup will encourage people to rediscover their sense of wonder.

NEW FUNDING: Police tech company Mark43 just raised $ 38 million in Series C funding in hopes of making law enforcement more effFUNDING: Police tech company Mark43 just raised $ 38 million in Series C funding in hopes of making law enforcement more efffunding in hopes of making law enforcement more efficient.

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.

The Vision Fund has upended tech investing in Silicon Valley by chasing after some of the sector's flashiest companies, Recode reports.

The fund is reportedly being raised to help Sequoia compete with Japanese tech giant SoftBank, which announced a huge new $ 100 billion (# 75 billion) fund last year that is now being used to back promising tech companies worldwide with tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

• Winnow, a U.K. - based developer of smart kitchen tech, raised $ 7.4 million in funding, according to TechCrunch.

Also concerning for entrepreneurs is the scarcity of tech - focused funds (Kolind assures this is changing, however).

• Legends of Learning, a Washington D.C. - based education tech company, raised $ 9 million in funding from undisclosed investors.

«Cornwall in the past has had quite a lot of funding from the EU,» said Rob Sanders, who founded Glas, an agri - tech startup in Cornwall.

The sophisticated fund - raising experts at Share Systems Inc., ensconced in Boston - area offices a mile from Harvard University, may not have much in common with the operators of the die - casting machines at Pace Industries» Cast - Tech Division, in rural Monroe City, Mo..

But SoftBank's new fund, which is run out of an office in London's Mayfair, makes Sequoia and other US tech funds look minuscule.

More good news for Canada's tech sector: Toronto - based Wattpad, often described as the YouTube of eBooks, announced this morning that it has raised $ 46 million in Series C funding.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

Many of those donations likely came from first - time donors, some of which responded to matching fund offers from tech stars like venture capitalist Chris Sacca.

I think that for us to solve these issues, with the lack of diversity and the lack of funding for women in tech we need male allies at the table.»

At Denver - based Inspirato, a critical part of its latest $ 20 million funding round, led by tech - savvy firms W Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners, was its plan to open five «experience centers» in upscale U.S. malls.

By June 2012 they had transitioned to the sports site full time, helped by a $ 525,000 round of funding led by Zappos founder Tony Hsieh and his Vegas Tech Fund.

Aileron targets lower - tech businesses because high - tech entrepreneurs that are funded by venture - capital firms already get this kind of input, says Mathile.

Dropbox's cost - cutting measures drew a lot of attention because it's one of the most richly valued and highly funded startups in the tech industry.

Noteworthy tech startups include Gnip, which was one of few companies given access to Twitter's massive data streams, Orbotix, an $ 11 million - funded robotics mobile device innovator, and SendGrid, a cloud - based email infrastructure that has delivered 58 billion emails to date.

Baunach was one of the people who pushed to create Jumpstart, a nonprofit organization in Cleveland focused on helping idea - stage tech companies get access to funds and resources in order to grow.

The number of ad - tech companies raising money dropped 17 % last year compared with the year earlier, data from CBInsights shows, and the total volume of funding fell 33 % to $ 2.2 billion from $ 3.2 billion, putting it back where it was in 2013.

The company has the funding to go head - to head with tech giants, and is on target to raise a billion dollars by the end of 2017, she said.

To build tech champions, the government should put more energy into funding R&D in a commercial environment, because you employ a hell of a lot more people and can build scale.»

Local tech entrepreneurs have pitched their ideas to representatives from the Big Pitch competition in Leederville today, with the pick of the crop to go into the national finals with a chance to win $ 5 million to fund their idea.

One of MSD's first investments was in an unknown, tech - focused private equity firm called Silver Lake, which at the time was raising its first fund.

Tech firms Today We Learned, Circadyn and FreeWheeler have been named the RAC of WA SeedSpark winners at an awards night last week, and have each received a cash prize to fund their projects.

Had Social Security started investing in stocks in the early 1980s or late 1990s, she argues, the trust fund would be significantly more flush than it is now, even taking into account the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000 and the meltdown in 2008.

As a result of these moves, the city enjoyed the highest job growth in the $ 20 - billion global mobile app industry, and it was the only region in the U.S. to have an increase in tech venture - capital funding.

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).

Over the past year VCs have increased their funding of tech start - ups, in virtually every corner of the economy, by 92 % compared to two years ago.

This week brought the clearest demonstration yet of Chinese tech firms» global ambitions as Didi Chuxing raised $ 4 billion in new venture funding and signaled its interest in acquiring control of the largest taxi - on - demand service in Brazil.

That puts China well ahead of the U.S. in launching CRISPR trials; the first one in America, which will be conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and is being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker, isn't set to begin until early 2017.

A drop in funding for tech startups has triggered a cooling - off of the region's torrid real estate market, and that's a good thing.

It's fine if you want to rotate out of tech and buy utilities, but if you are owning large swaths of the market in the form of mutual funds or ETFs — and I mean owning the S&P 500 — they are not going to matter much.

The firm closed its latest fund, a massive $ 3.3 billion, last May, just as the Valley's harassment scandals were starting to mount — but before they gained real attention from the bulk of the tech world.

Regardless, the study has begun well ahead of the first planned American CRISPR trials, which won regulatory clearance earlier this year (and are being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker) but are unlikely to begin until 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania.

To account for external innovation, too, a company's portfolio of startup acquisitions is assessed for similarity with best - performing venture capital funds and share of tech areas with the strongest investment growth.