Sentences with phrase «private companies based»

Since 1988, they have ranked the area's private companies based on dollar and percentage revenue increases over the past three fiscal years.

Hyland's, a 114 - year - old private company based in Los Angeles, is the nation's largest homeopathic business.

The 60 - year - old administrator beat out five other candidates for the job of running the 38,000 - student district, including Public Strategies Group Inc., a private company based in St. Paul, Minn..

Of the remaining 13 bids, 12 are state - backed and active wind developers and only one is a private company based in Hong Kong.

Size was a major factor that differentiated relatively compact Camille from sprawling Katrina, said Mark Powell, a scientist formerly with NOAA's Hurricane Research Division who now runs Hwind Scientific, a private company based in Tallahassee, Fla., that provides real - time hurricane analysis.

Not exact matches

«In determining fair values for our private investments, we continued to follow our long - established process of considering a variety of company - specific and market - based factors,» the statement said.

Maddock and Weir bootstrapped the company until last year, when it raised $ 15 million from Philippines - based private equity firm Navegar.

The third annual tally — which is based on private - companies» three - year revenue growth — finds that five of the top 10 companies hail from Stockholm.

For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf, partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman of cloud - based human resources company Workday, will discuss what the plethora of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, known as unicorns, are doing to markets and marketplaces.

Based in tiny Burlington, Vt. — population 45,000 — Burton was a private company whose fortunes were tied to a fringe sport some still thought of as a passing fad.

• Carbon Lighthouse, a San Francisco - based clean energy company specializing in serving commercial real estate investors, hospitality, and the private education markets, raised $ 27 million in funding.

The Chicago - based business, which ranks No. 18 on Inc.'s list of the fastest - growing private companies in America, offers deals on items such as chrome - over-bass snare drums and troubadour tube amps.

Nedlands - based Advanced Share Registry has purchased 51 per cent of Perth start - up Private Company Platform, which is targeting unlisted companies with multiple shareholders, including those pursuing crowd - sourced funding.

• ICP Construction, a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity, acquired Pli - Dek Systems, a Murrieta, Calif. - based maker of speciality coatings for the building industry.

• NBK Capital Partners, the Dubai - based private equity and real estate investment arm of Watani Investment Company, raised $ 75 million for its real estate fund.

He's the new chief technology officer of London Trust Media, a Denver - based company that boasts the world's largest paid virtual private network (VPN) service.

• Dubin Clark & Company, a Boston - based private equity firm, raised $ 74.85 million for its newest fund, DCCP Fund II, LP.

The announcement comes amid unconfirmed reports that the Waterloo, Ont. - based company (TSX: BB) may go private — a move that could result in one or more investors buying out other shareholders and delisting the stock.

Based on the results, the company put together the infographic below, which looks at three critical areas of cloud security: Virtual Private Networks (VPN, which allows a computer or a Wi - Fi - enabled device to send and receive data securely across a shared or public network), bring your own device (BYOD) policies and a Domain Name System (DNS, the system that Internet domain names and addresses are tracked and regulated by).

Another way defence companies are diversifying their customer bases is by selling more to the private sector.

The company, based in Brampton, Ont., claims to be the Western Hemisphere's largest producer of private - label packaged pulses, lentils, beans and peas.

That said, even if the Waterloo - based company wanted to go private, it might not be easy.

Employment in private small business (companies with one to 49 employees) payrolls rose by 19,000 in November on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the ADP Small Business Report released Wednesday.

The company is negotiating with its lender, London - based private equity firm Lion Capital, to get some breathing room.

Local company Prairie Mining has raised $ 15 million from UK - based CD Capital for the development of its Lublin coal project, with the potential for the private equity fund to invest a further $ 68 million.

According to PrivCo, a New York - based private company research firm, the top eight mattress companies in the world — all of which have brick - and - mortar stores — dominate at least 38 percent of the industry's retail market share.

Civmec has expanded its portfolio with the completion of its $ 20.7 million acquisition of NSW - based private engineering and shipbuilding company Forgacs Engineering.

Bisnow, a trade publication and events company based in New York City, has been acquired by Wicks Group, a private equity firm.

Other rivals — and trading partners — of Circle's desk include Cumberland Mining, a subsidiary of the high - speed trading firm DRW in Chicago; Genesis Trading, a New York — based spinout of SecondMarket, the private - company stock exchange; and Octagon Strategy, in Hong Kong.

Perth - based private mining contractor Barminco has posted a 30.7 per cent rise in operating profit for the 2016 financial year, with the company optimistic about prospects in the gold sector for the year ahead.

Biotech Moderna, a company focused on creating treatments based on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, has raised a monster $ 500 million from private investors in a Series G funding round, valuing the firm at a whopping $ 7 billion.

Steve Canton, president and CEO of iCore, which is based in McLean, Virginia, hosted Voice over Private Internet (VoPI) provider, chooses to roll out the majority of his company's new products in trade show booths.

Private companies are viewed more favourably than state - owned firms, and the CEOs were lukewarm about the idea of using ownership policy to promote democracy, such as limiting the ability of companies based in undemocratic countries to buy Canadian assets.

The stability and certainty of the company's activities are attractive to a lender; the strong customer base combined with the potential to grow make the company attractive to the private equity fund.

EquityZen, a four - year - old New York - based company, provides a platform on which private company investors can sell their shares to accredited investors.

In 2012, Spectra7 Microsystems (TSXV: SEV), an analog semiconductor company based in California, received $ 11 million in funding from three Canadian venture capital and private equity firms, Celtic House Venture Partners, Ventures West Capital Ltd. and EdgeStone Capital Partners.

Although private companies needn't release financial details ever, let alone on a regular basis, a return to profitable growth suggests that performance has been up and down.

Private equity fund Waterwood led the round although every existing backer, including Sequoia, Pitango, Lazarus, Silicon Valley Bank and Globespan Capital Partners also participated, said Dani Golan, founder and CEO of the Needham, Mass. - based company.

Private equity firm Berkshire Partners LLC said on Wednesday it would acquire a significant minority stake in Kendra Scott Design Inc, in a deal that sources said values the Austin, Texas - based jewelry company at more than $ 1 billion.

The New Orleans - based pop - up event and private catering company is reaching out to its members for it's latest funding round.

According to Dale Peck, a partner at Beers & Cutler PLLC, an accounting firm based in Washington, D.C., there are all kinds of ways that private companies can — and often should — fine - tune their option plans.

Until Monday, the beleaguered Waterloo, Canada - based tech company had been trying to close a $ 4.7 billion deal with Fairfax Financial Holdings to go private.

In the search for new ideas, private companies are creating ever more college - based business pitch contests and in - house startup incubators.

The private, Kirkland, Wash. - based company last week announced a new video game console, operating system and game controller that, other than a pure commercial play, could be interpreted as the PC - focused company's effort to arrest ongoing declines in PC gaming generally.

The aim is to launch a Luxembourg - based fund in June that will invest in 25 - 30 emerging and frontier market companies, initially targeting high - net - worth individuals via private banks and family offices.

The San Francisco - based private company's list of investors include SpaceX backer Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.

A share sale by San Francisco - based Dropbox, one of a closely watched group of high - profile private tech companies with multibillion - dollar valuations, would follow Snap Inc.'s disappointing step into the public markets.

Private equity firm TPG [TPG.UL] invested $ 750 million in the New Berlin, New York - based company last year to save it from the cash crunch arising as a result of the problems at Idaho.

After the company was bought for $ 550 million in 2015 by China - based Genting Hong Kong, it embarked on a dizzying expansion plan that included a private 88 - passenger jet called the Crystal Skye, river ships and more.

Responding to a question on whether Trump, who comes from the private sector, felt comfortable with his proposal that the government should punish or reward companies based on where they choose to locate their factories, rather than let the free market pick winners and losers, the president responded: