Sentences with phrase «raise less funding»

I think it would be politically much easier to raise less funding for research than for massively expensive, hugely ineffective carbon cuts.

Not exact matches

You give less equity to investors and use your community to validate the startup model — while raising enough funds to run operations for six to 18 months.

Amazon is reportedly paying less than that, which means the acquisition price is significantly lower than the company's $ 1 billion valuation when it raised funding last year.

Or at least, you'll find it easier and experience less confusion and friction if you try to raise funding, or work in a venture capital - backed company.

But telephone fund - raising is high - stress work, so most employees are on the job less than full - time.

Airbnb doesn't need the money, Chesky said — whether for ongoing operations or for M&A (the company just completed another $ 1 billion funding round and has reportedly spent less than 10 % of the $ 3 billion plus in equity it has raised), resources aren't a limitation.

The venture - backed startup has raised a bit less than $ 3 million in two funding rounds.

Kickstarter says that out of 55,815 successfully funded projects, 48,949 of them raised $ 19,999 or less.

Launched in 2007 with millions of members, New York - based Ideeli has raised $ 107 million in venture capital funding since its founding, so being sold for less than half of that appears to be a loss for investors.

Less than two years ago, the company was riding high, experiencing explosive growth, but things peaked in the summer of 2013, when it raised $ 150 million in funding at a valuation of $ 1 billion.

Your chances of raising money from any given VC fund are less than 0.5 percent.

The Federal Reserve Board again held off raising its benchmark federal funds rate on Thursday, citing less than desirable economic circumstances.

So do you think young entrepreneurs should do more «doing» and less fund - raising?

Revolut, the London - based fintech that offers a digital banking account and sprawling set of other financial services, is disclosing that it has raised a whopping $ 250 million in Series C funding, less than three years since launching.

It's often the case that blockchain startups raise their first outside rounds as ICOs, but size-wise these funding events look less like seed rounds and more like super late - stage technology growth rounds.

Other startups that have recently raised large rounds of funding to make customer support less painful for everyone involved include Intercom, which according to Crunchbase has received $ 115.8 million so far from investors like Bessemer Venture Partners and Social Capital, and Helpshift, which has raised $ 38.5 million from Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and others.

The VC firm recently hit the road to raise $ 150 million (about Rs 950 crore) in its second fund, less than a year after raising Rs 300 crore (about $ 50 million) in the first outing.

Now Sacca plans to raise a venture fund that's smaller than a traditional fund, with assets less than $ 100 million.

If Living Goods raises enough funds to scale up the program studied with the RCT, it may allocate additional funds to programs with less of a track record.

Overall, the SEC predicts that the regulatory costs associated with a crowd funding campaign may be as much as 12.9 to 39 % of the funds raised for campaigns of less than $ 100,000.

Such implicit guarantees have played a significant role in enabling the less creditworthy borrower to raise funds.

If the company is able to raise less than $ 1,000, 000 USD, the invested funds will be returned to the investors and the project will be closed.

Typically, an initial coin offering will include a few weeks of collecting the funds, although the amount of time varies with every project, some needing more and some needing less time to raise the required amount.

Uncertainty about platform governance thus makes it less likely that an ICO will raise sufficient funds.

Revolut, the digital banking alternative, has today raised an additional $ 250m in funding that will see the London - based fintech increase its valuation 5x in less than a year to $ 1.7 billion - becoming one of the fastest tech companies in Europe to reach unicorn status.

Less than a year later, May 2013, the company raises US$ 40 million in a Series B funding round.

The fund - raising has also taken place against a more compressed time period, with Zenefits boosting its war chest in less than a year from a previous financing round.

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The «losers» are those areas that are less visible and more likely to invite ecclesial disquiet: youth ministry, administration, fund - raising — and breakfast procurement.

Cookies for Kids» Cancer, founded in 2008, is committed to raising funds for research to develop new, improved, and less toxic treatments for pediatric cancer.

Carvalho has a buyout clause set at # 37m, but it's expected that he'll go for much less, with Lisbon desperate to raise funds.

If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

Since most countries have free government supported public schools, your education cost is less (even if you spend time helping your school do fund raising).

The report, «By the People: The New York City Campaign Finance Program in the 2013 Elections,» shows, among other things, that: the number of candidates participating in the public - funding system in 2013 remained high; more than two - thirds of all New York City contributors gave $ 175 or less; and more than 90 percent of the total raised came from individual contributors, rather than from PACs or unions.

And then there's the constant politicking and fund - raising for their initial campaign, second campaign, for others in the party... and now they're going to go through that miserable, degrading experience of begging for cash and rubbing up against the masses and issuing lame platitudes (though on a lesser scale)....

At the same time, the tax cap — due to allow for an increase of less than 1 percent in the levy this year — has constricted the ability of districts to raise funds.

Nothing less would do; not when Lippman is hoping that the Legislature and governor will fulfill a commitment to fund pay raises for judges in 2012.

Barnhart raised a total of $ 50,000 in private funds for her campaign, or $ 16,000 less than Bronson's public spending.

The Mayor's Fund — which is run by de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray — made less than it did in the final years of the Bloomberg administration, when it raised $ 85.5 million in 2012 and $ 51.7 million in 2013.

At Re / Code, Peter Kafka and Kara Swisher report that Reddit is in the process of raising «a big funding round» based on selling «less than 10 percent of the company for more than $ 50 million.»

In the campaign, the remaining three candidates — Erycka Montoya, Yonel Letellier Sosa and Cristina Furlong — have raised significantly less funds as their petitions have been challenged by Moya, records show.

On funding his campaign Dietl said that «we should be raising no less than $ 10 million» for a full campaign through November.

McLaughlin said she knew from the beginning she would have less money than other candidates, remarking that during her time as Albany County Democratic Committee chairwoman she focused her efforts on raising funds for the party, but now those she helped haven't returned the favor.

But Malliotakis is also a participant in the public funds program, meaning she will have to raise far less than Massey and still be able to be competitive.

He has been slow to raise campaign funds over the past five quarters, raising and spending less than $ 1 M and has consistantly polled under 5 % in that same timeframe.

Mr. Cuomo, a prodigious fund - raiser who has long preferred collecting fewer big checks to cultivating a small - donor base, raised only 0.2 percent of his money from donors who gave less than $ 200.

MANHATTAN — With less than a month to go before the Democratic primary, Attorney General candidate Kathleen Rice is continuing to pound her competitors in the race to raise funds.

The RCP's 2009 census of physicians raised concerns that although the number of consultant posts increased by 10.2 %, this will not continue as funding becomes less forthcoming for training places.

The Tories have raised a colossal # 78m in the last 4 years, and significantly no less than # 21m (more than a quarter) has come from hedge fund donors.

Long a talented fund - raiser, Ms. Gillibrand has cultivated a flourishing network of small donors, raising nearly $ 3 million in the first three quarters of 2017 from people who gave less than $ 200, more than she had in the previous eight years combined from such donors.