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It is typical of venture backed companies in many industries to ignore logistical difficulties and to be blinded by the need for rapid growth to support higher and higher valuations.

Venture backed companies in this space are on the rise and developer activity is picking up on Github.

Innovestor Ventures manages Innovestor Growth Fund I, the largest portfolio of venture backed companies in Finland.

Not exact matches

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

To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

-- 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..

Now Parker has a full - blown company on his hands, with 200 employees and $ 63 million in venture backing.

Companies» venture funds poured more money into venture - backed start - ups in the last quarter than they have since the dot - com era.

There are 17,000 venture - backed companies in the U.S., and there were only 39 venture - backed IPO exits last year.

Venture - backed companies in Silicon Valley pay up for talent, not because they want to but because they know they are worth it.

Or at least, you'll find it easier and experience less confusion and friction if you try to raise funding, or work in a venture capital - backed company.

funBug was a venture - backed Web marketing company, and it went bust with the rest of the market in 2001.

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.

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.

Corporate venture - capital firms that benefit from high cash flows might be willing to spread out their investments over a few similar companies and take a back seat in terms of driving their growth, while a venture - capital firm is typically motivated to take a more focused and hands - on approach for its portfolio companies.

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.

Ten venture - backed companies in the first quarter came from the IT sector, while 24 were life sciences companies including biotech and health concerns, NVCA reports.

In a recent valuation, the company became the only venture - capital - backed startup other than Facebook to ever reach a $ 50 billion valuation.

The company is the second-most highly valued, venture - backed private firm in the world, after Uber.

Nutanix is one of the high - profile unicorns, or venture - backed tech companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, that have been waiting in the IPO pipeline.

More significantly, however, over 50 percent of venture - backed IPO exits went to health - care companies in the second quarter, the fifth consecutive quarter that health - care companies have topped technology companies for public exits, CB Insights reports.

It's the latest in a relentless parade of damaging news for the Silicon Valley upstart, which was valued last year at $ 9 billion, the most of any venture - backed company working in health care today.

Still, in 2016, venture investors poured $ 12.2 billion into health care, backing companies that promise to change everything from cancer care to the process of finding a new doctor.

The decline in the startup rate hasn't cut the rate of formation of two categories of companies with very high potential for wealth creation and job creation: angel and venture - capital - backed businesses.

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.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

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.

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.

The company also has backed a venture capital fund and has invested in startups like meal kit company Chef'd and nutrition test kit company Habit.

This metropolitan area (which includes Oakland and Fremont, Calif.) saw the largest proportion of venture capital - backed business exits over the past year compared to other major cities, meaning there are a large number of what Kauffman identifies as «growth companies» in San Francisco and the East Bay.

In fact, venture - backed companies represent the equivalent of 21 percent of U.S. GDP.

According to the National Venture Capital Association, venture capital - backed companies now employ more than 12 million people and they generated nearly $ 3 trillion in revenue iVenture Capital Association, venture capital - backed companies now employ more than 12 million people and they generated nearly $ 3 trillion in revenue iventure capital - backed companies now employ more than 12 million people and they generated nearly $ 3 trillion in revenue in 2008.

It was one of the first big YouTube networks to make headlines, quickly growing to 300 million subscribers and raising almost $ 50 million in venture backing (including from Google, YouTube's parent company), valuing it at nearly $ 200 million in 2012.

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.

• Following two lackluster years for IPOs, we should see the «unicorn backlog» of more than 200 venture - backed private companies start to clear out in 2018.

Wil Schroter is a serial entrepreneur and fundraising veteran, having founded nine internet companies in the last 20 years — the last three venture - backed.

The Issues In the past two years, I have interviewed about 200 entrepreneurs from venture - backed companies.

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 ThomaIn 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 Thomain 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.

Knight Frank says that while these companies» plans may still be rough, some private investors are happy to take the long view and back interesting ventures in the early stages if they promise a nice return.

When it closes a reported $ 160 million funding round from Index Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, and DST Global, the company will have a $ 2.8 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable venture capital - backed businesses in theVenture Partners, and DST Global, the company will have a $ 2.8 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable venture capital - backed businesses in theventure capital - backed businesses in the world.

On Deck, which launched in 2007, is one of a number of venture capital - backed companies that have arisen in recent years and that take advantage of the greater availability of business data via the Internet to lend to small companies that banks typically turn down, says Mitch Jacobs, CEO of On Deck.

He started an online textbook retail company while in college, served as the CFO for an electric vehicle startup, Lit Motors, and worked for Innovation Endeavors, a seed stage venture fund backed by Eric Schmidt.

Dow Jones studied more than 20,000 venture - backed companies over a five - year period and found that those companies with at least one woman executive were more likely to succeed than those with only men in leadership positions.

Spencer has over two decades of experience in Silicon Valley, starting as an investment banker and then becoming a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur, a manager of a venture capital fund of funds, and eventually a CFO / COO of venture - backed enterprise SaaS companies.

Venture - capital investment into the sector fell 75 % from $ 3.2 billion raised in 2015, and money managers cooled on purchasing loans the companies made, forcing them to scale back.

Female founders represented 7 percent of venture - backed companies in an analysis by Bloomberg last year.

However, during that time, Callinicos helped Uber grow from $ 3 billion to a current valuation of $ 41.2 billion, making it the second most valuable venture - backed company in the world, trailing only behind Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, which is valued at $ 46 billion.

A healthy IPO market and the prevalence of large growth rounds for private, venture - backed companies at lofty valuations have signaled a renewed interest in venture capital within the LP community.