The company attracted two traditional technology venture capital firms.
Markets for desal are broad: large water technology corporations, venture capital firms, Fortune 500 companies, research groups, consulting engineering practices, and government agencies.
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In fact, before coming to Washington, President Medvedev visited California and Silicon Valley to explore new partnerships in science and technology and in venture capital.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, and leaders from technology firms, venture capital and research universities recently announced a joint effort to position the Bay State as a hub for job creation in data science.
Britain does not have a technology-focused venture-capital industry anything like as bounteous as that which serves Silicon Valley.
These are just some of the reasons now is a great time for financial technology startups and why venture capital is flooding in to the sector.
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That suit, still ongoing, was the talk of the startup and venture capital community, raising questions about the relative lack of women in venture capital and in technology more generally.
Ian Sigalow, Partner at Greycroft, Chris Moore, Partner at Redpoint Ventures and Roger Lee, General Partner, Battery Ventures provided the following perspectives from their panel titled Technology Trends: A Venture-Capital Perspective.
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"Start-Up Nation" recounts and dissects how Israel, in just 60 years, has thrived as an economy, creating an environment where talent and technology have attracted more venture-capital dollars per person than any other country in the world.
Scott Milleison, who runs the Sports Finance Group at JP Morgan Private Bank, was recently guest on Forbes SportsMoney on the YES Network, where he discussed the new owners in sports that have come from venture capital, technology and private equity industries are increasing team values.
In yet another sign of the growing influence of the secondary markets, Alex Ferrara, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, is leaving the top-tier venture capital firm to join Millennium Technology Value Partners, a firm that buys private shares from employees and venture investors in companies like Facebook, Twitter, and eHarmony.
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However, Y Combinator is connected to the top venture capital firms and technology giants who work with or acquire his companies such as Facebook and Google.
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There will be no political interference, he insists, in its investments, which will be made by a private-sector manager (due to be appointed in December) in specialist venture-capital funds backing technology-based businesses.
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The experiment faltered, and eBay gave up on Skype in 2009, selling a 70% stake to a group of technology investors including Silver Lake Partners, venture capital firms Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, who will make a handsome return on the Microsoft transaction.
There is more money going into these new industries, cloud computing, from venture capital than any other new technology.
Grousbeck got rich in venture capital with Highland Capital Partners, investing in consumer, healthcare, Internet and technology companies.
Right now a kid with an MBA, a PhD and venture capital billions is plotting the disruptive technology that shifts the ground for Netflix.
The great promise of the technology, which has attracted billions of dollars in venture capital investment, is that it will be able to undercut the cost of standard solar panels.
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Rosen, backed by venture capital firms Hummer Winblad and Media Technology Ventures, is angling for a second round of funding to pay for a campaign of radio ads and live demos on the street.
And that will translate into fewer loans and venture capital dollars for hardware, software and technology services.
She is the founder of Kayyem Solutions, LLC, providing strategic advice to a range of companies in technology, risk management, mega-event planning, venture capital and more.
New York is rolling into its third year operating the FinTech Innovation Lab which brings together a small group of selected early stage financial technology vendors with leading city banks, Accenture and venture capital firms for three months of intensive collaboration.
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Nanosolar is one of several Silicon Valley startups that have attracted billions of dollars in venture capital to develop a thin-film technology called copper indium gallium selenide, or CIGS. Such solar cells use little expensive silicon, the main ingredient of conventional photovoltaic cells.
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Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures or Deborah Magid, Director Software Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group?
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New wealth, particularly in areas where venture capital plays a big part, such as technology, is subject to closer scrutiny these days.
Erel Margalit is the founder and head of JVP, Jerualem Venture Partners, a leading Israeli venture capital firm dedicated to building world class media technology companies.
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Also, by cutting tax rates on labor and capital, Reagan freed up venture capital that led to the development of the technology that now drives the U.S. economy.
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But at least the U.S. free enterprise system, spearheaded by startups supported by the venture capital community as well as big, sophisticated technology corporations, is doing the right thing and more aggressively improving cyber defenses.
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Ontario is already one of the top regions globally for producing innovative water technology, said venture capitalist David Henderson, managing director of XPV Capital in Toronto, thanks to the Great Lakes historically attracting water-intensive industries.
Only in Silicon Valley are new technology ventures cultivated from the perfect mix of academic, industry and venture capital resources.
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