Sentences with phrase «promised early investors»

The company had promised early investors that they would earn interest on lending bitcoins.

Not exact matches

By allowing angels and VCs to invest small amounts of money in many companies at a very early stage, accelerators give investors the right, but not the obligation, to make additional investments in the most promising ventures.

The investors want to eliminate the «valley of death» between the early promise of a new energy concept and commercializing it into a viable technology, which «neither government funding nor conventional private investment can bridge,» the group said in a statement.

Because the two exchanges accommodate companies from their early stages to their maturity, astute investors in Canada and elsewhere can identify promising young firms and then participate in their subsequent growth.

«Investors are betting on early companies in the space and clearly see promise.»

Knight Frank says that while these companies» plans may still be rough, some private investors are happy to take the long view and back interesting ventures in the early stages if they promise a nice return.

In October 2014, Rometty told investors it would not achieve its years - long promise to hit $ 20 earnings per share by 2015, and early this year revealed her roadmap: a plan to spend $ 4 billion to grow $ 40 billion in revenue in strategic areas like cloud computing, mobile, and big data, by 2018.

A group of executives from the financial - services industry has started what they call a peer - to - peer platform for early - stage investing, with the hope of connecting angel investors with promising start - ups.

As an entrepreneur Khoshbin is always looking for opportunities, venturing off into other businesses as a seed - stage investor committed to identifying, financing and developing early - stage growth businesses led by promising entrepreneurs.

[1] In the words of program founder Roland Tibbetts: «to provide funding for some of the best early - stage innovation ideas — ideas that, however promising, are still too high risk for private investors, including venture capital firms.»

Despite official promises, the futures markets indicate investors now see the Fed waiting until at least early next year before it starts to gradually close the monetary spigot.

It makes it so investors grow weary of looking into new projects because it feels like we've heard promises of «saving the world» from earlier teams a dozen...

From the 13 shortlisted startups at 1st batch of the early stage tech Startup Accelerator program, about three or four selected startups would get acceleration fund from Z Nation Lab, while venture capital firms such as Matrix Partners, Accel India, Mumbai Angels will be part of the investor panel on the demo day and may invest in promising startups.

The ROTR Fund invests catalytic capital, often alongside regional investors, to the most promising early stage investments in Rise of the Rest cities.

Twice a year, C100 invites approximately 20 of the most promising early - stage Canadian startups as nominated by our Partners and Charter Members for 48 Hrs of workshops, mentorship, investor meetings, and networking in the Valley.

Early biotech companies clustered in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Massachusetts, Abair says, because these regions boasted a combination of top research universities, a qualified workforce, and investors who saw promise in biotech.

LLNL's Industrial Partnerships Office has established a program called the «Innovation Development Fund» (IDF) that provides researchers with money to further develop promising, early stage technologies, so that they are less risky for businesses and potential investors.

A lot of these are early teasing promises to get investors involved and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

As an early stage investor, we are curious about promising innovations like adding SEL to classroom instruction, and we are also looking for early signals of impact and effectiveness.

The money comes from well funded investors — be they individual high - net worth investors or venture capital funds — who seek early entry into a promising start - up in need of seed capital or a young firm -LSB-...]

So they promise tax - free benefits, quick returns, discounts for early bird investors, what seems like a great return for the payment of a small fee, and no risk or low risks where you can sell any time.

Once implemented, it is expected the ban will prevent the advertising of initial coin offerings (ICOs), a controversial means of raising funds in which early investors provide money to a startup in exchange for digital tokens with the promise that if the company succeeds, the tokens will skyrocket in value.

Many investors are lured by the promise of getting in on the next hot start - up, but most new businesses fail; if they do succeed, early micro-investors stand a good chance of being diluted out when real venture capital comes in.