Sentences with phrase «of venture capital money in»

«There's an absence of venture capital money in Canada, and it's quite pronounced for biotech, so the venture exchange provided an alternative source and investor base.»

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In the spirit of the series, rather than harping on the shrinking funding, I talked to a number of startup companies — Toronto - based Clickfree and SecureKey and Edmonton - based Empire Avenue — that have been successful in attracting venture capital money to find out how they did iIn the spirit of the series, rather than harping on the shrinking funding, I talked to a number of startup companies — Toronto - based Clickfree and SecureKey and Edmonton - based Empire Avenue — that have been successful in attracting venture capital money to find out how they did iin attracting venture capital money to find out how they did it.

It is true that 2014 and 2015 saw dramatic increases in the amount of money flowing to rapidly scaling startups through venture capital firms.

Boulder, Colo. - based Ubooly has raised $ 2.5 million in venture capital money and just recently blown its second Kickstarter campaign out of the water.

Not all of them involve venture capital, and some end up earning more money for their founders in the end.

Investors would get a (then) 35 % tax credit on money invested in a portfolio of startups managed by his firm, GrowthWorks Capital (now part of Matrix, a public holding company he created to bring together different divisions of his empire, including venture capital and mutual Capital (now part of Matrix, a public holding company he created to bring together different divisions of his empire, including venture capital and mutual capital and mutual funds).

The belief that venture capital performance has been poor, and a desire to diversify internationally, have prompted many institutional investors to move their money out of the asset class, leaving «fewer and fewer venture funds with less and less to invest,» says Steve Hurwitz, a Boston - based lawyer and co-founder of an annual venture capital conference in Quebec City.

One of the critical shortages in Canada right now is venture capital money for our technology companies, so these are very positive areas of improvement.

To fund the development of the app, AVOS, the company behind MixBit, raised venture capital money in April last year from Google Ventures, the China - based incubator Innovation Works, Madrone Capital and New Enterprise Assocapital money in April last year from Google Ventures, the China - based incubator Innovation Works, Madrone Capital and New Enterprise AssoCapital and New Enterprise Associates.

That's because, rather than handing the capital over to any one of 17 government agencies with a finger in the innovation pie, or giving the money to the Business Development Bank of Canada, which deployed just $ 408 million of its $ 18.4 billion balance sheet to the venture capital industry, the Conservatives have decided to invest that money directly in entrepreneurs.

While there have long been small players in the venture capital community who defied the stats and were able to attract some LP money, they tended to be relegated to the fringes of the industry, with less access to sizable funds and the buzziest companies.

The state's first early stage venture capital limited partnership is one of three funds announced by Western Australian money managers this year, and one of two in a joint project by Cottesloe - based View Street Partners and Nedlands - based Mac Equity.

In the world of venture capital, money is easy to come by — it's the ideas, and the people who can bring those ideas to life, that are hard to find.

Currently, the amount of venture capital money that's being invested in Bay Area startups is growing at a rate of about one percent per year — meaning that Silicon Valley will only take a bigger share of startup money.

I'm not talking about the.1 percent of big - name startups that raise millions of dollars in venture capital and build up a user base of millions before they need to make any money.

Gobs of venture capital money have been tossed at the taxi - app space in the past few years, as various companies try to make the process of ordering a cab more convenient and efficient.

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.

«This is a way that you can bootstrap and raise money for yourself, even if you're in a place like Idaho, where there isn't a lot of venture capital.

Jason Mendelson, director of legal services at Softbank Venture Capital in Mountain View, Calif., advises start - ups not to bother with EPLI on the premise that young companies have better things to spend their money on.

With a biotech startup, it may seem the potential is all in the science, but investor Amy Schulman, a venture capital partner at Polaris Partners, which led SQZ's $ 5 million funding round, says the main reason she decided to put money in SQZ is because of Sharei, even though he's young and had never started a company before.

«I thought it was good idea, but when I spoke with a lot of prospective LPs, nobody believed me,» he recalled, using finance jargon for «limited partner,» the investors who put money in venture capital funds.

At a very high level, I'm investing in ventures where I believe we stand a chance of getting our money back within a timeframe we're willing to wait, getting a return on capital (including financial and impact returns), and investing in someone we trust.

A recent WSJ article, «Venture - Capital Firms Draw a Rush of New Money,» highlights that VC firms are raising new funds from LPs at the highest rate in 15 years, even though cash liquidity is sitting at a seven - year low.

Qualtrics has raised $ 220 million from Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Insight Venture Partners over two rounds of funding, but the 13 - year - old company was bootstrapped for its first decade, taking institutional money for the first time in 2012.

