Sentences with phrase «to capital»

The dazzling colors that adorn the capital city of this Caribbean island stem from an unlikely source — headaches.

On Sunday, 80 employees arrived from Austin, Texas capital far from the danger zone, to stock stores in Corpus Christi, a coastal city hit by the storm and by Tuesday more workers from San Antonio were moving to Victoria, another affected city.

But in 2004, Disney sold its stake in the Town Center to the private - equity firm Lexin Capital.

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders in 2017, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

That would make it the largest capital project ever undertaken in the province.

Typhon Capital was one of the first traditional hedge funds to dive into the market for digital currencies.

«We see a lot of companies come in with a lot of capital — really good business - minded people — but they're not enthusiasts or enthusiastic about the product they're selling,» says Cobb.

• Continental Services, a portfolio company of New Heritage Capital, acquired Satellite Vending Co, a Detroit - based provider of vending, micro-market, and office services.

But when it comes to fast - growth entrepreneurship of the exalted and peculiar variety that produces breakthrough entrepreneurs, the U.S. has done a great job of unlocking only about half of our human capital.

The changing market dynamics might also suggest that if you're looking for investment capital to fund your business, or if you're hoping to be acquired, you might get less than top dollar.

In August, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and a handful of venture capital firms led a $ 17 million Series A round of fundraising for Memphis Meat.

Former SAC executive Gabe Plotkin's Melvin Capital took a new position in streaming video service Netflix (nflx), buying 950,000 shares and a call option for 1.45 million shares, according to regulatory filings on Monday.

• Navicure, a company backed by Bain Capital, is nearing a deal to acquire ZirMed Inc, a Louisville, Ky. - based provider of cloud claims management solutions.

You then joined SoftBank Capital as a managing partner.

Jeanne Hulit, the Small Business Administration's associate administrator in the Office of Capital Access, will take over as interim head of the agency when Karen Mills departs at end of the month.

Full - year 2018 capital expenditure is expected to amount to around $ 550 million, corresponding to recurring capital expenditure of around 5.5 % of sales and exceptional investments for the specialty polyamides and thiochemicals projects in Asia.

But it could also mean a windfall for partners in private - equity, venture capital, and hedge funds, unless Congress can figure out a way to block them from taking advantage of the new rate.

Viking Global Investors and KKR led the round, and were joined by investors including Perceptive Advisors, AIG, Aisling Capital, Cormorant Capital and Janus Funds.

One of the big problems, I've found, is the dwindling amount of venture capital available to new Canadian companies.

Plus, it can create an influx of capital that they do not know what to do with and add distracting attention.

The capital spend is just $ 15 million; the jobs directly created, just 25.

But two years later, he decamped for Europe, obtaining an MBA at the Rotterdam School of Management and later working on construction projects for Barclays Capital in London before returning to Vanbots in 2005.

JAKARTA, April 25 - Indonesia's central bank on Wednesday urged businesses to hedge their foreign exchange needs beyond minimum requirements, as policymakers seek to mitigate risks of further capital outflows following the rupiah's slump.

It will continue to implement its major manufacturing projects, as presented during its Capital Markets Day, for thiochemicals, specialty polyamides, fluoropolymers and Sartomer.

• Turn / River Capital, a San Francisco - based growth equity and buyout firm, raised $ 168 million for its third fund, Fund III.

In other words, an exit strategy can be the way out of a trade, which may provide you with capital or buying power that you can use to enter your next trade.

John Burbank's Passport Capital sold 36,577 shares, reducing the firm's holding by 35 percent.

Systems are very important, however, the first thing we would do when taking over a business would be to understand its Human Capital - we need to know what type of people we have in the organization.

Far from it: Its capital expenditure has almost doubled, from $ 2.2 billion in 2006 to a planned $ 4.2 billion in 2015.

• Huron Capital made an investment in Pueblo Mechanical & Controls Inc, a Tucson, Ariz. - based provider of HVAC replacement, retrofit and repair services primarily for facilities in education, municipal, and healthcare end markets.

(Broadreach Capital Partners purchased the property in 2006 for about $ 100 million.)

Ironically, monolines such as First National and its peer Home Capital Group (HCG) benefited when consumers were turned away from the banks in the past.

• Vitruvian Partners agreed to acquire a minority stake in Bitdefender, a Bucharest, Romania - based cybersecurity tech company, from Axxess Capital.

The Weinstein Co. announced in a statement that no other bidder made a better offer than Dallas - based Lantern Capital, which made a «stalking - horse»...

Let that money sit for a while, and you'll most likely pay no more than 15 % in taxes on its growth, as the long - term capital gains tax for most people is far lower than taxes on regular income.

Passport Capital sold 325,434 shares of the social media company, cutting its stake by more than one quarter.

Andurand, who runs oil hedge fund Andurand Capital Management LLP, wrote in a string of tweets on Sunday that companies may be less willing to risk investment in long term oil projects because of low crude barrel prices and a predicted peak in electric vehicle demand.

6 Dimensions Capital and Curative Ventures co-led the round, and were joined by investors including Redmile Group, ArrowMark Partners, Hillhouse Capital Group, MiraeAsset Financial Group, Lucion Group, Sirona Capital, Alexandria Venture Investments, MPM Capital, F2 Ventures and Cathay Fortune Capital Investment.

GMP Securities and Fidelity Investments led the round, and were joined by investors including Vickers Ventures Partners, Graphene Venture Capital, FPV, Fenbushi, Bloomberg Beta and Rakuten.

He says the firm's private equity backers — Madrona Venture Group and Highland Capital Partners — bring a similar understanding of the two sectors.

It's no secret that the venture capital industry, as an asset class, has seen spectacularly mediocre returns over the last 10 years or so.

The OPEC member that needs the «lowest» price of oil to balance this year's expenditure is Iran, at $ 52 a barrel, according to data by RBC Capital Markets.

«Rather than having their capital cannon facing me, I'd rather have their capital cannon behind me, all right?»

• SK Capital agreed to acquire the Fire Safety and Oil Additives Businesses of Israel Chemicals Ltd. (TASE: ICL) for approximately $ 1 billion.

«A federal capital markets regulatory framework would be applied consistently on a national basis and would not displace provincial securities commissions, which would still manage the day - to - day regulation of securities activities.»

Often, the largest capital expenses are a cargo van and a set of freezers.

«Reports that the Saudi government is planning to dilute its reform plans may be the first sign that the power and influence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is starting to wane and that broader opposition to reform is building,» Jason Tuvey, Middle East economist for Capital Economics, wrote in a research note.

It's considered the high tech capital of China and is home to the Shenzhen stock exchange (2nd largest in China, and 8th largest in the world).

This form of capital raising is especially attractive to «main street» businesses — which may have a great history and engaged customers, but find that banks aren't willing, or able to lend to them.

Or say you need seed capital; hooking up with Mark Cuban would be awesome.