But getting seed money to manufacture Yondr was a challenge.
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It's a place where startups can work and raise seed money.
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Something of this scale requires quite a bit of seed money.
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The Getty Foundation provided $16m of seed money for the project.
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Corfo, the state development agency, provides seed money for innovative ventures.
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This seed money will go towards those expansion and hiring efforts.
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But Civil doesn't just want to provide seed money to journalists.
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So far, the Inflect team has raised $2 million in seed money.
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JL: Well, I just feel like the podcast is our seed money.
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With the seed money, he hopes to build on this initial success.
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Rob: Yeah, but she got millions dollars in seed money, from Harlan.
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We're trying to get seed money for researching this into the budget.
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They plan to use the seed money to bring the product to market.
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The tech tycoons Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman, among others, provided seed money.
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Of course, you lose that "seed money," never receiving a dime in return.
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Now, I advise tech startups to raise at least $2.5 million in seed money.
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They gave us a bit of seed money, and that's when things started moving.
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It might balloon into the seed money I need for a brazen startup venture.
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Corporate partners furnished supplies and insurance for artworks and regional governments contributed seed money.
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In 20193, he opened the Inigo Philbrick Gallery with seed money from Mr. Jopling.
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They built their success from what Travis estimates was just $24072 in seed money.
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After joining the Åzone, users receive 10,000 cåin (pronounced like coin) as seed money.
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Seed money exposure declined significantly in 2015 but remains higher than at most comparable peers.
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We'd give HHS the time and seed money to figure this out and price it.
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What's odd is that JUST launched with this much seed money in the first place.
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"We don't think there is too much seed money at work in Europe," says Destin.
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Seed money also went to teams that founded their companies in years prior to 20163.
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That could include, he said, some new seed money in the form of federal spending.
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In the center's 13-week accelerator program, each student business gets $10,000 in seed money.
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That plus the SEED money has allowed them to take a lot more trips together.
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The administration hopes that its federal seed money would stimulate $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment.
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So far the startup has raised £250,000 seed money from Angels but hopes to raise more.
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When she was ready to start Undertaking LA, she had a modest amount of seed money.
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Seed money exposure declined significantly in 103 and is diversified by asset class and individual fund.
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Wang plans to use the seed money to expand engineering, sales and go-to market efforts.
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In fact, Moss used this seed money to initiate his foray into the T-shirt biz.
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Kasich could dip into his own savings, but it would likely amount to just seed money.
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In 1989, they pooled their savings and persuaded Dr. Kao's Taiwanese relatives to invest seed money.
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They get a little seed money, and then they launch the businesses back in the region.
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That endowment was the seed money for what eventually became the college named in his honor.
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Carnes proposes "seed money" for aspirants who lack the initial startup Rolodex to tap for money.
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The post-seed round isn't necessarily an alternative to raising extra seed money or expanding your syndicate.
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Kurtzer indicated Sylabs currently has 12 employees, and is operating on an undisclosed amount of seed money.
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A real post-seed round is the final seed money before a "super-sized" Series A round.
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It was fairly new at the time, according to the Raab Collection, and looking for seed money.
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Roughly 80 percent of employers give "seed money" to workers to fund their HSAs, according to Fidelity.
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Undergraduates are encouraged to develop their own startups, and the universities award seed money to "incubate" them.
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The Only in Seattle initiative grants seed money and provides consulting to startups in local business districts.
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The company launched its flagship Fundsmith Equity Fund in 2010 with 25 million pounds in seed money.
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Ms. Brownridge said seed money came from the city's Economic Development Corporation and the Brooklyn Public Library.
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They started Zip2, a city guide software for newspapers, with $28,000 in seed money from their father.
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Mooser and Swenson sought $2 million in seed money, more than tripling the Ryot staff in nine months.
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In 20203, he deferred college at Baylor University and began speaking, tweeting, and recruiting "seed money" for TPUSA.
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Had he struck it rich with our seed money do you think we would have been profit sharing?
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As for Xendo, it's raised just $28,000 in seed money, so it was really early in its development.
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Burton, who operates five houses for formerly incarcerated women in California, provided the seed money for Hope House.
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It can be invested in new businesses as seed money for start-ups or financing for emerging technologies.
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Obtaining the seed money has proved a challenge, but the players are determined to see the project through.
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MuckerLab invested seed money in Mend and assists Ms. Huerta with business development, including product design and marketing.
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The funds could be used for a down payment on a home or seed money for a business.
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He knew she wanted to open her own bakery, and gave her the seed money to do it.
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Friends and family were interested in giving them seed money, but Heath says they chose to bootstrap the research.
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Company co-founder and CEO Adit Jain says the seed money is about scaling the company and gaining customers.
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His website features an infographic that suggests his foundation has raised or plans to raise $500,000 in seed money.
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Juncker faced scepticism in 2014 when he proposed the fund because EU governments are putting in only seed money.
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He too tried to land further funding in 2014, when Skift was close to running out of seed money.
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Sowing the Seeds of Success From the startups founded in 2016, an astonishing 36% have already raised seed money.
