Sentences with phrase «valley venture capital»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

The news comes about a month after three big Silicon Valley venture capital firms said they want to invest in Telegram's initial coin offering (ICO), Financial Times reported.

Accel Partners» Theresia Gouw and Draper Fisher Jurvetson's Jennifer Fonstad are leaving their Silicon Valley venture capital firms to start Aspect Ventures, seeking to invest...

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.

Accel Partners» Theresia Gouw and Draper Fisher Jurvetson's Jennifer Fonstad are leaving their Silicon Valley venture capital firms to start Aspect Ventures, seeking to invest in budding mobile technologies.

A member of SpaceX's board of directors will reportedly leave the Silicon Valley venture capital firm he co-founded to start an investment firm focused, at least initially, on raising funds for SpaceX.

Venky Ganesan, managing director at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, said average corporate spending on cybersecurity will rise from about 0.25 percent of total revenue to as much as 2 percent of revenue in the coming years.

In sunglasses and mostly low heels (this is a boat, after all), these women will spend the next three hours plotting to overthrow the boys» club that rules the Silicon Valley venture capital scene.

The company raised $ 9.8 million in funding in November from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Venrock, on top of $ 1 million in seed funding.

Amongst the sea of male faces that make up the majority of Silicon Valley venture capital, two women have appeared on the landscape and hoisted their sails.

In addition to outlining its planned expansion, Chainalysis shared that it received $ 16 million in Series A funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark.

DJI was valued at about $ 8 billion in 2015 when it raised $ 75 million from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners.

Vudu, based in Santa Clara, Calif., and backed by the Silicon Valley venture capital firms Benchmark Capital and Greylock Partners, has not turned a profit.

Its Silicon Valley venture capital backers saw it as a game - changer for real estate, and envisioned themselves picking off $ 250 million a year out of a potential $ 25 billion market: insurance policies that would protect the nation's homeowners from one of their deepest fears — further losses in their equity.

Tokenized securities startup Harbor has secured $ 28 million in funding from major Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

The company has raised $ 27 million in early stage financing from two leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms, and launched its service to the public in September 2011.

Tokenized securities startup Harbor has secured $ 28 million in funding from major Silicon Valley venture capital firms, the company announced on Tuesday.

Silicon Valley venture capital firm IVP on Tuesday announced the close of a $ 1.5 billion fund, the latest in a string of massive new venture funds that are appearing as global investors scramble for a piece of the tech boom.

It is also a list of companies included in the portfolio of the elite Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

The lawsuit has spotlighted gender imbalance in Silicon Valley venture capital and technology companies, where women are grossly underrepresented.

The woman behind a high - profile gender bias lawsuit against a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm testified Monday that a male colleague was «relentless» in his pursuit of her and cut her out of email chains and meetings when she broke off their affair.

Brian O'Malley, a general partner at Battery Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, agrees.

Affectiva went on to raise more than $ 30 million from investors including the Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse Kleiner Perkins, and grew to 20 - some employees in the U.S. and another 20 in Cairo, who manually code facial expressions to feed into the company's machine - vision algorithms.

Coinbase and Earn.com are both backed by Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm where Srinivasan continues to serve as a board partner.

At the height of the dotcom boom, although I had grown my company, Palo Alto Software, to more than $ 5 million in annual sales without outside investors, I partnered with a Silicon Valley venture capital firm to build it faster.

Bradford even spent nine months at Sequoia Capital, the high - flying Silicon Valley venture capital firm, as an investor.

Elie Wurtman, managing partner at early stage VC fund Pico, highlighted that a number of Silicon Valley venture capital companies have shut down their Israel funds or folded them into their larger US funds in recent years.

It's been enough to attract the attention of famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which today led a $ 10 million Series A round of investment in Gigster.