Sentences with phrase «venture capitalists who»

«There's been a recent concern over valuation and a lack of IPOs, and the venture capitalists who funded it all are now sitting back and taking a hard look at growth projections,» Georgules says.

Side by side, there are other venture capitalists who again have varying levels of worry about... Not that every entrepreneur in 10 years is going to raise money through an initial offering, but some will.

We asked some of Britain's top venture capitalists who they thought were the most exciting fintech businesses out there right now and supplemented the list with some of our own personal favourites.

The past few years have been slow for tech IPOs, which is a disappointment for Silicon Valley venture capitalists who can make a lot of money this way.

The aim of the Midas List ranking is to identify the venture capitalists who are providing the best returns for their investors, while helping create the most valuable and impactful technology and life science companies.

And we've interviewed the nationâ $ ™ s largest and smallest virtual employers and their employees, corporate executives, telework advocates and naysayers, top researchers, legislators, legal representatives, leaders of successful telework advocacy programs in both the public and private sector, and venture capitalists who have invested in the remote work model.

I'm enjoying the new season of Shark Tank, a reality show where entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to venture capitalists who decide whether or not to invest in a business.

The authors are two very succesful «early stage» venture capitalists who run the Venture Capital firm «Foundry Group» (among others they finenced FitBit).

I recently started talking to some venture capitalists who are very focused on all of the positive effects of cannabis.

She focused on raising campaign money nationally chiefly through the medical and pharmaceutical industries and venture capitalists who back them.

Gillibrand's bill would allow the Federal Small Business Administration to loan funds directly to venture capitalists who would in turn invest the money in companies.

Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp of True Wealth Ventures As the only Austin venture capitalists who explicitly seek out -LSB-...]

But the venture capitalists who are investing in this project clearly see huge potential.

Angel investors typically use their own money, unlike venture capitalists who take care of pooled money from many other investors and place them in a strategically managed fund.

The strong performance on Thursday is encouraging for the venture capitalists who have backed other consumer Web startups, such as Square or Pinterest, though it sounded alarm bells for some investors who cautioned that the froth was unwarranted.

There are also a number of wealthy investors like Tom Perkins, John Doerr, and Peter Thiel, Californian venture capitalists who became billionaires by backing start - ups and growing businesses.

While the venture capitalists who spoke to VentureBeat for this article were all enthusiastic about the role that Microsoft could play in the market, they each cautioned that the company still needed to prove it was playing a long game in the venture market.

The big winners of Facebook's $ 2 billion deal to buy Oculus VR, a virtual reality headset maker, include a roster of elite venture capitalists who invested in the company early on.

And what about the dozens of industry insiders and «smart money» investors whose names you've never heard of — the developers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists who live and breathe tech?

Furthermore, many smaller fund managers are in the middle of their professional careers and therefore have not yet accumulated the personal wealth equal to that of successful venture capitalists who founded firms two or three decades ago.

Foursquare, which lets users check in to show they're visiting a place like a restaurant or shop, is also negotiating with venture capitalists who own convertible debt about turning their holdings into equity, said one of the people.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a start - up's initial public offering, a lot of people can get fabulously rich: the founders, early employees and the venture capitalists who staked the company.

Some venture capitalists who once funded the companies, or their competitors, have told me that they no longer use them — or do so sparingly.

«Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who were around more than a decade ago during the dot - com mania say fund - raising today requires meeting a higher bar — namely, a working product and some marketplace traction — than it did in the late 1990s,» The Journal notes.

CNBC recently sat down with three global venture capitalists who shared the biggest mistake done by entrepreneurs seeking funding.

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

«If you go to the corner of Sixth Street and Mission, you see venture capitalists who used to be on Sand Hill Road [in Silicon Valley] but have moved up to the city,» Foley says.

It's no fault of Aileen Lee, the venture capitalist who coined the term «unicorn,» that the word has become so irritating.

I once pitched a deal to another venture capitalist who spent most of the time typing a message on his phone.

