But with so much at
stake for venture - backed startups, investors are a critical force behind the scenes who can shift the scales.
Not exact matches
Eventually, a childhood friend of Hollender's, a New York City investment banker, bought Newman's
stake for about $ 200,000, which went right into the new
venture.
GV, Alphabet Inc.'s
venture capital firm, offered up significantly less than half of its
stake in Uber even though Alphabet's self - driving car subsidiary Waymo is suing Uber
for stealing trade secrets.
News broke earlier that Boeing was in talks with Embraer — the world's third - largest plane maker —
for a 80 to 90 percent
stake in a new
venture encompassing Embraer's commercial jet business.
Subiaco - based Mission NewEnergy has sold its Kuantan Port biodiesel refinery
for $ 24 million to a newly formed joint
venture company in which it will retain a 20 per cent
stake.
Troubled iron ore miner BC Iron has sold its majority
stake in the Nullagine joint
venture to Fortescue Metals Group
for just $ 1, along with some royalty payments.
Perth - based Altona Mining has finalised terms
for a joint
venture arrangement at its Cloncurry copper - gold project in Queensland, with the partner to contribute $ US213.5 million ($ A295 million) to acquire a majority
stake.
The Sri Lankan government said at the start of this month that it would take a 25 percent
stake in the joint
venture, in exchange
for dedicating radio spectrum to its work.
Taiwanese giant HTC bought a majority
stake in the
venture for $ 309 million in 2011 (Beats bought back half of HTC's investment in 2012 and now owns the controlling
stake) and Adams used a portion of his proceeds as seed capital
for the i.am +.
FORTUNE — Email marketing and design firm Campaign Monitor yesterday announced that it has raised $ 250 million in equity funding from Insight
Venture Partners,
for an undisclosed ownership
stake.
Last fall, in an unusual investment configuration, Silicon Valley
venture firm Benchmark took an equity
stake in Tinder in exchange
for Cohler joining the board to add his experience.
Seeking a firmer footing amid waning demand
for office printing, Xerox and Fujifilm agreed to a deal under which their existing five - decades - old joint
venture Fuji Xerox would buy back Fujifilm's 75 percent
stake in it.
If you never raise another round of
venture capital (a big if) and if your company is sold
for the normal
venture exit ($ 50 million on average
for 200 or so annually that get sold) then what is your
stake?
However, Syncrude's forecasted production
for the full year remains within the annual guidance range, said Suncor, which holds the majority
stake in the oil sands joint
venture project.
A ban on Venezuelan crude into the U.S. could be ruinous
for Citgo, so Rosneft wants to swap out its
stake for more operational control of joint
ventures inside Venezuela.
The report, which was first made by Sky News, says that Google is in «advanced talks» to place a minority $ 30 million
stake in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and invest an undisclosed amount that is somewhere in the range of «hundreds of millions of dollars» in Sir Richard Branson's ambitious space tourism
venture, which aims to take well - heeled clients who can pay $ 200,000
for a ticket to an orbital space flight around the Earth.
Equity - based crowdfunding is on the horizon as the next definitive step
for investors hoping to secure a
stake in both early - stage
ventures and more established companies.
The deal, which was sealed at a meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, at his mansion on the outskirts of Moscow on Thursday, will see BP collect $ 16.7 bn in cash and a 12.5 %
stake in Rosneft in return
for its 50 %
stake in the TNK - BP
venture.
Blackmores in its accounts also recorded a net loss
for 2016 - 17 on its 50 per cent
stake in Bemore of $ 6.96 million, compared with a loss of $ 814,000 in the first year of operation when the joint
venture was still in its infancy.
After adjusting
for exceptional items and amortisation reported profit before tax was down 25 % at # 77.8 million, which was chiefly due to the # 50.4 million exceptional gain on the sale of Dairy Crest's
stake in joint
venture Yoplait Dairy Crest in the previous year.
This past June, joint
venture Suning Sports purchased the majority
stake in the Nerazzurri from acting president Erick Thohir and Massimo Moratti's family
for an estimated $ 270 million.
This is,
for instance, why KickStarter couldn't offer
stakes in the
venture to contributors, and why crowdfunding will not scale beyond certain level.
Under the plan being considered, Microsoft would pay some money to Time Warner
for the AOL
stake, leaving the two companies approximately equal partners in the
venture.
Rather than wait
for eHarmony to go public, which might never happen, or
for some bigger company to acquire it, which also might not happen, the company's founders decided to look
for venture capitalists willing to cash out some of the
stake they and others held in the company.
Microsoft will invest some $ 300 million
for a 17.6 %
stake in the new
venture which will be valued at some $ 1.7 billion.
For example, Pratt & Whitney owns a 50 %
stake in Engine Alliance, which is a joint
venture with GE Aviation.
