Canada historically and the western provinces in particular, have been known for
raising venture capital far in excess to what its population base would suggest.
Not exact matches
So
far so good, since launching in January 2011, Hyperink has
raised $ 1.2 million from
venture -
capital heavyweights like Andreessen Horowitz, SVAngel, Lerer Ventures and Y Combinator.
Bird has
raised $ 115 million in
venture capital funding, so
far.
So
far, the company has
raised $ 129.5 million from
venture firms Index Ventures, Greylock and Ribbit
Capital.
More than $ 45 million
raised thus
far would imply Relativity's valuation is in excess of $ 100 million, using traditional
venture capital measurements.
ICOs have now
raised nearly four times as much money as bitcoin companies
raised in
venture capital dollars so
far this year.
Floreani's company has
raised nearly $ 30 million in funding thus
far, including $ 21.2 million in Series B
venture capital funding last year that came from a group led by DCM Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, along with other investors including Discovery Communications and World Wrestling Entertainment.
The company had also
raised $ 8 million from its existing investor Norwest
Venture Partners in April this year, taking the total
capital put into the company so
far to about $ 13 million.
Other startups that have recently
raised large rounds of funding to make customer support less painful for everyone involved include Intercom, which according to Crunchbase has received $ 115.8 million so
far from investors like Bessemer
Venture Partners and Social
Capital, and Helpshift, which has
raised $ 38.5 million from Nexus
Venture Partners, Intel
Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and others.
The amount
raised for initial coin offerings of cryptocurrencies has surpassed earliest - stage
venture capital so
far in 2017 — a ranking change that institutional investors would be smart to acknowledge, Goldman Sachs said in a note out Tuesday.
By May 2012 Fisker reported in excess of $ 100 million in gross revenues, however Fisker is still reliant on
venture capital having
raised $ 1.2 billion so
far.
First of all, the company's current business model is clearly unsustainable, which they discovered (along with the rest of us) when they found they couldn't meet the redemption requests coming in for gift cards out of the limited amount of
venture capital they had
raised so
far.
Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and
venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to
raise energy costs
far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.
Acorns has
raised nearly $ 97 million in
venture capital so
far, closing its latest round of funding in May 2017.
Abra has
raised $ 40 million in funding so
far, including an undisclosed amount from American Express, Fidelity's
venture capital arm, and Foxconn, the Asian manufacturer of parts for Apple.
Founded in 2013, Blockstack has so
far raised $ 5.45 million in
venture capital to build a decentralized protocol layer that sits on top of a number of blockchains, including bitcoin, ethereum and zcash.
Thanks in part to guidance from Lubin's new
venture capital firm ConsenSys Ventures, Grid + has
raised more than $ 32 million in token sales so
far.