Sentences with phrase «venture arm in»

The initiative, led by the UNICEF Innovation Fund, is the latest move by the non-profit's venture arm in supporting the application of blockchain technology for humanitarian causes.

BONUS NOTE: Razer also started a corporate ventures arm in September of 2016 which promotes startups.

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Culture Trip, an online travel magazine, raised $ 88 million in a series B round of funding led by the venture arm of PPF Group, a Netherlands - based conglomerate.

Peter Johnson is a vice president at Jump Capital, the venture arm of Jump Trading, which is known to trade in crypto markets.

Assets under management (in millions, USD): $ 870,000 (Wellington Management is a large private, independent investment management company that also runs a venture arm.

Boeing's venture capital arm invests both outside the U.S. and in a space company for the second time in less than a month.

Since then, however, Lau thinks financing prospects in Canada have improved, in part thanks to OMERS Ventures, a venture capital arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System that was set up late last year.

Assets under management (in millions, USD): $ 731,200 (T. Rowe Price is also a multi-disciplinary financial services firm with a venture arm.

• D's Naturals, a Cincinnati - based healthy snacking startup, raised an undisclosed amount in funding from 2x Consumer Products Growth Partners and 301 Inc, General Mills» (NYSE: GIS) venture arm.

Though the Canadian arm of the company filed for creditor protection in September, it said it has enough financing to stay afloat, even while the company shutters its business in the U.S. and U.K. and is reportedly likely to liquidate its ventures in Australia, France, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

Quantopian, which has members around the world building their own automated trading platforms, was first promised some $ 250 million in funding by the the venture capital arm of Cohen's family office, Point72 Ventures, back in July.

Now you can't exit a building without tripping over one,» said M.G. Siegler, a general partner at GV, the venture arm of Google's parent company, in a tweet earlier this month, echoing the sentiments of many.

More generally, other Chinese companies will look at strategic investments in tech startups, much the way Google and Intel do now through their venture capital arms.

3D printing startup Carbon3D has raised $ 100 million in a funding round led by Google's venture capital arm.

Three executives from Google's self - driving - car unit left in August, as did Bill Maris, founder and head of Google's venture arm.

(Google's venture arm GV was an early investor and participated in this round.)

The startup has raised a little under $ 40 million in funding with backing from Alphabet's venture capital arm GV, among others.

SAIL Venture Partners, the early - stage venture arm of SAIL Capital Partners, and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., have set up a $ 100 - million fund to invest in companies that have developed innovative products ready for Venture Partners, the early - stage venture arm of SAIL Capital Partners, and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., have set up a $ 100 - million fund to invest in companies that have developed innovative products ready for venture arm of SAIL Capital Partners, and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., have set up a $ 100 - million fund to invest in companies that have developed innovative products ready for market.

Both of those homegrown companies built a formidable strategic advantage by being first in the Latin American market, says Alan Colmenares, who worked for Intel's venture capital arm in Mexico and Brazil and now serves as a facilitator in his native Colombia for the Founder Institute, an incubator focused on tech start - ups across the globe.

Created in 2007 out of the venture capital arm of BCE Inc., Summerhill Venture Partners earned a huge payday last spring with the sale of Fredericton, N.B. - based Radian6, a company that monitors social media habits, to Salesforce.com for US$ 326 mventure capital arm of BCE Inc., Summerhill Venture Partners earned a huge payday last spring with the sale of Fredericton, N.B. - based Radian6, a company that monitors social media habits, to Salesforce.com for US$ 326 mVenture Partners earned a huge payday last spring with the sale of Fredericton, N.B. - based Radian6, a company that monitors social media habits, to Salesforce.com for US$ 326 million.

The huge jump in security incidents has also spurred venture capitalists, especially corporate venture arms, to pour money into the cybersecurity start - ups.

Most large Silicon Valley firms run venture capital arms as a way of keeping in touch with emerging tech companies.

Big Food manufacturers have increasingly announced either full takeovers of startup brands, or in more recent months, have set up venture capital arms to invest in a slew of smaller brands with an option to eventually acquire some of those brands later (if they become successful hits on grocery store aisles).

At first its only backer, besides Thiel, was a not - for - profit called In - Q - Tel, which is the venture arm of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

• Ping An's venture capital arm (SEHK: 2318), is planning to raise up to $ 1.3 billion in two healthcare - focused funds, according to Reuters.

