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Startup AgeTak» s software can help insurance companies and other health organizations bring together dispersed patient data in a secure manner, according to company co-founder Pratik Verma who will pitch AgeTak's story to venture capitalists at StartX.

And the more Maslin, director of the leading provider of data - as - a-service geospatial data analytics, is cited in a major historical work on the murder of tens of millions, the better it is for him and his fellow venture capitalists at the Royal Society.

BUSINESS INSIDER - May 14 - Emma Tessler and Lauren Kay pitched their startup, The Dating Ring, to a crowded room full of venture capitalists at Y Combinator's Demo Day in 2014.

Puliatti said that after recent events, he and his co-founder are now more seriously considering not raising money from venture capitalists at all — and said that even if they did, he has decided that he won't «ever sit down» with Benchmark.

Coinbase was valued by venture capitalists at about $ 1.6 billion last summer, but that was largely before a surge of interest in retail cryptocurrency trading as assets like bitcoin dramatically rose and fell in late 2017 and early 2018.

Today's startups may take many forms: some are run as side hustles on shoestring budgets, while others may be backed by venture capitalists at multi-million dollar valuations even before a cent of revenue is generated.

Today's bell ringers are U.S. Customs and Border Protection with Leon Hayward, assistant director of trade and cargo security, at the NYSE, and Alex Konrad, Forbes editor, and several members of Forbes» Midas List of top venture capitalists at the Nasdaq.

But several venture capitalists at the competition were so impressed that they offered to invest $ 1.1 million.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that at least 73 private companies around the globe are valued by venture capitalists at $ 1 billion or more, with 48 of them reaching 10 digits in 2014.

Fast forward 10 years, and Los Angeles has become one of the leaders in the digital media industry, says Mark Suster, a Los Angeles entrepreneur, venture capitalist at GRP Partners, and organizer of Launchpad L.A., a program to mentor start - up CEOs.

Jared Fliesler, a venture capitalist at Matrix Partners and formerly a vice president at the payments startup Square, explained that Venmo's rise is tied to its ease - of - use.

«He's always been a learn - it - all person, to a level that is sometimes maddening, considering how much more I have to learn from him than he does from me,» says Matt Cohler, a venture capitalist at Benchmark and an early Facebook employee who has remained close to Zuckerberg.

Pao, for example, a former venture capitalist at well - known Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins, lost a lawsuit last year that she filed against her former employer over allegations that it had discriminated against her because of her gender.

«It used to be that unicorns were these mythical creatures,» says Jason Green, a venture capitalist at Emergence Capital Partners whose investments include Yammer, which sold to Microsoft (MSFT) for $ 1.2 billion.

Bill Gurley, the prominent venture capitalist at Benchmark, is still issuing sky - is - falling bubble warnings.

Quick Ratio creator Hamid Mamoon, a venture capitalist at Social + Capital, gave some widely - circulated advice that a ratio of 4 (4 dollars made per 1 dollar lost) is a good goal for startups in their growth stage.

Jason Mendelson, a venture capitalist at Foundry Group, was a mentor at Techstars.

Bill Gurley, an outspoken venture capitalist at Benchmark, is in talks to leave Uber's board, a source told CNBC.

Matt Cohler, a venture capitalist at Benchmark, was one of two investors who met with Mr. Kalanick at a Chicago hotel on Tuesday.

Bill Gurley, a longtime Uber director and a venture capitalist at Benchmark, will be leaving the board and will be replaced by Mr. Cohler, according to a person familiar with the move.

«The real news is there are more and more women qualified to be venture capital partners,» said Cindy Padnos, a venture capitalist at Illuminate Ventures.

I'm also a venture capitalist at Runa Capital, an early stage venture fund based in Silicon Valley.

San Francisco, CA About Blog Tomasz Tunguz is a venture capitalist at Redpoint and writes about startups, fund raising, SaaS companies, and best practices for founders.