There are lots of dumb things you could do as a startup entrepreneur — like base your company out of Bakersfield, allow yourself to be acquired by Groupon in an all - stock transition, or pitch your growing U.S. - based startup to the Samwer brothers — but nothing could be more dumb than throwing your hard - earned venture capital money at a public relations firm.

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Uber, which has collected billions of dollars in venture capital and is in talks to raise more money at a $ 50 billion valuation, is now operating in more than 300 cities across six continents.

Smart money venture capital and Wall Street has already moved in to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, and this is just the very beginning.»

The company was founded with an undisclosed amount of seed money and has since raised $ 4.5 million in venture capital.

And now traditional venture investors (e.g., Greylock Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, etc.) have created programs to invest small amounts of money in large numbers of startups.

While in most companies the venture capitalists have to worry about their reputation along with their capital, in the case of Uber there is simply too much money at stake: transforming a $ 68 billion paper return to a real return (and guaranteeing a per partner return in the nine figures) is worth whatever reputational damage is incurred along the way.

The purchase price for investors in this type of investment is set in the future when he would raise his first round of venture capital money.

For Casper, the new money gives it the funds to continue to expand into new products and invest in marketing as it tries to become known for more than just mattresses and break away from a pack of competitors like Leesa and Tuft & Needle, which have raised little to no venture capital but are still growing.

The people who put money into the venture capital fund looked in horror as all of their money was now in a malicious VC fund controlled by a hacker.

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'' [T] he salient feature of a securities transaction is the public solicitation of venture capital to be used in a business enterprise... this subjection of the investor's money to the risks of an enterprise over which he exercise no managerial control is the basic economic reality of a security transaction.»

The roots of venture capital lie in using money and markets to support and spread innovative ideas created through public institutions.

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Coworkly, a side project that's currently dominating the majority of Arar's time, arose from a desire to fill a gap he's seen in Ottawa for many years now — namely, a community of startups that focus on venture capital and raising money rather than returning to the basics of bootstrapping and profitability.

The graph below shows how the amount of venture capital firm money in an average US VC - backed company has increased over the past ten years.

According to the National Venture Capital Association, venture capitalists invested $ 5.9 billion in the first three months of the year, up 14 percent from the period a year earlier, but they invested in 51 fewer companies, indicating they were funneling more money into fewer startVenture Capital Association, venture capitalists invested $ 5.9 billion in the first three months of the year, up 14 percent from the period a year earlier, but they invested in 51 fewer companies, indicating they were funneling more money into fewer startventure capitalists invested $ 5.9 billion in the first three months of the year, up 14 percent from the period a year earlier, but they invested in 51 fewer companies, indicating they were funneling more money into fewer start - ups.

«SeaCo and Good Dot have already raised millions of dollars in venture capital; this is money that will go into competing with conventional animal products and that would not have otherwise been put at the service of meat - reduction efforts.»

In California, the risk capital test considers whether there is attempt by an issuer to (1) raise funds for a business venture or enterprise (2) through an indiscriminate offering to the public at large, (3) where the investor is in a passive position to affect the success of the enterprise, and (4) the investor's money is substantially at risk because it is inadequately secureIn California, the risk capital test considers whether there is attempt by an issuer to (1) raise funds for a business venture or enterprise (2) through an indiscriminate offering to the public at large, (3) where the investor is in a passive position to affect the success of the enterprise, and (4) the investor's money is substantially at risk because it is inadequately securein a passive position to affect the success of the enterprise, and (4) the investor's money is substantially at risk because it is inadequately secured.

Founders Fund, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for its early investment in Facebook, has reportedly put money into a cryptocurrency startup that aims to optimize the bulk trading of cryptocurrencies.

Lowell is also a core member of the Blockchain Technology and Digital Currency industry group where he focuses part of his practice on assisting Blockchain, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency clients raise money by maintaining relationships with key venture capital groups and other potential investors in the industry.

«SeaCo and Good Dot have already raised millions of dollars in venture capital; this is money that will go into competing with conventional animal products and that would not have otherwise been put at the service of meat - reduction efforts.»

Freeman believes the industry could take advantage of the possibility of human interaction and engagement during games, and that venture capital money is laying in wait.

The life of the fund is generally around 10 years, during which time the investors will be called upon to commit an agreed amount of money, which can then be invested by the venture capital team in appropriate investments.

KPMG's report Venture Capital in Europe, shows that the amount of money invested in high technology has declined by 22 per cent over the past two years, from a peak of # 693 million in 1989.

While the amount of venture capital invested in Europe increased from # 2888 million in 1990 to # 3242 million last year, less of the money went into high - technology companies.