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Gravity Earth has raised undisclosed seed money to date, and there are plans to raise VC capital in 2019.
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While some may start with a bit of bootstrapping, most will dive straight into raising seed money through investors.
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Tiger Consumer had received seed money from Robertson, whose Tiger Management was once among the most successful hedge funds.
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The restaurant started to bleed money immediately, while the club earned the seed money for what became Studio 25.
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Inflect, which has raised about $2 million in seed money, wants to bring this process into the 21st century.
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We got to about 25,22 users, and we were able to take in a little bit of seed money.
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In 163, Ressa and five colleagues from ABS-CBN left their jobs and amassed $2 million in seed money.
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Seed money for start-ups and projects ready for commercialization, among other efforts, will be considered, fund officials said.
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This is, interestingly enough, also the time she decided to go out and try and get seed money for Theranos.
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With seed money from a Ukrainian-American investor, Pizza Veterano fired up its oven in one of the city's malls.
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Founded in Latvia, Aerones has relocated to Mountain View in search of seed money, after signing on with Y Combinator.
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The seed money came from the settlement of a state lawsuit against Exxon Mobil over its pollution of the creek.
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And despite the seed money, Chen makes it clear that Kickstarter will have no oversight or control over the project.
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An anonymous private donor provided enough seed money to begin construction, and by 2007 the first two cats moved in.
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The company has raised $3 million in seed money and hopes to be scrubbing the tristate area by next year.
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Mr. Davis said he had already banked significant seed money for his organization from donors he chooses not to disclose.
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She attributes the professional strides of clients living on their own to the strings some parents attach to seed money.
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Today, the company has 9 employees, and he only began hiring in the fall when this seed money came through.
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When then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh created the organization in 2006, he used seed money from the ministry of health.
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They were a feel-good story as Chrome outran his pedigree and seed money through the 2014 Triple Crown races.
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The annual awards are provided as seed money, with no strings attached, for intellectual, social and artistic endeavors, the foundation said.
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But unless the US research climate changes, maybe-sullied seed money seems to some like the best option for risky research.
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With the initial seed money from StartX, Diffbot was able to continue its research and launch its first, revenue generating, products.
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And big companies such as GE are trying to crowdsource innovation by providing small manufacturing firms with space and seed-money.
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The benefit of experience is notable; from the newly founded startups that received seed money, 67% are headed by experienced teams.
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"Our million dollars translates to 13 to 14 million dollars as seed money to seek further grants and funding," Lesakowski explained.
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Tom White, who had by then decided to systematically divest himself of his wealth, donated a million dollars of seed money.
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I only got seed money from my friends, and also one or two VCs like AME Cloud Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.
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A few months later they started OpenBiome with seed money from a foundation and sent out six treatments that first year.
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He helped support himself by trading stocks, using as seed money annual stipends of $12,000 or so sent by his parents.
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The White House proposal calls for $85033 billion of federal seed money with the goal of generating a $1.5 trillion package.
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The firm launched in 20163 with a long/short equity strategy and with seed money from Robertson, chairman of Tiger Management.
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Seed money General Catalyst, a well-known venture capital firm, is diving more seriously into the business of funding seed-stage business.
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He says her new effort to rebuild Harlem's Paradise is smart and gives her a duffel bag of cash as seed money.
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The seed money his company doles out has both life-changing effects on its recipients and the potential to reshape entire industries.
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But time will tell how much it focuses on poorer women, who often require a grant of seed money, rather than loans.
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Hazari and her team also won the Hult Prize and $1 million in seed money to get the company off the ground.
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But the truth is, finding local seed money to get started is really the first prerequisite for securing international funding later on.
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He raised $3.1 million in seed money from Boldstart Ventures in NYC in 2016 and began building out the product in earnest.
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Intriguingly, for such an influential group, no one knows who the Niger Delta Avengers are or where they got their seed money.
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But the administration says the proposal's $200 billion of federal seed money will generate $1.5 trillion by incentivizing local and private investment.
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Trump's proposal would inject $28500 billion of federal seed money to create $6900 trillion in total spending on infrastructure over 2628 years.
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The company has 5 full time employees and has raised $500,000 in seed money across two rounds, according to data on Crunchbase.
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MinterEllison, along with New Zealand VC Goat Ventures, gave the fledgling company US$2.5 million in pre-seed money to get started.
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New York City, he said, should create an incubator for older entrepreneurs and tailor start-up competitions that provide them seed money.
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We're used to reading about the billions that companies make or the hot new startup that just got millions in seed money.
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Gates and Lauder provided seed money for the diagnostics collaboration through the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF), which was founded by Lauder.
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Crowdfunding, according to Branson in a recent blog post, is more than a way to secure seed money or create brand awareness.
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My partner, Kenny Laguna, and I sort of gave him seed money to start his own music projects and what became TSO.
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NIH funding is a down payment on discovery, the seed money to fund a critical step toward ending Alzheimer's or curing cancer.
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The agency also said it would use $1 million in seed money from the public diplomacy budget to get things rolling quickly.
