Sentences with phrase «other venture capital firms»

Moreover, because the VC firms congregated along Sand Hill Road near other venture capital firms, it was easier and cheaper for promising entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas to investors and for investors to co-invest if they were in the area.

DST Global, a company that was an early investor in Facebook and Spotify, led the funding round, which included other venture capital firms Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital.

For example, shortly after I joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers from my post as the President of Rhode Island School of Design, six other venture capital firms brought in designers into their partnerships.

Social Capital kicked off a trial of Carroll's model last year with a referral program of sorts — the fund asked other venture capital firms to direct promising early - stage companies to apply through the system.

Y Combinator isn't like other venture capital firms.

Plastic Logic is known as a low cost computer chip maker and has about 200 million dollars kick - in by Intel and a few other venture capital firms.

You likely want to lend the startup as much money as possible during their Series A, B, C, D funding etc., because chances are high Sequoia, Accel, DFJ and other venture capital firms will throw money at the startup in future rounds, thereby ensuring you'll get paid back.

We specialize in leading Seed and Series A rounds collaborating with angel investors, other venture capital firms and strategic partners.

Just as with any other venture capital firm, the way this one works is people invest in the company through the purchasing of tokens (as compared to buying shares or holding fiat with the fund, as might be the case in a more traditional VC entity) and the return comes on the back of the funds successful allocation towards startup blockchain companies.