Sentences with phrase «venture backed by»

Tuomi had left multifamily REIT Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) in 2013 to become chief operating officer of Colony American Homes (CAH), a single - family housing venture backed by Thomas J. Barrack Jr.'s private equity firm Colony Capital.

Galileo America LLC, a U.S. - based joint venture backed by Australian capital, has emerged with 121 shopping centers totaling 16.7 million square feet after transactions with New Plan Excel Realty Trust and CBL & Associates Properties Inc., which were announced last night.

Last year, Next Issue Media, the digital newsstand joint venture backed by the major magazine publishers, produced a study on the value of tablets to magazine and newspaper publishers, and concluded that the aggregate revenue could be $ 3 billion by 2014.

Republicans are expected to float plans to scale back the federally mandated annual testing requirement built into the law — a venture backed by teachers unions.

Not exact matches

That's a classic Musk tactic: predicting future success by referring back to a previous successful venture and stating that the odds were slim when it first began.

A health insurance company launched by entrepreneurs - turned - financiers Josh Kushner and Mario Schlosser and backed by $ 40 million in venture capital.

A defined benefit exchange backed by $ 35 million in venture funding, Liazon offers products that cater to small employers who give workers a fixed amount of money each year toward health coverage.

Launched in 2013, Cohesity has already raised $ 70 million in just two rounds, with a $ 350 million valuation, backed by A-list venture - capital firms Sequoia, Qualcomm Ventures, and others, according to PitchBook.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

The firm will back companies developing technologies for industrial use, rather than the consumer and business software pursued by most venture capitalists.

It's backed by a roster of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms, and boasts returns of more than 500 %.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

• Grapevine acquired the SocMetrics Influencer Platform, a Cambridge, Mass. - based topical influence scoring platform, which was backed by GV and Converge Venture Partners.

The company, backed by 1 Venture, will list on the Nasdaq as «Pixy.»

While this may sound like a pipe dream, the idea became a reality thanks to $ 50 million in venture backing — in particular, the $ 40 million invested by Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire Samuel Yin in a Series A round in 2011, which trimmed years off production and helped the company quickly ramp up to more than 450 employees.

Currently, only 3 % of America's venture capital - backed startups are led by women, and only about 4 % percent of US - based venture capital investors are women.

Appian is backed by NEA and Novak Biddle Venture Partners.

Pre-IPO, Blue Apron is backed 23.8 % by Bessemer Venture Partners, 10.5 % by First Round Capital, and 6.5 % by Stripes Group.

Those findings jibe with just - reported data from the National Venture Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter iVenture Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter iventure - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter in 2013.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

A group of incubators, including Portland Incubator Experiment, Portland Seed Fund and Upstart Labs, are being backed by local organizations and outside venture capitalists.

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.

The venture will reportedly be backed by Job One, with Knockout Times, a media platform for female athletes, serving as its first advertiser.

It later backed into more traditional investing by raising a $ 36 million venture fund.

(Public or venture - backed companies with 50 % or less Canadian ownership will be judged by PROFIT on a case - by - case basis)

With offices around the globe, the company is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners,.406 Ventures and Sigma Prime Ventures.

He added that ICOs backed by real assets would allow companies to circumvent much of the Wall Street middleman apparatuses, such as the army of investment bankers and venture capitalists, and sell directly to would - be stakeholders.

Backed by blue - chip venture capitalists, including Accel Partners (an early investor in Facebook), Wonga looks destined to go public at some point, either on the Nasdaq or in London.

Over the same period, the number of venture - backed companies rose by 172.6 percent, the National Venture Capital Association rventure - backed companies rose by 172.6 percent, the National Venture Capital Association rVenture Capital Association reveals.

• Bullhorn, which is backed by Insight Venture Partners, acquired Atlanta - based Peoplenet, an Atlanta, Ga. - based provider of cloud - based workforce management solutions.

Many are key job creators, since companies founded by immigrants that are backed by venture capital have created an estimated average of 150 jobs per company and generated $ 63 billion in sales.

The New York - based company, backed by $ 54.4 million in venture funding, caters to what chief executive Jennifer Hyman calls the «woman 2.0,» a customer who values experiences over possessions.

According to recent research done by TechCrunch, the percentage of venture - backed companies that are founded by women have not increased since 2012.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

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).

Co-founded by Eoghan McCabe, Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee, and David Barrett in 2011, Intercom has raised $ 66M in venture backing and serves more than 8,000 customers.

The IPO market has swung back and forth since the dot - com boom in the late 1990s through the bust a few years later and on up to the most recent economic downturn, during which there were six venture capital - backed IPOs in 2008 and 12 in 2009 — compared with 86 in 2007, according to the Exit Poll report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Assocventure capital - backed IPOs in 2008 and 12 in 2009 — compared with 86 in 2007, according to the Exit Poll report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital AssocVenture Capital Association.

When asked about the SaaS sector in the country and the startup scenario, from a fundraising viewpoint, Subramanian stated that ventures like Freshworks (backed by Google Ventures) and BrowserStack (Secured $ 50 Million from Accel) have set precedents in terms of raising the bar for fundraising in India.

During those years Mike had repeatedly encountered back - stabbing employees and unethical managers, and twice was betrayed by close friends who had promised him equity in start - up ventures.

Something Ventured, a new documentary film directed by husband - and - wife team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, explores the lives of the men who, in the early 1960s when the venture capital industry was just beginning to take shape, risked social status (and their money) to back the companies they truly believed in.

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.

According to a 2011 study by the National Foundation for American Policy, the most common country of origin for an immigrant founder of a top - 50 venture - backed company was India, followed by Israel, Canada, and then Iran.

It was at that point Jiwani introduced them to a venture he claimed was backed by an offshore bank and became repayable in one year.

Startuply is run using revenue from sister company Job Syndicate and parent company Job Alchemist and backed by venture capital firm, Y Combinator.

Sharef notes HireArt couldn't afford such an up - front marketing expense if it weren't backed by $ 2.4 million in venture funding.

Perth inventor and entrepreneur Steven Goh has bounced back from his troubles at online stockbroking firm Sanford Ltd by attracting $ US10 million ($ A12.5 million) in venture capital funding for his new technology company and emerging from bankruptcy.

In addition to Munn, Chef's Cut is backed by CAVU Venture Partners, a firm that invests in food, beverage and consumer packaged goods companies, as well as public figures including baseball player David Ortiz and footballers Von Miller and Earl Thomas.

«On the IPO side, favorable public market conditions and stronger valuations are contributing to better quality IPOs for venture - backed companies as evidenced by the jump in dollars raised on the public markets,» NVCA Head of Research John Taylor said in a statement.

According to Bloomberg and research by Lesa Mitchell and Professor Vivek Wadhwa, women - led high - tech startups are more capital efficient, achieve 35 percent higher return on investment, and generate 12 percent higher revenue than male - owned companies when venture - backed.

Outside the world of venture - backed startups, the decision by San Francisco's Board of Supervisors carries more controversy.