His angel investments include Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb and Uber. Code.
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Three years ago, funding for Lebanese startups came mainly from angel investments.
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Along with angel investments, Zuzu's seed funding brings its total raised to $3 million.
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He previously had made angel investments in such companies as Airbnb, Trulia and Uber.
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He said Gerber was developing strategic relationships, notably some angel investments in small startups.
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DiCarlo says the company has raised more than $5 million in grants and angel investments.
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He made successful angel investments in Aardvark (sold to Google), Dollar Shave Club, TaskRabbit and Milo.
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Most Angel investments are between 50,000 – 250,000, with Series A investments typically being $250,000 – $2 million.
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"I've done a few opportunistic angel investments and advised a couple of startups," Willerer tells us.
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JC: He had some investing experience in his previous role and he has made angel investments.
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Sethi, meanwhile, recently served as CEO of Redbooks while also making angel investments for the past decade.
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Jonathan is an internet OG: from Netscape through Friendster to angel investments, and is full of insights.
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Bendz's angel investments lean towards consumer startups, unsurprising given her self-professed "love" for building consumer brands.
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From that perch he saw the rise of direct to consumer startups and began making angel investments.
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Sacks is a serial entrepreneur and investor, with angel investments in Airbnb, Postmates, Slack, and many more.
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We read about teeming startup incubators and torrents of angel investments, but the statistics don't match the headlines.
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Venture capital will affect your small business much the same as angel investments — capital gained is equity earned.
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Instead of chasing angel investments and seed funding, some are graduating to growth capital or attracting more mainstream backers.
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Lehoux is a jolly, outgoing fella who became interested in startups while managing some angel investments for a family office.
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He has made a series of angel investments into local emerging enterprise and data startups, including Generable, Seva, and Windmill.
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Clavier says that McLoughlin — who made 36 angel investments before joining SoftTech, including in Postmates — has sponsored and source numerous deals.
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Gross has a weighty portfolio of his own angel investments including GitHub, Figma, Uber, Gusto, Notion, Opendoor, Cruise Automation and Coinbase.
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There isn't a clear career path to becoming a venture capitalist or to having enough money and enthusiasm to make angel investments.
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PB: I've made a handful of angel investments, including NerdWallet, and I've been a hands-on advisor at Thumbtack, Medallia and Procore.
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I knew him from Stanford, and now the same reputation precedes him through his portfolio of angel investments like Earnest and Buffer.
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Their investment focus (enterprise and deeptech seed) aligns very very well with the portfolio I worked with at Entrepreneur First/angel investments.
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Besides his corporate involvement, Chris is still active in R&D and sits on several boards, supporting the European startup scene via angel investments.
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The state also offers a 35 percent tax credit for qualified digital media expenditures and a 25 percent tax credit for qualified angel investments.
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Funds for small start-ups, otherwise known as angel investments, have boomed into a $24 billion market by itself, the Center for Venture Research says.
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Dixon has made angel investments in more than 50 startups including Hipmunk, Foursquare, Kickstarter, Stripe, Pinterest, Dropbox, Codecademy, Stack Overflow, Bloomreach, Optimizely, Trialpay, OMGPOP, and Skype.
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He has made 14 angel investments across the U.K. and U.S., and counts three exits to date: Nearbuy Systems (acquired by RetailNext), publicly listed MoPowered and Bidstack.
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The company officially considers 2016 its launch date, although founder and managing director Michael Granoff and Maniv partner Olaf Sakkers were making smaller angel investments back in 2015.
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Below is a list of some of the largest early-stage rounds: U.S. startups are projected to raise $892 million in seed and angel investments in Q3 2017.
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The death of once high-flying VC funds He began making angel investments and advising startups at Cervin Ventures, a pre-Series A VC fund focused on the enterprise.
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Hinrikus, meanwhile, has stepped back from day-to-day management and has stepped up his angel investments, backing payment API startup Fidel and AI startup Pactum in September 2019.
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Boost VC has at times looked like a club for Draper's early angel investments, largely because the check sizes and valuations varied so heavily — investments ranged from $50K to $500K.
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Acquisitions can grow awkward quickly when angel investments are involved, according to the former head of business development for a large technology company that frequently bought companies backed by its CEO.
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Before Wefunder, TAXA had already raised nearly $1 million through the startup coaching program known as Y Combinator, angel investments and pre-orders for its plants through Kickstarter, another crowdfunding platform.
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As the discussions started, all the board members except one had to recuse themselves because they had personal angel investments in the supplier, another startup, according to one of the board members.
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VC firm Sequoia India said that Anandan, who has made a number of angel investments, is joining its ranks to oversee Surge, the early stage accelerator program that it announced in January.
