Sentences with phrase «while early stage companies»

The form of investment is dependent on the company's relative maturity with seed stage investments typically structured as convertible notes while early stage companies issue preferred equity in exchange for investor funds.

Not exact matches

«Despite the headlines from Silicon Valley, the truth is the vast majority of early - stage companies are not securing venture capital,» Rep. Patrick McHenry said on the House floor while introducing the bills.

While the early - stage company still mounted losses for the quarter, it received more revenue than expected as a result of its collaboration with pharma giant Pfizer.

While much of the launch fundraising was in later stage investments, there have been 11 early stage deals (also known as seed and Series A funding rounds) so far this year, including the $ 15 million round of Australian satellite company Myriota.

While you'll certainly reach a larger audience online, sometimes there are huge benefits from gaining a few loyal customers in the early stages of your start - up who will act as brand ambassadors for the rest of your company's life.

While seed and early - stage investments in Canadian companies have steadily increased over the past three years, later - stage financings have dropped.

While the San Francisco Bay Area, home of Stanford University and Google, may see the lion's share of venture capital, startups there don't receive the same support from large firms that early - stage companies in Cincinnati do, Mitchell says.

While Fleiss says she's excited to get back to an early - stage company, she acknowledges she's facing far steeper expectations as an established entrepreneur.

While the team believes a Bolstr HQ is in the company's future, at these early stages of the start - up the 24/7 work - life mash - up model just didn't pay dividends, concludes Tribbet, and he doubts he's alone in being unable to resist the lure of socializing.

And while the bank grew through mergers and by adding new business lines throughout the 2000s — acquiring Canadian Direct Insurance and Valiant Trust Company in 2004, Adroit Investment Management in 2008 and National Leasing Group Inc. in 2010 — «these initiatives are still in early stages,» Chan notes.

While most startups will be self - funded by its founders or the founder's immediate family and friends, some seek and accept third party «seed funding,» an investment at the very early stages of a company.

Knight Frank says that while these companies» plans may still be rough, some private investors are happy to take the long view and back interesting ventures in the early stages if they promise a nice return.

While seed stage companies are focused on product development, early stage companies typically have a handful of users testing a beta product while fine - tuning their go - to - market strategy and building out sales chanWhile seed stage companies are focused on product development, early stage companies typically have a handful of users testing a beta product while fine - tuning their go - to - market strategy and building out sales chanwhile fine - tuning their go - to - market strategy and building out sales channels.

While the company's revenue is still in early stages, the company's goal is to become a financial hub for a wide range of financial services, said Britt, who was previously an executive at Visa and chief product at Greendot.

While equity crowdfunding has been targeted as a boon for startups and small companies in need of early stage funding, a growing number of businesses are comprehending that offering shares, in a transparent manner, to consumers familiar with the brand or company can be very effective.

While talks are still in early stages, the Corfo executive believes that the American company's initiatives might end up starting a chain reaction that benefits not only the country's lithium industry.

It's a new world for early stage companies seeking capital, but it has taken a while to gain main stream adoption.

Through stringent vetting, exhaustive research and up - to - the minute information from the most influential sources in the industry, First Call targets tomorrow's brand name companies, while they're still in their early stages.

Zero Stage Capital seeks to achieve superior returns for its investors, while creating an attractive liquidity profile, by investing approximately 50 percent of its funds in early - stage ventures and 50 percent in later - stage ongoing compaStage Capital seeks to achieve superior returns for its investors, while creating an attractive liquidity profile, by investing approximately 50 percent of its funds in early - stage ventures and 50 percent in later - stage ongoing compastage ventures and 50 percent in later - stage ongoing compastage ongoing companies.

While we typically invest 65 - 75 % of our funds of funds portfolios in early stage venture capital, we inevitably have exposure to the public markets through venture - backed companies that have gone public and late stage companies which are marked to public comparables by our underlying fund managers.

While still in its early stages, Vavilov suggested that the process of opening up the company to the capital markets could be delayed depending on the outlook for the bitcoin market.

The companies plan to start work with the seaweed in early 2010 and work on the early stages of the project over the next two years while funded by the ARPA - E grant.

But while LDDN focuses on the earliest stages of drug development — identifying compounds and confirming their biological activity — PharmaStart may take the process much further before signing on with a drug company.

That has not only caused large pharma companies to back away from early - stage drug discovery, but it has forced them to pursue primarily large - market blockbuster drugs for common conditions such as heart disease and cancer, while avoiding medicines for rare diseases.

While some of the companies listed are arguably not startups anymore as they have a large base of existing customers, the majority of companies on the list are in the early stages of creating or testing a new product or service aimed at the legal services arena.

Mostly, the insurance companies pay up to 20 to 25 % of the total sum insured under a Cancer Plan if the disease is diagnosed at its early stage; while 100 % of the sum insured is paid at the critical stage.

By bringing Capshare into the fold we can focus on making Shareworks an even better product for later - stage and pre-IPO companies while Capshare can optimize for earlier stage companies.»

Alik Widge, a psychiatrist - engineer focusing on brain stimulation, told the publication that while rodents can be used for early stages, the company will eventually need an animal like a pig that has a «big brain with lots of folds» to properly test its creation.

As reported earlier by ESR News, while most companies currently perform background screening on employees once at the pre-hire stage, «the new normal may call for continuous, post-hire monitoring» in the near future to avoid insider threats, according to a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) article.

According to Eric Reed, the company's CEO, while the early stages of the system used today were developed nearly a decade ago, additional clients began signing up for the service in 2009.