Sentences with phrase «round one of»

April 24 (Reuters)- Burger King owner Restaurant Brands International Inc and its franchisees will spend C$ 700 million ($ 546 million) over four years to revamp coffee chain Tim Hortons, following a round of bad publicity over its management of the Canadian chain.

In August, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and a handful of venture capital firms led a $ 17 million Series A round of fundraising for Memphis Meat.

What's more, Crypt closed a $ 6.2 million round of funding on Tuesday, led by Lerer Hippeau, NBCUniversal, Advancit Capital, and Blumhouse Productions.

«You're starting to hurt my feelings,» he joked after several rounds of questioning.

And apparently his attorneys were wrong, because Cotopaxi secured $ 3 million in a seed round of funding.

The same logic applies to acquisitions, with Schlein saying a public company acquirer «isn't going to do something stupid» and overpay for a company just because the last round of private investors did.

Also, Fancy is reportedly trying to raise a new round of funding with a valuation that could be as high as $ 1.2 billion.

That data raised a fresh round of questions about how the Federal Reserve will proceed on further cutting back on its massive monthly bond purchases, which have kept long - term rates low and encouraged a strong rally on equity markets.

To date, the Toronto - based start - up has raised nearly $ 1 million in crowdfunding and will enter its seed round of funding soon.

NFL teams drafted six quarterbacks in the first round of that draft, a record which still stands today.

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.

Moreover, a buying binge was expected ahead of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's last round of mortgage restrictions back in March.

The new round of fundraising, led by venture capital firm Traingle Peak Partners, is worth $ 26 million.

Local Motion, the three - year - old start - up, announced Wednesday that Andreessen Horowitz has invested a Series A round of $ 6 million in the company.

(Never mind that not two weeks after her Olympic win, Puig lost in the first round of the U.S. Open.)

In the long run, Harvard's move could provoke a fresh round of soul searching in the increasingly challenged field of endowment investing.

The company was in the midst of negotiating a new round of financing and awaiting a cheque from the federal government's Scientific Research and Experimental Development program — both of which eventually came through.

In what the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission called «the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred,» the attacker - who may have been an insider - fired about 100 rounds of.30 - caliber rifle ammunition into the radiators of 17 electricity transformers over the course of 19 minutes.

Peloton's latest round was series E, meaning that it has previously accepted several rounds of funding.

Elon Musk - led SpaceX Corp is raising $ 507 million in a new round of funding, valuing the company at around $ 26 billion, according to a filing seen by Reuters.

What matters is that this fraud, only the latest bitcoin - related criminal activity, brought on another round of bad headlines for the still - nascent industry.

Was it either sell or do another round of funding soon?

I recently had a round of creative reviews, and asked «just show me the work.»

And for good reason: Apple sold nine million new iPhones over three days in September; Google earned US$ 14 billion in revenue last quarter; Twitter, it's IPO imminent, is about to mint a new round of tech - age millionaires.

But a recent round of management changes within the industry portends more concern for shareholder value.

Blum became one of the company's first investors and also contributed to the most recent round of funding.

«It's an issue, but I think it's probably going to be one that'll be corrected in the next round of manufacturing,» said Y Studios» Viramontes.

He might want to reconsider that decision because past rounds of tightening don't seem to have taken enough of a bite out of demand.

The company is reportedly planning another billion - dollar raise — marking the eighth round of funding it has sought in the past five years.

While I.S.O. proceedings are generally confidential, new standards must go through many stages, with many rounds of voting — first with smaller working groups and then with full national delegations.

Peloton, which sells an Internet - connected fitness bicycle, just raised a massive new round of funding.

The bond purchases, the third round of quantitative easing embarked upon by the Fed in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse and subsequent recession, have kept interest rates and bond yields low.

The Piceance Basin, which spans much of western and northwestern Colorado, already has multiple well sites, pipelines and processing plants in place from a previous round of drilling in a shallower formation, Ludlam said.

In a lightning round of questions, Curry offered some insight into his tech - product preferences and habits.

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

«In many ways, I'm grateful that we were in a cash - constrained environment,» says Lake, who hasn't raised capital since Stitch Fix's last round of fundraising in 2014.

In March of 2017, Ripcord announced that it had raised a Series A round of $ 9.5 million, led by legendary venture firm Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Wozniak himself.

Mark Zuckerberg was 17 when the on - going Doha Round of free - trade negotiations began in 2001.

In the dorm room: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg headed into his second round of questioning Wednesday, but this time with the members of the House.

After a round of applause and cheering, the regional parliament of Catalonia marked their declaration of independence this Friday by breaking into their national anthem.

• RealSelf, a Seattle - based, the plastic surgery search platform, raised $ 40 million in its first round of funding.

When Trump announced the first round of tariffs on China, it was seen as a declaration of a trade war — a progressive effort by the two nations to damage each other economically, mainly through taxes and trade restrictions.

Casino operators agreed to raise wages during the last round of negotiations in 2013 as the city was coming out of the recession.

The company — which doesn't release its exact finances, but reportedly has an annual revenue run rate near $ 1 billion — is said to be raising a new round of funding that would value it at more than $ 5 billion.

After a multi-year round of negotiations between the federal and provincial governments, a deal was reached to increase contributions still further, limit benefits, and accumulate a surplus to be invested in what is now the $ 280 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

But when he really wanted a challenge, he says, he powered up his Super Nintendo for a round of Donkey Kong or Final Fantasy.

We used each one to celebrate our success — from landing a key client, beating our monthly sales target and adding our first new person to the team after a round of layoffs.

On the cusp of a new round of contract talks, he said his employees needed to be «empowered» and «motivated.»

The entire trip is thought to be rankling the plans of Vice President Pence, who just remarked while in Tokyo that the U.S. is planning to implement «the toughest, most aggressive round of economic sanctions ever» on North Korea.