Sentences with phrase «raising events raised»

Our Charitable fund - raising events raised over # 30,000 for a variety of good causes, mostly chosen and promoted by students.

Not exact matches

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).

GoFundMe and Indiegogo have profiled small businesses and entrepreneurs that raised the funds to attend an event.

And so of course no one is sure how the market will react when the Fed raises rates, or what happens if there is another event that causes credit markets to seize up.

Via a Facebook event, 7 - 11 announced, «It's time to raise a cup to 7Rewards Week!

Opinion: The business community's embrace of cycling fundraising events provides benefits way beyond just the dollar value raised.

Airbnb has moved to head off conflict with tax - raising authorities, city councils and hoteliers worldwide as a two - day promotional event in Paris, the online home - sharing group's biggest market, gets under way.

• LogPoint, a Copenhagen security information and event management platform, raised $ 10 million in Series B funding from Evolution Equity Partners.

Sohn is one of the most anticipated hedge fund events of the year, where managers volunteer their time and best investment ideas to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer.

While the use of video - streaming tools like Facebook Live can create a compelling real - time record of news - worthy events — a rough draft of history, as someone once said of newspapers — it also raises questions about how platforms like Facebook (fb) and Twitter (twtr) handle that kind of information.

Going PC by PC to retrieve e-mail in the event of a lawsuit is time consuming and expensive — and if you can't produce relevant e-mail because it was accidentally deleted, the other side could use it to raise the question of whether you maliciously deleted things you didn't want them to find, Larrivee says.

September's Ag Innovation Showcase in St. Louis was the biggest and most diverse in the 6 - year - old event's history; organizers tallied that presenting companies raised $ 430 million.

• Bizzabo, an Israeli startup that designs apps for event planning, raised $ 6.5 million in Series A funding, according to TechCrunch.

A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.»

Explaining the industry and what's going on takes the form of several audiences; one being the overly - optimistic entrepreneur who still has aspirations of raising capital to get their company to a liquidity event, another being the up and coming venture capitalist in training (think decades long training cycles) who recently finds themselves a free agent as the asset class shrinks and wants to start their own fund, and the final being ambitious MBA's switching careers and see venture capital as the preferred destination.

With support from his closest influencers, he not only raised funds and arranged meals for shelters, but he broke a world record for the most cereal donation at a single event.

I can only imagine one event that might help: a positive bolt from the blue, one that reduces government spending and raises government revenue.

In 2012, nonprofit organizations raised $ 35 million for their events through Eventbrite ticket sales alone, Mendelsohn says.

When speaking at events, I often ask audiences to raise their hand if they use the term «upsell» in their business.

The announcement of the changes raised a lot of concerns among sellers at the event and online, with over a thousand questions pouring in following the announcements.

Event hosting can provide the ideal platform for networking and raising awareness of new products and services.

Which raises a simple question: Why don't Canadian brands create their own special commercials for this uniquely watched event?

They appreciate our work and show us, not only by raises but fun outings and events.»

This all - you - can - eat, all - you - can - drink Night Market — modelled on the pop - up street bazaars found throughout the Asian diaspora — is just the latest in the Stop's long series of innovative fundraising events and services that have successfully brought together top chefs, like - minded corporate sponsors and a seemingly insatiable community of foodies to raise both awareness and money.

The event raised $ 12,000 for the nonprofit Alliance for the Great Lakes.

The group said any money raised during the event through donations, which begins today at 5 PM EST, will go to the Houston Food Bank to help it distribute food and supplies for those impacted by the hurricane's devastating toll.

With presentations from five private companies and five public companies in the technology sector, this event attracts Canadian and U.S. investors with the goal of raising institutional and VC investment dollars, and enhancing the capital ecosystem for technology companies in Canada.

• Enjoius, a Los Angeles - based lifestyle platform for event designing and planning services, raised $ 1.4 million in seed funding.

They would first get the attention of the local gay market through ads and stories run in local gay newspapers and magazines and through their support of social and fund - raising events to which gays would normally be attracted.

WASHINGTON — A U.S. debt default in the event that a politically divided Congress fails to raise the federal borrowing limit would imperil the entire global economic recovery, a senior International Monetary Fund official warned Wednesday.

Another way we keep our employees engaged is by inviting them to take part in company events, like the Virgin Mobile Live Freefest, a free music festival we hold every year to raise money (through donations) for homeless young people.

«That's what restaurant people can do: We can throw events, cook food, make people have a good time, and raise money with it,» Miller said.

At that event, Life Is Good raised more than $ 500,000.

Today, she's called on to appear at more events than ever before, while raising the family she and her husband started after she'd spent years hunkered down in the cutthroat real estate world.

South Korea's largest family - run conglomerates may have contributed to the more than 1 trillion won ($ 910 million) in domestic sponsorship raised for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, but the event is tricky terrain for them to navigate.

Even though North Korea's participation in the games hogged the spotlight in the lead - up to the event, the suspension of Jay Y. Lee's five - year prison term for bribery has raised questions more recently over chaebol reform in South Korea.

With the help of corporate partners like Uber and Verizon, the Next Gen Summit's inaugural event helped startups raise more than $ 1 million, produced dozens of partnerships, and addressed an estimated 17,000 in - person and live - stream attendees.

He documented some of Facebook's do - good moments in the last year, like its part in the #metoo movement and the March For Our Lives event, and helping raise $ 20 million for victims of hurricane Harvey.

Sohn is the most widely anticipated hedge - fund event of the year, where managers volunteer their time and best investment ideas to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer.

Big name investors like Dan Loeb and David Einhorn helped raise $ 6 million to fight poverty at a charity event in New York City.

This connection raises fan enthusiasm and contribution to the sporting events.

The event raised a total of $ 593,500 for the DCCC.

The event at the Trump International Hotel, just down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, raised $ 10 million to be divided between Trump and the party, the kind of bounty usually reserved for the final months before an election.

And if your need for a raise is linked to a personal event, Welch recommends leaving that out of the conversation.

I think that the lifting of the ban on general solicitation is a transformative event for capital - raising.

THE exposure of rorts in our electoral systems raises a number of serious issues, not least the continuation of events which serve to undermine our faith in politicians.

CNBC's John Harwood with a look at JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and today's speech at the US Chamber of Commerce event, where he criticized the extent of Dodd - Frank regulation and the possibility the U.S. may default on its debt by not raising the debt limit.

On Thursday alone, it hopes to raise $ 300,000 in a 14 - fight event in New York City.

Over the past 10 years startups like Dropbox, Mint (sold to Intuit for $ 170m), Yammer (sold to Microsoft for $ 1.2 b), Fitbit (went public in June 2015), PowerSet (sold to Microsoft for $ 100m), Clicker (sold to CNET for $ 100m), Trello (sold to Atlassian for $ 425m), TrueCar (raised $ 70m in its 2014 IPO), and Cafe X (raised $ 5m) have presented at our event — but 97 % of the people at the event were not allowed to invest in them.

Rent the Runway, a website that lets women rent and return designer dresses for special events, raised $ 60 million in a series D round of financing led by Technology Crossover Ventures in December 2014.