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In each episode, two candidates are given seed money and challenged to mass produce and sell their products in a pop up shop.
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Along with her husband, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, Chan has designated spending $3 billion in seed money over the next 10 years.
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"[It] appeared to be of a guy that needed some seed money in order to start a legitimate PC repair business," Sullivan said.
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Problem is, if you aren't a tech company, you might as well forget about the seed money and expertise that comes with them.
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But it could also provide some seed money to build traffic lights at rural intersections which claim all too many lives every year.
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Still, the $12 million in seed money seems like a small drop in the flood of funding needed for vaccine development, STAT points out.
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Investing, of course, requires a little seed money and some accurate insight into what investments are smart and what are a waste of money.
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It's early days for the company, but the seed money should help them accelerate that vision and get a product to market more quickly.
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Check to see if your employer offers any matching funds or seed money for using an HSA or FSA, said Frost of Alight Solutions.
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This "generated substantial revenues for Wells Fargo" and provided "critical seed money that kept the funds afloat by boosting market share," the complaint said.
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Hyperloop Technologies (HT), in central Los Angeles, is a typical startup venture, with 30 or so full-time employees and $10m of seed money.
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Campaign Living, which has three employees, has raised over $1 million in seed money, said Mr. Sewell, whose company is based in Emeryville, Calif.
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The two raised $500,000 of seed money in 13, but legal challenges with competitors kept them from flying for four and a half years.
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Some asset management firms have had their related companies make substantial investments as "seed money" for their funds to facilitate purchases by the BOJ.
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Raised some seed money, ended up moving out to San Francisco in 2011, and since then, we've raised a number of rounds of funding.
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy, or ARPA-E, provides seed money for hundreds of high-risk energy-related projects stuck between research and commercialization.
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But Kurtz was seen as unable to rein in the famously slow director, Irvin Kershner, and it was Lucas' own seed money on the line.
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The Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) has secured commitment from the World Bank for $1.3 billion in seed money, Kemi Adeosun said in a statement.
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For decades, they have been helping startups with everything from technology training, crafting pitches, gaining knowledge from advisors, networking, office space and obtaining seed money.
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With the seed money, the company built an open source object storage platform and was able to offer at least of a proof of concept.
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The seed money came from Jeff's inherited wealth; his father, Blair Hull, sold an algorithmic trading firm to Goldman Sachs in 1999 for $531 million.
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Six winners will be announced in November, and each will receive $15,000 in seed money, needs-based training, and access to powerful networks and support.
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From $200,000 of seed money, the currently bustling Hammer and Nails chain was valued at $100 million by mid-2017, with 232 licensed franchise locations.
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The technology center, called VCET, provides free advice, mentoring, seed money and gorgeous co-working spaces that are available to entrepreneurs for a low fee.
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He said they were wary of outside money until they were introduced to Expa, which ultimately co-founded Ando and put seed money into it.
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The startup raised undisclosed seed money from investors that include former executives at Google and Facebook, but it has also built itself to be sustainable.
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ChatableApps, a U.K. startup commercialising the work of auditory neural signal processing researcher Dr. Andy Simpson, has quietly picked up seed money from Mark Cuban.
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But Mr. Forcade, flush with cash from trafficking (talk about "seed money"), was able to keep High Times afloat long enough to find an audience.
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Citizen's parent company, Sp0n, has raised 13 million dollars from Silicon Valley investors, according to Crunchbase, with seed money coming from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
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So, in 2005, he met with a Pittsburgh financier, who agreed to invest seed money to elevate Tiversa from some lines of code into a startup.
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"We used our [seed] money in exactly 18 months [and] clearly demonstrated that we can plan and use our money to reach our goals," she explained.
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Buying furniture is a substantial capital investment, and could make a big dent in your company's seed money — money that could've otherwise gone toward product development.
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At that point, the seven winners will be selected to join the Launch incubator for four months to build their site with $100,000 in seed money.
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Some Defy Ventures alumni, like Coss Marte who founded the fitness bootcamp ConBody, have been able to make use of Defy's incubator to raise seed money.
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Forsyth, after providing seed money, faded into the background, giving management of the operation to John Ehle, a North Carolina novelist turned public-policy idea man.
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Mark Zuckerberg, Laurene Powell Jobs and George Soros have recently begun donating to specific immigration causes like family reunification and giving seed money to migrant entrepreneurs.
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The company has received $4.2 million in seed money so far from Y Combinator, Vertex Ventures, Fuel Capital and Streamlined Ventures, along with other unnamed investors.
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But Democrats have panned the plan, saying the $200 billion in federal seed money is not enough to impact a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. public works.
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The White House also plans to use $6900 billion in federal seed money, along with massive permit reform, to leverage $2628 trillion worth of infrastructure investment.
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The administration wants to incentivize the private sector to partner with state and local governments on transportation projects by providing $28503 billion in federal seed money.
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VCs will talk about "signaling risk" to describe everything from taking seed money from a large venture fund to putting together a party round without a lead.
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The venture capital firm made a decision: unless it found an extraordinary idea or entrepreneur, it would no longer put seed money behind advertising-driven media companies.
