Sentences with phrase «venture capitalists in»

Mediachain has joined the likes of OpenBazaar and Blockstack and joined the community of Blockchain startups backed by some of the most powerful venture capitalists in Silicon Valley including Union Square Venture, Andreessen Horowitz, and RRE Ventures — as well as Digital Currency Group, LDV Capital, Alexis Ohanian, William Mougayar, Kanyi Maqubela, David Lee, Mathieu Drouin and Brian Message.

One of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley is leaving the sector for political reasons.

Wylie pitched his company — which he cofounded with SCL colleagues Tadas Jucikas, a data scientist, and Brent Clickard, a psychologist — to several Silicon Valley and European venture capitalists in 2014, eventually changing its name from Arg.us to Eunoia Technologies.

If you asked venture capitalists in the Valley around that time what they thought about Advanced Equities, a common response was that it didn't have a very good reputation — «snake oil salesmen» was the term often used.

In 2013, over $ 450 million was invested by venture capitalists in the Avvos, LegalZooms and Rocket Lawyers of the world.

The co-founder of LinkedIn, as well as one of the biggest venture capitalists in the country, led the 1L orientation this past year.

However, there are many players in the market, backed by some of the biggest venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, that are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees to ensure that they align completely with whichever regulatory environment that they operate in.

Getting down to business with Silicon Valley lawyer Allison Leopold Tilley, who shares with us the life of representing entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in one of the greatest tech hubs in the world.

That could make it the largest equity loss for venture capitalists in history.»

Donations are mostly from venture capitalists in Silicone Valley.

Investment from venture capitalists in IT - related companies dropped a massive 40 percent in the US last financial quarter, according to a new report.

David Blumberg, one of the most important venture capitalists in the Bay Area, understands Israeli startups.

Guy Kawasaki, one of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as well as one of the original marketers of Apple, has struck out on his own and self - published a book (which fittingly enough, is about self - publishing).

3 min readGuy Kawasaki, one of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as well as one of the original marketers of Apple, has struck out on his own and self - published a book (which fittingly enough, is about self - publishing).

That is just the way that the people in the offices along Sand Hill Road, where you find the most influential venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, like it.

Speaking of investing in supply chain technology, over $ 4 billion was invested in AI by U.S. venture capitalists in the past year.

Basis, a cryptocurrency startup, has raised $ 133 million from the top venture capitalists in the world... and it's building a potential dollar - killing crypto.

Two of the most prominent venture capitalists in the United States have launched a new investment firm that's generating buzz in Silicon Valley and beyond at a time of intensifying debate about diversity in the technology industry.

Venture capitalists in recent months have been huddling with their funds» own investors to see whether they can purchase ICO tokens instead of securities — or stock in private companies, which is what they're supposed to do.

Mr. Frank Cianciulli: Yes, and that's also very encouraging because with Silicon Valley, you know, obviously there's so many venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, but they're not money guys.

In February 2018, we brought together more than a hundred of the most respected developers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists in the blockchain space — and got them to spill the beans on where the blockchain revolution is headed in 2018, and how the «small guy» investor could buy in low.

In the past three years, there has been a six-fold increase in the total dollars invested by venture capitalists in the space and a tripling of the number of deals.

In this live virtual executive roundtable, you'll: * Learn what entrepreneurs need to do to get noticed by top VC firms * Look at the most active venture capitalists in tech today * Discover the biggest mistakes made by foundering startups * Identify the weaknesses that are keeping you from becoming the next unicorn Speakers: * Ton van't Noordende, Venture Partner, Keadyn * Jon Cifuentes, Cofounder Research and Operations, All Turtles * Matthew Zeiler, CEO, Clarifai * Stewart Rogers, Director of Marketing Technology, VentureBeat

Nearly $ 27 billion dollars was invested by venture capitalists in 2012.

In fact, as a company, Lopez, is far more profitable than the money - losing tech startups that venture capitalists in the room typically invest in.

