Sentence examples for billion dollar financing from inspiring English sources

Last week, it emerged that Ant Financial — which runs Alipay among other businesses — is raising a billion dollar financing round at a valuation of up to $60 billion.

The timing is bad for Rocket's founders, the three Samwer brothers (Oliver, Marc and Alexander) who are understood to be raising at least a billion dollar financing round, possibly from DST, designed to clone every successful US startup.

The timing could not be worse for the Samwers, who are understood to be in the middle of raising at least a billion dollar financing round designed to clone every successful US startup, to launch them outside the US much faster and become a larger global player than many of the Silicon Valley businesses they plan to copy.

I posed a simple hypothetical: What if, instead of having spent several billion dollars financing Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad over the past three decades, Iran had spent that money educating tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites to become doctors, professors and lawyers?

He's tends to get results – representing Bebo in their $850 million sale to AOL, Powerset in their $100 millionish sale to Microsoft, Stubhub in their $310 million sale to eBay and (we believe) Ning in their half billion dollar valuation financing round.

A half-percent decrease in the current interest rate on loans could be used to set up a billion dollar trade finance fund.

The producer Joe Roth started Revolution Studios in 2000 with a billion dollars in financing and a remarkably advantageous deal with Sony.

Mr. Icahn has not formally laid out how his plan would be financed, though he said on CNBC that he would be willing to offer "a couple of billion dollars" as bridge financing and that he had an informal commitment of $1.6 billion from the Jefferies Group.

With around 400 employees, half of whom are focused on engineering and product, Twitter doesn't necessarily need almost half a billion dollars of additional financing to keep going.

He was eager to participate in the offensive, but needed several thousand dollars in financing.

His name is Michael Heyward, and he has raised sixty million dollars in financing for the app, at a reported two-hundred-million-dollar valuation.