Sentences with phrase «raised each year based»

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In addition, pay is «competitive,» «raises are based on hours worked,» and workers receive «twice a year bonuses after you hit top pay.»

• MissionU, a San Francisco - based one - year college alternative, raised $ 8.5 million in Series A funding.

Maddock and Weir bootstrapped the company until last year, when it raised $ 15 million from Philippines - based private equity firm Navegar.

Garmin reported a higher - than - expected profit for the eighth straight quarter, selling more of its GPS - based outdoor activity gadgets such as underwater watches, leading it to raise its full - year revenue forecast.

Kiosk - based health startup HealthSpot reportedly raised more than $ 54 million before shutting its doors last year.

If the Bank of Canada ultimately raises its benchmark rate by 50 basis points from the start of the year, that could increase borrowers» monthly payments by approximately 5 per cent, according to Rob McLister, founder of comparison site RateSpy.com.

The current deadlock has raised pressure on Greek bonds on Thursday morning, sending the 10 - year bond yields up by 5 basis point.

Coinbase said it would put the newly raised money toward bolstering its engineering and customer support teams, opening a New York office for its professional trading operations, and continuing to develop Toshi, an Ethereum - based messaging and wallet app that it debuted last year.

Two such companies, San Francisco - based fundraising site Rally.org and Los Angeles - based campaign organizer NationBuilder, have raised $ 14 million collectively in investment capital just this year, Bloomberg reports.

ModCloth has raised $ 48 million in investment capital over four rounds of funding.Portland, Ore. - based designer Bernie Dexter has sold dresses through ModCloth for three years.

Earlier this year, Boston - based 3 - D printing company Voxel8 raised $ 12 million in Series A funding.

Welshpool - based contractor MACA has raised its full - year net profit by 12 per cent to $ 55.4 million despite weather setbacks during the year, and increased revenue by 25.2 per cent to $ 595.4 million.

The number of Perth - based technology companies pursuing a listing on the ASX this year has hit 10, with Dreamscape Networks due to list in coming days after raising $ 25 million and Secure2Go kicking off its capital raising this week.

The Chicago - based company raised more than $ 400,000 on Indiegogo this year for what it says is the world's first rideable luggage.

For years, B Corp certification was rumored to hurt a startup's ability to attract investors, but recent deals have debunked this theory: San Francisco - based education company Altschool has raised $ 170 million from venture capitalists, and Data.world, an Austin - based tech startup, recently closed $ 19 million in Series B funding.

To fund the development of the app, AVOS, the company behind MixBit, raised venture capital money in April last year from Google Ventures, the China - based incubator Innovation Works, Madrone Capital and New Enterprise Associates.

If the Fed raises rates this year, as most of his colleagues expect, «things could go okay, but you are creating a risk of further declines in where market - based inflation expectations are, basically to the credibility of our inflation target, and I think you are creating downside risks our pursuit of our employment mandate.»

The company did a sort of trial run earlier this year, by giving its blessing to a quasi-affiliate called Maiden Lane (named after the street in San Francisco where AngelList is based), which raised $ 25 million to support select syndicate deals with up to $ 100,000 each.

Just this year, over 50 U.S. genetics and gene therapy startups raised at least $ 1 million to support genetics - based treatments, including speeding trails, improving accuracy of tests, and providing better platforms.

The company increased its dividend by 15 percent in 2013 and 8 percent last year, and said last April that it plans to continue to raise its dividend on an annual basis.

The Fed is trying to raise interest rates 25 basis points, four times a year every March, June, September, and December through 2019 to get to 3.5 % or so and bring down the balance sheet.

In November, the central bank raised the base rate by 25 basis points, its first tightening in six years.

Qualtrics, the Provo, Utah - based enterprise software company famous for bootstrapping in its early years, has raised $ 180 million in new venture funding, valuing it at $ 2.5 billion.

In her speech on Friday, she made headlines saying, «Based on my outlook, I expect that it will be appropriate at some point later this year to take the first step to raise the federal funds rate and thus begin normalizing monetary policy.»

