Sentences with phrase «startup venture rounds»

Some of the largest investors participating in blockchain startup venture rounds, include Digital Currency Group, SOSV, and Draper Associates.

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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.

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

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.

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.

Meal - kit startup Sun Basket has closed on another fundraising round, this time led by the venture capital and private equity arm of consumer products giant Unilever.

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.

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 Shaunventure capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and ShaunVenture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaun White.

Gurley says an intitial public offering is the best way for startup founders who get venture capital rounds to protect themselves and their own workers.

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.

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.

With a biotech startup, it may seem the potential is all in the science, but investor Amy Schulman, a venture capital partner at Polaris Partners, which led SQZ's $ 5 million funding round, says the main reason she decided to put money in SQZ is because of Sharei, even though he's young and had never started a company before.

About 80 percent of TechStars start - up graduates go on to raise venture capital or a significant angel - funding round, versus maybe 1 percent of all startups who seek funding.

The startup had recently closed a round of fundraising from three venture capital firms, including Lerer Hippeau Ventures, BoxGroup and SV Angel.

The deep - linking startup raised a $ 12 million series A round in January from the likes of Redpoint Ventures, Greycroft Partners, and Atlas Venture, among others.

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Although its early investors got Quincy through those near - death experiences, the struggling fashion startup couldn't gain enough traction to secure a Series A round of funding from venture capitalists and the young company — barely a year old — shut its doors in January 2013.

The startup Formspring.me was just four months old when it closed a $ 2.5 million angel round of funding last month from 10 name - brand investors, among them angel funds, individual entrepreneurs — even a venture capital firm.

In June, mattress - delivery startup Casper raised another $ 55 million in a series B funding round led by Institutional Venture Partners, with other investors including Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Adam Levine.

The startup is valued at about $ 400 million, and raised $ 40 million in January in a series B round of funding led by General Catalyst Partners and Thrive Capital, bringing its total amount of venture capital raised to $ 54 million since its launch in 2013.

Bypassing Traditional Venture Capital, MicroVentures Facilitated Seed Round of Funding for Startup in Less Than a Week

Another startup is Prozo.com, an online marketplace for buying and selling study material, which raised its pre-Series A round of funding from a London - based venture capital firm and two affluent individuals.

Shared - living space provider CoLive, owned by CoLife Advisory Pvt. Ltd, has raised $ 1.8 million (Rs 11.7 crore) in a round of funding led by Ncubate Capital Partners, a venture capital arm of SAR Group that engages primarily in water purifiers, clean tech and automotive batteries, the startup said in a press statement.

A down round is a venture capital industry term that denotes a fresh funding by a startup at a lower valuation than its previous VC round.

The startup has raised a $ 1.5 million seed round from Chicago Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, New Coast Ventures and angel investors.

-- 12 percent of venture rounds and 10 percent of venture dollars globally between 2010 and 2015 went to startups with at least one woman founder.

Tech startup entrepreneurs should seek professional legal advice when setting up or making changes to their capitalization structure, choosing legal counsel with experience in setting up early - stage ventures and working on investment rounds for their clients.

Over the past 14 months, blockchain and related startups have raised nearly $ 1.3 billion in traditional venture capital rounds worldwide.

Former National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander's startup, IronNet Cybersecurity Inc., has raised a sizable round of venture financing as it seeks to leverage its founder's government experience to defend customers against sophisticated hackers.

Following the completion of the due diligence process, the Startup Fund will introduce the entrepreneur to its network of angel investors and early - stage venture capital firms to help fill out the round of investment.

Cloud - based CRM startup Capillary Technologies Pvt Ltdhas raised $ 15.5 million in Series A round of venture funding from Sequoia...

Simple Inc., which focused on web and mobile banking and didn't charge for overdrafts or monthly maintenance, was acquired by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, or BBVA, for $ 117 million in February 2014 after raising $ 18.1 million from investors including Village Ventures, IA Ventures, First Round Capital, 500 Startups, Neu Venture Capital and Shasta Ventures.

Other startups that have recently raised large rounds of funding to make customer support less painful for everyone involved include Intercom, which according to Crunchbase has received $ 115.8 million so far from investors like Bessemer Venture Partners and Social Capital, and Helpshift, which has raised $ 38.5 million from Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and others.

Real estate research and data startup Reonomy raised $ 16 million in its latest funding round, about three years after last raising venture capital.

Venture development organization and startup investor CincyTech led the $ 1.25 million round of funding.

Expense management company Fyle Technologies has raised $ 400,000 (Rs. 2.67 crore) in its seed round led by early stage venture firm Pravega Ventures, the startup's founder Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan told Techcircle.

MAGNiTT.com, an intelligence platform and a startup directory connecting entrepreneurs and investors in MENA, has closed a fundraise of «close to US$ 1 million» in a seed round led by 500 Startups along with other regional VCs and angel investors including Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), KISP Ventures, Financial Horizon Group, and iNet.

Fried laments that such obsession with venture - backed startups is leading those who create startups to convince themselves their goals should be to secure three rounds of funding and then hope for an exit strategy where they sell their product to Facebook or Google.

Instead of traditional venture capital firms investing in startups from PowerPoint to IPO, there are angel investors and seed rounds on one end and traditional public market investors investing in private unicorn rounds on the other, with venture capital firms somewhere in the middle.

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Receipt Bank, a fintech startup that helps companies automate elements of their bookkeeping, has raised $ 50 million in a series B round of funding from Insight Venture Partners.

More cash in the bag would help the Silicon Valley venture capital giant diversify its focus from early - and growth - stage investments to pre-IPO funding rounds, at a time when startup valuations are spiking partly due to money pouring in from SoftBank Group Corp's $ 93 billion Vision Fund.

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According to TechCrunch, «over the past 14 months, blockchain and related startups have raised nearly $ 1.3 billion in traditional venture capital rounds worldwide.»

Preston Silverman, founder of Raise.Me, with investors at a Business Plan Competition.Raise.me, a startup that hooks colleges up with high school students looking for scholarships, raised $ 12 million last week in venture funding which it will use to expand its service nationwide.The fresh round of funding was led by new investor Redpoint Ventures, the venture -LSB-...]

Dentons» innovation arm Nextlaw Labs has invested in legal transaction management software platform Doxly, in a $ 2.25 m Series Seed funding round that includes investment from Hyde Park Venture Partners and startup studio High Alpha Capital.

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Education startup Instructure has raised $ 30 million in a Series D round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and including Eric Schmidt's TomorrowVentures, EPIC Ventures and OpenView Partners.