Sentences with phrase «raise funds for more»

Sell crafted items at settlements to raise funds for more thrilling adventures!

It's a pretty common practice among animal shelters — seizing upon the case of one sympathy - inducing dog to raise funds for more than just that one dog.

Now he's getting on a bit, he's more precious than ever, So, I'd like to help raise funds for more guide dogs.

And progress is being made with starting more pancreatic cancer clinical trials and raising funding for more research.

Today, Susanne serves as President and Executive Director of Petco Foundation, a public nonprofit that raises funds for more than 4,000 lifesaving animal welfare organizations across the country.

Not exact matches

The venture arm, which just raised $ 36 million for its debut fund, acts more as a traditional investment vehicle.

-- Ilya Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of touch technology company Sensel, which has raised more than $ 10 million in funding and raised over $ 500,000 for its crowdfunding campaign last year

-- Amy Zimmerman, head of people for Kabbage, a global financial services, technology and data platform serving small businesses which has raised more than $ 1.6 billion in funding and lent out $ 4 billion overall

• Blackstone (NYSE: BX) raised more than $ 5.5 billion for its second Asia real estate fund, according to an SEC filing.

Alternative ways of raising money are increasingly available, and crowd - funding has for instance raised more than # 1 billion for UK small and medium - sized enterprises last year.Of course, don't forget to inquire about the regulation in place in your country, and get professional advice to mitigate risk.

• Energy Innovation Capital, a Kirkland, Ill. - based venture capital firm, raised more than $ 130 million for its debut fund, according to an SEC filing.

• Alidade Capital, a Bloomfield, Michigan - based private equity firm, raised more than $ 117 million for its fourth fund, according to an SEC filing.

• Mediterra Capital Partners, a Turkey - based private equity firm, raised more than $ 185 million for its second fund, according to an SEC filing.

For the newbie technology - driven Fintech entrants (entrepreneurs) For the new entrepreneurs aiming at offering value - driven services to demystify finance as a domain, and to raise quality funding from both angels as well as VCs, More's suggestion is to build a commercially viable and solid business proposition, then focus on customer experience and efficient execution.

Prosper, another online lender, has been looking to raise a new round of funding in exchange for equity at a price that would slash its market value by more than 70 %, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

When they run out of air, they drown (lose everything), come up for a new tank (raise more funding) or get out of the water (pivot to something new).

• Dominic Murphy is planning to raise 1 billion euros ($ 1.2 billion), for 8C Capital, a new private equity fund, which will focus on deals in the healthcare and consumer industries, according to Read more.

More good news for Canada's tech sector: Toronto - based Wattpad, often described as the YouTube of eBooks, announced this morning that it has raised $ 46 million in Series C funding.

Correction: The Riverside Company raised more than 312 million euro ($ 371 million) for its fifth Europe - focused fund.

For example, our local governments raise needed funding by pressuring police to issue more traffic tickets.

Ljung confirmed on July 12 that he's in the process of trying to raise more money for the company after he was asked about a rumoured $ 250 million (# 193 million) funding round.

For example, a pledge made at CGI America last year by Detroit business incubator TechTown to help second - stage companies successfully transition from startups to sustainable businesses has raised $ 278,750 in funds, pulled in five new partners (including Kiva Detroit), and served more than 40 local entrepreneurs since June 2012.

In other words, Canadian firms have a harder time raising funds than U.S. counterparts, even though it would, on average, make more of a positive difference for them.

More than 4.5 million people have signed up for Coursera's 400 - plus MOOCs, and the company has raised $ 43 million this year — bringing its funding to $ 65 million from backers including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the World Bank.

The crowdfunding site Kickstarter might be best known for funding films, games and products — like Pebble, the Palo Alto - based smartwatch whose maker raised more than $ 20.3 million in March, making it the most - backed product in the site's history.

The last thing you want to do is launch a campaign, raise funds and then realize that a product idea not possible, will take twice as long or end up costing far more than what was charged for the perks.

