Sentences with phrase «valley based companies»

Many valley based companies actually ask applicants what their score is and companies offer significantly higher perks to people with high scores.

Before starting her own employment law practice, Ms. Kow practiced employment law and litigation at leading California and national law firms, and served as the sole employment lawyer and Senior Counsel at a Silicon Valley based company with 75 locations worldwide.

Not exact matches

The San Jose, California - based company began by serving fruit processing plants in the Silicon Valley before pivoting in the late 1960s to work with tech ventures.

In Rwanda, where the government partnered with Zipline, another Silicon Valley - based company, drones are already providing new possibilities for health care facilities, which are now better equipped to deliver life - saving services to their patients.

«It's clear that the buyer wound up with something not quite what it thought it was buying,» says Kip Witter, a vice president at The Brenner Group, Inc., a Cupertino, Calif. - based financial management and advisory firm that works with Silicon Valley tech companies.

The Beijing - based search engine company, founded about 16 years ago, is looking toward its Silicon Valley office to work towards that goal.

Perth - based minerals explorer Rift Valley Resources has signed a deal to wholly acquire the Mtemi Resources Group of Companies after completing a $ 4 million capital raising.

Swan Valley - based Feral Brewing Company has been sold to the business that bottles and distributes Coca - Cola in the Asia - Pacific region for an undisclosed sum.

Previously, he was an on - air editor based at CNBC's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Fortt joined CNBC as technology correspondent in July 2010, working from CNBC's Silicon Valley bureau where he covered the companies, start - ups and trends that are driving innovation in the industry.

In a recent survey of 1,000 public companies by ShareData, a Silicon Valley - based supplier of employee - stock - plan software and services, 74 % of the companies with less than $ 50 million in sales, and 68 % of those with fewer than 100 employees, offered stock - option plans to all employees.

The model, called Lean LaunchPad, is based on a method of starting new companies that has been largely championed by Steve Blank, a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who partnered with UCSF in 2013 to offer the program for students with ideas for health - related businesses.

The company indicated its interest in building a China - based AI research team in May, amid growing competition for talent from Baidu, which has also been actively courting AI researchers in Beijing and Silicon Valley.

Goldin, whose company is based in San Francisco, is part of a growing number of Silicon Valley executives speaking out against Trump and his controversial policies.

Before he flew out to Silicon Valley to fundraise, the NYC - based CEO started sending emails to venture capitalists and made sure to ask if they were interested in investing in the company, not just asking to meet up.

Outside of Silicon Valley, technology company employees were even less likely to contribute, with employees at Finland - based Nokia giving much less to candidates.

Private equity fund Waterwood led the round although every existing backer, including Sequoia, Pitango, Lazarus, Silicon Valley Bank and Globespan Capital Partners also participated, said Dani Golan, founder and CEO of the Needham, Mass. - based company.

Synack, the Menlo Park, Calif. - based company started by former NSA agents Jay Kaplan and Mark Kuhr, announced this morning that it secured Series A funding from the storied Silicon Valley venture fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, along with Google Ventures, Allegis Capital, and Derek Smith (the CEO of another KPCB - backed company, Shape Security).

Because most of these companies are based in Silicon Valley, this creates a «feedback loop» where the money that's already located there stays concentrated there.

But these days more than three - quarters of the 568 employees based in Vancouver (there remains a video - game team at the company's old digs on Beatty Street) are Canadian citizens or permanent residents, says de Martin, who himself hails from the Fraser Valley.

Establishing a relationship with Silicon Valley wasn't too difficult for the Woking, England - based automotive company.

For example, «Besides being an early investor in Netflix, Jay Hoag's Silicon - Valley - based Technology Crossover Ventures provided early - stage funding to Zillow and Expedia, two companies founded by [fellow director Richard] Barton.

• iAnthus Capital has agreed to buy Valley Agriceuticals, a Purchase, N.Y. - based medical marijuana company, for $ 17.3 million.

Zynga, once one of Silicon Valley's fastest - growing companies, suffered a dramatic reversal of fortunes in 2012 as gamers switched from Facebook - based games to those on mobile devices.

«It's entirely proper for the Chinese government to seek protection for consumers and prevent fraud, (but) confining capital raising to a specific established sector of finance... is to ignore the enormous societal value that blockchain technology can present,» said Alex Bessonov of BitClave, a Silicon Valley - based blockchain company, which, he said, is now discouraging Chinese investors.

