This week, Casey talks to Mike Maples Jr, of Floodgate Capital.
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Earlier investors in Yup's seed round included Floodgate and Index Ventures.
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During the first selection of grant winners, Floodgate awarded $5,000 checks.
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Backers included Tencent, Sequoia Capital, Floodgate, Felicis Ventures and Y Combinator.
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"It was like if you had opened a floodgate," Carolyn told me.
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Venture capitalists from Floodgate teach a course in how to evaluate startups.
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Music is well-known for being a floodgate for memories to pour forth.
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Previous investors Michael Dearing, Harrison Metal and Floodgate also participated in this round.
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Its other investors include Harrison Metal, Floodgate, and renowned angel investor Ram Shriram.
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A book about their success was written, and the floodgate of applications opened.
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It also opens up [the] floodgate for more requests, more need for offsets.
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Existing investors First Round Capital, Floodgate, Y Combinator, Fathom Capital and Fuel Capital participated.
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These revelations about their personal relationship opened a floodgate of public sharing in 2017.
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Eliminating the 15 percent polling metric would not open a floodgate to the debates.
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Loris' funding was led by Floodgate, with investments from Jeff Weiner and Kapor Capital.
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You want to see the floodgate open for the Democratic party from Silicon Valley?
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At Floodgate, we forensically analyzed companies that died and concluded this conceptualization is wrong.
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Aceable is backed by Silverton Partners, Floodgate Fund and Next Coast Venture Partners, among others.
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Early investors, like seed-stage venture capital firm Floodgate, also stand to reap big returns.
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Floodgate typically backs very early-stage companies in both the Bay Area and in Austin.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Think of the music industry like a floodgate.
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When she's not hanging out with us for the pod, she's a partner at Floodgate.
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"He has opened my emotions like a friggin' floodgate in the best way," she said.
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Ann Miura-Ko, co-founding partner at Floodgate, will be returning as a Battlefield judge.
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FEC decision, which opened a floodgate for wealthy donors and corporate money's flow into politics.
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Right, but it's easy for me to say that, but one group controls the floodgate.
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What evil law will the government introduce next, after opening the floodgate of emergency powers?
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Its investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Floodgate Fund, among others.
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Adams Street Partners, Bessemer Ventures, Floodgate, Franklin Templeton and Shasta Ventures also participated in the funding.
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It raised $231 million from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, Khosla Ventures, and Floodgate before going public.
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Last time, he burned through $10 million in venture funding from Obvious Ventures, Raine Ventures and Floodgate.
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For Mike Maples, a partner at Floodgate, the investment represents his first in the virtual reality space.
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Still, there is no expectation Corker's remarks will open a floodgate of public criticism toward the President.
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The new law could theoretically open up a floodgate of lawsuits against the Witnesses and their leadership.
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"The Killing Joke" opened the floodgate to other stories that began exploring the Joker as a philosopher.
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In 2008, I co-founded Floodgate, one of the first seed-stage VC funds in Silicon Valley.
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In 2008, I co-founded Floodgate, one of the first seed-stage VC funds in Silicon Valley.
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The allegations against Weinstein opened up a floodgate of accusations against other scions in Hollywood, Washington, and beyond.
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Buzzfeed's report opened a floodgate of allegations against Spacey, some of which came from House of Cards employees.
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TaskRabbit, before its exit, had raised $38 million from investors including Founders Fund, First Round Capital and Floodgate.
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TaskRabbit investors included 500 Startups, Baseline Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Floodgate, Founders Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures.
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Shim's testimony opened a floodgate for other athletes to come forward with allegations of physical and sexual assault.
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The co-founder of Floodgate Fund, a venture capital firm, has served on the board since June 2016.
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On a percentage basis, two-partner Floodgate is at the top of the list with 50 percent female partners.
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Tango had only raised $9.5 million previously with other investors including Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, Allegro, Floodgate and others.
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Attempts to install an underwater floodgate system have been stalled by delays and corruption scandals, according to the Post.
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Funding: $61.5 million from Accel, Silverton Partners, Floodgate Fund, Ballast Point Ventures, Mark Cuban, Daher Capital, and Birchmere Ventures.
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It has invested alongside Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate Fund, and others over the course of its four-year history.
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In doing so Luther unwittingly released a floodgate of protest and reform resulting in profound social change for Europe.
