Sentences with phrase «raises every year just»

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Rick Santorum, for instance, suggested raising workers» hourly pay just 50 cents over the next three 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.

«Last year when I was raising money, being black, being a woman, being pregnant — it was just strike after strike of what investors are not interested in,» says Aniyia Williams, Tinsel's CEO.

So, just like Crosby has a business partner at Wevorce, she has a parenting partner at home helping to raise their two - year - old son.

Last year, Spotify lost $ 200 million and had to raise $ 1 billion in debt financing just to remain in business.

Heading into its 16th year, the lunch auction has raised over $ 17 million for Glide, with the most expensive meal coming in at just shy of $ 3.5 million in 2012.

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.

The results of this survey are just an example of one of the many factors that employers should consider when determining employee raises for the upcoming year.

«This year, the entire company will be on one platform,» McDermott told Reuters after SAP announced 2017 results that met its twice - raised guidance but came in just shy of analyst expectations.

The 2 percent increase for next year marks a significant jump over last year, which was just 0.3 percent, and the biggest change since 2012, when older Americans saw a 3.6 percent raise.

This year, Carlyle Group raised $ 3.3 billion for a new fund, while CVC Capital Partners just completed raising $ 4.4 billion for a long - term holding fund.

After raising $ 20 million last year, BaubleBar teamed up with Target to create a line called SugarFix, and just launched an affordable fine jewelry line.

Parcel, which was founded in 2013, had raised just $ 2 million from investors, and had pivoted from a consumer - facing startup to a business - to - business startup about two years ago.

Bright Health just wrapped up its first year selling into Colorado's individual market, after it raised more than $ 240 million in venture capital.

When Davis co-founded the groups - management site Kohort just last year, he quickly raised nearly $ 3 million in seed money from a raft of high - profile investors including IA Ventures, RRE Ventures, along with TechStars» founders David Tisch and David Cohen.

That same year, they incorporated the com - pany, raised $ 2 million in capital, hired a team of five employees, and set to work on still more innovations: a radio - controlled toy hang glider, a stadium seat with self - inflating foam, a self - watering planter, a talking lunch box, and a pop - open beach mat, to name just a few.

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.

«In just two years, Revolut has raised over $ 90 million in investment and attracted over 900,000 users,» Storonsky said in a statement Thursday.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in a year and just the second time in more than a decade.

Blackstone's private equity fundraising comes on the heels of it raising its latest global real estate fund earlier this year, amassing $ 15.8 million in just a few months.

The five - year - old Coinbase just raised $ 100 million in new funding, valuing the company at $ 1.6 billion — making it the blockchain industry's first «unicorn.»

«Pocketing raises through automatic contributions was one of the biggest factors allowing me to increase my savings rate from 35 % to 65 % in just a few short years.»

Just be sure you're prepared to deliver a couple of extra years» worth of growth, because you'll need to if you follow the raise - more - than - you - need plan.

Even BuzzFeed, the other company that often gets mentioned as a new - media success story, is a relative pipsqueak by comparison: It raised $ 50 million in a financing last year, one of the largest rounds in the media industry, but that values the company at just $ 800 million.

Over the past few years, we've seen traction: Consider VMWare's $ 1.54 billion acquisition of AirWatch; the growth of startup hubs like Atlanta Tech Village and Tech Square; and company success stories like that of Kabbage, which just raised $ 150 million, at an $ 875 million valuation.

An entry - level new hire who just clocks in and out is suddenly making almost as much as a veteran supervisor who busted her hump for years only to be rewarded with a miniscule raise.

They set up their first private - equity fund several years ago with $ 70 million in investment capital; they just raised another $ 100 million, to support a second pool aimed at their particular investment niche.

According to FactSet, S&P companies with more than 50 % of their sales outside the U.S. raised their earnings 13.4 % in Q3 of 2017 vs. the same quarter a year ago, compared with just 2.3 % for those with more than half their sales in the U.S. Europe has turned from a millstone into a motor.

While the Fed, the world's most important central bank, ended its stimulus program last fall and is expected to finally start raising rates from their historic lows this year, the eurozone and Japan are just initiating quantitative easing (QE) programs.

The growing number of consumers eager to pamper their pooches has fueled some impressive growth: The five - year - old company has shipped more than 20 million products, and just raised a $ 60 million Series C round of capital.

Just a year earlier, Homejoy probably could have raised another round... and now it couldn't.

Every ticket I have ever raised with the company over the past 4 years has resulted in them waiting around 2 weeks to reply and the reply is literally that it has been 2 weeks so the ticket is closed but if I'm still experiencing whatever it was I was reporting to just open a new one.

Why would LearnVest sell for $ 250 million after raising almost $ 75 million in total funding, and $ 28 million just a year ago?

HERERA: As we just discussed, the central bank remains on track to raise interest rates three or four times this year, so says the head of the New York Fed.

We expect the Fed to raise rates just once this year — likely in December — and to proceed cautiously given the unevenness of the domestic economic recovery, as highlighted by weak retail sales data released last week, and global growth uncertainties.

Just today, five - year - old VIPKid — which reportedly raised $ 200 million in fresh funding last summer at a $ 1.5 billion valuation — listed openings for thousands of U.S. teachers, from Jacksonville Beach, Florida, to Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Carmel, Indiana.

Kevin Irwin, President & CIO of Knollwood Investments, stated, «Based on their prior investment track records and successful investments such as Imperva and Athena Health, I sought out Aspect even before they raised their Fund I. I was pleased to be an investor in Fund I, and it is terrific that just a few years in an Aspect portfolio company in the cybersecurity arena has already done a successful IPO.

I'd put JNJ and KO up at the top just for the number of years of consistent dividend raises.

Uber has raised several billion dollars in just the last year and has been in talks to raise about $ 1.5 billion at a $ 50 billion valuation.

All told, the tariffs will increase the cost of utility - scale solar projects by about 10 percent and residential rooftop systems by just 3 percent — raising them roughly to prices seen two years ago.

«Most entrepreneurs raise money just a handful of times — while most venture firms fund dozens of companies a year.

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So in 2011 as a startup company if you can generate lots of demand you can definitely raise an A round of capital (say $ 3 million) at a $ 7 or 8 million pre-money valuation or slightly higher whereas just two years ago you would have struggled.

Homejoy just shut down after raising $ 40 million in funding over the past three years for example!

Last year, $ 6.5 billion was raised through ICOs, according to Token Report, and it looks as if that amount will be exceeded in just the first few months of 2018.

Tesla Inc. meant what it said when telling investors this month that another capital raise won't be necessary this year, and Elon Musk just elaborated on why.

-LRB-...) Government debt sales will more than double this year, to a net $ 1.44 trillion by JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s estimate, raising the specter of buyers» fatigue just as the Federal Reserve is shrinking its $ 4.4 trillion balance sheet and raising interest rates.

The U.S. Fed have just stopped their quantitative easing, this action is predicted to raise interest rates for the U.S. by next year — two major factors that push the precious yellow metal's prices down now.

Freddie Mac says the typical loan is now paid off after just 6.1 years, and that raises an interesting idea: Since lenders don't like fixed - rate long - term loans — they worry that they'll be stuck with low returns — maybe they would prefer to finance with a shorter term, say seven years or 10 years.

Not bad for a fund raising approach that is just a few years old.