Sentences with phrase «raised each year in»

The chart of cumulative all - time VC funding (below) shows two jumps in funds raised this year in March and October.

Eighty million of the ninety - five million pigs raised each year in America live on an industrial farm; more than 80 percent of those farms house around five thousand pigs each.

The first $ 40 million of excise tax (a wholesale tax before the product reaches the store shelf) on marijuana raised each year in Colorado is dedicated to a program called BEST, which awards competitive grants to school construction projects — mostly to improve buildings in rural districts

But you can not count on a raise every year in this economy.

Hundreds of thousands of puppies are raised each year in puppy mills.

A multimillion dollar budget is raised every year in $ 6 and $ 8 increments when people renew their dog licenses.

More than 696 million animals are raised every year in our country for food.

Not exact matches

The U.S. is about to raise interest rates for the first time in eight years.

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.

A couple of years ago, all the cool kids were chasing VR — raising money, building prototypes, waiting for the billions to roll in.

That likely reassured investors who watched Walmart sacrifice profits for a couple of years as it gave workers raises and invested heavily in e-commerce to better compete online and in stores.

Last year, companies raised $ 3.8 billion via ICOs, and this year alone they have already raised $ 2.8 billion, according to data from CoinSchedule, a site which tracks the activity in the space.

This year Roar raised $ 5 million in funding and is part of the incubator program of LA Libations, a brand funded in part by Coca - Cola.

-- Blodget said on the conference call that the company still has about $ 22 million of the $ 50 million in financing that it has raised over the past couple of years.

«Spotify is not raising capital, and our shareholders and employees have been free to buy and sell our stock for years,» CEO Daniel Ek wrote in a blog post Monday.

The company says it has had a positive cash flow every year since its inception, in 2002; it didn't raise outside funding until 2012.

A Silicon Valley darling, Square has raised nearly $ 350 million since its founding in 2009, building a massive empire of payments that now process some $ 6 billion every year.

A whopping one in three workers listed getting a raise as a top priority this year, making it the most popular resolution, according to rate - your - company startup Glassdoor's Employment Confidence Survey.

McLean points out that it took Atlantis 15 years to raise its first $ 30 million, whereas Blue Ant zipped past the same milestone in only 14 months.

Green bonds were not among the levies recommended by the provincial transit agency Metrolinx to raise the estimated $ 2 billion a year that's needed to improve transit in the Toronto - Hamilton area.

«In my paper, I read about a mattress company that floated on AIM yesterday and raised # 35 million, is now valued at # 140 million, but last year made an EBITDA loss of # 11 million,» Walsh said at Tuesday's conference.

As to the question of when he and his party will develop a broad and substantive legislative platform to tackle the critical challenges America faces, McConnell has a ready answer as well: «If we're in the majority,» he says, «we'll be sitting down, intensely, a year from now on the very issue you've raised.»

Compared to counterparts who take all their vacation time, they are less likely to have been promoted within the last year (23 % to 27 %), and to have received a raise or bonus in the last three years (78 % to 84 %).

The 12 - year - old company, which calls itself «the front page of the internet» and boasts more than 300 million monthly users, has raised an additional $ 200 million in venture capital funding that gives Reddit a valuation of nearly $ 1.8 billion.

«Last year we did a Twitter campaign last year in the US to raise awareness, and people started doing crazy fun videos about the brand, and made it a lot of fun.

More than two in five employees expect a pay raise in the next 12 months, a nearly 2 - year high.

One of the most popular Kickstarter launches of the last several years was the Glowing Plant Kickstarter campaign, which raised nearly half a million dollars in 2013 to create a genetically - engineered plant that could glow in the dark.

Bitcoin - related startups raised $ 343 million from venture capitalists in the first half of 2017, according to CB Insights, and more than $ 2.2 billion from all sorts of investors so far this year through so - called ICOs, or «initial coin offerings,» according to CoinSchedule.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

Investors have been saying, WeLike to WeWork: This year Neumann and his coworking company raised an additional $ 2.5 billion in funding — much of which is earmarked toward aggressive expansion in Asia — at a valuation of $ 20 billion.

With lessons learned — and money earned — from that experience, Neumann and McKelvey launched WeWork, which — in four years — has raised $ 969 million in funding at a $ 10 billion valuation.

-- 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

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

Last year, Ripcord raised $ 85 million in four separate funding events from investors including Kleiner Perkins, the Lenovo - affiliated Legend Star, Telstra Ventures, and GV (formerly Google Ventures).

Your upside is always capped: For the vast majority of employees, annual raises come in the 3 to 4 percent per year variety.

BEIJING / HONG KONG, May 3 - Chinese smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi is bringing its blockbuster initial public offering to Hong Kong, where it could raise about $ 10 billion in the largest listing globally in almost four years.

New space start - ups, including Blue Origin and SpaceX, have raised $ 2 billion in funding from private investors this year.

As a result, late - stage growth companies are likely to encounter more difficulty raising financing in the years to come.

The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

When American Express raised the annual fee on the Platinum Card by $ 100 last year, the company made it up to users by adding an extra $ 200 in value to the card's benefits in the form of a statement credit toward Uber rides.

Assume you raise that employee's salary to the current minimum of $ 913 per week to keep her exempt from overtime, but further estimate that in six years the minimum salary is $ 1,200 per week.

Twelve years later, after a completing a doctorate in pharmacy, a term at TechStars, a stint at Ideo, and raising $ 63 million, Parker and co-founder Elliot Cohen found the answer: An online pharmacy that packages pills according to when they need to be taken.

-- David Kalt, founder and CEO of Reverb, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear that has raised about $ 5 million in funding and expects to do $ 130 million in transactions this year, up from $ 40 million last year.

Hugh Evans was 2 - years - old when Bob Geldof's charity concert Live Aid beamed images of starving people in north Africa around the world in 1985, raising # 30 million ($ 40.3 million) to help them.

In America, the only developed country that's actually raised rates recently, Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is now saying that market forces could keep rates low for years.

This year, the sector is on track to raise $ 2 billion in funding, with average deal sizes higher than ever, suggesting companies, at least in more instances, are attracting the capital they need to not just innovate, but scale.

She has slashed the cabinet in half, raised the minimum wage and announced plans to double the province's carbon tax over the next two years, the first such change in nearly a decade.

It raised $ 80 million in funding in 2012 and another $ 85 million last year.

HK] filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday that could raise $ 10 billion and become the largest listing by a Chinese technology firm in almost four years.