Sentences with phrase «of venture financing»

The study is not about to spur a round of venture financing for the next start - up to launch a new generation of brain - training games.

Despite the fact that 1 in 5 tech entrepreneurs are female, only 2 % of venture financing last year went to women - led startups.

Former National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander's startup, IronNet Cybersecurity Inc., has raised a sizable round of venture financing as it seeks to leverage its founder's government experience to defend customers against sophisticated hackers.

Facing overwhelming demand from institutional investors, Uber has expanded its Series E round of venture financing by $ 1 billion, according to documents filed Wednesday with the Delaware secretary of state, bringing the total capacity for the round up to $ 2.8 billion.

At the time of an IPO and subsequent underwritten public offerings, underwriters will have the ability to dictate whether investors are allowed to sell, which makes the registration rights negotiated at the time of the venture financing a mere starting point for discussions with the company and the underwriters.

Susan Schreter is a veteran of the venture finance community, expert on startup sustainability and founder of Start on Purpose, a service organization that empowers business owners anywhere in America to find and manage business funding with confidence.

In 20 years of venture finance involvement I have yet to hear a top venture fund professional say «We like this company because the CEO went to a...

The San Francisco Bay Area VC benchmark analyzed the valuations and terms of venture financings for 101 technology and life science companies based in the area.

«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.

But after raising close to $ 1 billion in capital over 10 rounds of venture financing, I've come to realize that raising money at a high valuation is usually NOT the right decision.

To that end, Lyft is in talks to raise another huge round of venture financing, according to two people familiar with the negotiations, potentially adding hundreds of millions of dollars to the $ 330 million it has already raised.

RED HERRING — Apr 19 — Privately held Facebook received $ 25 million in its second round of venture financing to help expand features for sharing information.

Represented a clean energy software company in several rounds of venture financing and in an unsecured commercial loan transaction.