Sentence examples for offering venture from inspiring English sources

While more than a third of US businesses are majority owned by women, research by Babson College found that fewer than 3 per cent of firms offering venture funding have a female chief executive.

A Facebook offering, venture capitalists say, could infuse the industry with the kind of open-for-business optimism that Netscape supplied in 1995 and Google provided so briefly again in 2004.

Investors embark on a frenzied search for the next hot offering; venture capitalists see an exit for their existing investments and begin lining them up to go public; and entrepreneurs, seeing the coffers of the VCs finally open again, quick gather teams and prepare business plans to make their own dreams a reality.

The government, according to several sources, is now offering venture investment matching of up to 9 to 1, meaning that VC firms can provide a startup with $1 million in funding for only $100,000 of their own capital.

Typically, accelerators offering venture capital take equity stakes in the startups they choose, but Arch Grants offers non-dilutive capital — they are, as one would expect, grants and therefore don't require founders to cough up any equity in exchange for the capital.

With Wall Street shunning most initial public stock offerings, venture capital returns have turned into losses, leaving no cash to distribute to investors.

Step two finding a talented management team, one of the most important offerings venture firms bring to the table is much more difficult for regional firms.

Robert Barbera, the chief economist of Hoenig & Company, noted that initial public offerings and venture capital investments had brought in $150 billion for hundreds of new companies since the beginning of 1999.

Just before the dot-com bubble popped, Thiel hustled to close $100 million in private offerings from venture capitalists and investment bankers.

Given the stellar performance of recent Linux public offerings (LPOs), venture capitalists are jumping on every single opportunity to cash in on the open source software trend.

That was just an 11% drop in total deals compared to 2001 and significantly better than the 22 initial public offerings from venture firms, a 37% drop from 2001.