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He likened the Koch Foundation to "angel investors" and the donation "seed money" that would help stoke debate about expanding educational and socioeconomic opportunity in minority communities.
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Axe, on the other hand, is sent into a spiral after Grigor Andolov (John Malkovich) decides to pull $1.5 billion of his seed money from the firm.
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And, there's always the possibility that another ambitious billionaire—say, that dude who wants to send robotic spacecraft to Alpha Centauri—will throw some seed money in.
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Diffbot, which raised its first seed money in 2012, has set itself the lofty goal of being the "Intel of data" for independent artificial intelligence application developers.
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Mr. Trump was born into a wealthy family, his schooling was paid for and he was handed a large amount of seed money to start a business.
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Sustain VC invests seed money in early-stage, high-impact companies and continues to actively engage with them throughout their growth and development, almost like an incubator.
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As the local tech community has grown, local venture capital firms have formed in the state, providing seed money as well as participating in later funding rounds.
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Fourth, provide a relatively nominal amount of seed money to support state insurance commissioners and insurers to work collaboratively toward establishing self-supporting Maine-style reinsurance pools.
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Their seed money does far less than the basically unrewarded panoply of systems, services and knowledge that allow new things to be made, distributed and paid for.
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However, tax documents for 2011 from the State Policy Network, a group of conservative nonprofits, show that the network provided $60,000 in seed money to the FGA.
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Between 2009 and 2012, if 53 startups raised seed money, an average of just about 30 would secure a Series A, according to a new study from Mattermark.
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For starters, the company announced two rounds of funding with $3.6 million in seed money last April and a $16.5 million Series A investment more recently in January.
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In spite of the fact that they raised a healthy $1.3 million in seed money while still in school, they completed their educations while working on the product.
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The city and state of Rio de Janeiro give top schools 1 million reais in seed money, doubled this year to help the schools combat Brazil's collapsing economy.
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The data and research firm was founded by the chief analytics officer of President Barack Obama's presidential campaigns, with seed money from Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet.
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In another example this week, we saw how this could work when Roxy, a company building customized voice-enabled devices for business landed $2.2 million in seed money.
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While she hasn't worked out all the details, Mugdan says that she'd like to use some of her winnings as seed money to help fundraise for several organizations.
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"He has some seed money that could be used to start a business after he is reintegrated into society and is living a peaceful life," his representative said.
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In Porterville, Mr. Gonzales "made a decision to give it my all," he said, by using his own seed money to jump-start the program 15 years ago.
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The Israeli Ministry of Transportation has granted $2 million in seed money for the project, while Dan has contributed an electric bus and invested $100 million in Electreon.
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The fund will receive $1 million in initial seed money from the State Department's public diplomacy coffers in order to get off the ground quickly, the department said.
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The board of the Saint Francis high school in Mountain View agreed to invest $15,000 in seed money in Snap in 2012, when the company was just getting started.
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The startup is about to close its Series A funding round just months after banking seed money from Y Combinator and Chinese venture capital firm Skysaga, it told TechCrunch.
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But the LPO's seed money created important learning that could help if the industry revives (say, if storage becomes cheaper and CSP becomes a viable provider of dispatchable power).
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The program began in 2012 as a partnership between New Orleans Police and Palantir Technologies, a data-mining firm founded with seed money from the CIA's venture capital firm.
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Between the lines: It's not uncommon for a market-maker to put in seed money when a new ETF launches and then pull that money at a later date.
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Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon) slides out from under the shelter of Axe Capital to launch their own hedge fund, and steals both talent and seed money from Axe.
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There are also plans to seek seed money for a fund that invests in sukuk, or Islamic bonds, to tap into investor appetite for high yield products, Duplat added.
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In addition to being a "part-time partner" at Y Combinator, which provides startups with seed money and guidance, he is a board member at Facebook and other companies.
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Net worth: $10.9 billionSource of wealth: WhatsAppKoum, 43, founded the messaging service with seed money he raised from his former colleagues at Yahoo, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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With the seed money and mentoring she received, she opened a business selling kitenge — colorful printed fabrics that are popular in East Africa —with her daughter and a neighbor.
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The seed money: The Grand Challenge is starting with $12 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Google co-founder Larry Page and his wife, Lucy.
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The federal government's role in this effort often involves providing seed money for research and experimentation and, increasingly, in protecting American intellectual property (IP) rights in the global marketplace.
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Since our filmmaking methods were super indie (like, duct-tape-and-shooting-at-your-mom's-house indie), we looked to the magic of crowdfunding to raise our seed money.
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Allison, who started with zero seed money, was rejected for six different loans before eventually getting one from a local non-profit economic development fund, Community Capital Development (CCD).
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If he decided to run for Senate tomorrow, he could transfer that entire sum into a Senate account -- a pretty nice amount of seed money to start that race.
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In a fact sheet distributed to reporters last week, the administration said a quarter of the federal seed money for infrastructure would go toward a pot for rural investment.
