Sentences with phrase «other venture firms»

X: As you pursue these areas, what do you feel is different from other venture firms about what Aspect brings to the table?

It was especially refreshing to be able to steer away from the clichés and get into some very practical tips about what he and his team look for in considering a deal and how that differs from many other venture firms, which are constrained by the requirements of their limited partnership agreements and other considerations like IRR (as opposed to ultimate return on capital) as well.

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.

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, too.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, Dropbox has raised $ 600 million from venture capital firms BlackRock, Sequoia Capital, and others.

Launched in 2013, Cohesity has already raised $ 70 million in just two rounds, with a $ 350 million valuation, backed by A-list venture - capital firms Sequoia, Qualcomm Ventures, and others, according to PitchBook.

Check out this 2014 snapshot of the top 100 U.S. venture capital firms, corporate VCs, and other market players funding early - stage deals.

Hamilton and her staff — she now has a full team that includes Kimberlin as a venture partner — don't expect to see any returns on their investments within the next five years, so in the meantime, it's important that they, like many other top VC firms, help these founders get to the next stage.

«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.

Mittal's FundersClub, founded in 2012, isn't to be confused with AngelList or other equity crowdfunding platforms, instead functioning as an online venture capital firm where high - quality deals are sourced for over 17,000 accredited investors.

That should give a clearer picture of how Google's core Internet business is performing, separate from other ventures, said analyst Colin Gillis of the investment firm BGC Partners.

Slack's $ 2.8 billion valuation, attained when it raised $ 160 million from Social Capital and other top - shelf venture capital firms last May, puts it on the list of Silicon Valley unicorns.

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

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.

Venture investor Chris Sacca mentioned this on Sunday during the outage at the Tribune, saying the site should just host its content on Medium, the way some other online publications do (Sacca's firm is an investor in Medium).

Ideally, benefits of this special 8 (a) program to the protà © gà © firm — which can have only one mentor at a time — will include technical and management assistance; options to enter into joint - venture business agreements with mentor firms to compete for government contracts; financial assistance in the form of equity or loans; and qualification for other SBA assistance programs.

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.

Entrepreneurs who succeeded by investing in a good industry and year (e.g., computers in 1983) are far more likely to succeed in their subsequent ventures than those who succeeded by doing better than other firms founded in the same industry and year (e.g., succeeding in computers in 1985).

Slack has in the past raised money from venture firms GGV Capital, Spark Capital and Thrive Capital, among others.

WHO: Joan P. Neuscheler, principal at Tullis - Dickerson & Co., a venture - capital firm in Greenwich, Conn., and board member of AmericasDoctor, which (among other things) offers a health - information Web site for consumers RATING: 4 «I think they have strong management and a good board of directors — and that's usually the first place I look for flaws.

Instead, she provides others the opportunity to invest in a variety of companies through her firm, Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners.

The Series C funding round was led by venture capital firm Octopus Ventures, with participation from Passion Capital, Industry Ventures, and several others.

Ask the entrepreneurs at portfolio companies what their venture firms have done for them and others at your stage.

His web - based comic book venture of the era, the eponymous Stan Lee Media, quickly burned through its capital like so many other firms inflated by the tech bubble.

One of the venture capital firms behind Leap Motion, a company that has developed a 3 - D gesture - control technology, is offering entrepreneurs $ 25 million to create apps and other technology for the platform.

«This means that strong teams and strong concepts can be brought to market and receive exposure to a number of venture capital firms and other investors seeking to invest in their business,» Miller adds.

If you start too early and are turned down by venture capital firms, it sends a strong and negative message to other VCs.

Other investors included venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Lessons from investing in China «can be applied to other regions in really intelligent ways,» added Dana Settle, co-founder and partner at venture capital firm Greycroft.

In 1981, Digital Research had revenues of $ 6 million; for 1982, it forecasts revenues of $ 20 million.The company, which now employs 75 people, has acquired two other software firms and was one of the first in the industry to accept venture capital.

Corti has some prominent backers in the AI community, amongst others Danny Lange, an investor in Nordic venture capital firm ByFounders.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

In other words, venture firms tended not to pick multiple winners when it came to startups worth more than $ 50 billion.

In March 2014, Saverin and seven other investors, including American venture capital firm, Bessemer Venture Partners, reportedly invested about $ 6.65 million in Singapore - based cloud computing start - up company, Nventure capital firm, Bessemer Venture Partners, reportedly invested about $ 6.65 million in Singapore - based cloud computing start - up company, NVenture Partners, reportedly invested about $ 6.65 million in Singapore - based cloud computing start - up company, Nitrous.

There are other issues to settle, including the explosive lawsuit filed by Benchmark Capital — which owns more than 10 percent of the company and has a board seat held by Matt Cohler — against Kalanick, whom the venture firm helped oust and has been trying to restrain.

Firms such as Grofers and Peppertap, among others, have raised venture capital funding as investors have lapped on to the business opportunity.

«This will greatly benefit start - ups looking for raising venture funding not just for the money but for the other value addition that raising money from a venture capital firm brings such as direction and mentorship from seasoned investors and being able to package the start - up as an entity that has raised funding from a prestigious venture capital fund to boost investor confidence,» said Dhruva.

The proposed IPO will also provide exit to the venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), which with few other investors, will be selling 1.66 million venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), which with few other investors, will be selling 1.66 million Venture Partners (BVP), which with few other investors, will be selling 1.66 million shares.

Kate Mitchell, managing director at the venture capital firm Scale Venture Partners and a co-chairwoman of a National Venture Capital Association task force on diversity, said her group was working with Project Include because of its tech - centric, start - up approach to sharing data and information with other particventure capital firm Scale Venture Partners and a co-chairwoman of a National Venture Capital Association task force on diversity, said her group was working with Project Include because of its tech - centric, start - up approach to sharing data and information with other particVenture Partners and a co-chairwoman of a National Venture Capital Association task force on diversity, said her group was working with Project Include because of its tech - centric, start - up approach to sharing data and information with other particVenture Capital Association task force on diversity, said her group was working with Project Include because of its tech - centric, start - up approach to sharing data and information with other participants.

For example, are some venture firms more likely to fund female entrepreneurs than others?

Investors include heavyweights like Disney — which recently led a $ 65 million round in Jaunt VR — as well as Legendary, 20th Century Fox, and venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Highland Capital Partners, and others.

It appears that after Sequoia's original offer, Binance received higher valuations from other interested venture capital firms, including IDG Capital (though IDG stated that it has not invested in the exchange).

Other investors include venture firm Altimeter Capital, Tencent Holdings Ltd., and Foxconn Technology Group, according to the Essential website.

Benchmark Capital will end up selling about $ 900 million of its Uber stock to SoftBank and other buyers, or about 14.5 percent of the venture capital firm's holdings in the company, according to people familiar with the transaction.

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

The Wall Street Journal chronicled how, despite Kalanick's control of voting shares and board seats, the venture capital firm Benchmark persuaded four other large Uber investors to sign an ultimatum asking the CEO to resign.

Traditional information technology focused venture capital firms have also been active, though some much more than others.

While Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have tremendous potential value as a medium of exchange, it is the underlying distributed ledger technology, blockchain, which has emerged to truly capture the interest of entrepreneurs, venture capital firms, financial institutions and other corporations.

With the deal, Birchbox's other investors — which include top venture capital firms including Accel Partners and First Round Capital — are getting wiped out, and are expected to walk away with nothing.

These successful entrepreneurs - turned - venture - capitalists often prefer to establish their own firms in partnership with other like minded partners and decline to join established firms where they would have to adapt to a culture and a partnership which they played no role in creating.