Sentences with phrase «tech venture capitalists»

Judges for this live event are Hannah Telfer, group director of consumer and digital development at Penguin Random House UK; Dan Kieran, founder and chief executive of Unbound; and Eileen Burbidge, partner at Passion Capital and one of the UK's most influential tech venture capitalists.

Sam Altman, the famous Silicon Valley - based tech venture capitalist, was asked to leave a bar at The Ritz because he was wearing sneakers.

He is both chairman and co-founder of Singulariteam, a prominent Israeli tech venture capitalist vehicle.

Top tech venture capitalist and Benchmark partner Bill Gurley thinks Silicon Valley unicorns are growing up and realizing they need to be profitable.

He is both chairman and co-founder of Singulariteam, a prominent Israeli tech venture capitalist vehicle.

The company is funded by some big - name investors, including Goldman Sachs, Chinese internet company Baidu and Jim Breyer, a tech venture capitalist that got behind Facebook in its early days.

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Investors are getting a bit wary about valuations, following a selloff in tech stocks, venture capitalist David Golden says.

Maha Ibrahim, Canaan Partners general partner, discusses why venture capitalists like her are cringing at the performance of tech IPOs this year.

Venture capitalist Albert Wenger believes regulation will help Big Tech the most as they'll be the only ones to afford new strictures.

In a recent essay for The New Yorker, tech writer - turned - venture capitalist Om Malik writes that Silicon Valley lacks empathy — that the innovation ecosystem is blind to the jobs it destroys, and to the concerns of those struggling for work.

Venture capitalists across Europe are «baffled» and «bewildered» by the size and frequency of the tech investments being made by SoftBank.

As with the rest of the tech industry, diversity among venture capitalists is scarce.

The former Piper Jaffray tech analyst turned venture capitalist is best known for his accurate predictions on Apple.

Of particular interest to venture capitalists, however, is Vietnam's tech - savvy population with a median age of just 30.

Many of those donations likely came from first - time donors, some of which responded to matching fund offers from tech stars like venture capitalist Chris Sacca.

In the first nine months of the year, venture capitalists poured $ 24 billion into tech startups around the country.

For years, B Corp certification was rumored to hurt a startup's ability to attract investors, but recent deals have debunked this theory: San Francisco - based education company Altschool has raised $ 170 million from venture capitalists, and Data.world, an Austin - based tech startup, recently closed $ 19 million in Series B funding.

The C100 is an independent, non-profit networking organization bringing together hundreds of Silicon Valley's Canadian tech entrepreneurs, executives and venture capitalists.

Unicorn If you were wondering why crazy successful tech startups — ones that are valued at more than $ 1 billion — are called unicorns, you can thank Aileen Lee, a venture capitalist and the founder of the firm Cowboy Ventures.

Yaghi then turned to the panel of four men who'd been sitting at the side of the room taking notes, three venture capitalists and the head of a Silicon Valley tech incubator.

In fact, as a company, Lopez, is far more profitable than the money - losing tech startups that venture capitalists in the room typically invest in.

Thanks to half a dozen colleges minting tech - savvy graduates, several incubators protecting fledgling companies until they're ready to go out on their own and an impressive roster of angel investors and venture capitalists, the city is officially a start - up hub.

Although even Hirschhorn concedes that some pet tech is nothing more than «silly gadgets» — think webcam - equipped treat - dispensing devices — many businesses have lately drawn the attention of venture capitalists.

For the uninitiated, «Unicorns» are tech startups that have received valuations of $ 1 billion or more from venture capitalists.

That was partly because many of the people who formed some of the earliest tech companies then became venture capitalists, but it's also because people tend to hire people like themselves, or when they're starting a partnership, to bring in people who they know and like.

Gideon Yu is president and co-owner of the San Francisco 49ers and a tech investor who has played an important financial role at several notable tech companies: He has served as CFO of Facebook and YouTube; he's also been a venture capitalist and led Khosla Ventures» investment in Square.

John Lilly, the venture capitalist and prolific tweeter, recently cited a friend who categorizes colleagues into buckets, based on the number of tech - industry downturns they've experienced.

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki launched his tech career at Apple as the company's «chief evangelist,» marketing the original Macintosh computer.