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Landlords are seeing these new restaurant concepts as business opportunities for themselves, often cherry-picking new food start-ups and offering them seed money to locate in their shopping centers.
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"I knew everything that needed to be done in order to get the business off the ground," Lubarsky tells CNBC Make It. The only thing he needed was seed money.
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Bright, a solar panel installation and distribution startup, recently raised $4 million in seed money to expand its operations in Mexico, where power from conventional sources is often prohibitively expensive.
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Mr. Lampert was 243 years old and at the vanguard of the hedge fund movement when he launched ESL in 22 with $2288 million in seed money from Mr. Rainwater.
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The idea is to use $200 billion in federal seed money to create $85033 trillion worth of overall infrastructure investment by raising revenues from the private sector and local governments.
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Roxy, a startup that got $2.2 million in seed money in November, decided to build its own voice-driven software and hardware, taking aim, for starters, at the hospitality industry.
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The startup recently pulled in $3 million in seed money led by Susa Ventures, with participation from Social Capital, Ulu Ventures, Kapor Capital, TenOneTen Ventures, Manifest Investment Partners, and others.
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She laid out details of how her administration would propose a small business equity fund, which would set aside $7 billion in seed money for entrepreneurs who are racial minorities.
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By his junior year, Mr. Newman has said, he was a managing partner in the Silicon Ivy Venture Fund, which provided seed money to start-ups backed by college students.
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Mr. Lampert was 25 years old and at the vanguard of the hedge fund movement when he founded ESL in 2288 with $2309 million in seed money from Mr. Rainwater.
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The Obama administration is providing seed money for two advanced nuclear reactor designs, part of its effort to keep nuclear power in the nation's energy mix over the next several decades.
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On Tuesday, Keeps unveiled its website and said that it had raised an undisclosed amount of seed money from several investors, including Maveron, First Round Capital, Greycroft Partners, and Imaginary Ventures.
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In 2015, VICE Media, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and the Knight Foundation teamed up to create a new innovation fund that provides seed money for journalists with big ideas.
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MI: Kevin and his three co-founders were trying to build a better LinkedIn, but we found out with the seed money that we gave the company that it wasn't working.
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Those could be seed money for startups, services to help businesses scale up, or a focus on attracting particular kinds of businesses, as Amy Liu of the Brookings Institution has suggested.
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Vargas launched Herbas Organic Herbs in 2015 using seed money from the European Union and the Portuguese government through a fund aimed at enticing businesses to set up in rural areas.
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Vargas launched Herbas Organic Herbs in 2015 using seed money from the European Union and the Portuguese government through a fund aimed at enticing businesses to set up in rural areas.
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"The federal investment in public media is vital seed money — especially for stations located in rural America," the corporation said in a statement last week amid the speculation about its future.
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As for how SkySafe plans to spend its seed money, Jordan says that the company will use the rest of 2016 to actually sell and install the product around the country.
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For example, he had recently provided $500,000 in seed money for the Seasteading Institute, a nonprofit organization that was researching how to build new, independent city-states floating in international waters.
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Not long after leaving Google, Salesky and Rander started their new company with a small investment from an undisclosed source; neither Salesky or Ford will identify the source of the seed money.
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Apple's plan, authorized in broad outline by IRS regulations, was to create an Irish subsidiary, stuff it with seed money, and to pretend that the subsidiary had its own independent business agenda.
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This is the motivation behind the Open Book Challenge, a contest created by the startup incubator Launch that is promising seven startups $100,000 in seed money apiece for better alternatives to Facebook.
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In 2017, the company divided $2.5 million in funding between eleven firms, and in April it announced that it was giving 13 additional startups an average of $100,000 each in seed money.
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The administration has long said it wants to use $200 billion in federal seed money, along with significant permit reform and other incentives, to leverage $1 trillion worth of overall infrastructure investment.
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Now, with seed money from one of the country's biggest pensions and more than a dozen PMs, Cinctive is looking to break through in 2020 during its first full year of trading.
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Mr. Gates also provided seed money for Carbon Engineering, a start-up led by the Harvard University physicist David Keith that is testing a process to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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With $103,000 in seed money and a little ingenuity, three 30-something Italians found a way to cash in on one of American millennials' most iconic habits: paying big money for avocado toast.
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" Musing about what appeared to be a still-distant prospect, he said he wanted to be reunited with his family and "has some seed money that could be used to start a business.
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The Koch Institute and Heritage Foundation support it, and the Koch brothers in particular have helped seed money out to state-level efforts — like Right on Crime — focused on bringing criminal justice reform.
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The company, which earlier raised bout $270,000 in seed money from Techstars and 500 Startups, is hoping to raise additional venture capital to expand its own genetic sequencing capability and hire more employees.
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As for the funding, it includes $3 million in seed money they got when they started the company, and a more recent $18.5 million Series A, which was led by Sequoia and Greylock.
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In April, the IsDB group launched a $500 million fund that will provide seed money for start-ups and smaller companies, trying to spread their ideas and technologies across the bank's member countries.
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Critics say that, in demanding that candidates show fund-raising prowess, Emily's List is drifting from its original mission — to provide early seed money that can help a campaign get off the ground.
