Sentences with phrase «several leading funders»

Our board and council includes top experts from several leading funders, humanitarian, and nonprofit organizations.

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Accion Venture Lab led the round and was joined by investors including Omidyar Network, Mulago Foundation, Choiseul Africa Capital, Mercy Corps» Social Venture Fund, and several angel investors.

It raised $ 4.4 billion in funding from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund over the course of several months; bought the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building for $ 850 million to serve as its new headquarters; is adding a second headquarters at the new Salesforce Tower in San Francisco; led a $ 32 million funding round in New York startup The Wing; and has bought several other startups, most recently spending $ 200 million on Meetup.

The Series C funding round was led by venture capital firm Octopus Ventures, with participation from Passion Capital, Industry Ventures, and several others.

Along with keeping our fingers on the pulse of the North American fintech community, we added several new companies led by fantastic founders to our Fund II portfolio and welcomed three new team...

TORONTO, January 25, 2017 - Today NextAI announced major partnerships with several leading Canadian companies to help fund and support the program and its participants.

Cairngorm Capital has been backed by a consortium of leading, long - term, international institutional investors, consisting of several prestigious European funds of funds and US university endowments.

Not surprisingly, there are several notable standouts in our 2017 list, including Nehal Raj who leads TPG's multi-billion-dollar technology investing practice globally to Alex Soltani who embraced a bold approach to deal making when successfully starting his own firm in his late 20s to Dominic Ang who purpose - built a fund to dramatically accelerate portfolio company growth through his proven operating model.

Chris also serves on the Steering Committee of the New Economy Initiative, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan Office of Technology Transfer, and boards or advisory boards of Invest Detroit, the Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan, University of Detroit Jesuit, and several venture capital funds, including the Procter & Gamble - led fund of funds, Cintrifuse.

After several successful years, her fund tumbled for three consecutive quarters, leading three large institutional clients to shift their business elsewhere.

At DFJ, Jennifer led the formation of and sat on the investment committees of several DFJ affiliate funds and served as an advisor to the DFJ China, Vietnam and Israeli teams.

Kleiner Perkins has several female partners, but only life - sciences investor Beth Seidenberg and Mary Meeker, the renowned Internet analyst who left Morgan Stanley (MS) three years ago to lead Kleiner's $ 1 billion digital growth fund, are general partners — the real power tier at the firm.

Today NextAI announced major partnerships with several leading Canadian companies to help fund and support the program and its participants.

Prior to joining BPC, Kurt spent 4 years working as a consultant and corporate development executive with several technology and marketing companies, including NewView Technologies, Inc. (formerly eSteel, Inc.), a supply chain software company backed by $ 100 million in funding from leading venture capital investors (Goldman, Sachs & Co., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bessemer Venture Partners), and CM Media Inc., a leading new media company.

Baillie Gifford, a UK based mutual fund, led Denali's Series B financing and was joined by several other major institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds and private investors.

Investors poured into fixed income ETFs in April as equity market volatility jumped with several month's leading asset - gathering ETFs being bond funds.

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Facing several well - funded primary challenges on Tuesday, some believe Zellner is concerned he could end up leading a party more fractured than ever before.

It took several more days for Empire State Development, SUNY Polytechnic and the office of Governor Andrew Cuomo to identify a funding source and get the money to LPCiminelli, the lead developer on the project.

Despite its large, publicly funded budget and six figure salaried employees, the ECWA has failed to properly address the water infrastructure issues that have plagued the County and have led to the numerous water main issues over the past several years.

She said that despite its large, publicly funded budget and six - figure salaried employees, the Water Authority has failed to properly address the water infrastructure issues that have plagued the county and have led to numerous water main issues during the past several years.

The caucus, then under the leadership of Council Members Helen Rosenthal and Laurie Cumbo, met and interviewed all eight candidates who were running to lead the Council, and extracted several promises from each, including funding for a new staff position to serve the caucus.

But unlike many, the several agencies and officials who regularly monitor, regulate, or litigate against the mayoral administration are put in an awkward situation, annually appealing for funding in a dynamic that can hamper their ability to carry out charter - mandated duties and, in some cases, lead

Garcia has prosecuted several (now former) lawmakers for misuse of public funds, but is probably best known for the wiretaps that led to the prostitution scandal that forced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer from office.

«The crane fly link was made as part of several longer - term studies — funded by The Natural Environment Research Council and Defra — investigating blanket bog ecosystems across several UK upland sites, including the Yorkshire Dales, Peak District and North York Moors.Dr Heinemeyer, who is currently leading a # 1m Defra - funded SEI project to further study the impacts of climate change and management on blanket bogs, said it wasn't only rare birds that were at risk from climate change.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science and several other leading science and technology professional societies are proud partners of SciCast, a research project run by George Mason University and funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).

Flexible and enthusiastic capital markets allowed me to raise close to $ 3 billion to fund this work, which I believe will lead to breakthrough treatments in several serious diseases.

According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, several of the nation's science - driven agencies — the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Agriculture, the Department of the Interior, and NASA — have been losing funding, leading to more «outsourcing» of what were once governmental science functions.

