Sentences with phrase «which led investors»

The majority of publicly traded biotechs are not yet profitable, which leads investors to value them by guessing about the future revenue potential of their pipeline based on how well drugs perform in clinical trails.

For the everyday investor, it's already become unapproachable, which leads these investors to other cryptocurrencies that are poised to see similar success.

Not exact matches

Nobody seems quite sure what caused the surge, though there has been some speculation lately that institutional investors could increase demand, which could have led to the bullish turn.

The many ETFs, which are by nature more tradeable than traditional index funds, can lead investors to unnecessarily deviate from simple buy - and - hold behavior.

The S&P / TSX composite index was up 17.31 points to 12,757.81 as investors wondered if the United States will end up leading a military strike against Syria, which it accuses of using poison gas against its own civilian population.

Xuhao is the CEO of Ele.me, China's leading food delivery startup, which is valued at approximately $ 6 billion and counts Alibaba and Tencent among its investors.

Gurley is a general partner at Benchmark, a major investor in Uber, and a leader of Uber's thunderous workplace culture investigation — which led to the exit of co-founder-CEO Travis Kalanick.

Its model has led most onlookers and investors to believe that Kraft Heinz can only grow through acquisitions, in which it can buy new fat to cut in order to increase its earnings.

That has led investors like Tom Darden, CEO of the $ 2.2 billion Cherokee Investment Partners, to create a North Carolina startup named Industrial Heat, which licensed the technology of Italian scientist Andrea Rossi.

It's worth noting that Felicis Ventures, which led the seed round, was also an early investor in Flexport, the «Uber of oceans.»

Only about a quarter of those sites contained any content at all, which leads the agency to believe they are serving as placeholders for future crowdfunding portals, perhaps readying to launch once the SEC implements its investor guidelines.

In August she was a top contender to replace Travis Kalanick as CEO of Uber, in which Whitman was an early investor — a job that could have teed her up to eventually lead an unprecedented third Fortune 500 company.

Adapting services to include new digital platforms is a key focus for the major players in Perth's communications sector led by Cannings Purple, which has maintained its top spot on the Business News ranking of the state's largest public and investor relations firms.

If the airlines show they can withstand the next downturn, Miller says, it could «lead to a significant re-rating» in which investors price airline stocks more like industrial stocks — in other words, at twice the price where they currently trade.

In October, the top two stock ETFs for new flows from investors were S&P 500 funds, which is a change from recent months during which overseas stock ETFs had led over US stock portfolios in flows.

DST Global, a company that was early investors in Facebook and Spotify, led the funding round, which included other high profile venture capital firms Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital.

Recently, it made the move into RegTech by leading the investors in backing the US - based open banking platform Token, which raised $ 15.7 million in a Series A funding round in April.

«You are able to quickly build out a diverse social network, which can potentially leads to new clients, new investors or resources to help you get the work done.

Friedman notes that leading investors such as Ray Dalio, founder of investment firm Bridgewater, called Bitcoin a «bubble,» while Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, has criticized non-flat cryptocurrency, which is currency not backed by a government.

The investor group, led by American private - equity firm Silver Lake, now has to figure out how to convince more Skype users to actually pay for the communications service, all the while fending off Google, which is becoming a major competitor.

Geopolitical events tend to make traders and investors nervous, which then sometimes leads to volatility in financial markets.

The panic soon became self - perpetuating, with a reduction in foreign capital leading to a slowdown in economic growth and a drop in commodity prices, which then led to investor confirmation of an economic downturn, which in turn led to more capital flight, and so on.

The airline has raised nearly $ 300 million from investors, led by Branson's Virgin Group, which controls the British - based Virgin Atlantic airline.

All of which leads us back to the Cavalier's secret room, where Ravikant shared two pieces of information with the institutional investors.

Alibaba plans to acquire a one - third stake in Ant, which operates Alipay, while Singaporean state investment firm Temasek Holdings wants to be the lead investor ahead of Ant's anticipated IPO.

Which may be one reason why investors are interested: on August 6, the Toronto - based startup will announce that it raised $ 4 million in funding led by Union Square Ventures.