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A fact sheet distributed during the annual State of the Union address said a quarter of the federal seed money would go toward a pot to invest in rural regions of the country.
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Elon Musk's rendition of "Mars City" And perhaps most complicated: Trump's space team will have to figure out how to best nurture the growing private space industry that was built with NASA seed money.
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Ten years later, after amassing 50 million rupees in savings - he clarifies that he never borrowed from family - and cashing his equity investments, Modi had enough seed money to start Firestar with 15 people.
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The $1 trillion direct federal investment in the Democrats' plan is a steep increase from the $200 billion of federal seed money the Trump administration is expected to kick in for a rebuilding initiative.
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"A lot of the money — the seed money, if you will — for what became al Qaeda, came out of Saudi Arabia," White House adviser Ben Rhodes said in a CNN interview released on Monday.
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After Mr. Lamb pitched the concept to cable operators, Mr. Rosencrans wrote a $22005,000 check on the spot and persuaded other industry executives to pony up $450,000 in seed money to start the network.
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I had done the collection with small seed money that was generally lent by friends, family and with my savings from the lemonade stand that I had started as a kid on Spring Street.
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The administration has said it wants to use $200 billion in federal seed money, along with significant permit reform and other incentives, to leverage $85033 trillion worth of overall infrastructure investment in the country.
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Niederer made an excellent living by shipping coffee to Russia, and when Ivan's daughter showed a remarkable aptitude for tennis at 25 years old, Ivan asked Niederer for seed money to develop her career properly.
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By then, we had two bakeshops (funded by some seed money from a friend and some family acquaintances), 100 or so wholesale clients, and a lot of great media mentions,¹but it was not enough.
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The fund is an investment vehicle of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, an informal club of private investors and institutions from around the world, who have agreed to pump seed money into energy research and development.
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The administration has said it wants to use about $85033 billion in federal seed money, along with significant permit reform and other incentives, to leverage $1 trillion worth of overall infrastructure investment in the country.
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The administration's proposal includes $200 billion of federal seed money with the goal of generating an overall package of $1.5 trillion through the use of public-private partnerships and funding from state and local governments.
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Wilk was offering Cuban a piece in a site for which he and his longtime technology partner Paras Chitrakar had just scored $17,000 in seed money from the highly regarded Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator.
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Founded with a few million dollars in seed money from Guggenheim Partners, where Mr. Katz once led the film finance group, A24 has been constructed around one notion: There has to be a better way.
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By then, we had two bakeshops (funded by some seed money from a friend and some family acquaintances), 100 or so wholesale clients, and a lot of great media mentions,¹ but it was not enough.
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The administration has long said it wants to use $200 billion in federal seed money, along with significant permit reform and other incentives, to leverage $1 trillion worth of overall infrastructure investment in the country.
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The plan worked: provide early government seed money into the private space market, let companies compete, lower costs and allow the government to develop new technologies that will expand our reach — and save taxpayer money.
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As the three co-founders developed the idea into an actual website, they needed seed money to hire programmers and pay for initial startup costs and early marketing campaigns to get DraftKings on fantasy players' radar.
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Both memos said half of the federal seed money would go toward an incentive program to encourage local governments to invest in infrastructure projects, while a quarter would be allocated toward a pot for rural regions.
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Overwhelmed at times by their son's special needs, the couple conceived of a nurturing place to learn for those on the autism spectrum and provided $143 million in seed money for the Els Center of Excellence.
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After getting enthusiastic feedback from the AI art community, he decided to take the program mainstream, asking two school friends to come on board as co-founders and gathering seed money from NYC and Silicon Valley backers.
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There is also no set graduation date, but rather WeWorks Labs members and community managers will work toward each member company's end goal, whether it's to be accepted to an accelerator or get that first seed money.
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It's never really explained why anyone would care, what the CIA hopes to learn from his users, or why he thought that if he paid back his CIA seed money, the agency would leave him alone forever.
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While Democrats say they will "close the rural-urban divide," the White House said in a recent fact sheet that a quarter of the federal seed money will go towards a pot to invest in rural regions.
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A new fund to support organ donations and research, the Universal Love Fund, was announced, with 8 million renminbi, about $1.2 million, in seed money from the Shandong Weigao Group Medical Polymer Company, a medical devices manufacturer.
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The innovation lab has so far mobilized close to $600 million in seed money for initiatives from its backers, which include the British, Danish, Dutch, German and U.S. governments, as well as banks, foundations and other investors.
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Haydn presented the idea to Elon Musk at a Tesla shareholders meeting, and soon after he had a team of cofounders and seed money from Clearstone Ventures, plus angel investors from the likes of Tesla and Facebook.
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The president traveled to Richfield, Ohio, on Thursday to make his first public speech advocating for the rebuilding blueprint, which calls for $85033 billion of federal seed money with the goal of generating a $1.5 trillion package.
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We are Series A investors, largely, at Canaan Partners, so the strategy at the firm is to invest at that Series A, where there may have been seed money put in the company, there might not have been.
