Sentences with phrase «venture arm of»

2013 class will receive mentoring and market advantages from alignment with strategic venture arm of the National Association of Realtors ®

A Cambridge, Massachusetts - based company developing identity solutions for blockchain - based systems won $ 15,000 at a startup competition hosted by the venture arm of Spanish banking group Banco Santander yesterday.

That fundraising process began weeks after the firm won $ 15k during a blockchain startup competition hosted by Santander InnoVentures, the venture arm of Banco Santander.

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...

The venture arm of the United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) is expanding its exploration of blockchain to include ethereum.

GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) led the investment, joined by BMW iVentures and the venture arm of Lowe's, the home improvement retailer.

ZappRx, a mobile app that manages mobile prescriptions, closed a million - dollar seed round led by Atlas Venture and SR One, the venture arm of GlaxoSmithKline

The latest round was led by OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of a large Canadian pension - fund manager, and included August Capital as well as previous backers Khosla Ventures, Union Square and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

After more than a decade of going it alone, Canadian online learning company Desire2Learn is accepting its first round of venture funding — $ 80 million from New Enterprise Associates and the venture arm of OMERS, one of Canada's biggest pension funds.

Mr. Ruffolo is the Chief Executive Officer of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of OMERS, one of Canada's leading pension funds.

The round includes IDG Capital Partners, the venture arm of CME Group (the world's...

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.

John Ruffalo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of the Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System, and one of Canada's leading pension funds, recently stated: «I believe that the technology community knows how good Canada is as a hotbed of technology.

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.

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).

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

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.

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 market.

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.

Note: WRF Capital is the venture arm of the Washington Research Foundation, an organization that supports research and scholarship at Washington state research institutions.

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

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.

Although some big investors showed no sign of activity in 2016, notably the corporate venture arms of Saudi Telecom and Mobily, others, such as Saudi Aramco's Wa'ed and Qotuf AlRiyadah / Flat6Labs Jeddah, are spending time and money developing a startup ecosystem.

The report identifies the industry's «Big Four» as the British educational publisher Pearson PLC and the venture arms of Kaplan Inc., Knowledge Universe, and Sylvan Learning Systems Inc..

We've got the venture arms of MassMutual and Transamerica as well.

Digital currency outfit Ripple Labs has closed a $ 28 million Series A funding round that includes IDG Capital Partners and the venture arms of CME Group and global data storage company Seagate Technology.

Not exact matches

And Ripcord just got a massive vote of confidence from GV, formerly known as Google Ventures, the venture - capital arm of Alphabet — which just led a new investment of $ 25 million into Ripcord.

The venture capital arm of Boeing has started off 2018 with several high profile investments, such as battery start - up Cuberg, Australian satellite company Myriota and British propulsion company Reaction Engines.

«You can't just sit back and enjoy the moment you have,» says John Ruffolo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm one of Canada's leading pension funds.

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.

We recently closed a $ 5.3 million Series A round, which included the participation of insurance companies» venture arms, including AXA Strategic Ventures and Transamerica Ventures.

But with the possible exception of investment firms tied to Peter Thiel, every single venture capital firm would welcome Obama with open arms, were the opportunity presented.

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.

They have received funding from Intel's venture arm among others to the tune of $ 6.3 million.

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.

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

They include: Acre Venture Partners, a fund that invests on behalf of Campbell Soup; Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; GV (Google's venture arm); and DBL PaVenture Partners, a fund that invests on behalf of Campbell Soup; Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; GV (Google's venture arm); and DBL Paventure arm); and DBL Partners.

Meal - kit startup Sun Basket has closed on another fundraising round, this time led by the venture capital and private equity arm of consumer products giant Unilever.

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.

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).

As head of the venture capital arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, Ruffolo is injecting much - needed capital into the country's tech sector.

«If what we as a nation are going to focus on is pulling stuff out of the ground, selling it to the world and then buying back the finished goods, I can tell you from a prosperity perspective which way we're going, and it's not up,» says John Ruffolo, head of the venture capital arm of OMERS.

Typically, entrepreneurs launch new ventures after working for growth - minded companies where they've built a network of contacts — and may be armed with start - up cash as well.

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.