Sentence examples for rapidly founded from inspiring English sources

With the considerable profits from this and similar licences, he rapidly founded a series of film-rights companies, acquiring an exclusive contract to supply ZDF, Germany's second state-owned television channel, with Hollywood and other foreign films, a deal which lasted for many years and brought in huge revenues.

At a time when venture capital interest in education technology companies is growing rapidly, Rethink Education Fund, founded last year to focus on education start-ups, has agreed to give part of its profits to NewSchools, based in Oakland, Calif., so the fund can invest the money in various projects.

Peter died in 1725, and the capital that he founded rapidly expanded.

Of the 16 solutions covered, the one that topped my list, at least on first skim, was the idea of leasing renewable energy systems — an approach that is core the business of SolarCity, which has grown rapidly since being founded in 2006.

All that money was raised in part because DraftKings has grown rapidly since being founded just two years ago, riding the wave of interest in fantasy sports competition.

BATS, based in Lenexa, Kan., has grown rapidly since it was founded in 2005 as a response to the rising power of the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange.

Twitter is widely regarded as one of the darlings of the new generation of Internet companies, and its popularity has grown rapidly since it was founded in 2006.

Skype, which offers free or low-cost voice and video calls over the Internet, has grown rapidly since it was founded in 2003 by the technology entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.

The commencement of the personal rule of Louis XIV in 1661 marked the beginning of a new era in French political power and artistic influence, and the French Academy in Rome (founded 1666) rapidly became a major factor in the evolution of Roman art.

Hillel Zidel, managing director of Kennet Partners, who will join the Board, said: "Rimilia is a bootstrapped success story, having grown rapidly since it was founded without raising any external capital.

The Populus genus is a particularly favorable system in which to apply a genetical genomics approach, given its extensive genetic and phenotypic variation, the availability of several well established interspecific pedigrees, and a rapidly growing genomic toolbox founded on the genome sequence of P. trichocarpa [ 31].