A # 14 million, five - year partnership between the BBSRC, the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council and a consortium of leading companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Pall Life Sciences, it aims to fund innovative biotechnology - related research across several universities.

In a surprisingly blunt report released on 13 November, a high - wattage international committee, led by former U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni, proposes a massive overhaul of French life sciences research that would create a single, strong funding agency and likely spell the death of several existing institutes.

Partial support also is provided by the NSF - funded Physics Frontier Center of the KICP, the Kavli Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.The SPT collaboration is led by the University of Chicago and includes research groups at Argonne National Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Cardiff University, Case Western Reserve University, Harvard University, Ludwig - Maximilians - Universität, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, McGill University, University of Arizona, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Davis, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Michigan, as well as individual scientists at several other institutions, including the European Southern Observatory and the Max - Planck - Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn, Germany.

IEETA also leads several Research & Development projects and technology transfer projects funded by the Portuguese Agency of Research.

She is the principal investigator on several large research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health to study the end - stages of dementia and has been a lead author on many articles in top peer - reviewed journals related to this topic.

Children receiving care at Texas Children's Sickle Cell Program have the opportunity to participate in several National Institutes of Health (NIH)- funded research studies led by physician scientists, providing the latest treatments for this disease.

The result is the culmination of a several - year - long project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency that was a close collaboration between teams led by Associate Professor Vladimir Stojanovic of UC Berkeley, Professor Rajeev Ram of MIT, and Assistant Professor Milos Popovic from Boston University and previously CU Boulder.

Dr. Hackam's work has led to the filing of several international patents, and has been funded by the National Institutes of Health as well as several industry collaborations.

Funding provided by the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) supports several types of pilot projects (1) highly innovative pilot projects focusing on proof - of - concept or translational research; (2) preliminary collaborative investigations that lead to multi-investigator grant awards or clinical trial; (3) projects that closely align with the Cancer Center's strategic plan and enhance key initiatives; and (4) pilot funding for junior investigators to jump - start independent projects or for more senior investigators looking to study a novel idea derived from disFunding provided by the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) supports several types of pilot projects (1) highly innovative pilot projects focusing on proof - of - concept or translational research; (2) preliminary collaborative investigations that lead to multi-investigator grant awards or clinical trial; (3) projects that closely align with the Cancer Center's strategic plan and enhance key initiatives; and (4) pilot funding for junior investigators to jump - start independent projects or for more senior investigators looking to study a novel idea derived from disfunding for junior investigators to jump - start independent projects or for more senior investigators looking to study a novel idea derived from discovery.

Several conclusions now can be drawn: (1) research grants are used to pay for indirect expenses by all science faculty researching in a laboratory, (2) many scholarly investigations by faculty not needing to work in a research laboratory have their indirect expenses paid by some internal budget at the same institutions, (3) research grant awards for indirect expenses at some institutions exceed the amount given for direct expenses, and, (4) direct experience with paying for indirect expenses leads many Principal Investigators to have questions and suspicions that some type of hidden purpose or scam might be going on with the current system for using research grant funds to pay for indirect expenses.

Serving as a think - tank intermediary to devise such a strategy, PASA developed a plan called Learning in Communities / Providence, led by Rhode Island Kids Count (RIKC) and funded by the Wallace Foundation, which had taken an interest in the needs of the city's after - school programs in April 2003 after several studies reported that high - quality after - school programs are an affordable and effective way to improve school attendance and success.

A recognized specialist in the field of fund - raising, Ms. Sanford has led several initiatives that have raised more than $ 58 million to support the mission of various nonprofit organizations.

This decrease in overall education spending led parents and several school districts to sue in Dwyer, claiming the «negative factor» violated Amendment 23 and demanding the court order the Legislature to increase educational funding.

That pubic school portability provisions might lead to private school vouchers is bolstered by the fact that there have been several failed attempts in the recent Congressional sessions to turn Title I funding into a private school voucher by making the funds portable to both public and private schools.

It was a measure put in place several years ago, amid concerns that too many new charter schools in any one district would lead to declining enrollment and reduced funding at traditional public schools.

CHICAGO In recent weeks, Chicago students led several protests focused on the ongoing state budget fight and the dire need for more funding for the city's public schools.

A recent lead editorial in Raleigh's News & Observer editorial «NC GOP leaders ignore recession cuts when touting funding increases» makes several good points concerning the state's declining commitment to funding public schools.

For several years Ms. Johnson led the professional development program for one of IDRA's Transitions to Teaching projects, MASS (Math and Science Smart), funded by the U.S. Department of Education to recruit and prepare elementary, middle, and high school teachers to serve English language learners and diverse student populations.

At the Education Writers Association's 69th National Seminar in Boston last week, several leading journalists predicted that school finance (e.g., funding equity and adequacy), race (e.g., school integration, school discipline), state accountability systems under the new Every Student Succeeds Act, and implementation of the Common Core State Standards would receive the most coverage during the 2016 - 17 school year.

At EPIC, she led several large projects including a multi-method study to determine adequate school funding in the state of Washington.

The Grand Canyon Institute (GCI) is proud to have championed several policy triumphs that will lead to greater fiscal responsibility and public education funding as the 2018 legislative session comes to a close.