Sentences with phrase «of venture funding backed»

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A defined benefit exchange backed by $ 35 million in venture funding, Liazon offers products that cater to small employers who give workers a fixed amount of money each year toward health coverage.

Moreso than either government - funded labs or venture - capital - backed rivals, General Fusion has reached out to create a community of partners.

The total number of high profile investors and venture capital funds continues to increase in 2018 — a trend Space Angels traces back to 2009.

«You can't just sit back and enjoy the moment you have,» says John Ruffolo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm one of Canada's leading pension funds.

A group of incubators, including Portland Incubator Experiment, Portland Seed Fund and Upstart Labs, are being backed by local organizations and outside venture capitalists.

Quantopian, which has members around the world building their own automated trading platforms, was first promised some $ 250 million in funding by the the venture capital arm of Cohen's family office, Point72 Ventures, back in July.

A wide variety of venture funds are backing SoFi, including Third Point Ventures, Renren and Baseline Ventures.

It is a rare startup that has the backing of venture capital fund, so forget about wooing investors and concentrate on wooing customers with your unique selling proposition.

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.

They must have completed at least one round of venture - backed funding.

Today if someone has a viable business idea, many more funding options exist besides taking the route of seeking the backing of angel investors and venture capitalists.

Cendana founder Michael Kim was amongst the earliest and certainly the most focused LP to spot the changes in venture capital leading to seed stage funds and has backed many of the best in the industry so it's always a pleasure to come and share thoughts with all of these great peers.

HeyLets is venture - capital backed, based in San Francisco, and is currently raising its next round of funding.

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.

The Georgian Co-Investment Fund, which took part in the round alongside DRW Venture Capital and iTech Capital, backed BitFury's previous rounds in May and October of 2014 with investor Bill Tai.

One method gaining traction is the SharesPost 100 Fund, a collection of venture - backed companies that's been...

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

Zsolt Capital, a seed - stage venture capital fund launched by the founders of Z Nation Lab, plans to raise up to $ 15 million to back technology firms.

If markets pick back up venture funding will return as it was before the 3 - day, 10 % correction but if the VIX goes up (a measure of expected volatility in the stock market) then expect rounds to take longer.

Spencer has over two decades of experience in Silicon Valley, starting as an investment banker and then becoming a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur, a manager of a venture capital fund of funds, and eventually a CFO / COO of venture - backed enterprise SaaS companies.

EqualLogic is the largest all cash acquisition for a venture backed company, according to VentureSource, and the sale resulted in proceeds of $ 195 million to TD Capital Ventures for a 22x gross investment multiple on the fund's $ 8.9 million investment.

White Paper by Roland Reynolds & Ken Wallace September 2009 INTRODUCTION Two key trends have dramatically altered the venture capital industry over the last three decades: the rise of larger fund sizes and the decline of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) as an exit market for venture - backed companies.

And rarely, if ever, should the goal be the fast kind of «hockey stick» growth that is associated with the tiny slice of startups who receive the majority of coverage by tech - focused digital media covering startups: the extraordinarily rare company that obtains backing from a venture fund.

Head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture fund that helps startups make business work better — backed by Bloomberg L.P. Alignment: Neutral good

Fried laments that such obsession with venture - backed startups is leading those who create startups to convince themselves their goals should be to secure three rounds of funding and then hope for an exit strategy where they sell their product to Facebook or Google.

Tom is also managing partner of ArcTern Ventures, a privately - backed venture capital fund that provides early - stage capital to companies developing breakthrough ideas in the cleantech sector.

As the Founding Partner of Female Founders Fund, Anu believes that the next generation of successful venture - backed entrepreneurs will include talented female founders.

When a venture capital firm invests the funds of its clients in a business or businesses, they expect that the investment would mature in around three to seven years so that they can pay back their clients with interest.

We are a Chicago based venture fund that backs the most promising Midwestern tech companies and teams raising their first round of institutional capital.

In summary, because of the «use the capital once and return it» structure, high up - front losses and tax exempt investors, the best fund structure for an institutionally backed venture fund has traditionally been a limited partnership.

In a women - backed community, Gouw, a FORBES Midas lister, says it's easier to see the opportunities that exist there — and the number of women founders in venture - funded companies is climbing.

If you opened the business section of the morning newspaper during the past year, you likely saw an article that highlighted the latest funding round of another venture capital backed start - up.

Venture - backed Internet deals accounted for almost half of all deals and funding in the quarter, with computer hardware and services and mobile following suit.

The latest signal: One of the most ambitious efforts, the $ 50 million in - house venture fund of Consensys, the Brooklyn blockchain provider, is scaling back the social impact - focus of the fund.

Backed by more than $ 250 million in venture capital funding, Bird, LimeBike, and Spin have dumped hundreds of scooters for adults on the city in recent weeks, much to the chagrin of regulators.

While we typically invest 65 - 75 % of our funds of funds portfolios in early stage venture capital, we inevitably have exposure to the public markets through venture - backed companies that have gone public and late stage companies which are marked to public comparables by our underlying fund managers.

So you run to pay back those investments into Exim Bank or the Venture Capital Fund and then you become the eventual owners of those factories after five to seven years,» he said.

Surprised the cover photo wasn't an Annie Liebowitz - styled image of a 24 - year old guy in a $ 2,500 suit crawling down a fire escape at 4 am while looking at Tinder, on his way to conquer one more target before dragging himself back to his $ 6,000 a month apartment he shares with a bunch of neckbeards learning how to code while working at Venture - funded almost - hot StartupX.

Yumixo team is backed by ABRT Venture Fund, which was established by Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov, the founders of Aelita Software.

Heading the effort for Duncan was Joanne Weiss, previously the chief operating officer of the Gates - backed NewSchools Venture Fund.

Jennifer Carolan, co-founding partner of Reach Capital, a $ 53 million venture fund that backs education technology startups, writes in Education Week about such differentiation, trying to liken it to personalized learning.

Back in May 2010, hundreds of the nation's education foundation, policy, and practice elites were gathered for the NewSchools Venture Fund meeting in Washington to celebrate and learn from the most recent education...

Now, the company — backed by a group including Peter Thiel of PayPal — has raised two investment rounds and a total of $ 4 million in venture funding.

In most business situation, the person who needs the funds is going to pay more back to the supplying party, than the simple ratio of the amount they contributed to the venture.

I'm definitely more conservative than him & definitely trade less, and having set my preferred allocation a while back very rarely venture too far beyond a core bunch of ETFs for retirement and a lazy fund portfolio for non-registered.

He classifies asset classes into core (domestic equities, treasury bonds, inflation - linked bonds, foreign developed equity, emerging markets equity, real estate domestic, foreign and emerging markets, bonds, TIPS and REITs) and non-core (domestic corporate bonds, high - yield bonds, tax - exempt bonds, asset - backed securities, foreign bonds, hedge funds, leveraged buyouts, and venture capital), explains the reasons why investors should favour the former and stay clear of the latter.

Back in the day, if someone needed funds for a new venture or a large purchase, they would look for a few investors who could give them large amounts of money for their project.

-- Ecclesiastes 11:1 - 2 Investors have always discussed and debated the merits of diversification — apparently even as far back as the days of King Solomon (although his definition of diversification — 7 or 8 «ventures» — might not sit well with modern day portfolio theory and mutual fund managers who often hold 30, 50, or 100 -LSB-...]

Teatime Games, the Icelandic social games company, has announced a $ 7.5 million Series A funding round and a prior $ 1.6 million Seed round, both led by Index Ventures, a venture capital firm that has backed some of the world's most successful games companies including King, Roblox and Supercell.