Sentences with phrase «venture capital backed investment»

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So if you find yourself forced to cut back on your compensation — or even to cash in some of your family's outside investments to raise capital for your venture — you'll need to delay diversification until conditions stabilize.

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.

Founded in 2007 with venture capital backing, Socrata has raised $ 55 million of equity investments to date.

Taiwanese giant HTC bought a majority stake in the venture for $ 309 million in 2011 (Beats bought back half of HTC's investment in 2012 and now owns the controlling stake) and Adams used a portion of his proceeds as seed capital for the i.am +.

According to Bloomberg and research by Lesa Mitchell and Professor Vivek Wadhwa, women - led high - tech startups are more capital efficient, achieve 35 percent higher return on investment, and generate 12 percent higher revenue than male - owned companies when venture - backed.

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.

EqualLogic is the largest all cash acquisition for a venture backed company, according to VentureSource, and the sale resulted in proceeds of $ 195 million to TD Capital Ventures for a 22x gross investment multiple on the fund's $ 8.9 million investment.

Women - led private technology companies are more capital - efficient, achieve 35 percent higher return on investment, and, when venture - backed, bring in 12 percent higher revenue than male - owned tech companies.

Venture - backed robo - advisors, such as Betterment, Personal Capital and Wealthfront, are competing with new automated investment advice services launched earlier this year by Charles Schwab and Vanguard.

When a venture capital firm invests the funds of its clients in a business or businesses, they expect that the investment would mature in around three to seven years so that they can pay back their clients with interest.

Or, maybe the ideas women are presenting aren't viable investments and therefore not backed by the majority of venture capital firms.

It provides other financial services through its subsidiaries engaged in various businesses, including wholesale banking, mortgage banking, consumer finance, equipment leasing, agricultural finance, commercial finance, securities brokerage and investment banking, computer and data processing services, investment advisory services, mortgage - backed securities servicing and venture capital investment.»

So you run to pay back those investments into Exim Bank or the Venture Capital Fund and then you become the eventual owners of those factories after five to seven years,» he said.

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The report, which tracks and analyses fast - growing start - ups in the legal technology space across the UK, says that while the market is still at an embryonic stage, the value of investment in the sector shows encouraging levels of backing by venture capital firms, angel investors and players in the legal services market.

Pecunio's products and services cover the whole lifecycle of blockchain innovation, from angel & venture capital (AC & VC) investments and initial coin offerings (ICO), to exchange - traded cryptocurrencies and asset - backed tokens.

Yesterday, however, the coin got a boost after news that Peter Thiel's San Francisco - based venture capital firm had made substantial investments in the leading cryptocurrency, propelling prices back up over the $ 15,000 mark.

More impressive again, the investment round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures (USV); two world - renowned venture capital firms which are best known for having backed then - startups like Facebook, Twitter, and Coinbase.

The tool has the backing of the National Association of REALTORS ®, through an investment by its venture capital fund Second Century Ventures.