Sentences with phrase «of venture backed companies»

It is typical of venture backed companies in many industries to ignore logistical difficulties and to be blinded by the need for rapid growth to support higher and higher valuations.

Innovestor Ventures manages Innovestor Growth Fund I, the largest portfolio of venture backed companies in Finland.

His experience with venture capital transactions comes from multiple perspectives — from being outside counsel for the company or the investing entity, to being in - house counsel for both at various times, as well as a being the business owner of a venture backed company.

Not exact matches

Gin Lane had never taken equity before, but Harry's had backing from a number of venture capital firms Shine knew well, and one of the Harry's co-founders had helped launch online eyewear company Warby Parker.

To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

I bet you didn't know the average founder of a venture - backed company is a former executive between the ages of 35 and 44.

According to CB Insights, which tracks all sorts of data on venture - backed companies, those wunderkinds you always hear about are actually a pretty rare breed.

That point isn't lost on Steve Roberson, the co-founder and technical lead of Start - Up Hire, a new job site for venture capital - backed companies.

The National Venture Capital Association estimates that only 20 percent (or less) of venture - backed companies produce a significant return, 40 percent achieve moderate success and the resVenture Capital Association estimates that only 20 percent (or less) of venture - backed companies produce a significant return, 40 percent achieve moderate success and the resventure - backed companies produce a significant return, 40 percent achieve moderate success and the rest fail.

Only 14 % of venture - backed companies have a female founder.

funBug was a venture - backed Web marketing company, and it went bust with the rest of the market in 2001.

Las Vegas has the honor of the highest percentage of venture - backed companies with at least one female founder: 26 percent.

Those findings jibe with just - reported data from the National Venture Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter iVenture Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter iventure - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter in 2013.

Corporate venture - capital firms that benefit from high cash flows might be willing to spread out their investments over a few similar companies and take a back seat in terms of driving their growth, while a venture - capital firm is typically motivated to take a more focused and hands - on approach for its portfolio companies.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

But for venture - backed security companies that have yet to differentiate themselves and show a working business model, 2016 could be the end of the line.

He added that ICOs backed by real assets would allow companies to circumvent much of the Wall Street middleman apparatuses, such as the army of investment bankers and venture capitalists, and sell directly to would - be stakeholders.

Nutanix is one of the high - profile unicorns, or venture - backed tech companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, that have been waiting in the IPO pipeline.

More significantly, however, over 50 percent of venture - backed IPO exits went to health - care companies in the second quarter, the fifth consecutive quarter that health - care companies have topped technology companies for public exits, CB Insights reports.

It's the latest in a relentless parade of damaging news for the Silicon Valley upstart, which was valued last year at $ 9 billion, the most of any venture - backed company working in health care today.

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened tariffs on up to $ 150 billion worth of Chinese goods to punish China over its joint - venture requirements and other policies the United States says force American companies to surrender their intellectual property to state - backed Chinese competitors.

Over the same period, the number of venture - backed companies rose by 172.6 percent, the National Venture Capital Association rventure - backed companies rose by 172.6 percent, the National Venture Capital Association rVenture Capital Association reveals.

Still, in 2016, venture investors poured $ 12.2 billion into health care, backing companies that promise to change everything from cancer care to the process of finding a new doctor.

The decline in the startup rate hasn't cut the rate of formation of two categories of companies with very high potential for wealth creation and job creation: angel and venture - capital - backed businesses.

Many are key job creators, since companies founded by immigrants that are backed by venture capital have created an estimated average of 150 jobs per company and generated $ 63 billion in sales.

Among so - called growth companies, the failure rate is even higher, according to a 2012 Harvard Business School study: About three - quarters of startups with venture backing fail.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

According to recent research done by TechCrunch, the percentage of venture - backed companies that are founded by women have not increased since 2012.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

Synack, the Menlo Park, Calif. - based company started by former NSA agents Jay Kaplan and Mark Kuhr, announced this morning that it secured Series A funding from the storied Silicon Valley venture fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, along with Google Ventures, Allegis Capital, and Derek Smith (the CEO of another KPCB - backed company, Shape Security).

As for his dreams of starting a company, Fiance realizes now after a year of fundraising that he wants the House Fund to harken back to the old days of venture capital when the emphasis was less on the capital.

This would make SpaceX one of the most valuable venture - backed private tech companies, behind just Uber and Airbnb.

Small companies back then were already proliferating and growing, to the point where David Birch, then at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would soon announce his dramatic finding that entrepreneurial ventures were creating most of the new jobs.

Something Ventured, a new documentary film directed by husband - and - wife team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, explores the lives of the men who, in the early 1960s when the venture capital industry was just beginning to take shape, risked social status (and their money) to back the companies they truly believed in.

«With Steve's passing, Bezos is the epitome of the venture - backed CEO,» says Bill Gurley, another VC and longtime Amazon watcher, as well as the lead investment - banking research analyst for the company's 1997 IPO.

This metropolitan area (which includes Oakland and Fremont, Calif.) saw the largest proportion of venture capital - backed business exits over the past year compared to other major cities, meaning there are a large number of what Kauffman identifies as «growth companies» in San Francisco and the East Bay.

Profits are heavily reinvested back into the company, though Grant was still able to take a salary of around $ 150,000 when he was working for the venture full time.

In fact, venture - backed companies represent the equivalent of 21 percent of U.S. GDP.

According to a 2011 study by the National Foundation for American Policy, the most common country of origin for an immigrant founder of a top - 50 venture - backed company was India, followed by Israel, Canada, and then Iran.

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.

He claims to be a well - known serial entrepreneur who is currently the CEO of a venture - backed company.

It was one of the first big YouTube networks to make headlines, quickly growing to 300 million subscribers and raising almost $ 50 million in venture backing (including from Google, YouTube's parent company), valuing it at nearly $ 200 million in 2012.

• Following two lackluster years for IPOs, we should see the «unicorn backlog» of more than 200 venture - backed private companies start to clear out in 2018.

Each year, CNBC creates its list of «disruptors,» private venture - backed companies that are shaking up the status quo, threatening the public giants or otherwise upsetting the apple cart.

«On the IPO side, favorable public market conditions and stronger valuations are contributing to better quality IPOs for venture - backed companies as evidenced by the jump in dollars raised on the public markets,» NVCA Head of Research John Taylor said in a statement.

It's said that about 20 percent of venture - backed companies have female co-founders.

The other day I read an interesting book called Entrepreneurial DNA, by Joe Abraham, the founder of BOSI Global, an operating partner to venture - backed and owner - operated companies.

The fact that you are more likely to fail is a fact of life for venture - backed companies, it is not an expectation for the VCs making the investment.

When it closes a reported $ 160 million funding round from Index Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, and DST Global, the company will have a $ 2.8 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable venture capital - backed businesses in theVenture Partners, and DST Global, the company will have a $ 2.8 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable venture capital - backed businesses in theventure capital - backed businesses in the world.