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Silicon Valley flirts with the devil One reason so many of these companies tout angel investments from Lavie, Hulio, and other NSO Group alumni is that more traditional investors are staying away.
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LS: I was living in Palo Alto and started having investor friends and was making some angel investments, and I saw most of my friends just looking for the next dating apps.
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That's the goal of First Round Capital's Angel Track, a free three-month workshop series in San Francisco and New York for learning how to source, vet, close, and support angel investments.
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This includes everything from track records working at a large firm, to angel investments, to putting together syndicates as some prospective managers many may not have enough personal wealth to cut personal checks.
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According to Diego Wagner, founder of Meetime, an inside-sales platform, Santa Catarina's SaaS community is growing fast thanks to startup founders and employees giving back to the community with workshops, angel investments and mentoring.
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Because regulation crowdfunding will be costly and restrictive for most issuers, many entrepreneurs may opt to instead rely on traditional accredited investors to raise capital, whether in the form of venture capital or angel investments.
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The bulk of the increase is in the late-stage market, where SoftBank's Vision Fund has been driving up prices and valuations, but even early and angel investments jumped 23 percent last year to $32.1 billion.
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"There were things CoFoundersLab excelled at and things that FounderDating did better than us," says Alejandro Cremades, co-founder and executive chairman of Onevest, which operates CoFoundersLab, alongside with the 1,000 Angels matchmaking site for angel investments.
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After Imeem's sale to Myspace and later Soundtracking's acquisition by Rhapsody, Jang made about 20163 angel investments of around $22016,210 to $22016,000 in companies like Coinbase, Blue Bottle Coffee, Postmates and Zymergen under the name Kindred Ventures.
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Together with her husband, Scott Banister, an IronPort cofounder, Banister has made dozens of angel investments over the years, including in Space X, Uber, and DeepMind Technologies, acquired by Google for more than $500 million in early 2014.
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"And for me it has been such a rewarding journey doing angel investments, and there are more people out there with knowledge and capabilities, so this is a way for us to sort of help seed them in a way".
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York and his Dyn friends looked at their angel investments and decided their next adventure together should be a new kind of venture capital firm with no limited partners, no management fees, and lots of data to make better decisions.
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Just nine tech companies last quarter became unicorns, or venture-backed companies valued in the private market at $1 billion or more, according to data released on Thursday by CB Insights, which tracks venture capital and angel investments globally into private companies.
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Prior to raising its Series A round from Revolution Partners, eSUB had raised a small amount of angel funding from returning investor The Investor Group, led by Sheldon Lewis, Raymond Levitt, and the Stanford Farmers Investment Club, a group of Stanford professors that make angel investments.
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While best known as the headquarters of Amazon and Microsoft, experts believe the Seattle area is on the precipice of a major startup boom because of a confluence of factors including a critical mass of talent, and the increasing availability of venture capital and angel investments.
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In a wide-ranging conversation at a San Francisco event on Wednesday, we talked with Banister about that path, along with her investing style, which still sees her make angel investments of $1.5 million or less in companies that are often ambitiously futuristic or boringly practical and very much needed.
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I started coming to Barcelona four or five years ago just to see things and we had some angel investments here and it feels to me today — or when Lina and I started getting more serious about Barcelona it seemed to us that Barcelona has the attributes of Berlin eight or nine years ago.
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The search labs model contrasts with three other ways people typically form startups: Dickey tells me that after 80 angel investments, going to every recent Y Combinator Demo Day, and talking with key players across the industry, the search lab method was the best way to hone in on his best idea rather than just going on a hunch.
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There are also many angel investments in the amounts of 40,000/50,000 euros.
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Hyde Park Angels is a venture capital group founded in 2007 and based in Chicago, IL, which focuses on angel investments.
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There is no "set amount" for angel investors; investments can range from a few thousand to a few million dollars. In a large shift from 2009, in 2010 healthcare/medical accounted for the largest share of angel investments, with 30% of total angel investments (vs. 17% in 2009), followed by software (16% vs. 19% in 2007), biotech (15% vs.
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Many of these companies are based in the state of California, which alone concentrates 28% of U.S. research. Some new American businesses raise investments from angel investors (venture capitalists). In 2010 healthcare/medical accounted for the largest share of angel investments, with 30% of total angel investments (vs. 17% in 2009), followed by software (16% vs.
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He continues to oversee angel investments of his own in "about 40" startups (by his own estimate) and is active with Y Combinator.
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In April 2018, the company announced that it had secured $2.5 million in angel investments from Woodman's, dunnhumby Ventures and other Midwestern-based angel investors.
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Senanu, through investment company Blackrock Capital Investments, that he co-founded and chairs, remains passionate about angel investments in start-ups in East Africa and African themed restaurants.
