Sentences with phrase «raised billions of dollars this year»

Similar ICOs raised billions of dollars this year, with the organizers in most cases claiming that they were selling «utility tokens» that were not securities.

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The company is reportedly planning another billion - dollar raise — marking the eighth round of funding it has sought in the past five years.

The fund is reportedly being raised to help Sequoia compete with Japanese tech giant SoftBank, which announced a huge new $ 100 billion (# 75 billion) fund last year that is now being used to back promising tech companies worldwide with tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

The ride - hailing startup raised several billion dollars in recent years, including $ 3.5 billion from a Saudi Arabian investment fund and $ 2 billion in the form of a leveraged loan.

Eventually, the MDA presented Lewis with the idea of staging a bigger show, and in 1966 the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon debuted, launching a legendary 45 - year run that has raised billions of dollars for MD services and research.

Indeed, Tanium has raised more than $ 300 million dollars over the course of its nine - year existence at a $ 3.7 billion valuation, ranking it at number 28 on Fortune's list of billion - dollar «unicorn» startups (and leader of the cybersecurity subcategory).

The brothers dream of creating a billion - dollar global company (they give themselves 15 years) that improves the culture by promulgating inspirational messages and — this is the important part, they say — by raising money and awareness for sick and disadvantaged children.

Like Sutphen, Charles Phillips, the 56 - year - old CEO of Infor, a $ 2.8 billion enterprise software firm, has an informal network of his own — a supper club of two dozen business leaders and professionals, most of whom prefer to remain anonymous, who have raised millions of dollars for causes they care about.

In recent years, Sears has sold off the Lands» End (le) clothing brand, its stake in Sears Canada, and it also spun off some of its best locations into a real estate investment trust, helping to raise billions of dollars.

And even before the disclosure of the record - breaking purchase in a New York art auction by one of his associates, Prince Mohammed's extravagance had already raised eyebrows, most notably with the impulse purchase two years ago in the south of France of a Russian vodka titan's 440 - foot yacht, for half a billion dollars.

In the intervening six years, Uber was busy dismantling the global taxi industry, brawling with regulators and politicians, fending off employment lawsuits, exploring self - driving car technologies, and raising billions of dollars.

Uber, the hugely popular ride - hailing app, has raised billions of dollars in little more than two years.

Over the past few years, green bonds have raised billions of dollars to help fund environmental and other sustainable development projects: rapidly growing from $ 1 billion issued in 2012 to more than $ 30 billion in 2014 globally.1

In addition to raising a total of $ 22.6 billion in high - grade bonds for Apple and T - Mobile USA last year, Deutsche served as the go - to bookrunner for the multibillion - dollar bonds deals of Italy, Spain other beleaguered European governments — and even the European Financial Stability Facility.

The dollar amount of proceeds raised rose 29 % from a year earlier to $ 44 billion, mainly due to the record $ 19 billion IPO in July from Agricultural Bank of China.

And that can raise prices like Amazon, which is raising the price for its Prime membership by $ 20, from $ 99 to $ 119 a year, adding billions of dollars to its revenues to the bottom line.

Anthony Albanese, the acting head of New York's Department of Financial Services, will step down before the end of the year, giving Cuomo a run at reshaping a regulator that has levied billions of dollars of penalties against international banks and at times raised hackles in foreign capitals.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate, has laid out how he would raise $ 34 billion: stop rebating $ 16 billion annually to Wall St. speculators from the stock transfer tax; raise $ 8 billion, and give 95 % of us a tax cut, by going back to the state tax system of 30 years ago; and raise $ 10 billion by a 50 % tax on bankers bonuses after we gave them trillions of dollars in bail out.

Indeed, in his efforts to raise a billion dollars of private money, Obama became the first presidential candidate in the general election in over 30 years to back out of public financing, an idea which is now more or less kaput.

Ghana raised a total of two billion dollars in two separate bonds last week with maturity periods of 10 and 30 years at an...

«Jeff Klein and his fellow Senate Democrats raised taxes on New Yorkers by more than $ 14 billion dollars the last two years, cost the state tens of thousands of jobs, took away billions in property tax relief from homeowners and spent taxpayer money like drunken sailors.»

A day after a federal judge set a trial date for the Buffalo Billion corruption case, Republicans took to the floor of the Assembly to raise concerns about the failure to approve transparency and oversight procedures over billions of dollars spent each year on economic development.

At a time when hundreds of billions of dollars each year veer to war rather than peaceful development, and when media attention is riveted on the U.S. financial crises, it is hard to raise even a few billion dollars for desperately hungry people.

Over the past few years, both teams have raised tens of millions of dollars toward the billion - dollar - plus projects in the hope that the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) would come up with the balance.

Having failed to right the ship of state, Malloy engaged in a desperate attempt to save his political career by telling Connecticut's voters that there was no state budget deficit this year and that he would eliminate the $ 1.4 billion dollar projected budget shortfall for this coming year without having to raise taxes, cut services or seek concessions from the state employee unions.

I remember the first article in Newsweek (2010) that was frankly a long press release gushing over this new organization that wanted to raise literally «a billion dollars» its first year — never mind that it's not actually possible to spend that kind of money wisely or effectively in a new startup — and thinking that the picture they chose to illustrate the story — Michelle Rhee standing in front of a bunch of chalk outlines of kids — was inadvertently an extremely apt representation of what this whole adventure was about.

It was very specific in its goal, which was to enroll half of all LA Unified's students into charter schools within eight years by raising close to half a billion dollars.

Ever year investors pay out hundreds of billions of dollars (that's billions with a «b») in fees to money managers that, essentially, they really don't need to be paying.Things are so bad that companies like FeeX have raised over $ 12 million in financing to provide a service that gives people a window into the fees they're paying to their advisors.

What she found was shocking and led her to ask why half a billion dollars a year is raised in the name of animal welfare and the grassroots rescues in America's communities are not seeing any of this money?

Former GOP Reps. Sherwood Boehlert and Wayne Gilchrest wrote in a 2012 op - ed that a fee on carbon pollution could «raise $ 200 billion or more over 10 years and trillions of dollars by 2050 while cutting carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020.»

Thirty billion dollars of emergency funding over three years was agreed at Copenhagen and a UN panel on how to raise 100 billion dollars a year from 2020 has already delivered its report.

Consider that the latest version of cap and trade would have raised $ 177 billion every year and cost the average American family several thousand dollars per year in higher gasoline and electricity costs.

Using these policies, the United States could raise $ 200 billion or more over 10 years and trillions of dollars by 2050 while cutting carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050

The university is additionally one of the top fundraising institutions in the United States, becoming the first school to raise a billion dollars in a year.

The global trend of crowdfunding with cryptocurrency sales, often called initial coin offerings, skyrocketed this year to raise several billion dollars for hundreds of blockchain projects.

ICOs generated billions of dollars for hundreds of startups last year, but the parade may soon end as regulators begin clamping down on token raises.

Plantation, Florida - based startup Magic Leap finally unveiled its first official product following seven years of development and close to two billion dollars raised in funding from tech giants like Google, Temasek, and Alibaba, having announced the Magic Leap One: Creator Edition, a mixed reality headset which adopts the form of retro - futuristic goggles.

Their massive Initial Coin Offering took place over the course of a year and raised nearly a billion dollars.

Also, the crypto - asset world saw billions of dollars raised last year through Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).