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IRL has raised seed funding from consumer tech investors including Floodgate, Founders Fund and a number of individual angels.
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In 2018, we saw 8VC Fellows, NEA Next, and Floodgate Insiders all launch, targeting elite universities outside of Silicon Valley.
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In the video for "Hold Up," the singer is wearing a marigold-colored ruffled dress as she opens a floodgate.
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That builds on its $3 million seed from Founders Fund and Floodgate, whose partner Mike Maples is joining IRL's board.
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By ignoring this blatant attempt at manipulating an American election, you're opening a floodgate that will not easily be closed.
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The team already includes Lyft's co-founders, Ben Horowitz from Andreessen Horowitz, Ann Miura-Ko from Floodgate and other industry players.
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Their shitty marketing stunt kicks open the floodgate for yet another channel of spam coming at you from all sides. Yay.
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If this report is really critical of Comey and others in the intelligence community it will open a floodgate against them.
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Loris hasn't launched yet, but did raise a round of venture capital from Floodgate, Kapor Capital, and LinkedIn CEO Jeff Wiener.
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With the new season's release opening the floodgate of earnest thinkpieces, I wanted to try and shake off my Lynch cynicism.
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At that point, the company was already backed by venture firms Andreessen Horowitz and Floodgate, so expectations were on the rise.
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Today, the company announced a $10 million Series A investment from USVP, Bow Capital, Floodgate and Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates.
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Voro just raised a $2.5 million seed round from investors led by the tech venture-capital firm Floodgate, an early Twitter investor.
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The round also includes new investors Daher Capital, along with Mark Cuban, Mike Maples Jr. (Floodgate), Simon Nixon (Moneysupermarket), and Silverton Partners.
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Choi is a partner at Floodgate, and one of the very few folks who have ever been invited back on the show.
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After graduating from Stanford in 2010, Muira-Ko worked at Boston-based Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company before launching Floodgate.
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"Silicon Valley is going to do fine," said Mike Maples, a self-described supporter of free markets and a partner at Floodgate.
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Lyft has raised about $2 billion in total from a long investor list which includes Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate and Carl Icahn's investment team.
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This has opened a floodgate of pieces about the failings of so-called male allies, and their role in combatting assault and harassment.
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Okta, founded in 2009, had raised precisely $231 million from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, Khosla Ventures, Floodgate and others prior to its exit.
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A central bank official said previously that no credit floodgate had been opened, and the lending jump showed recent easing steps were working.
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MissionU has raised $11.5 million in total funding from investors like FirstMark Capital, Floodgate, BoxGroup, Learn Capital, First Round Capital and John Doerr.
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Earlier, Lyft was also backed by CapitalG, a growth investment arm of Google, GM, Alibaba, Didi Chuxing, Floodgate, Mayfield Fund and many others.
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The company raised $6.5 million in new financing from Trinity Ventures, Floodgate Ventures, Hillsven Capital, Array Ventures, Upwest Labs and a few angel investors.
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Bridges and extensions: Startups are raising more seed round extensions (extra funding prior to raising a Series A) lately, said Floodgate partner Iris Choi.
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The company, backed by Alphabet's venture arm GV, Sequoia Capital, Floodgate, Bracket Capital, First Round Capital and more, declined to disclose its latest valuation.
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Financial terms of the deal are unknown, but TaskRabbit has previously raised $38 million from investors like Founders Fund, First Round, Floodgate and others.
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Jakarta Journal JAKARTA, Indonesia — Standing at his post at a floodgate in the middle of Jakarta, Bejo Santoso says he has seen it all.
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IRL has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Floodgate and Founders Fund, and Cyan Banister (Scott Banister's partner) led the Founders Fund round.
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The VC firms that would not respond to requests for information about Epstein are: Felicis Ventures, Floodgate, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, IVP, and Softbank.
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The firefighters had formed a human chain and were trying to reach a floodgate where they believed the missing boy was trapped, he said.
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This is a disappointing outcome for ModCloth, which had raised $78 million from notable investors like Norwest Venture Partners, FLOODGATE, First Round, and Accel Partners.
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Recharge's earlier investors include Binary Capital, Floodgate, entrepreneur Rick Marini, Eniac VC, Expansion VC, investors Scott and Cyan Banister and early Google engineer Harry Cheung.
