Sentences with phrase «venture capital arm»

Banks and financial services companies have been the most active investors — either through internal venture capital arms or through other strategic initiatives.

Tom Mastrobuoni is the Chief Financial Officer of Tyson Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Tyson Foods.

It happened when Google's venture capital arm invested $ 258 million in Uber in 2013; now the ride - hailing company is poised to directly compete against its investor with its self - driving project.

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

In June 2015, it received $ 11.5 million (# 8 million) in venture capital investment, with the round led by Google venture capital arm Google Ventures (now called GV) and Softbank.

MassMutual Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, also co-invested in the round.

Venrock, the official venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, has partnered with crypto investment group Coinfund to support cryptocurrency and Blockchain business innovation, Fortune reported April 6.

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

Johnson & Johnson Innovation — JJDC, Inc. is the strategic venture capital arm of Johnson & Johnson and a long - term investment partner to global healthcare entrepreneurs.

Samsung's venture capital arm announced Wednesday it is expanding into Europe to invest in the continent's start - up scene.

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.

Constellation Ventures Invests in Nelson's Green Brier Distillery Venture capital arm of Constellation Brands acquires minority stake in pre-Prohibition-era whiskey maker -LSB-...]

Anxious not to be outdone, days later fellow magic circle firm Linklaters announces that its new venture capital arm is taking a majority stake in a start - up that makes self - driving AI - propelled hoverboard stand - up desks.

Now, it has an unspecified investment from the Alexa Fund, Amazon's venture capital arm for companies making use of its voice assistant technologies.

That's according to research by Recorded Future, an information security firm that counts the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm among its investors, and security non-profit Team Cymru.

The Rockefeller's VC firm Venrock has announced a partnership with crypto investment group Coinfund Venrock, the official venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, has partnered...

Boeing's venture capital arm invested outside the U.S. (again), putting funds behind a space company (again).

That's why a new startup called Envelop, partially funded by Alphabet's (goog) venture capital arm GV, recently debuted a new virtual reality interface that mimics Microsoft (msft) Windows.

Several decades later, in 1969, the grandson of John D. Rockefeller brought his siblings together to found Venrock, the family's official venture capital arm.

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.

Alexandria Venture Investments is the strategic venture capital arm of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE).

VLP Founding Partner David Goldenberg Authors Daily Journal Article «Benefits and Risks to Having Corporate Venture Capital Arms»

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.

One was Bezos Expeditions, the venture capital arm of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

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.

Besides Hormel, others that are investing in the trend include General Mills (gis), Kellogg (k) and Tyson Foods (tsn)-- all through investments made in their venture capital arms in brands like Beyond Meat, Kite Hill, and Kuli Kuli.

Google's venture capital arm, Google Ventures, or GV as it now likes to be known, made a similar move last year when it folded its European fund into its US fund.

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.

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.

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.

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

Meanwhile, Sinclair is the largest TV station operator in the country — it owns or operates roughly 170 television stations in 81 markets in the U.S. — and the company has recently expanded into cable programming, having paid $ 350 million to acquire the Tennis Channel in January from an ownership group consisting of multiple private equity firms, including Bain Capital's venture capital arm.

As the chief executive officer of OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Ontario municipal workers» pension fund, Ruffolo presides over a $ 200 - million fund that's offering big money to startups that just might become megaplayers with the scale and global reach of BlackBerry.

Banerjee was 12 years old when he closed an early - stage funding round with Intel Capital, the company's venture capital arm, last month for his prototype for a low - cost Braille printer.

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.

Spending on customer acquisition intensified into 2014, and in May the company raised $ 31 million from the venture capital arm of Shaw Communications, alongside Shop.ca's existing investors, which around that time valued the company at $ 200 million.

To the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, a $ 61 - billion pension fund, this was untapped opportunity, which was why it launched its venture capital arm, OMERS Ventures, in 2011.

• 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.

He also previously served as an adviser to GV, Alphabet's venture capital arm.

«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.

The company already has a relationship with In - Q - Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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.

Phantom's investors include Blackstone Group, the private equity giant, and In - Q - Tel, the venture capital arm of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Through his venture capital arm, Point72 Ventures, Cohen is handing up to $ 250 million over to the platform to invest using these algorithms.