Sentences with phrase «startup funding rounds»

That's still a fraction of the 4,782 rounds generated by global startup funding rounds.

However, it could have an outsize influence on private company valuations and limit the size of startup funding rounds.

Not exact matches

Stats tell how rare those companies are: Of U.S. startups that landed an initial funding round between 2009 and 2014, only 15.5 percent had a female founder, according to CrunchBase.

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

Within a week, he'd agreed to invest $ 500,000 to fund their seed round; they soon earned an investment from startup accelerator Y Combinator as well.

Launched in 2009 by three Yale alums — Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory — and refined during a stint with the well - known startup incubator Y Combinator, the company was completing the details of a massive $ 40 million funding round by one of the top investors in tech, a piece of news they had agreed to announce as part of a profile on Business Insider.

• Nubank, a Brazil - based financial startup, raised $ 150 million in funding.DST Global Investment Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital LP and QED.

500 Startups led the round, and was joined by investors including Asahi Medialab Ventures, DG Lab Fund (of Digital Garage and Daiwa Securities Group), Mobile Internet Capital, and Septeni Holdings.

While the net outcome of the investigation is likely to bring more transparency to a previously opaque pricing process, the ripple effects on other startups could be profound — pushing down valuations and funding rounds universally, financial experts say.

There were 121 funding rounds for such startups in the second quarter of 2016, compared with 21 in the equivalent quarter of 2011, that group says.

Last week, the startup closed a billion - dollar funding round.

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.

In its largest investment to date, the coworking space provider led a $ 32 million funding round for The Wing, a New York startup that runs women - only community spaces.

• Iyzico, a Turkish fintech startup, raised an additional $ 2 million in Series C funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, closing the round at $ 15 million, according to TechCrunch.

In July, the startup raised $ 10 million in a Series A round of funding from SherpaVentures and Shervin Pishevar.

This explosion in popularity landed FanDuel in the top 10 of the Silicon Alley 100; its $ 275 million series E funding round in July valued the company at more than $ 1 billion, vaulting it to the ranks of so - called «unicorn» startups.

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.

One of the fund's most recent investments came as part of a $ 2 million seed round for Summersalt, a St. Louis - based swimwear startup.

The venture - backed startup has raised a bit less than $ 3 million in two funding rounds.

That night Circle, the startup that makes a «wallet» for digital currency, confirmed Fortune «s reports of a new funding round.

Earlier this fall, St. Louis differentiated itself from the other midwestern cities jockeying to become the next hot startup hub by forming the Spirit of St. Louis fund, a $ 5 million seed - stage fund designed to help get startups through the valley of death — or the period between very early money and a Series A round.

The investment from DiCaprio in the Los Angeles - based startup follows recent big funding news in the meat - alternative sector with Memphis Meats closing a $ 17 million Series A fundraising round in August.

WeWork, which has already raised $ 969 million in funding at a $ 10 billion valuation, was already the 11th most valuable startup in the world without accounting for this round.

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.

3D printing startup Carbon3D has raised $ 100 million in a funding round led by Google's venture capital arm.

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.

Zipline, a drone startup, has snatched $ 25 million in a funding round that will help the firm deliver blood to patients who need transfusions.

With over $ 200 million in funding over 6 rounds, smart doorbell startup Ring has been getting everyone's attention.

The media startup, valued at $ 11 billion in its latest round of funding, says the number of «pinners,» or people sharing images and links, has doubled on its platform in the last 18 months and the number of searches on its service have increased by 81 % over the last year.

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.

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.

Intel owns 22 % of Cloudera having invested $ 740 million in the startup in 2014 as part of Cloudera's overall $ 900 million funding round in that year.

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 Shaun White.

In late March, HP Enterprise's investment arm led a $ 73.5 million funding round for the data center software startup Mesosphere.

The startup's last big round of funding came in March 2014 when Intel (intc) led a $ 740 million investment, according to the investment - tracking site CrunchBase.

Well, Hortonworks is an open - source software startup launched by a group of Yahoo (YHOO) engineers who raised first - round funding from both Yahoo and Benchmark.

This news comes on the heels of an $ 80 million funding round for Stripe announced in late January that valued the startup at $ 1.75 billion.

That being said, even if you have a startup short sale (i.e. selling for less than the valuation you did in your last round), you basically pay back the last round of funding first and start splitting the money on a percentage basis after that.

On Wednesday, Hawkins announced the release of an education - focused app through his new startup called If You Can, as well as a $ 6.5 million funding round from Greylock Partners and Almaz Capital.

Jessica Alba's startup The Honest Company, a subscription ecommerce service focused on providing parents non-toxic, eco-friendly family and baby products, has closed a $ 25 million funding round let by Institutional Venture Partners with participation from Iconiq Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst Partners.

Chicago Ventures doesn't disclose its investments, but Larkins says he's seeing more Midwest startups receive minimal funding in the early stages, as opposed to raising big funding rounds.

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Software startup Slack Technologies is raising $ 250 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, boosting the company's valuation as Silicon Valley companies enjoy a surge in venture capital investments.

Slack's sizeable funding round reflects the trend of a growing number of $ 100 million - plus checks pouring into technology startups.

That concentration of funding in rounds for just two enormous startups against a backdrop of a decline in the overall number of deals seems to indicate relatively grim times.

co raised during its last private funding round in 2015 — according to recent reports by Coindesk, a cryptocurrency blog, and Axios, a media startup.

• Element AI, which has 100 employees, is calling this deal the largest ever funding round for an pure AI startup.

Private money going to startups more than four years past their first funding round «has grown by a factor of 20 since 1992,» according to an academic paper published last year by the California Institute of Technology and Cornerstone Research.

According to CrunchBase, a site that tracks startups and their funding, the company had raised just $ 1 million in a seed funding round it closed on in February 2015.

• Poshmark, a Redwood City, Calif. - based online service for buying and selling second - hand clothing, is in talks to raise more than $ 50 million in a funding round that could value the startup at roughly $ 600 million, according to Reuters.