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In our latest interview with Mike Maples, founding partner at Floodgate, we discover the characteristics of these category kings and how they change consumer behavior.
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A new startup, Kindly Care, is launching today with a $3.1 million investment led by MHS Capital, with participation from Floodgate and Jackson Square Ventures.
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Unfortunately, Kerry's "floodgate" comment wrongly equates collaboration with designated terrorists (which JASTA addresses) with conduct to protect our national security (which JASTA does not address).
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Andreessen Horowitz owns 6.25%, Alphabet owns 5.33%, seed investor Floodgate owns 0.63% of the company, and most other firms are below the 5% reporting threshold.
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As venture capitalist Mike Maples Jr. of Floodgate Capital tells us on this week's episode of Converge, it wasn't always clear that Twitch would thrive.
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But that changed earlier this week when a Facebook post from Charna Halpern, founder and owner of iO Theater, opened a floodgate of impassioned responses.
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As the floodgate to private money opened, more candidates have been able to gain access to the funds they need to compete in bigger states.
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Backed by GV, Sequoia, Floodgate and more, Clover Health confirmed to TechCrunch this week that it's brought in another round of capital led by Greenoaks.
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Jarrett's appointment makes her just the second woman on the now nine-member board, alongside Ann Miura-Ko of the venture capital firm Floodgate Fund.
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She displaced a disc in her spine, causing a pattern of what she describes as inflammation that created a floodgate of pain into her head.
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Binary Capital led the round, with participation from Floodgate, entrepreneur Rick Marini, Eniac VC, Expansion VC, entrepreneur-investor Scott Banister and early Google engineer Harry Cheung.
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In the past year, he's handled those aforementioned covers for Tame Impala and the Flaming Lips, as well as launching his first art book, Floodgate Companion.
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The couple had given her a new name, which Jiayu now remembered—memory could be tightfisted with the past and then, without warning, open the floodgate.
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The central bank will "earnestly control the total floodgate of money supply", it said, echoing top leaders at a annual economic work conference earlier this month.
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"I'm really happy to come here, because really it's Hollywood that opened this floodgate," Tarana Burke, a co-founder of an organization called Just Be Inc.
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This opened a floodgate of questions, concerns and complaints about all the different things their bodies had gone through but that they were afraid to discuss.
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Despite Floodgate being an early-stage firm, Choi was more than willing to dig into the week's later-stage topics, starting with the Peloton IPO filing.
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This is not a great outcome for the startup, which had raised $78 million from investors that included Norwest Venture Partners, Floodgate, First Round and Accel Partners.
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Insurance startup The Zebra announced $38.5 million in Series C funding from Accel, Silverton Partners, Daher Capital, Floodgate Fund, Ballast Point Ventures, and Weatherford Capital on Wednesday.
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If the barrage of allegations against a variety of prominent figures feels like a floodgate opening, it's because it signals a shift, however preliminary, in Hollywood's culture.
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With $70 million from Alphabet, a16z, Floodgate and 20th Century Fox — as well as founder Steve Stoute, the former president of Interscope Records — the promises are big.
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Two, and it depends on what comes out after this, because once this floodgate opens that the New York Times has opened, more is going to come.
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Founded in 2002 by Susan and Eric Koger, ModCloth had raised $78.7 million in funding from Norwest, Accel, First Round, Floodgate and others, according to data from CrunchBase.
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On the panel were Pat Grady of Sequoia Capital, John Lilly of Greylock, Emily Melton of DFJ, Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate and Aydin Senkut of Felicis Ventures.
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Built by two ex-Apple employees and backed with pre-seed funding from Floodgate, Dolo could reveal the secrets and potential friends hidden in the ether around us.
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As first-time entrepreneurs, the founders bootstrapped the company for eight years, until 2013, when they raised $4.2 million from First Round Capital, Floodgate, Lerer Ventures, and Hearst.
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Hong Kong voters breached a floodgate in September with the election for the local legislature, known as LegCo, and now Beijing wants to close it at all costs.
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"China must actively and steadily deleverage, adjust the overall floodgate of money supply and prevent the rapid increase in the macro leverage ratio," the five-year plan said.