Too much growth can lead to depressed fares, which tends to spook investors.

With a biotech startup, it may seem the potential is all in the science, but investor Amy Schulman, a venture capital partner at Polaris Partners, which led SQZ's $ 5 million funding round, says the main reason she decided to put money in SQZ is because of Sharei, even though he's young and had never started a company before.

IVERNIA West is not a stock at «front - of - mind» for Australian investors, which is interesting because it appears to be a company with only one asset, and that is a lead deposit 30 kilometre west of Wiluna.

«We want you to be coachable, but not so overeager that you'll do what any mentor says,» explains Weston Bergmann, lead investor of Kansas City, Missouri, accelerator BetaBlox, which operates 120 feet underground in a cave heated and cooled by geothermal energy.

Participants in the latest round include Allegis Capital, a venture capital firm, which led the raise, as well as Blackstone Group (BX), the private equity firm, and angel investor Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of sales - tool giant Salesforce (CRM).

Wonder Workshop, which has already raised $ 15.9 million from investors including Madrona Venture Group, Maven Ventures, WI Harper Group and others, said the latest round of financing was led by WI Harper and Idea Bulb Ventures, along with Learn Capital and TCL.

Vanguard's robo advisor has $ 101 million in AUM, which places it in the middle of the pack when compared to other leading automated investors.

Investors also have to worry about raising their next fund, which can lead to unusual behavior that is independent of each individual company's situation.

And there's an active secondary market for employee and early investor shares, led by Russia's Digital Sky Technologies, which has made deals to buy common stock in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon.

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Vice's other shareholders include 21st Century Fox, which is currently trying to acquire full control of Sky, WPP Group, the marketing services giant, and Technology Crossover Ventures, a leading investor in digital businesses.

Besides Fidelity, other existing investors in the company include Alibaba, which led its Series E; Benchmark (Series A lead); Coatue Management (Series C lead); General Catalyst; IVP (Series B lead); Saudi investment group Kingdom Holding Company; KPCB (series D lead); Lightspeed (Snapchat's earliest and most constant investor); SV Angel; WeChat owner Tencent and Yahoo.

AllRaise.org, which launched this past week, led by prominent female venture investors, seeks to impact these numbers.

Research has found this destructive behavior has led to investors underperforming the very funds in which they invest.

Investors include heavyweights like Disney — which recently led a $ 65 million round in Jaunt VR — as well as Legendary, 20th Century Fox, and venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Highland Capital Partners, and others.

Unfortunately, many investors struggle to fully realize the benefits of their investment strategy because in buoyant markets, people tend to chase performance and purchase higher - risk investments; and in a market downturn, they tend to flock to lower - risk investment options; behaviors which can lead to missed opportunities.

Leading that pack is Magic Leap, which has gotten $ 592 million from investors like Google, as well as Lensar, with $ 131 million in funding, Nantmobile, with $ 110 million in funding, and Jaunt VR, with $ 100 million.

This interview is part of our InvestorSpeak series in which leading angel, seed or venture investors share their insights on the startup ecosystem in India.

Zhu mentions how challenging it is to convince investors to channel their money to China, which explains the heavy pressure Kalanick was under, leading to the lower stock percent he settled for.

In the United States Lyft is telling investors it «will have boosted its share of U.S. ride - hailing business some 61 percent by the end of the year, climbing to about a third of the market»; what is even more damaging is Lyft's partnership with Waymo, which made Lyft the best way to invest in Google's self - driving technology — Google apparently agreed, leading a $ 1.5 billion investment that Lyft announced this week.

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The former because it allows for a case in which a modest increase in demand leads to a large increase in price, and the latter because it would lead investors to hedge by moving themselves into Canadian dollars (more than they would otherwise) to protect against high oil prices.

This «interest» never actually left the partnership — instead, Buffett's investors reinvested all profits, which led to compound growth of the partnership's assets over time.

«The energy sector posted stronger returns in September due to a rebound in oil prices which helped lift Canadian equities, while the bond market slipped into negative territory after strong Canadian economic growth led the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates for the first time in seven years,» said James Rausch, Head of Client Coverage, Canada, RBC Investor & Treasury Services.