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In 2017, Sacks co- founded Craft Ventures, an early-stage venture fund, and blockchain startup Harbor as an incubation of Craft Ventures. His angel investments include Facebook, Uber, SpaceX, Palantir Technologies, Airbnb and Houzz.
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Auric Technology was sold to Telnorm in 2011. After the sale of Auric Technology, he managed a portfolio of private equity, venture capital, real estate, and angel investments and served as an advisor to several portfolio companies.
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Zagace has since raised a number of angel investments from various investors. In June 2015, Zagace's parent company was restructured as a Delaware-based parent corporation of the same name, with the company now based in San Jose, California.
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Sethi began angel investing at Lolapps. He is now considered one of the top angel investors in Silicon Valley.The 2020 Midas Brink List: Meet Venture Capital's Up-And-Comers His angel investments include Opendoor, Gusto and Long-Term Stock Exchange.
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70 In 2017, Wilson made two angel investments in the cannabis industry: Octavia Wellness and Beboe. In August 2018, Forbes ranked her 25th in the list of “50 Angel Investors Based On Investment Volume And Successful Exits” with 63 investments.
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Angel investments bear extremely high risks and are usually subject to dilution from future investment rounds. As such, they require a very high return on investment. Because a large percentage of angel investments are lost completely when early stage companies fail, professional angel investors seek investments that have the potential to return at least ten or more times their original investment within 5 years, through a defined exit strategy, such as plans for an initial public offering or an acquisition. Current 'best practices' suggest that angels might do better setting their sights even higher, looking for companies that will have at least the potential to provide a 20x-30x return over a five- to seven-year holding period.
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Currently, Olsen is President of GHO Ventures, LLC, in Princeton, New Jersey, where he manages his angel investments, South African winery, Montana ranch, and performs numerous speaking engagements to encourage children – especially minority and female children – to consider careers in science or engineering. He also is a physics professor at Rider University.
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Wainner's angel investments include HandUp, a San Francisco based direct giving platform that allows donors to provide assistance to homeless on a community level, Compology, a smart waste management platform that uses sensor technology to help waste companies service only full dumpsters, and Framed Data, an analytics platform that works to predict and reduce SaaS user/customer churn.
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She now serves as Chief Operating Officer. Larizadeh Duggan was appointed as a non-executive director of Barclays UK in 2017 Larizadeh Duggan has made a number of angel investments in companies including Jampp and Okta. In 2017 Okta went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange (OKTA). In 2016 she was named one of the World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leaders".
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The Bundesverband Deutsche Startups's successes include the end of the planned anti-angel legislation, securing the holding privilege in angel investments and the introduction of the new market segment "Scale" for startups at the Deutsche Börse (German stock exchange)). In addition, the association played a role in the expansion of the investment subsidy venture capital and in the evaluation of the Small Investor Protection Act. (“Kleinanlegerschutzgesetz”).
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Paul Quigley and Andrew Mullaney founded NewsWhip in April 2011. In September, they joined the National Digital Research Centre's LaunchPad Accelerator Program and later moved to Dogpatch Labs in Dublin. In 2012, NewsWhip received undisclosed angel investments from the NDRC, Hal Philipp, and Shane Naughton. In 2013, NewsWhip raised seed money of €825,000 from Allied Irish Banks Seed Capital Fund, Hal Philipp, Hannes Þór Smárason, Enterprise Ireland and others.
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California Secretary of State Business Search: Brave Software, Inc. By August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Foundation Capital, and the Digital Currency Group. In November 2019, Brave launched an ad network which returns a 70 percent revenue share to users. The initial advertisements were coming from partners like Vice, Home Chef, ConsenSys, Ternio BlockCard, MyCrypto, and eToro.
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She has made angel investments in more than 50 companies and holds investments in five venture capital firms. In November 2014, Coutu authored the "Scale-Up Report" which was commissioned by the Digital Economy Council. The report urged the UK government to support 'scaleups' and not only 'startups'. In June 2015, partnering with Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, Coutu launched the Scale Up Institute, a non-profit body to support UK businesses wishing to scale up.
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After graduating from Columbia, he went to work with his stepbrother in a publishing company. Soon after, he worked for The Center for Direct Marketing in Westport, Connecticut and also started taking cooking courses. After securing $100,000 in angel investments from friends and family, he started Cook’s Magazine from a tiny office in Weston, Connecticut in 1980 when he was 29 years old. He sold the magazine to the Bonnier Group in 1989 and moved on to other publishing ventures.
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After taking into account the need to cover failed investments and the multi-year holding time for even the successful ones, however, the actual effective internal rate of return for a typical successful portfolio of angel investments is typically as 'low' as 20–30%. While the investor's need for high rates of return on any given investment can thus make angel financing an expensive source of funds, cheaper sources of capital, such as bank financing, are usually not available for most early-stage ventures.