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" Barone was a parent, unquestionably, but if courts start "to mush it up, then the standards become lower and lower and that's when the confusing floodgate cases happen.
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"The Citizens United decision opened a floodgate of unlimited dark money in our elections, and Democrats are the only ones trying to do something about it," he said.
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Funding history: Lyft has raised over $2 billion in funding to date, from backers like General Motors, Carl Icahn, Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Mayfield, Coatue Management, Founders Fund and Rakuten.
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The Weinstein revelations opened up a floodgate of accusations against other men in Hollywood, Washington, and beyond, bringing a growing number of stories like Hunter's to light each day.
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The company had some help getting there with new financing led by KPCB and Western Digital, along with Floodgate, Elevation Partners, GV, NTT Docomo Ventures and Square 1 Bank.
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Since joining forces, Floodgate has backed a long list of powerful companies, including Twitch, Sonos, Chegg, AdRoll, BazaarVoice, and Lyft, where Miura-Ko remains on the board of directors.
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Lyft, much smaller than Uber and only active in the U.S. and Canada, has raised more than $2000 billion in venture backing from KKR, Mayfield, Didi Chuxing, Floodgate and others.
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Such a business model could once again raise the specter of a net neutrality breach, since Shine's ad blocker would ultimately be a floodgate controlling what web traffic people see.
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Investment history: Okta had raised around $230 million in VC funding from firms like Sequoia Capital (21.2% pre-IPO stake), Andreessen Horowitz (19.6%), Greylock (16.9%), Khosla Ventures (8.1%) and Floodgate.
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Finals Judges: Theresia Gouw (Aspect Ventures), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch), Krishna Yeshwant (GV), Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures) 3:45 PM – 4:10 PM
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Ann Miura-Ko, a partner at the venture capital firm Floodgate, recently worked with the public relations firm OutCast to spotlight her "special relationship" with the ride-hailing company Lyft.
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Xamarin had raised a total of $82 million in funding from investors including Charles River Ventures, Floodgate, Ignition Partners, Insight Venture Partners, and Lead Edge Capital, according to data from CrunchBase.
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Chairman Mom has raised a $1.4 million seed round led by Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate Ventures and Tim Connors from PivotNorth Capital, with participation from Greylock Discovery and Precursor Ventures.
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One can only imagine the potential floodgate of litigation if it became known that any student could simply claim fraud against his college and walk away from his/her loan obligations.
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In short, repealing the Johnson Amendment would open a floodgate for potential abuse that jeopardizes the future of the charitable deduction, donor privacy and the public's trust in the nonprofit sector.
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And suppose that the courts in the end decide that the disclosures were inadequate: That might open a floodgate of potential litigation damages that the local taxpayers would not find appealing.
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Floodgate founding partner Mike Maples Jr. said his firm appreciated Aceable's focused approach to education and invested in the Series A because the startup has executed well on its initial plans.
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No one at Floodgate is crying at the math of 0.0063 x BIG HUGE VALUATION, but it is quite something to see how much these ownership percentages shrink on high-spending startups.
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After raising $38 million dollars from investors like Shasta Ventures, Founders Fund, First Round, Floodgate, CollabFund and others, there's little appetite for other investors to keep putting money in companies like TaskRabbit.
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"It started as a venture-backed company but we realized it wasn't a venture-backed opportunity" Dougherty admits, as his company had raised $10 million from Obvious Ventures, Raine Ventures, and Floodgate.
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Background reading: • The #MeToo movement opened a global floodgate of accounts of mistreatment, but little attention has been focused on the plight of blue-collar workers, like those on Ford's factory floors.
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Ms. Miura-Ko said she didn't do any personal branding when Floodgate started in 2010 because there wasn't much competition to invest in the very young companies that the firm was targeting.
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In a recent interview, Lord Meghnad Desai, one of the British lawmakers who pushed for an apology, said hesitation for a fuller reckoning was linked to the fear of opening a floodgate.
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Will this open a floodgate of other companies coming out and saying publicly what they've felt privately, that they're increasingly spending their time thinking about Amazon and Google instead of their customers?
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Still, it's undeniable that a floodgate has been opened, and that the "I came of age in the 60's and 70's" line is being recognized for the weak excuse it is.
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And if, as seems plausible now, the court rules in my favor, that would open an entire floodgate where all these people who are in jail will then be able to be released.
