Sentences with phrase «round of venture funding»

BitPay, the Atlanta - based bitcoin payment processor, claims to have raised more than any other bitcoin startup — $ 32.7 million — after a new round of venture funding.

Desktop Metal has raised $ 45 million in a Series C round of venture funding to develop desktop 3D printers that make metal objects.

The company just closed a $ 115 million round of venture funding to deliver its first batch of machines to customers within the U.S., founder and CEO Ric Fulop said Monday.

When Twitter last raised a round of venture funding in September 2009, it was only the second U.S. - based digital media company to raise $ 100 million - plus in a year and a half; one other company — Zynga — joined that club two months later when it raised $ 180 million in a round led by Digital Sky Technologies.

After more than a decade of going it alone, Canadian online learning company Desire2Learn is accepting its first round of venture funding — $ 80 million from New Enterprise Associates and the venture arm of OMERS, one of Canada's biggest pension funds.

The site was built with one round of venture funding of $ 3M by Fayez Sarofim & Co.There is an eHarmony Blog that has done a little research based off of eHarmony rejection letters and have come up with this list of top five reasons:

The new 365 SmartHub completed development in early 2012 due, in part, to a seven - figure round of venture funding completed in December of 2011.

Cloud - based CRM startup Capillary Technologies Pvt Ltdhas raised $ 15.5 million in Series A round of venture funding from Sequoia...

Eynon - Lynch says PearDeck sometimes draws comparison to Nearpod, which provides similar offerings (and also raised a hearty round of venture funding earlier this month).

Then in September, Oscar closed another $ 32.5 million round of venture funding led by Google Capital, pushing its valuation up to $ 1.75 billion.

The company just closed a $ 115 million round of venture funding to deliver its first batch of machines to customers within the U.S., founder and CEO Ric Fulop said Monday.

But they came to the U.S. in 2008 to raise their first round of venture funding.

Ka - shing invested in Hampton Creek, along with other investors, for the company's latest round of venture funding, which totaled $ 23 million.

For example, Palo Alto, California - based Cape Analytics, which raised $ 14 million in its first round of venture funding in November, applies computer vision and machine learning to automate property underwriting for insurance companies.

Integrate announces its fourth round of venture funding, but founder and CEO says, «This one's not about the money.»

Meanwhile, Redfin has had eight rounds of venture funding since 2005 totaling $ 167.8 million, according to Crunchbase.

Not exact matches

Culture Trip, an online travel magazine, raised $ 88 million in a series B round of funding led by the venture arm of PPF Group, a Netherlands - based conglomerate.

Investors in Bugcrowd's latest round of funding have privately valued the company at $ 115 million, including the new funds raised, according to data provided by Pitchbook, a site that tracks venture capital deals.

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.

She took her concept to venture capitalists and secured a total of $ 10.4 million in two funding rounds — the first, in 2013, led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures; the second, last year, led by Thrive Capital and including Bonobos founder Andy Dunn.

In August, Casper raised $ 13.1 million in a Series A round of funding from Kevin Colleran, Slow Ventures, Vaizra Investments, Crosslink Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Cendana Capital, Silas Capital, Consigliere Brand Capital, SV Angel, A-Grade Investments, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates.

At Denver - based Inspirato, a critical part of its latest $ 20 million funding round, led by tech - savvy firms W Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners, was its plan to open five «experience centers» in upscale U.S. malls.

That seed round also included Steve Case's Rise of the Rest fund, perhaps the best - known venture capital firm focused on startups outside of Silicon Valley.

The most recent round of funding for fuboTV included Sky UK, a telecommunications company with 11 million United Kingdom customers as of 2015; Scripps Networks Interactive, the parent company of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel; 21st Century Fox, whose stable of entertainment properties includes the Big Ten Network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Regional Networks, and the YES Network; and Northzone Ventures, a London - based venture capital firm that mainly invests in early stage software and technology companies.

Contently raised $ 9 million this week in its second round of venture capital funding.

Female Founders Fund estimates that even before the very recent venture capital slowdown, an entrepreneur's chances of raising an A round to follow a seed funding were only about 30 percent.

Run through the venture capital firm First Round Capital, the Dorm Room Fund has teams of college entrepreneurs in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Boston that scout for other promising student - founded startups.

In November 2012, the company raised a $ 1 million seed round of funding from Expansion Venture Capital, based in New York City.

Additionally, JetBlue Technology Ventures is investing alongside GGV and other venture firms in a $ 36 million series C round of funding for Gladly, bringing the company's total capital raised to $ 63 million.

He recently wrapped up a new round of funding with more than $ 10 million from Star Avenue Capital, a joint venture between CAA and Irving Place Capital.

Verold had won a number of competitions for startups, including the Toronto edition of the prestigious TIEQuest global business venture competition, and the $ 2 million Yaghi sought to close Verold's first round of funding was falling into place.

In April, VideoSurf raised $ 16 million in a round of funding led by Israel's Pitango Venture Capital.

The startup went on to raise a total of $ 13.6 million from venture capital firms in two rounds of funding to support it growth.

Similarly, Box, which is led by Aaron Levie, Inc. magazine's 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year — is about to close a new round of venture capital funding.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

On Tuesday, the food delivery startup hoping to reinvent frozen's reputation in the era of clean eating announced that it had raised some $ 43 million in a second round of funding, led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaunventure capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and ShaunVenture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaun White.

Flay joins other A-listers who have already put their dollars behind Daily Harvest: Oscar winning - actress Gwyneth Paltrow and 23 time Grand Slam champion star Serena Williams participated in the firm's Series A round of financing alongside WME Venture, Collaborative Fund, 14W, and Rubicon Venture Global announced June.

The seed round of a few million dollars — in which venture fund Polaris also participated — will go toward getting the technology prepped for human trials, which 30 - year - old CEO Carl Schoellhammer anticipates will happen within the next 12 months.

Online building supply marketplace BuildDirect has pulled off the venture capital equivalent of Irish twins, staging two large funding rounds in the same calendar year.

It's raised a total of $ 238.4 million in venture capital, and its last funding round was in December 2016.

«The volume of investments is astounding,» says Phineas Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital, one of several venture capital firms that set up investment funds aimed at college entrepreneurs.

Innoventures, a $ 200 million fintech, or financial technology, venture capital fund set up by Santander, was one of a number of investors to participate in Ripple's first round of funding in 2015.

Part of Locationary's $ 2.5 million in funding was acquired in 2011 during a venture capital round.

Giphy, which was created in 2013 as part of the New York - based venture fund / incubator Betaworks, got this valuation by raising a Series D funding round of $ 75 million from a series of venture capital investors.

In recent times, several investors have warned of impending unicorn deaths, and a tracker for down rounds — when a company's valuation falls when it raises new funding — has appeared online, courtesy of venture capital data company CB Insights.

They must have completed at least one round of venture - backed funding.

She also says funding isn't a problem, at least in the near term; the company raised $ 13.4 million in a round of financing in 2007 — the Australian government chipped in, along with three venture capital firms.

He has arrived at our meeting with a thick textbook on venture capital and is planning to raise a round of funding for his newest project, Ardefact, a luxury shopping site that has a crowdsourced procurement element baked into the mix.

Since its first round of financing in January 2009, the company has raised $ 142 million in venture funding, completing its most recent round for $ 85 million, in February.

Part of the problem, Sands believes, is that venture capitalists have been throwing too much funding to entrepreneurs raising seed and Series A rounds.