«Amazon is not a fight - on - their - knees kind of company,» says Rob Glaser, the Seattle entrepreneur behind RealNetworks and now also a venture capitalist at Accel Partners.

San Francisco, CA About Blog Tomasz Tunguz is a venture capitalist at Redpoint and writes about startups, fund raising, SaaS companies, and best practices for founders.

Fred, a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures mentions a number of highly popular, well funded, services that...

On the opportunity side, investing in the transition from a high - carbon to a low - carbon economy represents «the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century» according to John Doerr a major venture capitalist at Kleiner - Perkins in Silicon valley.

Becker's experience in intellectual property law and technology is extensive — prior to Lex Machina he was part of the founding team at Dice.com, ran corporate development at Agile Software, and worked as a venture capitalist at Redpoint Ventures.

Alexander Pease, a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures, made a great slide deck in which he showed how companies are innovating in the world of finance.

But as for the future, «the uncertainty is definitely not helpful,» said Eileen Burbidge, a venture capitalist at Passion Capital and a special envoy for fintech for the UK Treasury.

San Francisco, CA About Blog Tomasz Tunguz is a venture capitalist at Redpoint and writes about startups, fund raising, SaaS companies, and best practices for founders.

San Francisco, CA About Blog Tomasz Tunguz is a venture capitalist at Redpoint and writes about startups, fund raising, SaaS companies, and best practices for founders.

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Swanson, a young venture capitalist, and Boyer, a recognized scientific genius at the University of California, San Francisco, joined forces in 1976.

Tensions were high Wednesday at New York University's Stern School of Business, as a group of academics, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs faced off during a panel discussion on the future of higher education.

As venture capitalist Rob Coneybeer, managing director and founder of Shasta Ventures, told me at the beginning of the summer, the smartphone has changed everything.

This is at the heart of much of the excitement around ICOs: It's a totally new way of raising capital that does away with the traditional gatekeepers, financiers, and venture capitalists.

Maha Ibrahim, Canaan Partners general partner, discusses why venture capitalists like her are cringing at the performance of tech IPOs this year.

Last night, Axios reported that one of these parties was held at venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson's home.

Between being a minority at pretty every much industry event, having to convince (mostly male) venture capitalists to invest in your company, and having those investors constantly question your judgment, being a female founder can be an isolating experience.

At that point, she had given up a career as a live music production coordinator to become a venture capitalist.

CNBC's Josh Lipton reports that venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson is leaving his job at DFJ amid sexual harassment allegations.

Prior to SineWave, Yanev was an investor at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the largest venture capitalist firm in the world.

New York hedge fund managers from Bill Ackman and David Einhorn to Silicon Valley venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya pitched their top investment ideas Monday at the Sohn Investment Conference, the annual gathering of some of Wall Street's highest - profile stock pickers.

Netscape created the modern Silicon Valley, where entrepreneurs and venture capitalists could meet at a table on Sand Hill Road and scribble out plans for a multimillion - dollar corporation on the back of a napkin.

Panelists like Netscape founder and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh had some salient advice for start - ups in search of VC - backing this week at the TechCrunch50 conference, reports GigaOm.

After 10 or so rejections, a meeting at Thrive Capital — which liked what she had to say but told her to come back once she had a product — led Weiss to venture capitalist Kirsten Green, the founder of San Francisco - based Forerunner Ventures.

As far as wooing venture capitalists is concerned, More informs that Finzy's investors were following developments at the startup ever since the time of inception.

Because these organizations are specialists at providing the type of hands - on assistance that entrepreneurs need at the pre-seed stage, and because entrepreneurs are co-located with the accelerator directors, the people running accelerators can provide more intense help to startup companies than most angels and venture capitalists, speeding up the development of the companies.

Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist turned hedge fund manager who is also a former Facebook executive, has built up some credibility since his first appearance last year at the conference, which benefits pediatric disease research: Amazon stock is up some 34 % in the meantime.

The result: at the second fair, Vincent says, Exam Master caught the attention of some venture capitalists who want to follow its growth.