Sentences with phrase «valley venture»

Results driven Senior Scientific Staff Member with 8 + years experience at world - class biotechnology company backed by leading Silicon Valley venture firm (Kleiner Perkins), offering a unique combination of lab skills and leadership experience.

Meilich was previously a cryptoanalyst at Charles River Ventures, a leading Silicon Valley venture fund, and Founder of Benchrise, a big data company whose product helped find software engineers for technology companies.

Marc Andreessen, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has invested heavily in Bitcoin, responded by saying Buffett and others like him are «old white men crapping on new technology they don't understand.»

QUOINE co-founders CEO Mike Kayamori — a former SoftBank executive and Silicon Valley venture capitalist — and CTO Mario Gomez Lozada — a software engineer and former executive with Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch — recognize the need to bring bank - class standards to the cryptocurrency markets.

Founders Fund, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for its early investment in Facebook, is stepping into the world of cryptocurrencies, according...

CipherTrace has the backing of leading Silicon Valley venture capital investors.

Fisker's investors include private equity firm Advanced Equities, as well as Valley venture firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and NEA.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB), a Silicon Valley venture capital firm best known for its investments in Google, AOL, Twitter, Uber and Amazon, has introduced a fund called the Edge Seed Fund, which is set to focus on helping early stage Bitcoin - and blockchain - based startups.

Both companies were founded on the premise that a startup electric car maker, with backing from Valley venture capitalists, could use a cool car as a launching platform to become a more mainstream auto maker.

This week, five Bitcoin startups, including Chronicled, Chain, Abra, Case and Coinalytics, have raised more than $ 45 million in funding from Wall Street investors and banks, Silicon Valley venture capital firms and angel investors.

McPheters notes that his and Wu's credibility in the sneaker realm gives them a certain advantage over Silicon Valley venture capitalists with big pockets merely looking to tap into the market.

In May 2013, the company received its second investment round of $ 5 million, with money from the Silicon Valley venture capital fund Union Square Ventures, Ribbit Capital, SV Angel and Funders Club.

Announced today, the round was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a Silicon Valley venture firm that counts some of the biggest tech and digital startups, including Dropbox, GitHub and Netflix, among its portfolio.

Zuckerberg was clearly going to face some questioning about the role that his friend, adviser and Facebook board member, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, played in getting this stock plan approved.

The past few years have been slow for tech IPOs, which is a disappointment for Silicon Valley venture capitalists who can make a lot of money this way.

Clever, a Y Combinator - backed education data startup, is announcing Monday that it has raised $ 3 million in seed funding from a big group of investors, including top Silicon Valley venture capitalists and education technology leaders.

TrustedID is funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

The Berkeley, Calif., based e-discovery company Everlaw today announced that it has closed an $ 8.1 million Series A funding round led by the prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Lawyer rating and directory site Avvo has received $ 10 million in a new round of financing, led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm DAG Ventures.

Law firm Fenwick & West has dished out results from its first - quarter 2006 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey.

The Secretary of Agriculture last week told reporters that Range Fuels, a cellulosic company backed by Silicon Valley venture - capitalist Vinod Khosla, is likely to get a first - of - its - kind loan guarantee from the government later this month.

On June 10, a group of technology - focused business leaders — including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr1, and the current or former chief executives of General Electric2, DuPont3, Lockheed Martin, and Xerox — issued a mayday manifesto urging a massive public - private effort to accelerate research into clean - energy innovations.

The joint venture was part of the Minnesota Street Project, a complex of subsidized studio and gallery spaces founded last year by the Silicon Valley venture capitalist Andy Rappaport and his wife Deborah to enliven San Francisco's art scene.

Silicon Valley venture capitalists, the Rappaports are also long - time patrons of the arts who believe that, despite the increasing market importance of art fairs like San Francisco's fledgling FOG Design + Art, the experience of art in a gallery is essential to appreciating the work and to forming enduring relationships between artists, curators, dealers, and patrons.

Monday night was hopping at the 31Ten Lounge (formerly Schatzi's) and Satellite in Santa Monica with a spectacular panel of leaders from Silicon Beach and Silicon Valley venture capital and crowd funding firms, including:...