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At the same time, statute of limitations reforms in some states allowed accusers to bring cases that had previously been barred, opening a legal floodgate that posed a significant threat to the Scouts.
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"We will resolutely not open the floodgate of stimulus and will scientifically push forward these major projects," Meng Wei, spokeswoman at the National Development and Reform Commission, told reporters in a regular briefing.
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It is interesting to note that Scale Venture Partners and Greycroft Partners, two of the firms with the highest percentage of female partners, 33 percent each, were co-founded by women, as was Floodgate.
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Upthere had previously raised $77 million from an impressive list of investors, with KPCB and Western Digital Ventures leading the round, along with Floodgate, Elevation Partners, GV, NTT Docomo Ventures and Square 1 Bank.
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The loss of my collection had opened a floodgate that allowed me to remember, and that night I cried in the shower, thinking about every piece I would miss dearly and what it represented.
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Then a McKinsey analyst who was focused on wireless technologies, she went on to become an analyst at the venture firm CRV before cofounding with partner Mike Maples the venture firm Floodgate in 2008.
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"I hope this is really just going to, literally, going to open a floodgate of all of them paying attention to the fact that we exist and that our votes do matter," she added.
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This morning we'll hear from Jenny Lefcourt at Freestyle Capital, Jomayra Herrera of Cowboy Ventures, Hunter Walk from Homebrew, Iris Choi of Floodgate, Sarah Guo from Greylock and Ajay Agarwal of Bain Capital Ventures.
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The venture is being funded by $70 million from Google parent company Alphabet, Andreesen Horowitz, 21st Century Fox, and Floodgate, and UnitedMasters will operate as a partner with Stoute's other company, ad agency Translation LLC.
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While politicians were initially hesitant to weigh in on whether Fairfax should resign over the first sexual assault allegations, Watson's allegation Friday opened the floodgate to a host of calls for the lieutenant governor's ouster.
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Since we last spoke, so much has happened—starting with Harvey Weinstein, it seems that a national floodgate has opened with women coming forward with experiences of sexual harassment and assault, to seemingly mixed results.
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To date, all of Backed VC's deals, which will typically be in the €500,000 to €1 million range, have been co-investments with both European and U.S. funds, including Index Ventures, Connect Ventures, Valar and Floodgate.
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In 2018, Lyft reported: Funded early on by venture firms including Floodgate, K9 Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Lyft is one of several maturing tech start-ups expected to go public this year.
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The SAFE Banking Act could be the first crack in a 'floodgate' of capital to enter the cannabis industryCongress, for its part, is working on it, and the 2020 elections could create an opening as well.
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BEIJING, March 7 (Reuters) - China's finance minister said on Thursday that a proactive fiscal policy does not mean Beijing will open a floodgate of stimulus, adding that authorities are highly concerned about local government debt risks.
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"We thoughtfully design so many things — clothing, software, cellphones — and yet take for granted how we design the literal fuel for all of the things we build — conversations," Floodgate Partner Ann Miura-Ko said in a statement.
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He even suggested he would help open a floodgate of donors for whatever political pursuit Kasich takes on next -- if only Kasich would play nice and participate in the convention, according to someone familiar with the conversation.
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In March, Edwards also announced that the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) had promised $80 million toward a permanent solution: a floodgate that can be opened and closed, curbing flood risk in six nearby parishes.
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"It opens the floodgate for any kind of project," said Philip Fearnside, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and professor at the National Amazon Research Institute who's researched Amazonia for more than 0003 years.
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"It opens the floodgate for any kind of project," said Philip Fearnside, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and professor at the National Amazon Research Institute who's researched Amazonia for more than 40 years.
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On a recent day, the pile of trapped trash bobbing on the surface at Mr. Bejo's floodgate, in Jakarta's Manggarai neighborhood, included a motorcycle helmet, sandals, soccer balls, Styrofoam containers, a bicycle inner tube and a pillow.
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Ann Miura-Ko, co-founder of venture capital firm Floodgate, who is often described as "the most powerful woman in start-ups, " says that a networking opportunity at Yale was crucial to her success in venture capital.
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I knew that once I opened the door, I would get a floodgate of it, or I would open the floodgates, and that has happened, but in a much more positive way than I initially thought it would.
