Funding Circle, a peer-to-peer lending platform for small and medium-sized enterprises, has raised £191m in equity finance to date, including repeat investments from both Accel Partners and Index Ventures.
(And, given Rocket's track record for attracting repeat investments from the same VCs, it will be interesting to see whether Blumberg gets more active in further Samwer ventures).
Our experiment consists on three treatments of a finitely repeated investment game (Berg, Dickhaut, & McCabe, 1995).
But it also requires repeated investment in education, health and relationships to support longer careers and healthy ageing.
Anecdotal and qualitative reports contend that the inefficiencies of HIV/AIDS programs at a national level are largely due to high transaction costs, repeated investment, poor government responsiveness, and low level of human resource skills [ 10- 12].
Repeated investments in rigorous, fact-based planning or quantitative research inevitably produce diminishing returns.
The repeated investments into the CityTime project and renewal of contracts drew the ire of the city's comptroller, John C. Liu, who wrote a letter to the mayor in March asking that he freeze all business with the "endless money pit".
Consider how Democratic activists, professional progressives and many commentators knock Obama for his repeated investments in bipartisanship, despite meager returns.
The retailer, which has failed to turn a profit in China despite repeated capital investments, said it would pay £345 million (about $558 million) to fold its Chinese operations into a new joint venture with China Resources Enterprise.
They typically repeat platitudes about investment, risk-taking and job creation with the veiled contempt that the nation doesn't understand their contribution.
