Sentences with phrase «venture partners»

In 2011, NBA star Ervin «Magic» Johnson invested an undisclosed amount in venture capital firm Detroit Venture Partners, which has invested in more than a dozen early - stage tech companies, and signed on as a general partner.

If it can't, it will ultimately buy the leader,» says Jeremy Levine, a partner at venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, a shareholder in Quidsi, which Amazon purchased in 2011 (and shuttered in March).

In 2010, Hill's business — which had already raised $ 800,000 in funding from Access Venture Partners and Daylight Partners — caught the eye of Lightbank, the $ 200 million Chicago investment fund whose partners had already founded four successful internet companies, including Groupon.

First Round Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including You & Mr. Jones Brandtech Ventures, NYCA Investment Fund, Tessera Venture Partners, Auren Hoffman and Tod Sacerdoti.

Singtel Innov8 and Harmony Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Charles River Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Institutional Venture Partners.

Bessemer Venture Partners has some serious pedigree; it's the startup spinoff of Henry Phipps Jr.'s Bessemer Securities, the firm he created to reinvest the proceeds from his sale of Carnegie Steel.

LightSpeed Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Accel Partners and Harmony Partners.

«Let me tell you a story about a breakfast meeting I had recently,» begins Gill Cogan, a managing general partner at Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.

• AVORA, a London - based machine learning firm, raised # 1.5 million ($ 2 million) led by Crane Venture Partners, and was joined by investors including Peter Simon, founder of retailer Monsoon, and Steve Garnett, former chairman of Salesforce EMEA.

Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Institutional Venture Partners, and actor Jared Leto participated.

BDC Capital and Round13 Capital led the round, and were joined by investors including Hyde Park Venture Partners.

FORTUNE — Email marketing and design firm Campaign Monitor yesterday announced that it has raised $ 250 million in equity funding from Insight Venture Partners, for an undisclosed ownership stake.

High Alpha, Allos Ventures and Hyde Park Venture Partners led the round.

Venrock in Cambridge, Mass., led a $ 10 million Series A round that included U.S. Venture Partners and several Silicon Valley angel investors.

Insight Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by return backers Sutter Hill Ventures and Institutional Venture Partners.

New investors in the deal include Institutional Venture Partners, Northgate Capital, Performance Equity and Glenmede, while other return backers include Merus Capital, Accel Partners and Peter Thiel.

The trio officially agreed to partner up last fall, and call themselves CAVU Venture Partners — a name derived from a pilot term for ideal flying conditions.

In addition to Munn, Chef's Cut is backed by CAVU Venture Partners, a firm that invests in food, beverage and consumer packaged goods companies, as well as public figures including baseball player David Ortiz and footballers Von Miller and Earl Thomas.

Okapi Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including Stage Venture Partners and SaaS Capital.

Robert Mittendorff, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners and investor in Talkspace, said that the company has shown that consumers are willing to pay for health services that they find helpful.

«Private valuations have become disconnected from public reality,» says Jules Maltz, a general partner at Institutional Venture Partners.

• CentralReach, a Pompano Beach, Fla. - based provider of electronic health record and practice management software for clinics focused on applied behavioral analysis and speech therapy, raised funding of an undisclosed amount, from Insight Venture Partners.

Epstein, an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, said that while Oracle is successful and profitable, it is «not growing quickly.»

In 2011 Trunk Club closed an $ 11 million Series A financing round led by U.S. Venture Partners.

Other Xiaomi backers include Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings Pte, Qiming Venture Partners, Morningside Venture Capital and DST, the Russian tech fund that has also taken pre-IPO stakes in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart and Facebook Inc..

Arrowroot Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners led the round.

But unlike the crypto hedge fund startup MetaStable, which recently received funding from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, AxionV has a different plan.

For example, where are your joint - venture partners located?

Indeed, in the view of Guru.com's new venture partners, the company is well worth its valuation.

Following similar innovation drives in the early days of Java and the App Store, Cloudflare has partnered with three VC investors — New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Venrock, and Pelion Venture Partners — who will fund $ 100 million in development projects, at their own discretion.

LET»S MEET: I'll be at the Bull City Venture Partners Venture Outlook conference in Durham, N.C. tomorrow, and I'd love to meet some of you in person.

Other WalkMe investors include Scale Venture Partners and Gemini Israel Ventures.

• Receipt Bank, a London - based fintech startup that helps companies automate elements of their bookkeeping, raised $ 50 million in Series B funding from Insight Venture Partners, according to VentureBeat.

Investors include Insight Venture Partners, NEX Opportunities and Eight Roads Ventures.

Insight Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Zetta Venture Partners.

With $ 180 million in fresh capital, led by existing investors Insight Venture Partners and Accel with participation from Sequoia Capital, Qualtrics is poised to go on an acquisition spree instead.

Instead, she provides others the opportunity to invest in a variety of companies through her firm, Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners.

Investors include Information Venture Partners, Portag3 Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital and Trellis Capital.

Edward Williams, partner at Brook Venture Partners, says that he looks at all the standard data when considering an investment, but treats blogs a little differently.

Investors include Flagship Pioneering, Polaris Partners, ARCH Venture Partners and Alexandria Equities.

Investors include Norwest Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, The Westly Group and USAA.

But then Shana Fisher, founder of High Line Venture Partners in New York City, reached out.

Health Velocity Capital led and was joined by investors including BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Noro - Moseley Partners, and Sandbox Advantage Fund.

Investors include New Markets Venture Partners and Emerson Collective.

Investors include DTCP, La Maison, Claltech, Baidu, Vertex and Bessemer Venture Partners.

Hyde Park Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Battery Ventures, HubSpot, Grand Ventures, and High Alpha Capital.

It was Insight Venture Partners.

Wildcat Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by SJF Ventures and SpringRock Ventures.

Existing investors Hyde Park Venture Partners, FundersClub, Hyde Park Angels and FJ Labs participated.

Appian backers include Novak Biddle Venture Partners (21.5 % pre-IPO) and New Enterprise Associates (11.7 %).