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The Sanders Institute formally launched in 2017 with a personal donation of at least $25,000 from Bernie and Jane Sanders, as well as $190,000 in seed money from Our Revolution, according to a VTDigger report published last year.
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So, a lot of the funding - and you know Bin Laden himself was a wealthy Saudi - so a lot of the money, the seed money if you will, for what became Al Qaeda, came out of Saudi Arabia.
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That's precisely what Dust Identity, a Boston-based startup, is trying to do, and today it got $2.3 million in seed money led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from New Science Ventures, Angular Ventures and Castle Island Ventures.
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When Springboard opened their satellite office in Fergus Falls (their main branch is located in St. Paul, MN) in 2011, at the height of the community's economic struggles, it did so with seed money provided by the NEA.
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The company launched the program with the idea of giving startups with cool ideas some seed money — a million or less — along with access to the vast resources only a company the size of Coca-Cola could provide.
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Enter Collaborizm, a Kickstarter-esque website based in New York that specializes in nurturing companies in the so-called pre-incubation stage — before they have seed money, a business plan or even, in many cases, a working prototype.
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The new UK program - launched with 2 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) of seed money just nine months before Britain leaves the European Union - rivals a Franco-German project begun over a year ago that has yet to be funded.
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If U.S. companies are given a tax break on money they bring back to the U.S. from overseas, then they can use that money to pay off debt, which could provide the seed money for such an infrastructure bank.
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Instead, he went off on his own, using seed money from HBO, which was quickly augmented by ad revenue from a network of successful podcasts (SeatGeek, his first significant podcast sponsor last year, has just re-upped through 2017).
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The White House has unveiled an infrastructure plan that calls for the use of public-private partnerships and funding from state and local governments to generate a $1.5 trillion rebuilding package that uses $200 billion in federal seed money.
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To take matters into its own hands, the nonprofit has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the needed seed money to buy its part of the building, worth an estimated $260 million, before the sale closes on August 19903.
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In March of 2012, Eli Pariser—one of the leaders of the activist group MoveOn—and Peter Koechley—also of MoveOn and an editor at The Onion—launched Upworthy with several million dollars of seed money and a surfeit of hope.
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Perhaps owing to greater transparency throughout the industry, as well as growing competition, including from AngelList — which is increasingly providing founders with seed money to invest in other founders — the firm offered to shine some light on its offerings and approach.
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Luciana Lixandru of Accel, which led UiPath's latest funding round, said seed money was scarce in the region five to seven years ago but now companies can find both start-up capital and bigger funding batches needed to grow globally.
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The team has also benefited financially from Ignite's help in applying for R&D tax credits via UK government schemes — meaning they were able to get back some of the seed money they'd burnt through to help them continue developing.
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The Odeon arrived in TriBeCa in October 280, opened by the British-born Brian McNally, his younger brother Keith McNally, and Keith's American girlfriend, Lynn Wagenknecht, with $21980,000 in seed money from their families and a couple of close friends.
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And DNC leaders are talking about offering fundraising training sessions, listening to pitches from the state parties seeking grants or looking to launch new programs that require seed money or offering financial incentives to state parties whose innovations produce electoral wins.
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In mid-2009, Techstars gave the founders an undisclosed amount of seed money to launch as a full-fledged music-focused data analytics platform for artists, labels and brands (Techstars also contributed to a $7.53 million round of seed funding in late 2009).
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Beijing is mobilizing its $40 billion Belt and Road Fund, which really looks like "seed money" for many projects currently under way that are financed by state and private funds, as well as by contributions from host countries along the B&R routes.
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Investors have put in $48 million, with Ribbit Capital, TLV Partners and Zeev Ventures stumping up the seed money, followed by $35 million in a Series A (early stage) fundraising on June 20 from SG Ventures; Nationwide; the insurer Markel; and American Express.
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Unger would give Jean-Raymond seed money for his first line ($150, which seemed like a lot to someone still not old enough to drive), and the two would talk about the business, realizing the extent to which they occupied different industries.
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There they have to come up with a business plan for a start-up, get it approved by a local banker, raise or borrow seed money themselves and work on the project instead of attending school for first part of each morning.
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About $3.8 million in seed money for the academy will come directly from the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark, an unusual example of public funding for culinary education that emphasizes sustainability, diversity and gender equality over knife skills and tourist dollars.
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African Parks takes over management of floundering protected areas in partnership with countries including Malawi, Chad and the Central African Republic, offering seed money for infrastructure, and then sending the profit once the tourists start arriving back into the management of the park.
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A coworking space lets a startup get an office running in less time and for less money than it would take to lease and furnish a space, Eva Ho, whose boutique firm, Fika Ventures, puts seed money into data-driven companies, said.
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Security researchers at Check Point say the company has uncovered evidence that Chinese hackers managed to hijack $1 million in seed money during a wire transfer between a Chinese venture capital firm and an Israeli startup—without either side realizing anything was wrong.