An organic yogurt café with three locations across California's Silicon Valley and Bay Area, the company specializes in homemade, healthy treats for the go - go techies and students that make up the heart of its customer base.

From a geographic perspective, California - based companies led the nation with a whopping $ 5.46 billion raised for406 startups ($ 4.6 billion of which was in Silicon Valley).

Nash, whose company is based in Palo Alto, Calif., has long been privy to the Silicon Valley zeitgeist.

Andrew Ng, founder of Google Brain and Silicon Valley - based chief scientist at Chinese A.I. company Baidu, points out that Musk benefits from this.

Ford will also work with Silicon Valley transportation software company Autonomic to build a cloud - based platform for base processes, such as payment methods or identity verification.

In order to quickly penetrate the crowded mortgage market and re-engineer the home finance process from the ground up the company has acquired an established Silicon Valley - based mortgage lender that had originated over $ 4B in mortgages.

Supporting Thames Valley companies 21 years on The world's most successful growth market and home to no less than 63 Thames Valley - based companies, AIM turned 21 in June.

The company, formed by Google two years ago, has pointedly been based in New York City and not Silicon Valley.

Sean is a Founding Partner of GrowthX, a Silicon Valley - based venture capital fund, market development training school and corporate advisory firm helping companies bring new products to market and reduce the innovation failure rate through capital, talent and know how.

What began as a two - person space planning operation in Silicon Valley in 1991 is today a San Francisco — based design firm with over forty employees and clients that are some of the most dynamic companies in American business, including Facebook, Uber, Cisco Systems, and Yelp.

Tesla Motors and SolarCity shareholders are scheduled to vote today on whether the two Silicon Valley - based companies should merge to create a single vertically integrated...

«This partnership will provide our companies with a base from which to leverage networks in the Valley, while building successful companies in Waterloo.»

With the founding of Crypto Valley Association, we are promoting more than a region: we have founded a global association as a base for the sector's most innovative and forward thinking companies, further strengthening Switzerland's position as a leading centre of innovation in this sector,» said Oliver Bussmann, President of the CVA.

The reservation of 100 units of Tesla's all - electric truck represents the largest pre-order to date, a significant milestone for the Silicon Valley - based company who's looking to disrupt the commercial trucking industry with more affordable and environmentally conscious transportation.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance analyst Hugh Bromley believes that the Solar Tiles» appeal will not only be limited to the United States, as other countries such as Australia might prove to be lucrative markets for the Silicon Valley - based energy company.

He met with representatives from various companies based in the Swiss valley, including event organizer Lakeside Partners, Validity Labs, Melonport, Etherisc, and digitalswitzerland.

SoFi is one of the leading new financial technology companies based in Silicon Valley that not only reviews your credit score and income / debt ratios, but also looks at the quality of your education and quality of your work institution.

Some of the nation's oldest and largest gun companies are still based in the legendary «Gun Valley» region of New England, but there are other manufacturers scattered around the nation.

The San Francisco, CA - based company closed a $ 100 million Series B round from a host of Silicon Valley's blue bloods: Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz led the round along with Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's donor - advised fund at Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

They kept a low profile, stayed far away from the hype and fury of Silicon Valley, and by building a business based on solid fundamentals, they were able to form a respectable company — rumored to have revenue between $ 40 million and $ 50 million.

What wasn't reported, however, was the key role that Alibaba played in the Silicon Valley - based company's ultimate demise.

«If you wanted a company to maximize the current world economic condition, you'd design one very similar to this,» says Silicon Valley - based tech analyst Rob Enderle.

Companies like Uber and Lyft are based in Silicon Valley and backed with significant amounts of venture capital, and for the most part there is little indication that they will go public anytime soon.

From day zero, we were already thinking about company culture and how to build a successful company based in Silicon Valley.

Now that Silicon Valley tech company Trimble Inc. has agreed to acquire Portland - based Viewpoint Construction Software from Bain Capital for $ 1.2 billion (all cash), the business blend begins.

Today, just two months after GM announced it was acquiring the assets of former ride - hailing company Sidecar, the company said it was purchasing another Silicon Valley - based entity: Cruise Automation.