Sentences with phrase «venture investment»

The past two years have seen a frenzy of venture investment in new media companies.

Today, they represent one of the fastest - growing areas of venture investment in education.

Much like crowdfunding and REITs, joint venture investments give you access to opportunities that you wouldn't have on your own.

A government - backed venture investment fund is looking to partner with angel investment groups and the public in crowd funding deals for local start - ups.

For venture investments in female founders, we have a ways to go to get to 25 percent within the next five years.

The second quarter, however, showed a modest increase in total venture investment.

When women - led ventures are underrepresented in terms of securing venture investment, I will have the propensity to direct investment dollars towards high potential ventures led by women.

One student spokesperson from each team has six minutes to pitch their idea and four minutes for Q&A and feedback from experienced venture investment professionals.

Much of this reality centers on rising opportunity costs, both with other venture investment opportunities and other asset classes.

Only two years later, in 2013, companies with a woman on the executive team were attracting 18 percent of venture investments.

[4] As blockchain technology applications have begun to emerge, venture investment in the space has also shifted towards startups in that category.

Investors include Alexandria Venture Investments, Arch Venture Partners, Bayer, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Elanco Animal Health, Flagship Pioneering, Hatteras Venture Partners, Mountain Group Capital, Pappas Capital, and Syngenta Ventures.

Healthcare systems have set up the equivalent of corporate venture investment arms to gain early access to new technologies that can help them reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. and Alphabet Inc.'s late - stage venture investment fund are among investors plowing close to $ 2 billion into a Chinese truck - hailing company, according to people familiar with the investments.

As Moe ticked through the various reasons education is the next big «undercapitalized» sector of the economy, like healthcare in the 1990s, he also read through a list of notable venture investment firms that recently completed deals relating to the education - technology sector, including Sequoia and Benchmark Capital.

Kyber Capital (源鉑資本) makes venture investments in high - growth companies focusing on Blockchain applications, advanced risk analytics and innovative financial technologies and new financial services.

Blocko raised a series A round funding of $ 1.3 million from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation in July 2016.

[This item has been updated to include the correct amount of money raised by Venture Investment Associates]

Loom.ai, the provider of best - in - class mobile solutions for building and animating personalized, 3D avatars at scale, today announced a $ 3M seed investment from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.

Venture investments involve a high degree of risk and many or most venture company investments lose money and fail at a particularly high rate.

Gx Coin will represent a new opportunity to invest in a cryptocurrency that is backed by venture investments in real businesses.

Investors include Data Collective, Prelude Ventures, East Ventures, IDATEN Ventures and New Zealand Venture Investment Fund.

In the first quarter of 2016, blockchain investments had outnumbered investments in Bitcoin startups by more than five to one — a major shift from 2015 when Bitcoin startups receiving venture investment outnumbered blockchain startups by more than twenty to one.

Chris also served as a venture partner at Industry Ventures where he was actively involved in the acquisition and management of secondary venture investment portfolios.

My guest this week is Chris Douvos, a managing partner at Venture Investment Associates, which allocates 1.6 B in behalf of investors.

In fact, the $ 58.8 billion in U.S - based venture investments was the second highest over the past 20 years, only exceeded by the dot - com bubble in 2010.

The dating provider raised the impressive Series A round from Mixi, a Japanese online social networking service and publisher of Monster Strike, as well as Fatfish Internet Group, a Southeast Asian and Australia - based internet ventures investment and development firm.

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She covers fields including venture investments, entrepreneurship and innovations in China and dedicates to delivering the Chinese message to the West.

«It's already hard for an entrepreneur in Northwest Arkansas, for example, to find venture investment,» Franklin says.

Google Capital usually does late / mature stage venture investment as seen in its investments in CommonFloor and Practo.

Industry Ventures» hybrid fund - of - funds (known as Partnership Holdings) focuses on small, early - stage venture capital funds, less than $ 250 million in size, as well as direct venture investments.

David has been investing in technologies for financial services since 2013, when he joined BBVA Group, where he focused on venture investments, corporate development, and M&A.

Engage is changing corporate innovation and venture capital by introducing an independent, and pooled venture investment model for corporations.

Ucommune Venture Investment Co Ltd opened the New York financial district site with Serendipity Labs, a U.S. firm that is...

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.

«Venture investment into such companies was $ 11.9 billion in 2010, down 35 percent from $ 18.4 billion in 2006.»

«The opportunity for cleantech venture investment in Canada is immense,» he says.

Looking under the headline figures citing record venture investment levels and round sizes, we're seeing an increasing number of companies come to market with both a large strategic vision and a commercial focus from day one.

Investors included the Indian Angel Network, which made its first social venture investment, and Digital News Ventures, the seed - stage equity fund of the Media Development Investment Fund.

Female - founded, VC - funded: The numbers behind venture investment in women.

Benchmark still holds the record for (probably) the best venture investment in history — they turned a $ 6.7 million investment in eBay in 1997 into $ 5 billion by 1999.

The free messaging service attracted more users, requiring more money to maintain it, and in 2000, IDG Venture Investment Fund and PCCW, one of Hong Kong's largest telecom providers, invested $ 4.4 million in Tencent, each taking a 20 percent stake.

Joe also spent several years successfully building his own venture investment and advisory firm, and then gained valuable operating experience as Chairman & CEO of Geocast Network Systems, a broadband infrastructure company backed by Mayfield, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Institutional Venture Partners.

A similar model to this B.C. Venture Investment Tax Credit system has now been adopted in New Brunswick.

In order to stimulate the creation of a series of Canadian venture investment funds, at little cost to government, CATA proposes that the federal government borrow a page from the Israeli play book, with the structure proposed by VC expert Stephen Hurwitz6.

Dell Medical School presents: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Healthcare Innovations Venture Investment Forum On December 6, 7, and 8, -LSB-...]