With just a fraction of startups
receiving venture capital financing, approach your social circles, with these five pointers in mind.
Not exact matches
Yet that value may notch even higher this year, to more than $ 70 billion, as the company is reportedly in talks to
receive more
venture capital financing.
They're already convincing investors — New Millennium just
received close to $ 1 million in a round of
financing led by Toronto - based
venture capital fund Hedgewood Inc. — and a burgeoning array of early adopters, including pioneering chefs, adventurous retailers and corporate partners that could soon include Google.
Financing growth from sales is tough but the reality is very few companies
receive the
venture -
capital funding seemingly everyone believes is indispensable.
Of the U.S. - based companies that
received a round of
venture capital financing in 2010, only 6 percent had a female CEO, 7 percent had a female founder, and 10 percent had a female founder or CEO at some point, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.
Fremont, California - based Intuity Medical, a diabetes management technology company, announced that it will be
receiving $ 40 million in equity
financing from several of its previous investors, including Accuitive Medical Ventures, Investor Growth Captial, KCK Group, affiliates of Luther King
Capital Management, PTV Healthcare
Capital, US
Venture Partners, and Versant Ventures.
The study of more than 20,000
venture capital - backed companies that
received financing between 1997 and 2011 found that the proportion of female executives is 7.1 % at successful companies and 3.1 % at unsuccessful companies, «demonstrating the value that having more females can potentially bring to a management team.»
The process has
received eight patents and has 75 additional patents under review; 24M has raised $ 50 million in
financing from
venture capital firms and a U.S. Department of Energy grant.
Furthermore, the technology transfer office
receives invitations to gatherings of pharmaceutical, biotechnology,
finance, and
venture capital companies called «partnering meetings.»
Between 1977 and 1984 forty - three different manufacturers of Winchester disk drives
received venture -
capital financing.
App Annie has
received $ 157 million in
financing, including from investors such as Sequoia
Capital, Institutional
Venture Partners, IDG
Capital Partners, e.ventures, Greenspring Associates, and Greycroft Partners.
Lawyer rating and directory site Avvo has
received $ 10 million in a new round of
financing, led by Silicon Valley
venture capital firm DAG Ventures.
As part of its exit, Cedar will acquire RioCan's 80 percent ownership interest in Franklin Village shopping center in Franklin, Mass. for $ 60.1 million, including the assumption of an in - place $ 34.7 million mortgage; sell its 20 percent ownership interest in the remaining 21 properties for approximately $ 119.5 million, including in - place
financings of $ 54.4 million and
receive approximately $ 39 million in cash, as well as the distribution of its share of working
capital in the joint
venture.