Sentences with phrase «second biggest funding»

Thalmic Labs raised the second biggest funding round in domestic startup history.

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April 15 - A unit of U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management said it now held the largest stake in Whitbread Plc, making it the second activist in recent months to draw attention to Britain's biggest hotel and coffee - shop operator.

Fidelity Charitable donor - advised fund program has become the nation's second - biggest charitable donor after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

At the same time, Elliott's assets have nearly doubled to roughly $ 39 billion, including $ 5 billion it raised in a 23 - hour span in May, making it more than twice the size of the second - biggest activist hedge fund, Dan Loeb's Third Point.

April 15 (Reuters)- A unit of U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management said it now held the largest stake in Whitbread Plc, making it the second activist in recent months to draw attention to Britain's biggest hotel and coffee - shop operator.

Canada's second - biggest public pension fund and the French private equity investor are set to acquire the stake from French Sagard Private Equity Partners.

Druckenmiller also highlighted fellow hedge fund billionaire George Soros as his second mentor, noting that Soros taught him the importance of making just a few big bets (that is, holding concentrated positions instead of being diversified).

That really is the biggest thing and second is to not fall off the wagon once you see your passive income fund grow.

Four years after striking out from big - brand venture capital firms to set up their own shop, Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad are back for more with a second fund and several high - profile new supporters.

Oil futures edged lower for a second straight session on Monday in thin trade as European markets observed the Easter holiday and as hedge funds and other big speculators were Continue Reading

«MSCI estimates some $ 17 billion will flow into Chinese markets — both from passive funds that automatically track its indexes and active fund managers — when the country's stocks are included a year from now,» giving indexers something like a quarter of a percentage point of China's stock market, which is the second - biggest in the world behind America's.

Additionally, the $ 21B we saw invested this quarter is a record high, just the second time we've reached this funding level during the last 15 years, and Artificial Intelligence saw its biggest funding quarter ever (over $ 1.8 B).

High Yield Bond Funds posted outflows for the 13th time in the past 15 weeks, with the latest redemptions the biggest since early March, while Emerging Markets Bond Funds recorded their largest outflow since the second week of February.

In 2015, Asia's fintech startups attracted US$ 4.5 billion in venture capital funding through 130 deals, making the region the second biggest player in terms of venture capital following North America with US$ 7.7 billion through 378 deals.

After the unseemly bankruptcy of the Espirito Santo Group and the associated bank, then Portugal's second biggest (likely a result of not praying enough, see: «Big Portuguese Bank Gets Into Trouble» and «Fears Over Banco Espirito Santo Escalate» for the gory details), Portugal's state - run deposit insurance fund basically ran out of money.

The bigger challenge appears to be finding enough money to reach scale, with our fintech roundtable reporting that it is more difficult to find second - round funding than it is first.

For example, this is from the second paragraph: ``... the fact remains that any entity with sufficient capital behind it can usually move any market in the direction that suits it...» Large financial institutions and hedge funds undoubtedly wish that this were true, but in the real world these entities «come a cropper» when they take big positions that aren't fundamentally justified.

After developing a product or service for which there is demand, funding growth is usually a company's second biggest challenge.

It seems every second solicitor has been lamenting the lack of cases making their way through the court system as the big end of town attempt to use funds to further business rather than feed lawyers.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

The Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts MP, has announced the release of # 14 million to fund the second phase of the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) investment in Big Data.

It's the second big jump in funding in two years for this program, which last year had its appropriation doubled.

Cuomo's July fund - raising spree will continue Saturday with his second big money Hamptons event in a week.

The second biggest irritation is rich politicians «using legal methods to minimise their tax bill such as setting up trust funds for their children».

Cuomo already netted one big scalp in his ongoing pay - to - play pension fund probe this month when former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi pleaded guilty to a felony charge of public corruption (his second since 2007).

The MTA could face a $ 12 billion gap in funding for improvements and big projects like the Second Avenue subway, says a new comptroller analysis.

For the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg said people were «a little baffled by all the various solutions» being proposed to clean up MPs» expenses because «they all fail to deal with the biggest loophole: MPs making hundreds of thousands of pounds on second homes funded by the taxpayer».

Pierce Brosnan funded his big break in acting by taking out a second mortgage on his central heating.

Second, a budget proposal isn't a budget, and simply defunding PSLF doesn't actually end the program and only opens up a big legal issue (i.e. it's still the law, but there's no money to fund it).

Among my funds, those hit the hardest were 1) funds invested in energy / oil, such as CGMFX and PRNEX, after what happened to oil prices in the second half of 2008; 2) funds have big exposure in foreign markets, such as ADVDX and DODFX.

Second, the strategies involved can generate big annual tax bills, so the funds are best held in a retirement account.

«Russian markets stopped trading for a second day after emergency funding measures by the government failed to halt the biggest stock rout since the country's debt default and currency devaluation a decade ago.

A hedge fund that was BrisConnections's second biggest investor at 13 %, threatened legal action, telling the The Sydney Morning Herald:

Fidelity, which has the second - biggest no - transaction - fee fund program in our survey, offers 3,194 funds.

(Bloomberg)-- Pimco's biggest mutual fund trailed a majority of peers for the second straight year after missing a rally in longer - term bonds and betting incorrectly that inflation would rise.

If you've read Free Money Finance for more than 15 seconds, you know that I'm a big fan of index funds.

Funds like IYT and XTN handily outpaced the S&P 500 in the first quarter, but they weakened considerably in the second quarter; both failed to pick up ground on the big time benchmark until September.

Just to name two of the problems with bond funds think about the second of the big risks — interest rate risk — and expenses.

The second biggest source of funds is shareholders equity which can be invested with an infinite time horizon.

They sold 2400 of them to the tune of $ 1.44 million; thus setting the record as the second biggest single day (10/08/2016) for fund - raising; bested only by the last day (11/19/2012) of the original Kickstarter campaign.

I haven't spent years alleging that every second climate blogger is part of a «well - funded disinformation campaign» bankrolled by big oil.

Earlier this year, bankruptcy filings from the country's second - biggest coal company, Arch Coal Inc, revealed funding to a group known mainly for its unsuccessful lawsuit against the climate scientist Michael Mann.

One big idea is for a 10 - year national advice and legal support fund to be set up by a future government and funded by the two lots of # 50m coming from that government and the second lot from other sources.

And while I have yet to be party to any Gates» funding (in the interests of full disclosure), I can say that a second venture in scholarly communication demonstrates well enough the upside and downside of big philanthropy.

«The Trusted Choice ® Disaster Relief Fund allows us to financially assist victims when and where a disaster strikes, rather than raising the funds after the fact when each second on the clock is so precious,» says Bob Rusbuldt Big «I» president & CEO.

The photo sharing app is seeing about 1,000 photos a second being shared and that has attracted some big name VCs who want to fund it.

The move by prominent Ethereum stakeholders to join forces so as to create a fund for the second largest blockchain network (Ethereum) has received lots of hype around the crypto space as the biggest development to further transform the platform since the beginning of the year.

Fannie and Freddie will likely be a bigger priority for Congress in the second half of the year as the funding cut - off date draws closer.

The second - biggest U.S. mall owner had $ 226 million in cash on its balance sheet as of June 30, along with access to other funding through the debt markets.

Passive investment opportunities, such as second mortgage investments and syndicated mortgage investment opportunities, provide families with alternatives to «big bank» GICs and mutual funds while concurrently providing principal - protection and additional cash flow.