Albert Wenger is a venture capitalist who's interested in open access to APIs.

Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal alongside Max Levchin and Elon Musk, addressed the Class of 2016 at Hamilton College's graduation ceremony.

Wölffer Estate Vineyard, founded in 1988 on a 55 - acre former potato farm, was the passion project of Christian Wölffer, a German - born venture capitalist who tragically died in 2008 at age 70 in a swimming accident off the Brazilian coast.

eBay CEO John Donahoe met Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky in 2012 through Marc Andreessen, the influential venture capitalist who sits on eBay's (EBAY) board and whose firm, Andreessen Horowitz, is an investor in Airbnb.

I thought about the trader's call when I read the news that Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who supported Donald Trump's candidacy and advised him during the post-election transition, has secretly been a citizen of New Zealand since 2011 and owns a large rural estate there.

Then one of Cline's board members — a venture capitalist who also ran a SPAC — told him about CEA Acquisition, a public shell company based in Tampa that was trading on the OTC Bulletin Board.

I probably turned him down at least three or four times,» says Peter Gotcher, a venture capitalist who eventually participated in a $ 12 million round in 2005.

Peter Thiel, a billionaire venture capitalist who was one of Facebook's first investors and is close to President Donald Trump, has reportedly invested millions of dollars in Bitcoin through his Founders Fund venture capital firm.

Tim Draper, the billionaire technology investor and prominent venture capitalist who has invested in some of the most successful technology startups in the likes of Coinbase,...

As one venture capitalist who has worked with Kalanick says of him: «It's douche as a tactic, not a strategy.»

«A big chill came across Silicon Valley in the wake of all these stories, and people are hyperaware and scared of behaving wrongly, so I think they're drawing all kinds of parameters,» said a venture capitalist who spoke anonymously for the same reason.

Kicking off «She Made It,» a new Megyn Kelly TODAY series showcasing successful women, Megyn welcomes Barbara Minuzzi, a 29 - year - old Brazilian immigrant and venture capitalist who's rocking male - dominated Silicon Valley.

Commentary by Bradley Tusk, a political strategist and venture capitalist who leads political advisory firm Tusk Strategies.

Consultants working to identify the best uses of the Buffalo Billion suggested giving small grants to dozens of promising new companies — maybe $ 10,000 each, recalled Jordan Levy, a local entrepreneur and venture capitalist who helped launch 43North.

Gibson faces Democratic candidate Sean Eldridge this November, a wealthy venture capitalist who has been able to tap rich donors to help fund his effort.

Other potential Democratic candidates include David Calone, a venture capitalist who also worked as a federal prosecutor; William Wexler, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor who shares offices with Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer; Tad Scharfenberg, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor who ran for district attorney in 1997; James Chalifoux, deputy bureau chief of the district attorney's major crimes bureau; Maureen McCormick, a top Nassau prosecutor who lives in Huntington; and Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan's Law, an advocacy group for victims of sexual assault.

Schreibman counts several leading Democratic donors among his contributors, including Scott Murphy, a venture capitalist who lost the seat to Gibson in 2010, and Sean Coffey, an unsuccessful candidate for attorney general who now works in private equity.

According to Newsday, other Democrat contenders include, former Congressional hopeful, David Calone, a venture capitalist who has also worked as a federal prosecutor; William Wexler, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor; Tad Scharfenberg, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor who ran for district attorney in 1997; James Chalifoux, deputy bureau chief of the district attorney's major crimes bureau; Maureen McCormick, a top Nassau prosecutor who lives in Huntington; and Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan's Law, an advocacy group for victims of sexual assault.

The board of directors does all the «big picture» business thinking and will likely include someone appointed by a venture capitalist who has invested in the company.

Much of that money has come from Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who founded PayPal and bankrolled Facebook's early days; he is also a libertarian who believes in maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.

In June 2013 at an e-commerce conference, she met a venture capitalist who invested 30K in her business.