Sentences with phrase «venture firms in»

To wit, in addition to announcing its new product for financial institutions and it those plans to support more cryptocurrencies, the company is today announcing it has landed $ 16 million in Series A funding from Benchmark, one of the best venture firms in the business.

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

The Portland Seed Fund portfolio has a strong record of co-investment by top - tier venture firms in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Additionally, JetBlue Technology Ventures is investing alongside GGV and other venture firms in a $ 36 million series C round of funding for Gladly, bringing the company's total capital raised to $ 63 million.

«We all have friends who have passwords,» says David Stern, a partner with Clearstone, a venture firm in Santa Monica, California.

Mehrdad Baghai, the managing director of Alchemy Growth Partners, a boutique advisory and venture firm in Sydney, Australia, spent months researching the world's most innovative and successful companies for his book As One: Individual Action, Collective Power.

They came back 2 months later and had raised money from Crosscut Ventures, an early - stage venture firm in LA run by Rick Smith and Brian Garrett.

Not exact matches

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders in 2017, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

In August, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and a handful of venture capital firms led a $ 17 million Series A round of fundraising for Memphis Meat.

Singaporean venture capital firm Vertex Ventures has raised $ 210 million to invest in start - ups around Southeast Asia and.

ROBERTS: There are a lot of ebbs and flows in what venture firms do, like when everyone had to have a China or India effort in the 2006 - 2007 timeframe.

It may also spark a startup boomlet in the City of Angels, suggests Mark Suster, the founder of Santa Monica venture capital firm Upfront Ventures.

The co-founder of a venture capital firm shocked many by comparing wealthy Americans to Jews in Nazi Germany, Re-code reports.

To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

Sandy Miller, IVP General Partner, weighs in on the Silicon Valley venture capital firm announcing a $ 1.5 billion dollar fund this morning.

Accounting firm KPMG is launching a business «accelerator» that is designed to assist early - stage technology ventures and bring them together with major companies in the energy and resources sector.

Eric Hippeau, a managing partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, is well - known in the venture community for his firm's blockbuster investments including Birchbox, BuzzFeed, Casper, and Warby Parker.

Launched in 2013, Cohesity has already raised $ 70 million in just two rounds, with a $ 350 million valuation, backed by A-list venture - capital firms Sequoia, Qualcomm Ventures, and others, according to PitchBook.

In a conversation with Fortune, Gupta talks about the evolution of the venture ecosystem over the last decade and his firm's contrarian approach when it comes to investing in early - stage companieIn a conversation with Fortune, Gupta talks about the evolution of the venture ecosystem over the last decade and his firm's contrarian approach when it comes to investing in early - stage companiein early - stage companies.

It is true that 2014 and 2015 saw dramatic increases in the amount of money flowing to rapidly scaling startups through venture capital firms.

That's a function praised by Jeff Jordan, the Andreessen Horowitz partner who led the venture firm's early investment in Tilt.

While three of the top five investors in unicorns are venture capital firms SV Angel, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, it's mutual funds snagging the remaining two spots: Fidelity Investments and T. Rowe Price.

Many minority and women business owners know that professional investors — whether Angel networks or Venture Capital firms — are highly unlikely to invest in their business.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

None of this behavior is ever supposed to happen in the Valley, because who would want to do business with such a litigious venture firm?

A number of venture capital firms are starting to invest in Initial Coin Offerings, despite the risks.

Tehrani's approach led the Vancouver - based firm to secure US$ 61.5 million in venture capital financing in January, one of the largest ever for a Canadian biotech company.

Kirsten Green formed Forerunner Ventures, an early - stage venture capital firm focused on commerce, in 2010 when she noticed a shift in commerce.

«I don't want to say this is a great day — because it will have a negative impact on human beings, and I want to be compassionate,» says Linkner, the founder of Detroit Venture Partners, a $ 50 million venture capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in thVenture Partners, a $ 50 million venture capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in thventure capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in the city.

In March of 2017, Ripcord announced that it had raised a Series A round of $ 9.5 million, led by legendary venture firm Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Wozniak himself.

The founder of venture capital firm Greycroft told CNBC he's not surprised by the heightened interest in privately held Boxed.

VC 100: U.S. venture capital firms ranked based on capital invested in U.S. early - stage deals in 2014 (in USD millions *).

But the school Wednesday got a hint of validation to the tune of $ 5.5 million in investment in a round led by Cambridge - based venture - capital firm Charles River Ventures and New York City - based Matrix Partners.

Notably, it's only Sequoia's second investment in a blockchain - related company in that venture capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also particventure capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also particVenture Partners also participated.

Details about its follow - up are tightly under wraps, but the firm's potential was enough for Silicon Valley veterans to lead what was then the second - largest venture capital round in Canadian tech history.

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 16, 2018 / PRNewswire / — Trident Capital Cybersecurity (TCC), a leading venture capital firm investing exclusively in cybersecurity, today announced the appointment of Myrna Soto as a Partner.

• Stateless, a Boulder, Colo. - based firm allowing network functions to be consumed through the «as a service» model, raised $ 1.4 million in a seed round led by Speedinvest and was joined by investors including Techstars, EVO Venture Partners, PV Ventures, and Service Provider Capital.

Lin later became Zappos» first COO, CFO, and chairman, and left in 2010 to join the prestigious Silicon Valley venture - capital firm Sequoia Capital.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

Venture capital firms, in particular, have long been overwhelmingly averse to funding female - run enterprises, «and I don't see a trend line for any significant change,» added Trish Costello, CEO and founder of Portfolia, a platform designed to help women invest in entrepreneurial enterprises.

A personal dissatisfaction with an old boys» club mentality in venture capital led Pocket Sun to co-found what she calls the first female - led millennial venture capital firm.

«The small number of venture firms with female founders and / or an unusually high percentage of female partners invest at elevated levels in female entrepreneurs,» according to a 2016 CrunchBase report on venture capital funding.

«Soylent is a community of people who are enthusiastic about using science to improve food and nutrition,» Chris Dixon, who works at venture - capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, wrote in a 2015 blog post after the firm invested $ 20 million in Soylent.

Earlier this week John Doerr, the illustrious investor and chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, proselytized his bible for business management — a system he calls «objectives and key results,» or OKRs — in a video conference call with several Fortune staffers (myself included).

INovia Capital, where he is a partner, is one of Canada's most prescient early - stage venture capital firms, with investments in many of the country's most promising technology startups.

The firm has been investing under - the - radar in a mix of venture and private equity deals since 2014, but had not raised a large fund of pooled capital for deals until this year.

One of The Flatiron School's investors, Antonio Rodriguez, a general partner at the venture - capital firm Matrix Partners, said «a lot of hammers looking for nails in this space.»

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

WOMEN IN VENTURE: As Floodgate's Ann Miura - Ko told Term Sheet yesterday, «I know for a fact there's a ton of announcements coming out relatively soon about women being recruited into venture firms.VENTURE: As Floodgate's Ann Miura - Ko told Term Sheet yesterday, «I know for a fact there's a ton of announcements coming out relatively soon about women being recruited into venture firms.venture firms.»

What started as a personal dissatisfaction with an old boys» club mentality in venture capital led Pocket Sun to co-found what she calls the first female - led millennial venture capital firm.