AFF — Afferro Mining — Mining - will receive $ 115m
for sale of
stake in joint
venture, which is higher than market cap, allowing investment in its remaining mines.
The
venture capitalist provides capital in exchange
for an equity
stake in the startup.
Another definition, from that same page, is «a
venture in a game of chance
for stakes».
Recent transactions include acting
for Barrick Gold on the proposed disposal of its 75 per cent holding in African Barrick Gold, Allied Gold Mining on its merger with St Barbara Limited, HSBC as sponsor on Quintain Estates and Development's new joint
venture arrangements to develop Greenwich Peninsula, Symphony Technology Group on its recommended cash offer
for Kewill, Barrick Gold on the disposal of its
stake in Highland Gold Mining and ValueAct Capital on its joint consortium bid with CVC Capital Partners
for Misys.
Industry specialist Alicia Quesnel is a «genuine force in the market» and acted
for Murphy Oil Canada in its C$ 937m sale of a 5 % non-operated
stake in the Syncrude oil sands joint
venture to Suncor Energy.
In December 2014, HDFC had said Azim Premji Trust would buy 0.95 per cent
stake in its life insurance
venture, HDFC Life,
for Rs 198.9 crore.
Companies such as Aviva Life, Aegon Religare, Edelweiss Tokio Life and Bharti AXA had filed applications with the FIPB
for increasing the
stakes of their joint
venture partners from 26 per cent to 49 per cent.
AIA group completed the purchase of 23 % additional
stake in the Tata AIA life joint
venture on Monday (April 26, 2016)
for a total sum of Rs 2,055 Crore.
ABFSG has gone
for this formal
venture with MMI with latter holding 26 %
stake, which is the upper limit as per current FDI regulations.
Subsequently, when ING Group moved out of the
venture, Exide took over the group's 26 per cent
stake; it even bought 16.32 per cent from Hemendra Kothari Group and 7.68 per cent from Enam Group, all
for a total consideration of around Rs 550 crore.
JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank is responsible
for selling the
stakes of Aviva in the Indian joint
venture where the value of the company is counted around Rs. 5000 crore.
Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance files FIPB application
for foreign
stake increase to 49 % in the Joint
Venture
HDFC has completed a 9 %
stake sale in HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company to its British joint
venture partner (JV) Standard Life
for a little over Rs 1,700 crore.
For half the amount you can go with LIC (Jeevan Amulya Plan) and for the remaining half amount you can go with IndiaFirst Life Insurance (joint venture between Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank and Legal & General (26 % stake) of U
For half the amount you can go with LIC (Jeevan Amulya Plan) and
for the remaining half amount you can go with IndiaFirst Life Insurance (joint venture between Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank and Legal & General (26 % stake) of U
for the remaining half amount you can go with IndiaFirst Life Insurance (joint
venture between Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank and Legal & General (26 %
stake) of UK).
«Pantaloon Retail (India) has signed a non-binding term sheet with L&T
for merger of its insurance joint
venture company Future Generali India Insurance Company with L&T General Insurance Company and sale of partial
stake to L&T and its other joint
venture partner Participatie Maatschappij Graafschap Holland NV in the merged entity,» Pantaloon Retail (India) said in a filing.
Munich Re bought additional 23.27 per cent
stake in Apollo Munich Health Insurance from its joint
venture partner Apollo Hospitals Group
for Rs 164 crore last year.
Axis Bank bought 4.99 %
stake in Max Life Insurance Ltd, a joint
venture between Mitsui Sumitomo, Axis and Max Financial Services,
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The Ontario Pension Board and wealth advisory firm Glenmede Trust, both of which already have a
stake in the firm via
venture capital (VC) investments, are among new investors to put $ 30m (# 24.2 m) into the startup, which specialises in high - calibre tech and sales jobs
for top companies such as Facebook and Uber.
Good notes Australian funds manager QIC, which just completed a $ 2.05 billion joint
venture with Forest City Enterprises
for a 49 percent
stake in eight malls, along with Starwood Capital, O'Connor Capital Partners and KKR.
Regency Centers Inc.,
for example, has a 35 percent
stake in a joint
venture it owns with a Macquarie Bank - controlled limited property trust.
In what appears to be one of the largest retail investment sales transactions year - to - date, Australian mall operator Westfield announced a joint
venture agreement with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)
for an ownership
stake in 10 of...
In May, CPPIB partnered with Simon Property Group and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Associated - College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA - CREF)
for a 36.9 percent
stake in the Mayflower Partnership, a joint
venture holding 13 regional malls totaling more than 10 million sq. ft. in the Boston area.
Under the terms of the deal, Rinascente contributed its centers, valued at about $ 1 billion, to a joint
venture called Gallerie Commerciali Italia, in which Simon bought a 49 percent
stake for about $ 500 million.