Warburg Pincus, for example, announced in October that it raised $ 4 billion for a new energy fund, $ 1 billion more than it had originally sought.

Coursera, like most MOOC providers, has had moderate success sorting out a revenue model (Coursera charges students for identity verification and certificates of completion), but it will need to do a lot more than that to justify the $ 85 million in venture funding it's raised.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

• Poshmark, a Redwood City, Calif. - based online service for buying and selling second - hand clothing, is in talks to raise more than $ 50 million in a funding round that could value the startup at roughly $ 600 million, according to Reuters.

The BStrong Delivering Good fund has raised more than $ 800,000 for cash cards since the initiative was launched on Sept. 29, according to BStrong and the Global Empowerment Mission.

Last quarter was the best quarter for blockchain and bitcoin VC funding on record, more than doubling the amount raised in the first quarter and up 89 % year over year, according to CBInsights.

It might be wise for Tesla Motors to raise more funds to help bankroll its upcoming car launch and factory expansions.

• Newbury Partners, a Stamford, Conn. - based private equity firm, raised more than $ 1.4 billion for its fourth fund, according to an SEC filing.

The 14 - person company has raised a total of $ 3.4 million in seed and Series A financing, as well as received a $ 2 million grant from the Department of Energy's SunShot Incubator Program, which funds up to $ 12 million in grant money to small businesses and entrepreneurs working on both hardware and software technology that makes solar more accessible for Americans.

McKelvey helped organize the Families of Freedom fund after the September 11 attacks, headed by Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, which raised more than $ 100 million to be used toward college scholarships for the children of the attack's victims.

I would guess that there is a much sharper drop in the chance of your business surviving for 2 years during a recession caused by a financial crisis where it is much more difficult to raise funding.

For example, FundRazr may be more handy for project - based campaigns, like raising money for a specific product and offering rewards, like a preorder of that product, when the funding stage wraps For example, FundRazr may be more handy for project - based campaigns, like raising money for a specific product and offering rewards, like a preorder of that product, when the funding stage wraps for project - based campaigns, like raising money for a specific product and offering rewards, like a preorder of that product, when the funding stage wraps for a specific product and offering rewards, like a preorder of that product, when the funding stage wraps up.

I've raised more than $ 18 million in funding for my company through several rounds, and I can confirm the rule of thumb that a company raises seed funding to last them 18 + months.

The Canadian Trade Office in Taiwan organized the 5th annual Terry Fox run in Taipei and more than 7,000 runners participated to raise funds for cancer research.

But it is Wintour's role in promoting fashion and luxury goods manufacturing as an important US export business, coupled with her growing political fundraising acumen (according to the Obama campaign, she is a «top bundler», raising more than $ 500,000 for the Obama Victory Fund) that led to speculation she is eyeing a political position.

While she and her female partners were fund - raising in March, one investor told them that they should marry for money, that he liked it when women fought back because he would always win, and that they needed more attractive photos of themselves in their presentation.

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals raises funds and awareness for 170 member hospitals across the U.S. and Canada that treat more than 10 million kids a year.

On March 31st the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for the sixth time in 3 years and signaled its intention to raise rates twice more in 2018, aiming for a fed funds target of 3.5 % by 2020.

It's easier for a 25 - year - old male entrepreneur with average ethics and average execution to raise more funds than a woman entrepreneur.

Connecting with Walmart could help Jet.com amplify its business without the stress of private fund - raising in a market that has become more challenging for unprofitable companies.

Now, having accomplished its primary objective, and still 15 days to go for the end of the token sale, the team is raising more funds in order to reach newly introduced extended goals and add exciting new features to the game, like player vs player and user - generated tournaments via smart contracts.

If the pace of the economy picks up, banks will probably see demand for more loans — and will raise rates as they compete to attract new deposits to fund the additional lending activity.

Analysts have expressed increased worries that Tesla may need to raise more funds in 2018 so it doesn't run out of capital, and have been looking for evidence that Tesla can maintain production targets of 5,000 vehicles a week.

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