Sentences with phrase «of the seed capital»

What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital.

With $ 3,000 of seed capital from Harvard Business School, around 150 MBA teams were tasked with developing their very own micro-businesses in short order.

In addition to experimenting with online marketing channels, Lenda spent most of its seed capital on people, growing from four employees to 15.

It started with the creation of Fusion Oil and Gas PLC and the raising of seed capital at 5 pence a share in the UK in 1998.

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

With a small stock market where institutional investors have been in short supply since the nationalisation of pension funds in 2008, and few angel investors or venture capital funds, the traditional source of seed capital is what is known as FFF: friends, family and fools.

But the availability of the seed capital is driving up the salaries of top technical talent.

Toward the end of last year, I started planning for my company's reincorporation and raising of seed capital.

By selling altcoins and tokens for the purpose of financing or utilizing projects, companies that would be recognized as too risky or too small by traditional investment entities have a means to raise large amounts of seed capital.

«Noninterest revenue was $ 1.8 billion, down by $ 394 million, or 18 %, due to lower performance fees, lower loan - related revenue, the effect of lower market levels and lower valuations of seed capital investments,» according to JPMorgan in its Q4 2011 earnings release.

The startup economy picked up in 2010 when the government began funding more accelerators and incubators and the amount of seed capital dramatically increased.

After raising their round of seed capital, BitPay has chosen to establish their roots in Atlanta and build their company culture in a city known for innovation, but often overlooked by the Silicon Valley insiders.

Prior to Softbank Capital, Mr. Levy acted as Managing Partner of Seed Capital Partners, an early stage technology venture fund that he co-founded in 1999 with his partner Ron Schreiber.

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST - Jan 22 - Kiss Hugs, a mobile dating app, was launched in November 2013 and Hong Kong - based angel investor Bigcolors took a 12.5 % stake in the company a month later, providing most of its seed capital.

This is mainly because this is where the majority of seed capital and VC capital is at.

The money comes from well funded investors — be they individual high - net worth investors or venture capital funds — who seek early entry into a promising start - up in need of seed capital or a young firm -LSB-...]

It was set up with $ 100,000 of seed capital and sold in 2007 to French nuclear power giant Areva for around # 1.6 billion.

The fund with Finlab thus represents only a fraction of the seed capital of EOS.IO.

I accrued my first sum of seed capital while working in the service industry as a young man.

Agricultural investments seem to require an enormous level of seed capital to make them flourish.

Not exact matches

Investors include Revolution's Rise of the Rest seed fund, Expon Capital and Palm Drive Capital.

Despite the slow start, the team managed to cobble together $ 720,000 in seed funding from angel investors including Naval Ravikant, CEO and founder of the startup network AngelList, and investment firms such as Pantera Capital and Shanghai's Fenbushi Capital.

Created by Walter Luh, a serial entrepreneur and formerly the lead architect of the Adobe Flash Lite engineering team, Corona Labs has raised $ 2.5 million in seed investment, mostly from Merus Capital.

• Gauge Capital recapitalized American Nuts, a Sylmar, Calif. - based supplier and processor of nuts, seeds, and dried fruit.

While part of his plans involve taking on a larger role at Initialized Capital, the VC firm he co-founded with Garry Tan, he also says that the decision involved the «promise he made to this little poppy seed.»

Green helped Weiss raise $ 2 million in seed funding, which she used to assemble a small team, including creative director Helen Steed, a beauty industry vet who'd helped build Bumble & Bumble, and COO Henry Davis, who came from the London office of venture capital firm Index Ventures.

By the end of the year, he and Raider had also gotten their seed backer, Thrive Capital, along with five other investors, to help raise $ 122.5 million, including $ 35 million in debt.

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.

Cold, hard cash: Hewitt and his partners invested an undisclosed amount of personal funds in the business, along with seed capital from an investor friend, and opened a line of credit.

This investment forms a part of an $ 8.5 million Series B funding in what3words, involving previous investors Intel Capital and British funds Force Over Mass and Mustard Seed.

If you want to use your plan to seek millions of dollars in seed capital to start a risky venture, you may have to do a lot of explaining and convincing.

AFRIpads launched a pilot in March of 2009 with seed capital from Bert Bolkenstein, a philanthropic investor in the Netherlands.

Eventually he liked one of my ideas and cosigned for my first $ 3,500 credit card, which essentially was my first seed capital.

We went through a seed / angel round, five venture capital rounds and three bank loans, and in doing so have gone through hundreds of pitches to prospective investors.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

That seed round also included Steve Case's Rise of the Rest fund, perhaps the best - known venture capital firm focused on startups outside of Silicon Valley.

This type of funding can come from angel investors, micro-loan funds, pre-seed and seed funds, venture capital and state or federal funding.

Perhaps most interesting, the report calls for Ontario to legalize crowd - funding for financial gain to provide startups and small to medium - sized enterprises with the same levels of access to seed and venture capital as their counterparts in the U.S and Europe.

In addition to the plan to move Zappos downtown, he has made a series of investments from his sizable personal fortune: seed capital for several tech start - ups that have promised to relocate; $ 2 million for a new performing - arts center that will bring Broadway shows downtown; $ 1.2 million to Teach for America to improve downtown's schools; $ 7 million for 20 percent of the charter airline JetSuite, which he plans to use to fly prominent entrepreneurs and rock bands into town.

Female Founders Fund estimates that even before the very recent venture capital slowdown, an entrepreneur's chances of raising an A round to follow a seed funding were only about 30 percent.

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.

Shortly after that, however, another of the small carriers — Public Mobile — said it was now positioned to be the industry consolidator with financial backing from Thomvest Seed Capital Inc. and New York's Cartesian Capital.

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

If you're looking for millions of dollars in seed capital to start a risky venture, you'll usually (although not always) have to do a lot of explaining and convincing.

But job creation, follow - on capital, and the size of seed - funds aren't the only ways to measure the success of the region's startup scene.

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.

Talk of using the MBA experience as a place to fine - tune an idea, recruit partners, gain access to seed capital, and finally launch a startup is becoming as ubiquitous as discussions about forthcoming job interviews at McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs.

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

«It isn't a goal for Harvard Business School to graduate more entrepreneurs, but this will be a side benefit,» says Alan MacCormack, a Harvard professor who recently oversaw the school's startup initiative, which assigned an entire class of 900 students to launch micro-businesses as part of six - person teams, with seed capital from the business school.

The custom clothing is based on 3 - D models and recently landed $ 3 million in seed funding from Stockholm - based Moor Capital, the investment arm of Kaj Hed, and Silicon Valley - based Founder.org.