Among the company's investors for the latest funding round are New Enterprise Associates, Alphabet's (goog) venture capital arm GV (formerly Google Ventures), GE Ventures (ge), Future Fund, and Techtronic Industries, an investment holding company specializing in manufacturing, power tools, and related equipment.

Katz immediately recruited his father, roped in the province's venture capital arm as an equity partner and convinced the company to sell him the rights.

Vox had previously raised $ 100 million in funding, including from the venture arm of NBC Universal's parent company, Comcast (CMCSA).

GV is co-leading a $ 56 million round in SambaNova — the first bet by Alphabet's venture arm on a start - up building hardware for artificial intelligence.

Simon created a venture capital arm in 2014 that has invested, along with partners such as GGP, in e-commerce companies like Deliv and Shopkick, a shopping loyalty app.

And after two years of bootstrapping, it's cash - flow positive, thanks in part to investors like John Stix, who started out as one of the company's first clients and has since become an investor (Plasticity raised $ 2.1 million in a financing round led by the venture arm of Stix's company in 2014).

Over the years, he's raised more than $ 30 million in funding, most recently an undisclosed amount from Hearst Interactive Media, the media company's venture capital arm, in 2006.

Other past investors in Beyond Meat have included The Humane Society of the United States, Microsoft (msft) founder Bill Gates and the venture - capital arm of General Mills (gis).

Singtel Innov8, the venture capital arm of Singtel, and existing investors U.S. Venture Partners, Aspect Ventures, and company founders Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz also participated in theventure capital arm of Singtel, and existing investors U.S. Venture Partners, Aspect Ventures, and company founders Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz also participated in theVenture Partners, Aspect Ventures, and company founders Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz also participated in the round.

OMERS Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of OMERS, one of Canada's largest pension funds with nearly $ 61 billion in net assets.

Nvidia also announced that its venture arm has joined a group of investors led by Chinese venture capitalist firm Qiming Venture in investing $ 52 million in a Chinese self - driving - car startup, Jventure arm has joined a group of investors led by Chinese venture capitalist firm Qiming Venture in investing $ 52 million in a Chinese self - driving - car startup, Jventure capitalist firm Qiming Venture in investing $ 52 million in a Chinese self - driving - car startup, JVenture in investing $ 52 million in a Chinese self - driving - car startup, JingChi.

Israeli sports technology company PlaySight Interactive has announced today that it has extended its Series C financing round to $ 21 million with $ 10 million in new investments from SoftBank Ventures Korea, a SoftBank Group early stage venture capital arm based and CE Ventures from Hong Kong.

Dropbox also agreed to sell $ 100 million in stock to Salesforce.com Inc.'s venture capital arm in a private placement concurrent with the IPO, the filing shows.

Shared - living space provider CoLive, owned by CoLife Advisory Pvt. Ltd, has raised $ 1.8 million (Rs 11.7 crore) in a round of funding led by Ncubate Capital Partners, a venture capital arm of SAR Group that engages primarily in water purifiers, clean tech and automotive batteries, the startup said in a press statement.

About M12 M12, formerly Microsoft Ventures, is the corporate venture arm of Microsoft (Nasdaq «MSFT» @microsoft), the leader of digital transformation in the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the venture arm of the telecommunications giant is leading a $ 3.3 million seed investment in Blockdaemon, a New York City - based startup that creates enterprise software for interacting with a wide range of blockchains.

Bain Capital Ventures, which headed up Reonomy's Series B in 2015, also lead this round, with additional investment from Softbank, Barry Sternlicht's family office JAWS, Marcus & Millichap's venture arm, and John Catsimatidis» Red Apple Group.

A prime example are the banks in Japan that have venture capital arms investing money into companies to help cultivate that business in Japan.

Founded in 2011 and backed by Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) Chief Executive Jeff Bezos's venture capital arm, Remitly is among a vanguard of financial technology, or fintech, companies targeting what they view as an underserved immigrant market - traditionally disregarded as high - risk and low - margin.

CapitalG, the venture capital arm of Alphabet Inc, may have quietly invested an undisclosed amount in Snap Inc, owner of popular messaging app Snapchat.

MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.

Toronto, August 21, 2013 — MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.

Those institutions have been rushing into the arms of venture capital firms of late, and any disruption in the VC universe will be felt by average investors as well.

It has investments in various technology companies, including social media channels Slack and Twitter and bitcoin payments processing firm BitPay, through its venture capital arm.

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