Sentences with phrase «raised new money»

Online real estate lender Better Mortgage Inc. said Thursday that it has raised new money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in a deal that values the company at $ 220 million.

• LeSports, a unit of LeEco, has raised new money of an undisclosed amount from undisclosed investors, valuing the company at $ 3.5 billion, according to Reuters.

On a call with investors, in response a question from Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, Musk said that when it comes to raising new money, «I specifically don't want to.»

He doesn't agree with the «appetizer rule,» to wit: that the time to eat the appetizers (or raise new money) is when they're being served or available.

On the issue of how to support Canadian content when fewer Canadians are purchasing cable TV subscriptions, the government tested four options to raise new money for Canadian content: making telecom companies divert some smartphone and Internet revenue; requiring «foreign companies like Netflix and iTunes» to devote a portion of revenues; giving consumers the option of making a voluntary $ 2 contribution on their telecom or Netflix bill; or making telecom companies add an app to every smartphone sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3 on the sale of all smartphones.

So eventually it started to get harder for these companies to continue to raise new money to pay operational costs without showing some kind of ROI.

Raising new money is hard; returns are low.

«The king of the patent trolls is raising new money to expand its trolling activities» «a development that is likely galling for the companies»

Not exact matches

Chen raised hopes the company will start making money in new areas too, such as through BlackBerry Messenger.

«There's a lot of positive things happening in the Ethereum ecosystem,» added Novogratz, who has recently begun raising money for his new cryptocurrency - focused hedge fund.

Related: Starting May 16, Entrepreneurs Can Raise Money in a Whole New Way.

So you're saying that Spotify doesn't need the capital right now, but do you see it eventually needing to offer new shares to raise money?

New Money: Headspace, a Los Angeles - based maker of a meditation app, has raised $ 36.7 million in funding from Spectrum Equity.

However, according to Bloomberg, Spotify «could create a new model for growth companies in which they raise all their money in private markets and do all their trading in public ones, with some small variations.»

«You should be raising money to build out your team, add new products, or enter international markets,» Smith says.

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.

If the company isn't «blowing up,» when the founder goes out to raise more money and the original VCs / Angels who invested don't lead or participate in the new round, it sends an very bad signal to other potential new investors.

She's confident that eventually she'll raise the money for her new store, but so far, nobody else seems certain.

That's the motto of a new charity - Classes 4 Classes was started this year - that encourages students to give back by sponsoring kids in other classrooms all over the United States by raising money and resources.

The new capability lets users more easily see what causes their friends support, and it gives users who want to raise money for an organization a tool to personalize their efforts.

If you're raising money for a revolutionary new product, a good cause or simply an interesting project, highlight that, not the fact that you're seeking money.

A traditional venture - capital firm raises money primarily from institutional investors and high - net - worth individuals, while corporate venture capital uses cash reserves from a parent company to fund new endeavors.

To keep growing, a company has to continually roll out new closed - end funds and raise money, which O'Leary Funds had been doing at a breakneck pace.

With so many new funds reporting friction raising money, I expect the the new funds launched in 2016 to sit a smidge above those raised in 2015.

Following Mendelson's disastrous 2009 campaign, the New York - based marketer did another trans - U.S. tour — this time to raise money for the families of people wounded in combat — in a red, white, and blue Mustang, doing T.V. and radio interviews on the way.

This is where a start - up issues a new digital token in exchange for money in order to raise funds.

The money raised went to the San Francisco - based anti-poverty charity GLIDE, and the winner (who typically remains anonymous) gets to invite seven friends to lunch with Buffett at Smith and Wollensky steakhouse in New York City.

New research from Female Founders Fund confirms a trend that first popped up about six months ago: Relative to women entrepreneurs raising money in other parts of the country, women in New York are killing it.

They are currently trying to raise $ 20 million for the project; the money will go to one - time capital grants for 15 new centres (to build kitchens, gardens and activity rooms) as well as annual $ 350,000 operating grants.

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.

's New Farm, an initiative through which money is raised to fund the farming of organic produce that's donated to the Stop.

These days, the game a lot of mercenary entrepreneurs are playing is to get a product out, get a lot of people using it, get a lot of hype online, turn that into a lot of hype in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, raise a lot of money and sell out.

By the summer of 2008, Brooks was raising money for his new robotics company.

This crock has pretty much imploded over the last few years, although I sense a creeping rebirth when I hear the President talk about how the JOBS legislation is such a triumph of democracy since pretty soon every Tom, Dick and Harry will be able to buy and own cheap stocks, and raise money through new and virtually unregulated crowd - funding vehicles.

The outlines of a new industry are emerging as a few crowdfunding startups find ways to raise money for Main Street - type businesses that typically wouldn't interest private investors.

The latest idea to find its way to find its way to the Facebook platform is a new «Personal Fundraisers» feature, which is essentially a clone of GoFundMe, a popular crowdfunding website where people raise money for various personal causes.

The new functionality will allow users to deepen their connection with funders, in addition to giving them a way to keep raising money, the company says.

Facebook announced the new feature in a blog post on Thursday that encouraged users to adopt the new feature in order to raise money through the social network for anything from medical procedures to relief in the wake of a public crisis or natural disaster.

Furse noted that money raised from initial public offerings on the LSE and its secondary market AIM, totaling 29 billion pounds ($ 57.4 billion), was the highest in the world and more than that of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq combined.

An overview of how companies are raising money with crowdfunding, what categories are hottest and what the future holds for this new and innovative finance tool.

Noting that the San Francisco ride - sharing startup lost somewhere north of $ 1.2 billion in the first half of 2016, Bloomberg's Justin Fox says that's a problem not because Uber's in danger of running out of money — it has raised around $ 15 billion — but because it spent that money without getting anything concrete in return, on ephemeral stuff like incentives to attract new drivers.

So before you set out to develop a pitch and raise money for your new business idea, understand the truth behind a few of these popular funding myths.

It's similar in many ways to the way one would buy or sell something on Craigslist, or on new marketplace upstart OfferUp, which just raised a boatload of money.

Crowdfunding is how indie bands and other under - the - radar creative types raise money to record their next album, produce their next short documentary or put up their newest art show.

But by raising the lowest price plan to $ 70, T - Mobile risks scaring off potential new customers with lower data needs or less money.

«This is a sham lawsuit about a bogus Russian collusion claim filed by a desperate, dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent Democratic Party,» said Brad Parscale, Campaign Manager of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. «With the Democrats» conspiracy theories against the President's campaign evaporating as quickly as the failing DNC's fundraising, they've sunk to a new low to raise money, especially among small donors who have abandoned them.

DraftKings previously had raised money from investment firms associated with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, while Major League Baseball also holds a small equity stake.

Spotify aims to pursue a so - called direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, allowing existing investors to sell shares without raising money from new ones, sources have previously told ReuteNew York Stock Exchange, allowing existing investors to sell shares without raising money from new ones, sources have previously told Reutenew ones, sources have previously told Reuters.

When initial coin offerings emerged as a new way for startups to raise money a few months ago, there was much speculation — and some doubt — about whether the cryptocurrency crowdfunding method could disrupt or even replace the traditional venture capital industry.

New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist is raising money to support children's charties by auctioning of his goalie masks.