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Keep the Promise III, financed by two brothers made rich by Texas oil and helmed by a group of digital organizers active in the anti-abortion movement, has spent half of its seed money on things like Facebook ads targeted finely in early-voting states.
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What we're watching: While it seems like Alexander has made up his mind, there's still a (very remote) possibility that support for federal seed money for reinsurance programs could end up being part of the package, if only because such programs undeniably lower premiums.
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For example, the former chief executive of AOL, Steve Case, started an initiative called "Rise of the Rest," which involves driving a big red bus around the country (it has visited 38 cities so far) and giving out $150 million in seed money to entrepreneurs.
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"It's a time investment and it's a money investment, but my thing is I want to show that I can make this program work with very little seed money, and if it does, I want to inspire other restaurants to mimic the same thing," Lee said.
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THE BACKSTORY: The Dubrows claim several years ago their accountant and the accountant's friend, attorney Steve Czik, came to the good doctor and his wife and said there was a woman who had a surefire business venture -- renting property for the World Cup, but she needed seed money.
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We can do this by empowering the agency to provide the staff and seed money necessary to introduce the social and economic benefits of partnerships with the private sector and the U.S. military in the growing list of fragile states which may otherwise serve as breeding grounds for conflict.
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By then, using Mr. Bastianich's investment, $22015,225 from an online crowdfunding campaign and $45,000 in seed money from Venture for America, a nonprofit group, the brothers produced the pasta needed to meet an August 2014 deadline to fill their first major grocery order for Meijer, the Grand Rapids, Mich.
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For many people of color, the "friends and family" plan for raising seed money, which so many founders rely on — asking parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents for support to get their ideas off the ground — isn't an option, because their family members don't have the resources to offer such funds.
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Half of the federal seed money would go toward an incentive program to match financing from state and local governments investing in rebuilding projects, while a quarter of the appropriations would be used for rural projects in the form of block grants to states so governors may decide where to invest.
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The foundation provided seed money for the Federalist Society when it was just a student group at Yale, Harvard, and UChicago; it has since risen to become the most powerful legal organization in the American right, and has close ties to five out of the nine justices of the Supreme Court.
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And for those of you TechCrunch readers interested in the funding details, Natalist took in seed money from Collaborative Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Fuel Capital, Rock Health and xFund, as well as several well-known angel investors, including Katrina Lake, Julia Cheek, Christine Lemke, John Doerr, Malay Gandhi, David Vivero and R. Martin Chavez.
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Chao is slated to testify next week in front of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on the administration's proposal, which calls for the use of public-private partnerships and funding from state and local governments to generate a $1.5 trillion rebuilding package using $200 billion of federal seed money. Sen.
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So far the company has bought about 100 homes in five southern states, but with a recent infusion of $3.5 million in seed money and $100 million in debt financing from investors, Kessler said he expects to expand to approximately 500 housing markets in more than 35 states and 2,000 homes this year alone.
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In the span of half a century, the National Endowment for the Arts has supported some of the most fundamental arts and cultural movements and individuals in this country's history, from funding Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker's first novel to providing seed money to a young Robert Redford towards what is now the Sundance Institute.
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In the span of half a century, the National Endowment for the Arts has supported some of the most fundamental arts and cultural movements and individuals in this country's history, from funding Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker's first novel to providing seed money to a young Robert Redford towards what is now the Sundance Institute.
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The Singapore-based firm has been active since around 13, and it has done deals across Southeast Asia, Japan, and the U.S.. Managing Partner Willson Cuaca told TechCrunch that around 80 percent of its portfolio remain active today, with 70 percent of its investments going on to raise additional funding following their seed money.
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She provided $10 million in seed money and in two years established the museum with substantial support from other Texas donors, many of whom lived part time in Santa Fe. Under her direction, the O'Keeffe museum grew to include the artist's two historic homes and studios in northern New Mexico, at Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch. Mrs.
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He continued to see patients at U.C.S.F., began co-writing a kind of field guide to dying and started raising seed money for a dream of his, something he's calling the Center for Dying and Living: a combination "skunk works and design lab," as he puts it, to dig into more imaginative possibilities for palliative care.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's proposal, released last month, would inject $200 billion of federal seed money to create $85033 trillion in total spending on infrastructure over 10 years.
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Other groups that Dr. Tanton either directly founded or provided with seed money and logistical support include the Center for Immigration Studies and the Immigration Reform Law Institute, both in Washington, and NumbersUSA, in Arlington, Va. He also started groups dedicated to making English the official language of the United States and a publishing arm that put out the journal The Social Contract, as well as books by leading opponents of immigration.
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USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says MORE also made the case for President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's rebuilding blueprint, which allocates $85033 billion in federal seed money that the administration argues will lead to a $1.5 trillion overhaul.
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"So, I believe I have secured an agreement that the Alexander-Murray bill -- which reinstates the cost savings reductions and gives more flexibility to states, plus a bill that I have introduced with Bill Nelson, which would authorize and provide some seed money for high risks pools which would ensure that people with preexisting conditions are protected and would also help to lower premiums -- would be considered and signed into law before the conference report on the tax bill comes back," Collins said.
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