Sentences with phrase «venture backed company with»

When Mr. West joined Solexa, it was a private venture backed company with a radically different biochemistry and molecular biology for DNA sequencing.

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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.

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

Las Vegas has the honor of the highest percentage of venture - backed companies with at least one female founder: 26 percent.

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.

(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.

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.

Among so - called growth companies, the failure rate is even higher, according to a 2012 Harvard Business School study: About three - quarters of startups with venture backing fail.

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).

«With Steve's passing, Bezos is the epitome of the venture - backed CEO,» says Bill Gurley, another VC and longtime Amazon watcher, as well as the lead investment - banking research analyst for the company's 1997 IPO.

With any luck (and maybe recruitment fees), some of those clients will turn into 500 - to 1,000 - person companies and some of its new seed - stage clients will turn into large, venture - backed, paying clients.

Along with her role at Icon, Debby takes on consulting assignments for a variety of well - regarded venture - backed companies, often serving as interim VP of Engineering until a replacement can be found with her help.

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.

«The equity investor, New World Ventures, is a leading Chicago venture capital / private equity firm that backs companies with sustainable technological advantages like SMS.

Over the last ten years, it has become clear that exit opportunities for venture - backed portfolio companies correlate strongly with the state of the economy and its ability to support M&A and IPO market activity.

Acquires venture capital assets and provides liquidity with a focus on late - stage venture - backed companies and funds.

Next Coast Ventures was born in 2015 with a simple vision to create a different kind of venture capital firm focused company building, thought leadership and giving back to the community.

And rarely, if ever, should the goal be the fast kind of «hockey stick» growth that is associated with the tiny slice of startups who receive the majority of coverage by tech - focused digital media covering startups: the extraordinarily rare company that obtains backing from a venture fund.

Las Vegas has the most venture - backed companies with a female founder.

Microsoft already been targeting startups through the Startup Zone (and related programs such as the Startup Accelerator), but Lewin says that was aimed at venture - backed companies with global ambitions.

As a matter of fact, our internal data shows that revenue multiplies are actually declining for many U.S. venture - backed technology companies with revenues under $ 100M.

Companies like Uber and Lyft are based in Silicon Valley and backed with significant amounts of venture capital, and for the most part there is little indication that they will go public anytime soon.

In the venture capital world, it's similarly staggering, with 4.2 % of deal - making partners in venture capital and 3 % of venture - backed company CEOs being women.

Prior to joining BPC, Kurt spent 4 years working as a consultant and corporate development executive with several technology and marketing companies, including NewView Technologies, Inc. (formerly eSteel, Inc.), a supply chain software company backed by $ 100 million in funding from leading venture capital investors (Goldman, Sachs & Co., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bessemer Venture Partners), and CM Media Inc., a leading new media cventure capital investors (Goldman, Sachs & Co., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bessemer Venture Partners), and CM Media Inc., a leading new media cVenture Partners), and CM Media Inc., a leading new media company.

As a practical matter, I don't think that most venture backed companies are in 100 % compliance with information rights provisions, especially the time periods for delivery of the information.

In fact, a Kaufmann Foundation study showed that venture - backed companies with a woman CEO showed 35 % higher ROI and 12 % higher revenue growth, while using 1/3 of the capital.

A Kaufmann Foundation study showed that venture - backed companies with a woman CEO showed 35 % higher ROI and 12 % higher revenue growth, while using 1/3 of the capital.

Fortunately, a string of bellwether exits (AirBnB, Uber, Lyft, Palantir, etc.) could quickly cure venture liquidity issues by bringing dollars back to LP's, opening the gates for companies sitting on the sidelines, and providing the market with more public acquirers.

People looking for a bubble in the broader tech sector tend to watch biotech moves because those companies --- often venture - backed and often beckoning with potentially explosive results — are considered barometers of how much appetite investors have for risk.

In August 2013, Alter Eco became one of a record 17 companies to register as Delaware's first benefit corporations, venture - backed companies that drive positive social change and now put social impact on par with financial returns.

He begins with an interactive map of more than 130 venture - backed biotech companies based in Kendall Square, a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity in Cambridge, near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Samir Kaul, a partner at Khosla Ventures, a San Francisco Bay Area venture capital firm that backs start - ups pursuing both approaches, says the companies that survive will be the ones whose fuels can compete with oil at $ 40 a barrel.

Previously, he served as president of Steve Cordial Consulting, where he has provided interim CFO support for a variety of companies, ranging from a private - equity owned personal care company with more than $ 400 million in revenues to a $ 29 million per year venture - backed telecom equipment manufacturer.

EXCLUSIVE: After recently venturing into cable with the Showtime series Shameless, HBO's miniseries Mildred Pierce and TNT's drama Southland, which originated on NBC, John Wells» Warner Bros TV - based production company is shifting its attention back to broadcast TV this development season.

The company's founders Eric Stromberg, Andrew Brown, and Willem Van Lancker gave little explanation for Oyster's closure on their blog, but hinted they would be back with a new venture soon.

- Over at Venture Beat, they have a little piece on King.com's «American Idol» web game which meanders around:"King.com, a European company with $ 43 million in financial backing from Apax and individuals, has just released one of the more expensively developed games so far: American Idol.

Corona Labs announces Dilbert Game Jam — Venture - backed mobile software company Corona Labs has teamed up with the creator of the Dilbert comic strip Venture - backed mobile software company for a mobile game development contest.

Qteros is a venture - backed company committed to delivering innovative process technologies for clean transportation fuels that reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a price competitive with gasoline.

BC International was renamed Celunol less than four months ago, Burke explained, and with four new venture capitalists on board the company is financially well - backed.

«IPO activity continued to be weak with only 13 venture backed companies going public, and with Nasdaq down 7 percent in the quarter to date,» said Fenwick & West partner Michael Patrick.

Similar to most of Outside GC's venture - backed clients, Prelert had an existing relationship with a traditional law firm, but the company understood that using them for a high volume of contract work would not be cost - effective or efficient.

While we do work with a decent number of VC - ish backed Delaware LLCs (sometimes LLCs really do make sense), the vast majority of technology companies that raise venture capital either start or end up as Delaware corps.

The venture capital - backed company, valued at about $ 250m (# 171m) in a fundraising last August, now boasts more than 7 million users, has just entered into profile - raising tie - ups with social networking sites Facebook and Twitter and is in talks about a US launch.

«Tech Co.» is a small, venture - backed company with proprietary software assets.

His experience with venture capital transactions comes from multiple perspectives — from being outside counsel for the company or the investing entity, to being in - house counsel for both at various times, as well as a being the business owner of a venture backed company.

The first step in my process was to write to the Tech GC Google Group, an organization of General Counsels of leading venture capital firms and venture - backed companies with chapters in New York City, San Francisco, and Boston, to find out what services members were using.