Sentences with phrase «venture firms»

The firm consistently ranks in the top venture firms in terms of returns to its investors.

We are an early growth - stage venture firm founded by experienced investors.

The timing underscores a years - long trend of venture firms committing money more quickly to startups than they have historically and subsequently returning to their own institutional investors more rapidly for more funding.

Diversity: A new study shows that venture firms with greater gender diversity perform better, and that diversity is more apparent in funds where partners have, on average, more daughters.

Last month's budget also set aside about $ 200 million for venture firms.

Instead, as venture firms make successive investments, they collect money from their limited partners and distribute that money to portfolio companies in rounds.

She also talked about constructive solutions to the problem, and one of these should alarm more traditional venture firms whose general partners remain all or nearly exclusively male.

So that could mean two things: One, traditional venture firms could find themselves locked out of investing in these technologies.

So women are striking out on their on and starting their own venture firms.

I know for a fact there's a ton of announcements coming out relatively soon about women being recruited into venture firms.

While the prevailing belief is that the most successful venture firms are those with sufficiently large funds to lead these mega rounds, the data does not support that perception.

At many venture firms, promotions to partner are rare.

The list includes venture, micro venture, and corporate venture firms that made 45 or more investments between 2010 and 2015.

In other words, venture firms tended not to pick multiple winners when it came to startups worth more than $ 50 billion.

She also shared very specific advice to female founders who are looking to raise capital (along with one observation for male - heavy venture firms).

And this ICO does not solve the underlying problem for all ICOs — it is unclear how venture firms will cash in, even if the project is successful.

But unlike in traditional financing, the opinions of top - flight venture firms are only somewhat relevant to cryptocurrency insiders.

A laundry list of venture firms and angels also participated in the round.

So what happens if funding dries up for venture firms?

It wasn't clear which venture firm will lead the round.

Most interesting is the agreement with Rethink Education; according to a release, the New York - based venture firm with $ 50 million under management will provide a «significant portion of the fund's carried interest» to New Schools.

Vida recently raised $ 5 million in startup funding from venture firms including Khosla Ventures, Aspect Ventures and Signia Venture Partners, as well as individuals like Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

After raising its first two rounds on SeedInvest, Wyre raised a $ 5.8 million Series A from leading venture firms and strategic investors.

Led by new CEO Jeff Maggioncalda, the company is reportedly valued at around $ 800 million and backers have included top Silicon Valley venture firms like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and NEA.

Chi - Hua Chien, a general partner at venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who found the Facebook investment while previously working at Accel Partners, said his firm is actively exploring investments related to Bitcoin and has already looked at more than two dozen such companies.

Clint is a Managing Director and co-founder of Ulu Ventures, a $ 50m seed stage venture firm investing in enterprise IT companies from Stanford and Silicon Valley.

Investors include venture firms such as NEA and Lux Capital betting on advanced technologies and corporations likely to use the start - up's printers in their own operations.

Jennifer Fonstad and Theresia Gouw — who recently left Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Accel Partners, respectively — are launching a new venture firm called Aspect...

• E&I Ventures, a new Chandler, Ariz. - based venture firm focused on tech businesses, has formed.

Jennifer Fonstad and Theresia Gouw — who recently left Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Accel Partners, respectively — are launching a new venture firm called Aspect Ventures.

The list of signatures includes big name venture firms like Accel and Bessemer Venture Partners, accelerators such as 500 Startups and General Assembly and startups such as Casper and Flywheel.

That's why last year, the former president of Interscope Records Steve Stoute secretly raised a $ 70 million Series A led by Google's corporate umbrella Alphabet and joined by prestigious venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, Silicon Valley investors Floodgate, and entertainment giant 20th Century Fox.

«Most entrepreneurs raise money just a handful of times — while most venture firms fund dozens of companies a year.

According to a story last month in Recode, big - name venture firms including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are participating in the deal.

Venture Atlanta attracts top - tier venture firms from across the U.S., including Silicon Valley, Boston, Washington D.C, North Carolina, Texas, Florida.

In December, Uber raised another $ 1.2 billion in a round of funding participated in by venture firms such as Benchmark, First Round Capital, and Google Ventures as well as mutual funds BlackRock and Fidelity Investments.

Like a lot of firms, the 41 - year - old venture firm Menlo Ventures has decided to jump into healthcare investing after a long hiatus, hiring new partner Greg Yap to lead the charge.

X: As you pursue these areas, what do you feel is different from other venture firms about what Aspect brings to the table?

Either way, the young venture firm looks to have built a strong portfolio to date, with other bets that include the highly valued mobile commerce app Wish, and the health insurance company Oscar, which just last month announced $ 165 million in new funding led by Founders Fund.

Doug Mackenzie, a fan of Edmark's products and a partner at the prestigious venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, obliged by leading a round of equity investment that put $ 5.5 million into Edmark's coffers, paying the market price of $ 10 a share.

Raider managed to raise $ 4 million in seed funding led by New York venture firm Thrive Capital.

He also served as an executive advisor to information technology venture firm Technology Crossover Ventures.

In contrast, $ 28 billion was invested into U.S. venture firms in the first quarter of 2018 alone.

(If the limited partners of these VC's acted like real fiduciaries rather than waiting for the end of life of the fund, more than half of old - line venture firms would have shut themselves down today.)