The fund raise also continues the European trend of raising money from government/public funds.
If that's the case, Bessemer may be bucking VCs' new favorite trend of raising their largest funds to date.
Munson bucked her family's multi-generational trend of raising cattle and growing wheat, corn and soy beans to study computer science.
Contrary to VCs' latest trend of raising larger and larger pools of capital, BlueRun's latest effort is the firm's smallest flagship fund to date.
At the time, TechCrunch surmised that if the firm indeed raised $1.6 billion — the size of its last two funds — it would be bucking VCs' new favorite trend of raising their largest funds to date in defense of SoftBank's $93 billion Vision Fund.
Ryanair has taken advantage of that trend to raise its average one-way fare to 44 euros, or $62, in the April-September period, up 12 percent from a year earlier, the carrier, based in Dublin, said.
The main purpose of developing the general scenarios is to identify trends and raise awareness of these trends and related threats and opportunities that have an impact on the maritime functions in the EU, in as far as they are sensitive to EU policies.
Such a trend, of course, would raise the competitive pressure on large local phone companies like Verizon and SBC Communications, which so far have felt minimal impact from Internet telephony.
The first question was "Present trends will raise the forty-eight million population of the Atlantic Region to eighty-two million in 2020.
However, the rising trends of wind energy generation and involvement raises serious concern for matching the generations with load demand and hence to maintain the standards of automatic generation control (AGC).
