Sentences with phrase «other early backers»

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Other investors in the current round include Archina Capital, Adidas, General Electric and JSR Corp. along with Carbon's earlier backers, Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake Kraftwerk and Reinet Investments.

«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

By getting some early momentum it shows other potential backers that they should also back the project.

He was one of the earliest backers of the president's political ambitions, and during the 2016 campaign served as a prominent adviser and spokesman, despite disagreements with others on the campaign.

Early backer Benchmark Capital has sued former CEO Kalanick and fought with other investors, some of whom have offered to buy Benchmark out.

Other investors in the deal include GV, Polaris Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Spectrum 28, Asset Management Ventures, Charles River Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Allen and Company and earlier backers Data Collective and Founders Fund.

There are plenty of teachers who are big backers of AQE, which, of course, is the foundation of Nixon's early support, though she has been branching out with other progressive groups of late.

Shanker believed having separate schools by race and class was inherently undemocratic, and he and some other early charter school backers saw charters as a way of breaking down segregation.

Duncan and other pre-K backers often point to research that investing in early learning programs saves money in the long run as children are kept out of costly special education programs and are less likely to be incarcerated or become teen parents.

«Just the other day I got my books mailed out to my early backers, and I've already received compliments from a few of my customers who the postal service was extra fast with.

Backers of the project received an advance copy of the album earlier this week, among other goodies depending on how much they contributed.

On the other hand, backers of the Kickstarter and early adopters of Descent: Underground will certainly have the advantage.

But the unsolicited return of funds has led a number of other backers to wonder if they're also eligible for refunds: A poll posted on the RSI forums earlier today indicates that roughly 30 percent of the more than 800 respondents believe a refund option should be available to all backers.

We spoke to the early backer of Oscar Murillo and other market darlings about his collecting philosophy, the truth about SellYouLater, and his sci - fi theory of art.

In an ICO campaign, a percentage of the cryptocurrency is sold to early backers of the project in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies, but usually for Bitcoin.

To date the pre-sale has attracted a diverse audience, bringing in experienced crypto investors and a variety of others who have decided to become early backers of the project.

Both devices were originally set to drop in November exclusively to Kickstarter backers and then other retailers in early 2017.

In a typical ICO campaign, a predetermined percentage of the new cryptocurrency is distributed among early backers in exchange for fiat or other (more established) cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum.