Sentences with phrase «prominent venture capital firm»
Y Combinator ends with a final demo day, during which the companies in the program publicly launch and pitch to some of the most prominent venture capital firms in the Silicon Valley.
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A number of prominent venture capital firms also began investing during this period, including KleinerPerkins Caulfield & Byers, Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Google Ventures.
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.
Another micro-school network in the Bay Area turned heads this past March, and placed the micro-school trend firmly on the map, when it raised a whopping $ 33 million in venture capital financing from prominent venture capital firms Andreesen Horowitz and Founders Fund.
The company, based in Santa Monica, Calif., has raised more than US $ 20 million, with backers including the firm of Andreessen Horowitz, Mark Cuban, Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, and a number of prominent venture capital firms.
To help make that happen, BuzzFeed just closed a new $ 50 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz, a prominent venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.
«Activists have become toxic to the tech community,» says Peter Levine, a partner at the prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
June 9, 2016 • Long before the boom of the California tech scene, Perkins in 1972 co-founded a prominent venture capital firm in 1972, and used a new approach to investment.
The existence of Tuft & Needle and Casper, the latter backed by a prominent venture capital firm, could indicate that mattresses might soon be the next industry whose margins will be cut in half by startups — even if only because people are growing more accustomed to buying mattresses online.
In addition to Cuban and Ohanian, managing directors of prominent venture capital firms the Foundry Group and Union Square Ventures also signed the letter.