Sentences with phrase «venture capital arms as»

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

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.

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And Ripcord just got a massive vote of confidence from GV, formerly known as Google Ventures, the venture - capital arm of Alphabet — which just led a new investment of $ 25 million into Ripcord.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Those institutions have been rushing into the arms of venture capital firms of late, and any disruption in the VC universe will be felt by average investors as well.

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.

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.

It appears as though the bulk of this is due to the fact that Ganji.com has merged with 58.com and Tiger Global held a stake in Ganji as well via its venture capital arm.

Cisco Investments, the venture capital arm of networking technology giant Cisco, last month came on board as a limited partner.

EDB's venture capital programme adopts a two - pronged approach that involves the promotion and development of industry as well as venture capital investment activities through its investment arm, EDB Investments Pte Ltd. (EDBI).

The latest round was led by OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of a large Canadian pension - fund manager, and included August Capital as well as previous backers Khosla Ventures, Union Square and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

Other backers in the ride - hailing startup's latest financing round included a venture capital fund jointly run by Indian industrialist Ratan Tata and the University of California's investment arm, as well as several U.S. institutional investors, people familiar with the deal said, asking not to be identified talking about a private deal.

This capital will be partially deployed through venture capital partners to be announced, as well as through a direct venture arm.

We might have seen a glimpse into the future this week, as smart home thermostat maker Ecobee announced that it received more than $ 60 million in funding from several investors, including from the Amazon Alexa fund, a $ 100 million venture capital arm of the company that invests in voice technology innovation.