In the first half of the year, initial coin offerings raised more than $ 1 billion for blockchain - based projects — many of which consist of little more than a white paper.

Ashworth and his colleagues, on the other hand, recently raised their economic forecast for next year based on the outlook for some sort of Trumpian stimulus.

Economists expect the Fed will raise rates at least once this year, based on a view of an improving U.S. jobs market and the central bank coming under pressure to keep inflation from rising well above its 2 % target.

Tratt is using much of the $ 3 million raised this year to flesh out the development team (11 employees and counting), improve the product (a web - based version rolled out this summer) and offer above - and - beyond customer service (Haiku Deck employees like to surprise customers who make a support request by picking up the phone and calling them).

In the first half of the year, China - based ICOs raised about $ 400 million through 65 offerings with more than 100,000 investors, according to a report from the National Internet Finance Association of China.

Given that the nine - year - old San Francisco - based company has raised north of $ 600 million in capital it is extremely well funded.

With five months into this year, U.S. firms with at least one female founder have raised about $ 4.4 billion in funding based on data from Pitchbook.

Entrepreneurs listened, at least to the second part: U.S. - based companies raised more venture capital in the fourth quarter of 2014 than they did in any other quarter over the prior 13 years, according to the National Venture Capital Association.

Heraman, the chief executive of StockObjects, a New York City - based new - media stock library, and his partner managed to raise $ 700,000 from private - equity investors within a year of their company's launch, all the while managing to retain close to 90 % of its stock.

Barclays (bcs) and Royal Bank of Scotland (rbspf) failed the test on this basis, but do not need to raise extra capital now as they increased capital during the course of year.

The Kyoto - based company raised its profit forecast for the year ending March to 160 billion yen, from 120 billion yen, versus analysts» estimate of 144 billion yen.

Based on the usual rate that rent controlled areas can raise rent by (3 % per year), rent will be $ 8441 a month when you retire, and if you die at 80, your last month of rent will be $ 13,151.72.

Bengaluru - based online photography startup Canvera Digital Technologies Pvt. Ltd has raised Rs 20 crore ($ 3 million) led by existing investor Info Edge (India) Ltd, less than a year after it became one of the first startups to report a «down round».

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.

While last year, it had raised $ 50 million (around Rs 307 crore then) from Chinese investment management firm Hillhouse Capital and Hong Kong - based hedge fund Tybourne Capital with participation from existing investor Sequoia Capital.

It would be foolish to select any companies from this list solely based on the fact management has issue raising payouts for over ten years.

The Bangalore - based ed - tech company had raised $ 140 million (934 crore) last year, to expand its reach in the domestic market with a learning app, and launch its services to other English - speaking countries to become a formidable player in the K - 12 tech - enabled education business.

In March his year, Bangalore - based ed - tech firm Byju's raised $ 75 million from Sequoia Capital and Sofina.

The Mumbai - based platform to order food from nearby restaurants started in 2014 and raised about $ 20 million in its first year.

I expect the Fed to raise rates 3 more times next year, with modest increases of 25 basis points each time.

Grail, a year - old, Menlo Park, Ca. - based early cancer screening startup that spun out of the DNA - sequencing giant Illumina is reportedly looking to raise up to $ 1.7 billion in fresh funding to launch a large - scale clinical trial.

Most recently, KabadiExpress raised Rs 1 crore (about $ 147,000) from a Delhi - based investor in June this year while e-waste management startup Karma Recycling raised an undisclosed amount in June last year from Infuse Ventures and Low Carbon Enterprise Fund, a fund managed by Environmental Resources Management Foundation.

Although we successfully raised prices and improved our inventory position quarter - by - quarter, gross margin fell 220 basis points on the year.

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They also have another thing in common: both companies used crowdfunding platforms to take pre-orders for their first products and, in the process, raised their first serious capital as well — US$ 10.3 - million for Palo Alto - based Pebble in 2012, $ 3.7 - million for Waterloo's Thalmic Labs earlier this year.

In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.