At the end, rather than pitching their business plans to venture capitalists in a «demo day» — the standard model of startup incubators — the teams made «lessons learned» presentations, during which they explain how the customer feedback helped them shape their plans.

«I find the venture capitalists in LA a lot more accessible, especially compared to San Francisco,» Dao says.

My company, Blue Cloud Ventures, with an enterprise software - focused late - stage fund, has successfully collaborated with corporate - venture capitalists in three companies: Resumator, with Salesforce Ventures; Vidyo, with Juniper Venture Investments; and Cloudbees, with Verizon Ventures.

Women - led teams received just $ 1.9 billion of the total $ 85 billion invested by venture capitalists in 2017, which is just 2.2 percent of the year's total, according to data from VC database PitchBook, an M&A, private equity, and VC database, reported by Fortune.

Bitcoin - related startups raised $ 343 million from venture capitalists in the first half of 2017, according to CB Insights, and more than $ 2.2 billion from all sorts of investors so far this year through so - called ICOs, or «initial coin offerings,» according to CoinSchedule.

Explaining the industry and what's going on takes the form of several audiences; one being the overly - optimistic entrepreneur who still has aspirations of raising capital to get their company to a liquidity event, another being the up and coming venture capitalist in training (think decades long training cycles) who recently finds themselves a free agent as the asset class shrinks and wants to start their own fund, and the final being ambitious MBA's switching careers and see venture capital as the preferred destination.

Doerr is the best - known investor at Kleiner Perkins — and indeed, likely still the most famous venture capitalist in the world, having backed Amazon, Netscape, and Google in the 1990s, in a prescient bid that this Internet thing might amount to something.

(His brother, Darren Bechtel, is a venture capitalist in San Francisco, and his sister, Katherine Bechtel, works as a cost and schedule planner for Bechtel.)

The email offering the blocks was sent by a broker to a venture capitalist in the US.

In addition to more than 30 years of experience in commercializing new technologies, both as an entrepreneur and investor, Bob has more than 20 years of experience as an early stage venture capitalist in the Boston area.

The next round, in October of 2011, attracted interest from the best - known venture capitalist in the tech world, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, of Andreessen Horowitz.

He is... The Most Interesting Venture Capitalist in the World.

He has also worked as an equity analyst covering basic materials and industrial stocks, as a venture capitalist in Prague, and as a tax consultant advising on numerous M&A, real estate, and oil and gas transactions.

That November, Novak, who by then had become a vice president at Sanofi in Paris, and another old friend, Shaun Foy, a venture capitalist in Vancouver, Canada, discussed CRISPR's commercial potential during a surfing trip to the challenging, frigid waters off the northern tip of Vancouver Island.

The Tribune was founded in 2009 by John Thornton (a venture capitalist in Austin for nearly 20 years and a passionate believer in public media), Evan Smith (the veteran editor - in - chief of Texas Monthly and host of a weekly interview program on PBS stations), and Ross Ramsey (the owner and editor of Texas Weekly, the state's premier newsletter on politics and government).

«Tablets are on fire, there's no question about that,» said Brad Silverberg, former Microsoft executive, who is now a venture capitalist in Seattle.

Brad Silverberg, a venture capitalist in Seattle and a former senior executive at Microsoft, said he was encouraged that the company was doing that rather than playing catch - up in smartphones.

One of Marshall's motivations seems to be that the CSIRO should be more like the start - ups, which he would have been accustomed to as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley.

Now she's a venture capitalist in London with a new VC firm, Blossom Capital, investing in the...

Not exact matches

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

Investors are getting a bit wary about valuations, following a selloff in tech stocks, venture capitalist David Golden says.

In 2012, venture capitalists poured $ 853 million into gaming companies.

It enjoyed a stable trading price, big excitement in its underlying technology, and bigger investment from venture capitalists than ever before.

«I invested in Ali, basically,» confirms Farris, 77, the godfather of B.C. venture capitalists, with a string of technology startups to his credit going back 45 years.

«As an entrepreneur, I have had products and services shut out of closed cable networks, and as a venture capitalist, I've invested in companies that would not have been able to innovate if these network were not open.»