The San Francisco start-up secured initial financing of $75 million in January from the Texas Pacific Group, a private investment firm that has owned stakes in two of the airlines: Continental and America West.
Federal Highway Administration emergency funds paid for the tunnel, which is named for the man who secured initial financing —Tom Lantos, a congressman who died in 2008 — but which many residents call "the people's tunnel".
The company secured initial funding upon launch back in July 2010, although it's unclear how much they raised then.
Sciencescape has already secured initial funding of $1.1 million, and hopes to move quickly to expand its business.
The Ameritrade Holding Corporation, which joined Schwab, TD Waterhouse and others in November 1999 to start Epoch as a way to secure initial offerings for their clients, said it sold its stake to Goldman because it needed the money.
But in the shorter term, the policymakers could do the following: 1 Streamline the planning system Once land is bought, developers then have to work with local authorities to agree a number of issues before securing initial planning permission, including levels of affordable housing, infrastructure requirements and what payments need to be made towards local services such as schools and hospitals.
Trutap had been doing the rounds of investment houses looking for £2-4m in a second round of funding, after securing initial investment in 2006 from private equity house Tudor Ventures, a hedge fund, believed to be in the vicinity of $5m.
After securing initial funding from MIT and the University of Hawaii, Jaggar took directorship of the observatory and, whilst its head between 1912 and 1940, pioneered seismological and observational study and observation of active volcanoes.
As part of an inter-agency effort, in 2005 UNICEF helped devise plans and secure initial funding in preparation for a potential pandemic of avian influenza (H5N1), which many fear may disproportionately infect and kill children.
Chinese stock exchanges, including the Hong Kong bourse, raised double the amount of money secured by initial public offerings across the US in 2009, highlighting the region's rising weight in international finance, according to Dealogic.
The company, which had secured its initial funding from a fan-driven Kickstarter campaign, had to reassure supporters that it was still focused on creating a games-focused VR experience, and would retain independence from Facebook.
