Sentences with phrase «of venture round»

My advice to management teams: think of every venture round as the last capital you'll ever raise.

-- 12 percent of venture rounds and 10 percent of venture dollars globally between 2010 and 2015 went to startups with at least one woman founder.

Not exact matches

In August, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and a handful of venture capital firms led a $ 17 million Series A round of fundraising for Memphis Meat.

Culture Trip, an online travel magazine, raised $ 88 million in a series B round of funding led by the venture arm of PPF Group, a Netherlands - based conglomerate.

Investors in Bugcrowd's latest round of funding have privately valued the company at $ 115 million, including the new funds raised, according to data provided by Pitchbook, a site that tracks venture capital deals.

The new round of fundraising, led by venture capital firm Traingle Peak Partners, is worth $ 26 million.

Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Oren Zeev of Zeev Ventures.

The fundraising effort also included notable contributions from Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners, both of which invested in previous rounds with World View.

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

In March of 2017, Ripcord announced that it had raised a Series A round of $ 9.5 million, led by legendary venture firm Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Wozniak himself.

But the school Wednesday got a hint of validation to the tune of $ 5.5 million in investment in a round led by Cambridge - based venture - capital firm Charles River Ventures and New York City - based Matrix Partners.

They're already convincing investors — New Millennium just received close to $ 1 million in a round of financing led by Toronto - based venture capital fund Hedgewood Inc. — and a burgeoning array of early adopters, including pioneering chefs, adventurous retailers and corporate partners that could soon include Google.

She took her concept to venture capitalists and secured a total of $ 10.4 million in two funding rounds — the first, in 2013, led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures; the second, last year, led by Thrive Capital and including Bonobos founder Andy Dunn.

We recently closed a $ 5.3 million Series A round, which included the participation of insurance companies» venture arms, including AXA Strategic Ventures and Transamerica Ventures.

At venture capital firm First Round Capital's recent CEO Summit, Scott talked about how to make sure you're providing the right type of guidance to your team and being a good boss.

Doug Mackenzie, a fan of Edmark's products and a partner at the prestigious venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, obliged by leading a round of equity investment that put $ 5.5 million into Edmark's coffers, paying the market price of $ 10 a share.

«The control that venture capitalists want to have in an early - stage round is more of what you'd expect from a private equity or growth round,» May says.

It's been enough to attract the attention of famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which today led a $ 10 million Series A round of investment in Gigster.

In August, Casper raised $ 13.1 million in a Series A round of funding from Kevin Colleran, Slow Ventures, Vaizra Investments, Crosslink Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Cendana Capital, Silas Capital, Consigliere Brand Capital, SV Angel, A-Grade Investments, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates.

For example, Palo Alto, California - based Cape Analytics, which raised $ 14 million in its first round of venture funding in November, applies computer vision and machine learning to automate property underwriting for insurance companies.

At Denver - based Inspirato, a critical part of its latest $ 20 million funding round, led by tech - savvy firms W Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners, was its plan to open five «experience centers» in upscale U.S. malls.

This year saw First Round, a top performing early stage venture partnership, releasing the results of ten years of investing in 600 early stage founders.

One of the scariest days of a founder's life is the day after they raise their first venture round.

We went through a seed / angel round, five venture capital rounds and three bank loans, and in doing so have gone through hundreds of pitches to prospective investors.

Zenefits also zoomed to the top of this year's list of unicorns for 2015, thanks to a staggering $ 500 million Series C venture capital round, which increased its value from $ 500 million in 2014 to $ 4.5 billion today.

That seed round also included Steve Case's Rise of the Rest fund, perhaps the best - known venture capital firm focused on startups outside of Silicon Valley.

The most recent round of funding for fuboTV included Sky UK, a telecommunications company with 11 million United Kingdom customers as of 2015; Scripps Networks Interactive, the parent company of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel; 21st Century Fox, whose stable of entertainment properties includes the Big Ten Network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Regional Networks, and the YES Network; and Northzone Ventures, a London - based venture capital firm that mainly invests in early stage software and technology companies.

Contently raised $ 9 million this week in its second round of venture capital funding.

Female Founders Fund estimates that even before the very recent venture capital slowdown, an entrepreneur's chances of raising an A round to follow a seed funding were only about 30 percent.

Run through the venture capital firm First Round Capital, the Dorm Room Fund has teams of college entrepreneurs in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Boston that scout for other promising student - founded startups.

In November 2012, the company raised a $ 1 million seed round of funding from Expansion Venture Capital, based in New York City.

Additionally, JetBlue Technology Ventures is investing alongside GGV and other venture firms in a $ 36 million series C round of funding for Gladly, bringing the company's total capital raised to $ 63 million.

He recently wrapped up a new round of funding with more than $ 10 million from Star Avenue Capital, a joint venture between CAA and Irving Place Capital.

Ka - shing invested in Hampton Creek, along with other investors, for the company's latest round of venture funding, which totaled $ 23 million.

Verold had won a number of competitions for startups, including the Toronto edition of the prestigious TIEQuest global business venture competition, and the $ 2 million Yaghi sought to close Verold's first round of funding was falling into place.

One recent example: Stemcentrx, which rode an unproven approach targeting cancer stem cells to a summertime financing round of nearly $ 250 million and a $ 5 billion valuation, the most for a venture - backed drug maker and second to Theranos in health care.

In April, VideoSurf raised $ 16 million in a round of funding led by Israel's Pitango Venture Capital.

The startup went on to raise a total of $ 13.6 million from venture capital firms in two rounds of funding to support it growth.

Similarly, Box, which is led by Aaron Levie, Inc. magazine's 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year — is about to close a new round of venture capital funding.

Meal - kit startup Sun Basket has closed on another fundraising round, this time led by the venture capital and private equity arm of consumer products giant Unilever.

The capital was raised through a Series B round, the second stage of financing for a company, and was led by European venture capital firm Draper Esprit.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

The issue is that venture capitalists may balk at investing in companies that have hundreds of small and unsophisticated backers amassed from the «crowd round,» so you may want to consider this consequence before deciding to post on an equity portal.

On Tuesday, the food delivery startup hoping to reinvent frozen's reputation in the era of clean eating announced that it had raised some $ 43 million in a second round of funding, led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaunventure capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and ShaunVenture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaun White.

Flay joins other A-listers who have already put their dollars behind Daily Harvest: Oscar winning - actress Gwyneth Paltrow and 23 time Grand Slam champion star Serena Williams participated in the firm's Series A round of financing alongside WME Venture, Collaborative Fund, 14W, and Rubicon Venture Global announced June.

It also raised bucketloads of cash — in April 2014 it pulled together a $ 225 million round of venture capital, bringing its total to $ 470 million and putting its «pre-money valuation» at $ 3 billion.

«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.

The seed round of a few million dollars — in which venture fund Polaris also participated — will go toward getting the technology prepped for human trials, which 30 - year - old CEO Carl Schoellhammer anticipates will happen within the next 12 months.

Long gone are the days when a company like Apple Computer Inc. could get venture capital only after showing a profit (and, even then, received a first round of a mere $ 250,000).

Online building supply marketplace BuildDirect has pulled off the venture capital equivalent of Irish twins, staging two large funding rounds in the same calendar year.