Sentences with phrase «who led the funding»

Nikolic, who led the funding round, will join the Editas board of directors.

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Follow the lead of many of your fellow entrepreneurs, who are finding funds through well - established financing alternatives.

Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.

Benenson, who says he is a lead data engineer at Kickstarter, barely skated past his funding goal, scraping by with just $ 176 extra dollars.

«But in the course of the last three years, we've seen a dramatic explosion,» says Fortino, who now leads the Ann Arbor office of venture capital firm Mercury Fund.

The funding round was led by DST Global, the investment vehicle of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner who was an early investor of Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and Airbnb, among others.

The tunnel threat report also accused Netanyahu and Ya'alon of endangering Israelis living near Gaza by halting government funding for their local security teams, and pulling out the soldiers who used to stand guard outside their communities in the year and a half leading up to the operation.

The round of funding, which was led by Adam D'Angelo — an early casual advisor of Systrom, who'd founded Quora — Jack Dorsey, Chris Sacca, Baseline Ventures, and Benchmark Capital, valued the company at $ 20 million.

Co-founder and executive chairman Hoffman, who is also a partner at Greylock Partners, the venture capital firm that led a $ 10 million funding round in LinkedIn in 2004, started the company in 2002 in his living room.

Steven Rattner, who led the auto industry restructuring in 2009, said it would be a mistake for Michigan and the federal government not to provide funds for the city.

This wouldn't just be effective from a public health standpoint — every dollar invested in funding more depression and anxiety treatment options leads to a four dollar return in better work productivity, according to the WHO.

While the fund is largely intended for three leading Bitcoin Core developers who joined the Media Lab last April, it could also support other cryptocurrency experts if there is a demonstrated need.

Current company / position: Cairns was an Angel investor who provided funding for women - led companies that are pursuing social ventures.

I wasn't an angel who was putting $ 25k into deals that was now suggesting I could lead them with a bigger fund.

Another argument for holding off came from International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, who urged more coordination among the world's leading central banks in order to ensure an orderly exit from QE.

When Walker sought investors for a real estate fund he was creating, his connections led him to a billionaire CEO in Silicon Valley, who asked Walker how much he wanted him to invest.

Last year, Alibaba started a U.S. - based fund to invest in e-commerce and emerging technologies, led by Michael Zeisser, who previously headed Liberty Media Corp.'s Internet strategy.

Gain insight into the deals a professional has done or the funds they've managed to better understand who is leading successful companies or driving returns.

The organization is leading efforts to impact these numbers directly with Female Founder Office Hours supporting women who are seeking funding, to having tech founders and CEOs commit to increasing diversity in their team, board and investors.

Mr. Rafizi, a member of the People's Justice Party, has been a leading critic of Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is accused of receiving $ 1 billion from 1 Malaysia Development Berhad, or 1MDB, a government investment fund that Mr. Najib established and oversaw.

archerETF is led by Vikash Jain, a registered portfolio manager who uses a proprietary tactical asset allocation model to determine a client's asset mix which is then implemented using Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).

Ecologist David Schindler, who energetically led the ELA for more than two decades, convinced the group to fund ELA to study the issue.

Marrache, who became CEO in August, is leading BFS Capital through a series of customer - focused initiatives that will position the company for long - term growth including increased transparency, deeper reliance on algorithms and data science, enhanced underwriting, and an expedited funding process.

Not surprisingly, there are several notable standouts in our 2017 list, including Nehal Raj who leads TPG's multi-billion-dollar technology investing practice globally to Alex Soltani who embraced a bold approach to deal making when successfully starting his own firm in his late 20s to Dominic Ang who purpose - built a fund to dramatically accelerate portfolio company growth through his proven operating model.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

Its investor list reads like a Who's Who in Silicon Valley: Chamath Palihapitiya's Social Capital, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, and Accel have all been lead investors for Slack's funding rounds.

Fried laments that such obsession with venture - backed startups is leading those who create startups to convince themselves their goals should be to secure three rounds of funding and then hope for an exit strategy where they sell their product to Facebook or Google.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The new funding was led by Tencent, with participation from a long list of investors including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Haier, Telstra, China Minsheng Bank, Juran Zhijia, CreditEase, and Green Pine Capital, with additional investment from CDH Investments who led Ubtech's 100 million series B funding in 2016.