While some venture capitalists have kept secret lists of those declining companies and many insiders have their proprietary predictions, there's at least one good way to predict the overall tech industry slowdown in San Francisco: the state of the commercial - property market.

DLD Tel Aviv Digital Conference is Israel's largest international hi - tech gathering, featuring hundreds of startups, venture capitalists, angel investors and leading multinationals.

While Kik likely makes the ten - figure cut (Livingston also won't disclose Kik's own valuation figures), it tends not to attract the kind of buzz that venture capitalists and the tech press fawn over.

When sitting in my dark gray cell with my books, newspapers and magazines, while writing, reading and researching the tech sector, I would visualize myself in Silicon Valley at partner meetings, with my new startup, raising capital from prominent venture capitalists.

Venture capitalist Klaus Hommels said that China's tech giants have benefited from a regulatory environment in a way that Europe's have not.

After all, this was a room full of hungry tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and others, and LeBrun had in March successfully sold his start - up Radian6 to cloud computing colossus Salesforce.com for US$ 326 million.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debby Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

And I'm pretty sure that generating positive returns is a venture capitalist's primary job responsibility (not tech cheer - leading, although it's an easily forgiven error).»

Drawing upon decades of personal experience with hundreds of accomplished entrepreneurs, CEOs, and venture capitalists, Silicon Valley management consultant and former high - tech senior executive Steve Tobak shows you exactly what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and exceptional business leader in today's highly competitive world.

NuData and other fraud detection startups will remain in a good position for investment into the future, even with money from blue - chip venture capitalists and other investors growing scarcer in the tech sector, says Pascual.

In this live virtual executive roundtable, you'll: * Learn what entrepreneurs need to do to get noticed by top VC firms * Look at the most active venture capitalists in tech today * Discover the biggest mistakes made by foundering startups * Identify the weaknesses that are keeping you from becoming the next unicorn Speakers: * Ton van't Noordende, Venture Partner, Keadyn * Jon Cifuentes, Cofounder Research and Operations, All Turtles * Matthew Zeiler, CEO, Clarifai * Stewart Rogers, Director of Marketing Technology, Ventventure capitalists in tech today * Discover the biggest mistakes made by foundering startups * Identify the weaknesses that are keeping you from becoming the next unicorn Speakers: * Ton van't Noordende, Venture Partner, Keadyn * Jon Cifuentes, Cofounder Research and Operations, All Turtles * Matthew Zeiler, CEO, Clarifai * Stewart Rogers, Director of Marketing Technology, VentVenture Partner, Keadyn * Jon Cifuentes, Cofounder Research and Operations, All Turtles * Matthew Zeiler, CEO, Clarifai * Stewart Rogers, Director of Marketing Technology, VentureBeat

So here's the good news: Famed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen thinks Apple, as a tech company, will do «extraordinarily well» over the...

The disclosures came after the tech news site The Information reported that female entrepreneurs had been preyed upon by a venture capitalist, Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital.

And what about the dozens of industry insiders and «smart money» investors whose names you've never heard of — the developers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists who live and breathe tech?

Equally important, major regional and international private equity firms, venture capitalists and global tech players like Google, Intel, Cisco, Yahoo, LinkedIn and PayPal are making significant investments, despite the uncertainty in the region.

Equally important, Schroeder saw major regional and international private equity firms, venture capitalists and global tech players like Google, Intel, Cisco, Yahoo, LinkedIn and PayPal making significant investments, despite the uncertainty in the region.

When Facebook went public in 2012, its directors included venture capitalists and tech and media executives — but not a single woman until chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg was added to the list a month later.

In April 2016, venture capitalist Kaifu Lee noted that a «capital winter» is just what the doctor ordered for China's bloated tech industry.

They often move to Las Vegas because they received venture capital from the Vegas Tech Fund, so their closest friends may be venture capitalists.

The next round, in October of 2011, attracted interest from the best - known venture capitalist in the tech world, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, of Andreessen Horowitz.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debbie Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

In the tech world, misconduct allegations have resulted in the ouster of CEOs at BetterWorks Systems Inc. and Social Finance Inc., as well as several venture capitalists, including Justin Caldbeck and Steve Jurvetson.