Sentences with phrase «venture capital arms»

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

The company has raised $ 45 million in new venture funding from the venture capital arms of Alphabet, BMW, and Lowe's.

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

A prime example are the banks in Japan that have venture capital arms investing money into companies to help cultivate that business in Japan.

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).

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 million.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Over the years, he's raised more than $ 30 million in funding, most recently an undisclosed amount from Hearst Interactive Media, the media company's venture capital arm, in 2006.

The Small UAV Coalition, a drone coalition with members including Amazon, Intel (intc), and Verizon's (vz) venture capital arm, also opposed the court order.

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 the round.

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.

Dropbox also agreed to sell $ 100 million in stock to Salesforce.com Inc.'s venture capital arm in a private placement concurrent with the IPO, the filing shows.

Shared - living space provider CoLive, owned by CoLife Advisory Pvt. Ltd, has raised $ 1.8 million (Rs 11.7 crore) in a round of funding led by Ncubate Capital Partners, a venture capital arm of SAR Group that engages primarily in water purifiers, clean tech and automotive batteries, the startup said in a press statement.

Google Ventures, the venture capital arm of Alphabet, also took home some cash, sources said, as relations between Uber and Alphabet continue to fray.

US - based Microsoft Ventures, the venture capital arm of software giant Microsoft, announced on Monday that it has formed a new...

Before joining the Bay Area - based VC firm as an operating partner at the end of 2016, Ragatz held more traditional roles at investment firms including DAG Ventures and Steamboat Ventures, Disney's venture capital arm.

Jerusalem - based biotechnology lab - grown meat company Future Meat Technologies has announced a $ 2.2 million seed investment round co-led by Tyson Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods.

Founded in 2011 and backed by Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) 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.

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

CapitalG, the venture capital arm of Alphabet Inc, may have quietly invested an undisclosed amount in Snap Inc, owner of popular messaging app Snapchat.

Techstars Ventures is the venture capital arm of Techstars.

SBI Investment is the venture capital arm of SBI Holdings, the world's first Internet - based financial conglomerate.

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

Backed by the venture capital arm of BMW and Index Ventures, JustPark is the world's largest website for shared parking with over a million customers.

It has investments in various technology companies, including social media channels Slack and Twitter and bitcoin payments processing firm BitPay, through its venture capital arm.

As part of that work, Microsoft made a massive commitment to provide startups with funding and support through a venture capital arm.

Prior to co-founding SIM, Brad worked as the senior analyst at Fidelity Ventures, the venture capital arm of Fidelity Investments.

In 2011 - 2013, Katsu led the establishment of SoftBank's venture capital arm in the US and Southeast Asia.

Sesame Workshop teamed up with the early startup investor Collaborative Fund to launch a new $ 10 million venture capital arm that will invest in tech startups aimed at children's education.

SoftBank Ventures Korea, a venture capital arm of Japanese telecoms and technology giant SoftBank Group, has joined tennis champion Novak Djokovic and former top - ranked golfer Greg Norman as investors in Playsight, an Israeli company that has invented a so - called tennis SmartCourt.