And it's supported by top silicon valley venture capital funds.

It's pretty easy to predict which of the two new companies Wall Street financial analysts and Silicon Valley venture capitalists will favor.

Hogan won the case and the staggering settlement he received not only bankrupted Gawker and its founder Nick Denton, but also exposed a controversial, behind - the - scenes benefactor: Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel.

Mobile dating app company Tinder said Silicon Valley venture - capital firm Benchmark has taken an equity stake in it and general partner Matt Cohler will join its board.

BUSINESS WEEK - Oct 30 — In September Yahoo and Silicon Valley venture capital firm Canaan Partners jointly paid $ 8.5 million for ~ 10 % of BharatMatrimony.com, a nine - year - old marriage Web site that also has 50 offices across India to serve those without Net access.

Since eHarmony has taken on the $ 110 million investment from two Silicon Valley venture capital firms, Sequoia Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures, there marketing has become a little more main stream and hopefully this law suit will open up the companies views on servicing the gay and religious singles communities.

In May 2005, the Accel group, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm, bought a $ 12.2 million chunk of Facebook, which is currently valued at around $ 100 million.

WSJ - Oct 28 - Silicon Valley venture - capital firm Benchmark has taken an equity stake in Tinder and general partner Matt Cohler will join its board.

SAP INFO & MERCURY NEWS — Dec 22 — Matchmaking Internet site eHarmony has landed a $ 110 million investment from two Silicon Valley venture capital firms, Sequoia Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures, scoring one of the biggest funding deals of the year.

The company is backed by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures.

I'm not a coder, but I am surrounded by women who can talk all day about enterprise cloud adoption trends, DDoS attacks and network security, the rise of the app economy, and serve as a go - to resource for some of the top Silicon Valley venture capital firms and technology companies.

Stitch Fix's success is fairly remarkable, given the relatively small amount of money it has raised from equity capital: just $ 42.5 million from Silicon Valley venture firms including Lightspeed and Benchmark.

Much of that money has come from Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who founded PayPal and bankrolled Facebook's early days; he is also a libertarian who believes in maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.

He recently finished a yearlong stint as an entrepreneurship fellow, through a program sponsored by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

John Doerr, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist, maintains his immense network vigorously.

Lockport native Chris Sacca, a Silicon Valley venture investor and owner of Lowercase Capital with ties to Buffalo, was among some 60 celebrities, business leaders, athletes and philanthropists from across the country — including Stephen Colbert — who joined forces for #BestSchoolDay to fund classroom projects through DonorsChoose.org.

There are so many common - sense things we could be working on, from infrastructure to the training of our workers for a changing economy, and instead we're having this governmental shutdown,» said the 27 - year - old founder of a Hudson Valley venture capital fund and a major contributor to the new Advanced Manufacturing Center pioneering 3D imaging work at SUNY New Paltz.

«If Stanford had won, I'd take that,» says Tyrrell, 39, now the chief financial officer for a Silicon Valley venture capital firm and the brewmaster of a homemade beer labeled Trombone Guy Amber Ale.

Fifteen startups focusing on agriculture, water, and energy technology will be eligible to pitch their ideas to possible investors through the Fresno State Valley Venture Accelerator.

In fact, the company behind the food — which has received financial backing from the founders of Twitter and Silicon Valley venture capitalists KPCB — expects it to change the way we think about «meat» entirely.

Founders Fund, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for its early investment in Facebook, has reportedly put money into a cryptocurrency startup that aims to optimize the bulk trading of cryptocurrencies.

Connie Sheng is the founding managing partner of Nautilus Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund focusing on early stage investments in mobile and IoT areas.

In one interesting development, Silicon Valley venture capitalists Jennifer Fonstad and Theresia Gouw stepped down as partners in their respective VC firms to launch their own VC firm, Aspect Ventures.

Step into the offices on Sand Hill Road, the heart of Silicon Valley venture capital, and one thing is immediately striking — the almost all - male cast of leading characters.

Step into the offices on Sand Hill Road, the heart of Silicon Valley venture capital, and one thing is immediately striking — the almost all - male...