Sentences with phrase «of venture money»

With the race to next - generation silicon in full swing, the waterfall of venture money flowing into custom silicon startups is already showing an enormous amount of potential for...

With the race to next - generation silicon in full swing, the waterfall of venture money flowing into custom silicon startups is already showing an enormous amount of potential for some more flexible hardware for an increasingly changing technology landscape — and Naveed Sherwani hopes to tap that for everyone else.

While there is a lot of venture money flowing into the AI chip space — with many different interpretations of what that hardware looks like — Sherwani said the benefit of working with SiFive is to be able to rapidly adapt an idea to a changing algorithm.

The mutual fund retreat hasn't stopped new sources of venture money from emerging.

Most of the venture money that funds high - growth startups flows from well - connected, well - educated white males to their slightly younger, slightly more naive white male dopplegangers.

For all we hear about 20 - year - olds dropping out of Stanford to raise trunk loads of venture money, most entrepreneurs need industry knowledge and connections to start a company.

Not exact matches

And when you prove your execution works, you have a better chance of raising money through venture capitalists.

When they get venture money, these women - led companies generate revenues that are 12 percent higher than those of comparable male - run tech companies.

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.

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 it.

Whether it's taking a love of baking and starting a cupcake empire, or moving from a 9 - to - 5 job in IT to designing custom websites on your own schedule, there is are plenty of reasons to turn your personal talent into a money - making venture.

People have a tendency to «throw good money after bad» — meaning we feel attached to bad investments because of the money we've already spent on them, and therefore we're reluctant to write off our losses and move on to better ventures.

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

Integrate announces its fourth round of venture funding, but founder and CEO says, «This one's not about the money.»

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.

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Robert Bigelow continue to pour hefty amounts of money into their space ventures — and have begun to see results.

Freed from the fetters of other people's money, their main challenge is to ensure the concept resonates with consumers the way their past ventures did.

«My best piece of advice for the quickest way to get rich is to not spend any of your money, and then you'll have more than you need,» billionaire venture capitalist Chris Sacca told Entrepreneur earlier this year.

A new venture from the founder of Kobo aims to save employers money by giving employees more targeted health care benefits

After the dot - com crash in 2000, Venture Frogs lost all of its investments, except Zappos, and couldn't get Sequoia to pump money into it.

A talented IBM junior executive once lost $ 10 million of company money in a risky venture, then slunk into company founder Tom Watson Sr.'s office expecting to be fired.

Andreessen agreed to invest $ 50 million of his venture firm's money in the deal on the bold assumption that he and Durban ultimately would win the founders» trust.

By allowing angels and VCs to invest small amounts of money in many companies at a very early stage, accelerators give investors the right, but not the obligation, to make additional investments in the most promising ventures.

[This item has been updated to include the correct amount of money raised by Venture Investment Associates]

In the new issue of Inc., I talked to the billionaire venture capitalist about why he's been putting so much of his time and money into biotech startups, particularly those focused on health and human biology.

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 funds).

The report accuses Low of using PetroSaudi International, an oil company from the Middle East that signed a joint venture deal with 1MDB, as a front to siphon the money.

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.

He says venture capitalists gauge an entrepreneur's passion level by their commitment of time, effort, and money to their idea.

Despite this, a tiny fraction of this money flows to women - owned ventures.

In fact, the «synbio» industry is exploding with startups, venture money and ideas, according to Nancy Kelley, president and CEO of Nancy J Kelley + Associates, a New York City - based consulting firm.

But anybody beginning or extending a venture that will consume significant resources of money, energy or time, and that is expected to return a profit, should take the time to draft some kind of plan.

Money follows money, so when hundreds of millions of dollars find their way into Snapchat's coffers, other venture firms take note and decide they want to throw millions of dollars at things,Money follows money, so when hundreds of millions of dollars find their way into Snapchat's coffers, other venture firms take note and decide they want to throw millions of dollars at things,money, so when hundreds of millions of dollars find their way into Snapchat's coffers, other venture firms take note and decide they want to throw millions of dollars at things, too.

A friend of mine recently missed out on raising venture money because of a mistake he made in the early days of forming his business.

«The bitcoin world is this new ecosystem where it doesn't cost that much to start a new bitcoin company, it doesn't cost much to start owning bitcoin either, and it is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world,» says Tim Draper, venture capitalist.

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 Associates.

Now he's harnessing his frustration with Wall Street fees in a new venture called FeeX, which calls itself «the Robin Hood of fees» because it strives to put money back into the hands of investors and consumers.

«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.»

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 - A venture capital firm aiming to bring more U.S. startups to Russia has raised a $ 200 million fund, hoping to use the fresh pool of money to help Silicon Valley companies deliver their services to Russia's biggest corporations and its millions of internet - connected consumers.

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.

By crowdfunding, CEO and founder Brian Bordainick may give his lawyers a bit of anxiety, but he is also protecting his company's vision from the profit - obsessed grip of venture capital money.

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.

Budman's move is the antithesis of the world of startup hubris, where you begin with trying to get users and burning through venture money.

Meanwhile, many of the larger companies are flush with venture capital money, which allows them to endlessly experiment.

After all, if you are going down the road of raising money from venture capitalists, the basic contract is that you are going to build something great, and that your product has a chance of being a massive multi-billion-dollar company.

4 leading venture capitalists offer their takes on the ups and downs of VC investment, what captures their attention and the best ways to seek out VC money.

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.

The protectionist policies of President Donald Trump will be bad for technology companies, Roger McNamee, co-founder of venture capital firm Elevation Partners, told CNBC's «Fast Money» on Wednesday.