Funding Circle is the world's leading online marketplace for business loans, matching small businesses who want to borrow with investors who want to lend in both the UK and the US.

Fast forward and Tusk, who'd accepted his Uber pay in equity and today oversees both a political strategy firm as well as a venture fund, tells us that he's cashing out his shares as part of the new investment being made by a SoftBank - led consortium of investors who are buying both primary and secondary shares.

Good luck can certainly lead to a great fund (and the opportunity to raise larger amounts of capital in subsequent investment funds); there clearly are some investors (or dart throwers) who in the past few years invested early in what became decacorns (including Uber and Airbnb) and are managing larger pools of capital as a result.

, a Trump ally who leads the conservative caucus, said disaster aid should pass on its own, apart from separate measures the government must pick up in September to raise the nation's borrowing limit and fund the government.

Kleiner Perkins has several female partners, but only life - sciences investor Beth Seidenberg and Mary Meeker, the renowned Internet analyst who left Morgan Stanley (MS) three years ago to lead Kleiner's $ 1 billion digital growth fund, are general partners — the real power tier at the firm.

Voting against the policy action was Thomas M. Hoenig, who believed that continuing to express the expectation of exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period was no longer warranted because it could lead to a build - up of future imbalances and increase risks to longer run macroeconomic and financial stability, while limiting the Committee's flexibility to begin raising rates modestly.

There aren't a lot of venture funds that are led by a single general partner who happens to be a woman.

You will have a unique opportunity to network with around 200 of the leading specialty finance companies, BDCs, private equity firms, hedge funds, wealth management firms, senior lenders and asset managers who are active in this space.

«The big success stories — Facebook, Zynga and Twitter — are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing,» said Eric Lefkofsky, a founder of Groupon who also runs Lightbank, a Chicago - based venture fund with a $ 100 million coffer.

Speaking further, Sahil said, «We are proud to be backed by people like Roger Ver (who has single handedly funded the seed rounds for the entire first generation of Bitcoin businesses), Amit Bhardwaj (who is leading the march for Bitcoin Adoption in India), Michael Terpin (he co-founded BitAngels, the first angel network for investments in bitcoin / digital currency companies) and more Bitcoin Pioneers.

I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I promise.

«These were folks who took a courageous stand on healthcare reform, who led the fight to make sure there was no abortion funding in the bill» said Catholics United Executive Director Chris Korzen of the Democratic lawmakers his group is seeking to help.

Pray for Kairos Village, pray for Mercedes, pray for the project, pray for the funds to come in to see this come to reality, pray for the children who are waiting for these homes, pray for the women who will lead each home, pray for our leadership.

While the leading experts around the world — with well - funded, never - ending resources at hand — were trying (and dramatically failing) to become the first to fly, it was these two bicycle mechanics who didn't have a college education, who saw each new problem standing in their way of flight as one amazing step closer to solving the problem.

Olga is also the president of the ten - person Fair Trade council, an assembly of employees elected by employees who lead decision - making processes concerning the use of funds allocated by Fair Trade USA for all workers.

He is a leading economist, fund manager and policy adviser who has previously worked for Goldman Sachs and the RBA, and was a director of the Menzies Research Centre.

The students also hope to bring together strategic partners in Wake County's health care community to pitch in with funding, said Parrish Ravelli, an adult who leads the team of YES!

Those principles have never wavered and have always been to build a movie studio led by a board of directors made up of a majority of independent women, save about 150 jobs, protect the small businesses who are owed money and create a victims» compensation fund that would supplement existing insurance coverage for those who have been harmed.

But, that always leads back to the question of who, when, where, funding... all of those questions.

Jacqueline B. Liedtke, 67, a native of Naperville who was instrumental in raising the first funds for Naper Settlement as president of the Naperville Heritage Society, died of an aneurysm Wednesday, July 3, in Ripon, Wis. «She was the one who took up the mantle and led our very first and only capital campaign drive when she was president,» said Peggy Frank, executive director of Naper Settlement.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.