Sentences with phrase «raising years ago»

He also has a readily available campaign war chest, which he began raising years ago when he was mulling a run.

Since that challenge was raised years ago we've actually seen a surge of the «polyamorous» in this country.

Not exact matches

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

We think it's a pretty compelling story, and, it turns out, it's one that is consistent with the pitch we made a year and a half ago, when we raised our seed round of funding.

They already went through their period where they raised wages a lot in China for example, but seven years ago.

The company last raised $ 40 million a year ago, news Fortune covered first.

They purchased the creamery for $ 69,000 and lived above the factory for the first seven years, raising their young family: daughter Frances, now a law professor, and son Ashley, a chef who joined the family business two years ago as a vice-president.

Buffett first started auctioning off meals to raise money for Glide 15 years ago after he was introduced to the charity by his first wife, Susan, who died in 2004.

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

Kaltura, for example, was founded eight years ago and has since raised more than $ 100 million from various venture capitalists and banks, all without the aid of an investment bank.

Tony Sage's Cape Lambert Resources has announced plans to undertake its first capital raising since its initial offer, which was completed when the company listed on the ASX 16 years ago.

A year ago, after the company announced it had raised $ 50 million in Series D funding, Wojcicki said that they were focused on lowering cost to bring in more users — a million by the end of 2013 was the company's stated goal.

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.

FOUR years ago this month, failed vegetable grower Sumich Group relisted on the stock market with new management, a new business direction and a $ 2.8 million capital raising under its belt.

A year ago, 959 companies raised $ 8.91 billion.

A few years ago, after an earthquake in Nepal, the Facebook community raised $ 15 million to help people recover and rebuild — which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.

Two years ago, it raised $ 50 million in financing led by Tencent Holdings Ltd, the internet company that developed the social media app WeChat.

After raising significant funding a few years ago as a 20 - year - old, the company needed to take a drastic shift over the past year to revive a struggling business model.

Norwegian seismic surveyor raised its 2012 revenue guidance for the third time this year on Monday and said third - quarter revenue had increased 53 percent from a year ago.

«Raising meat takes a great deal of land and water and has a substantial environmental impact,» Gates wrote on his personal blog, Gatesnotes.com, a few years ago.

The price, US$ 100 million, is considerably less than the Nilssons paid for Lakeside alone three years ago, and it immediately raised questions about their finances.

That's still short of the 39.3 % three years ago, before its failed reinvention, but good enough to prompt Penney to also raise its profit margin forecast this year.

Philosopher Robert Nozick famously raised this question of sports figures» salaries over 30 years ago as a way of investigating fundamental questions of justice.

In a long - awaited move Tuesday, Alibaba filed for an initial public offering of stock in the U.S. that could surpass the $ 16 billion that Facebook and its early investors raised in the social networking company's IPO two years ago.

When the company sat atop the world a few years ago, it raised hopes that Canada could develop a thriving tech sector, and move beyond its stubborn reliance on resources.

Less than a year and a half ago, the ecommerce company raised $ 150 million at a $ 1 billion valuation.

Poloz credited the province's subsidized programs for raising prime - age female workforce participation to about 87 per cent, up from 74 per cent 20 years ago.

Less than two years ago, the company was riding high, experiencing explosive growth, but things peaked in the summer of 2013, when it raised $ 150 million in funding at a valuation of $ 1 billion.

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.

Second Cup used to have one of the best loyalty programs in the sector, according to Fisher, but it was scrapped a few years ago, raising some eyebrows in the industry.

Born and raised in the Bay Area, CEO and co-founder Dennis Wong started Campsyte about a year ago, after working in an architecture, engineering and construction practice since college.

The success of these all - but - unknown companies in raising millions — or hundreds of millions — of dollars is all the more striking given that many of these firms did not exist a year ago, while others do not even have a functioning prototype.

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.

IH: I made a promise to myself about two years ago that I would do something every day to raise the issue of women in the workplace.

When Netflix raised its subscription prices two years ago, users rebelled.

As recently as six years ago, when Wadhwa would ask his foreign - born students whether they planned to stay in the United States, almost all would raise their hands.

For example, in the hardware space, a year ago, $ 1M in pre-sales on Kickstarter with a great product idea was sometimes enough to raise a Series A. Now, investors are demanding pre-sales in the millions with a product that's either functional or actually in production given the risk of bringing hardware to market.

And I've spent over 300 hours with Motif Investing, who during this time raised a Series E round led by Renren of China, a company I ironically helped take public years ago.

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

Founded eight years ago by a Chilean entrepreneur, Sebastian Valin, ComparaOnline raised two previous rounds of funding from the regional investment firm Kaszek Ventures, and financial technology investors Ribbit Capital and Rise Capital, all of whom committed money to the latest round.

Chinese regulators began stepping up their scrutiny of banks several years ago, and they have been discouraging some aggressive lending and money - raising programs.

The last time the company raised the annual fee was four years ago.

WeWork has raised about $ 1.8 billion from investors and venture capital funds since it began operations six years ago.

If we take 20 % of the total value of U.S. based unicorns and divide it by the trailing twelve month proceeds raised by VC backed U.S. IPOs, it would currently take an estimated 6 1/2 years for all U.S. unicorns to IPO — nearly 6X longer than 24 months ago and more than double the trailing 24 month median.

And even before the disclosure of the record - breaking purchase in a New York art auction by one of his associates, Prince Mohammed's extravagance had already raised eyebrows, most notably with the impulse purchase two years ago in the south of France of a Russian vodka titan's 440 - foot yacht, for half a billion dollars.

Federal Reserve policy: Two years ago, the Fed embarked on a new policy, raising short - term interest rates.

Girnar Soft had raised $ 50 million (around Rs 307 crore then) about a year ago from Chinese investment management firm Hillhouse Capital and Hong Kong - based hedge fund Tybourne Capital with participation from existing investor Sequoia Capital.

U.S. drillers expect to continue raising production this year, but some are adjusting spending to the expected cash flows in the current oil price environment, after prices failed to rise as much as analysts and investors had expected a few months ago.

I wrote years ago that raising rates in the face of the data is all about giving the banks higher profits.

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.