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An accredited or sophisticated investor is an investor with a special status under financial regulation laws. The definition of an accredited investor (if any), and the consequences of being classified as such, vary between countries. Generally, accredited investors include high-net-worth individuals, banks, financial institutions and other large corporations, who have access to complex and higher-risk investments such as venture capital, hedge funds and angel investments. Laws may require that some types of financial offerings may only be made to accredited investors.
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Since then NACO has continued to annually organize an angel investor summit to encourage networking, education, co-investment and sharing of best practices. NACO has spawned the creation of numerous angel groups across Canada, established the Co-Investment Summit and in 2008 launched awards for the top ten angel investments in Canada. NACO also initiated the formation of the Network of Angel Organizations of Ontario, which now operates as Angel Investors Ontario (AIO). NACO's website provides an industry newsletter, links to best practices materials and lists angel groups across the nation.
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Calm was founded in 2012 by Michael Acton Smith and Alex Tew. Tamara Levitt became the Head of Mindfulness in November 2014 and is one of the app's primary narrators. The company generated $22 million in revenue in 2017 and reached an annual revenue run rate of $75 million. , Calm had raised $1.5M in angel investments. As of February 2019, the company was valued at $1 Billion and had raised $116 million, with contributions from existing investors, including Insight Venture Partners, Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures, and Creative Artists Agency.
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Prehype is a venture development firm that focuses on building products and companies through collaboration with corporations and venture capitalists. The firm allows large companies to benefit from the energy and creativity of entrepreneurship without losing the organizational domain expertise and control. Prehype has offices in New York City, London, Copenhagen, and Rio de Janeiro, and was founded by Henrik Werdelin in September 2010. In addition to venture management services, the firm provides angel investments and access to a network of talent including entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, and developers.
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David went to Workspace 18, part of a program of intellectual angel investments that Castle makes to genius-level individuals to further the high level science they practice. For the last ten years, David has been working tirelessly in Workspace 18, perfecting his ultimate creation: Adam, an artificial intelligence that is indistinguishable from an actual human being. Joy Andrews is a reporter brought in for a week of exclusive access to do a series of interviews about Adam and his creator. She initially regards the robot with curiosity but as their interactions build, Adam seems to respond to her presence.
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The UK Business Angel market grew in 2009/2010 and, despite recessionary concerns, continues to show signs of growth. In 2013, this dynamic kept going on in the UK as angel investors were named by two-thirds of technology entrepreneurs as a means of funding. By 2015, angel investments had increased throughout the UK, with the average number of investments made by angels at 5, compared to 2.5 in 2009. The same report also found an increase in angel investors making impact investments, with 25% of angels saying they had made an impact investment in 2014.
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Footprints is a childcare and pre-school chain based in Gurgaon, India, founded in 2013 and operating on a franchising basis. The company was set up by Purvesh Sharma, Raj Singhal and Ashish Aggarwal, and raised over $2 million through angel investments and venture funding. Footprints offers full-day daycare and pre-school facilities for children aged from three months to four years, following a curriculum developed by the HighScope Educational Research Foundation. The curriculum is age-specific, and divided into toddlers' (ages 9–18 months), playgroup (ages 19–30 months), pre-nursery (ages 31–42 months) and nursery (ages 42+ months) programmes.
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In 2002, Outset Media nearly closed its doors after its largest customer, Stewart House Publishing, a former gift division of book publisher McClelland & Stewart, ran into financial difficulties and went into bankruptcy. With nearly 50% of its annual revenue in bad debt and unrecoverable, Outset Media was bailed out with angel investments from family members and financing from the Royal Bank of Canada. Later that year, Outset Media added a new division, distributing other companies' games in Canada, when it began to distribute the line of "opoly" games from US-based Late for the Sky. In 2003, Outset Media made its first appearance on the Profit magazine's annual ranking of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies.
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After the initial period when the project was funded exclusively by its founders, Meebo raised $100,000 as angel investments (investors included Auren Hoffman and Marc Andreessen), received $3.5 million from Sequoia in 2005, and $9 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson in 2006. On August 2, 2006, Meebo launched the Flash-based "Meebo Me" chat window widget for personal websites, which automatically added visitors to the site owner's Meebo Messenger contact list, offering the possibility to start a realtime chat both to site owner and visitor In May 2007, Meebo launched media-enabled chat rooms (Rooms) that can be embedded in any website page. At this point, Meebo sill didn't have a revenue model. In April 2008, Meebo secured $25 million in venture capital funding from Jafco Investment, Time Warner and KTB Investment & Securities.
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