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BEIJING, Feb 15 (Reuters) - China's macro leverage ratio is still stable and the central bank has not opened the credit floodgate, a central bank official said on Friday, after official data showed record high new loans in January.
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Harmon didn't respond to a request for comment, and Maples — co-founder of Floodgate — said that his former co-worker is staying stealthy at the moment, though he did say that Poquito was a code name for Swivel.
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When it comes to very early-stage valuations, Floodgate cofounder Ann Miura-Ko said she thinks her firm is seeing more "willingness by entrepreneurs to take much lower valuations than what their initial expectations were" for two reasons.
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"A lot of the prime public investors you'd want in your stock after the IPO already own the stock," said Iris Choi, a partner at early-stage venture firm Floodgate who previously worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs.
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I'm the first to admit that I cried during every single episode of This Is Us. Like Hallmark commercials and commencement speeches, This Is Us transforms me into every weepy cliche: A baby, a leaky faucet, a floodgate opening.
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Ann Miura-Ko, a partner at the venture capital firm Floodgate, who had invested in Zimride and sits on Lyft's board, recalled that some board members had been doubtful about the change — but that Mr. Green had been confident.
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Horowitz joined a six-person board that includes Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer; General Motors President Dan Ammann; Rakuten's Hiroshi Mikitani; Icahn Capital's Jonathan Christodoro; former Trulia CFO Sean Aggarwal; and Floodgate Fund's Ann Miura-Ko.
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The newly elected real estate mogul's new rules quickly had their intended effect, opening up a floodgate of money, some of which was very difficult to trace, that flowed from businesses, LLCs, trusts and individuals straight into the nonprofit committee's coffers.
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"Of all the games I ever played in, it's the only one where I remember getting back on defense and it was still like a floodgate coming at you," says Lynam, now a 613-year-old broadcaster with Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia.
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Floodgate, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based early stage venture capital firm, has raised $131 million for its sixth fund, according to an SEC filing that shows the 11-year-old firm turned to just eight investors for the capital commitments.
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Coastal geomorphologist Professor Rob Brander told local newspaper Illawarra Mercury that "social media had opened the floodgate to droves of tourists making the difficult and grueling trek through the Royal National Park to the pools, making them an "overcrowded death trap.
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The company names are under wraps until the end of the show but there's a reason why Ashton Kutcher, Marissa Mayer, Alfred Lin (Sequoia), Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate), and Mamoon Hamid (KPCB) were eager to step in as finals judges.
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"Mark Zuckerberg had a huge advantage with Facebook because the pressure that normal people have of building a company was replaced by the lightness of him just playing around with ideas," said Mike Maples, an investor at the firm Floodgate.
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Since WikiLeaks opened the floodgate of revelations pointing at an unprecedented degree of coordination between the left-leaning media and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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She is joining eight other existing board members: Lyft co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green; General Motors' Dan Ammann; Icahn Capital's appointee Jonathan Christodoro; investor and former Trulia CFO Sean Aggarwal; Rakuten's Hiroshi Mikitani; and Floodgate Fund's Ann Miura-Ko.
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What's certain is that works spanning the Great Depression, the Fifties, and the Computer Age will finally be released yearly over the coming decades—opening a floodgate of free and public knowledge, and perhaps kickstarting an exciting revolution of creative ingenuity.
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The discovery of high levels of lead in Flint's tap water has unleashed a floodgate of lawsuits on behalf of aggrieved residents in the two years since officials switched the city water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money.
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In Norfolk, which is faced with regular street flooding, the city council recently created "special service districts" to allow residents in a neighborhood to effectively tax themselves to address sea level rise issues like storm water improvements, wetlands restoration, or floodgate construction.
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Dudley's remarks opened a floodgate of similar views from other Fed officials, propelling traders' view of a rate hike less than two weeks from now to near 78 percent late on Thursday in the futures market, according to CME Group's FedWatch tool.
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A documentary of a small village on the coast, Am Siel is narrated by an old dike (voiced by Robert Wolfgang Schnell), the sentient floodgate wondering, assuming, and thinking aloud about the land, sounding like a nostalgic, bitter, even post-modern waterway.
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That's why last year, the former president of Interscope Records Steve Stoute secretly raised a $3603 million Series A led by Google's corporate umbrella Alphabet and joined by prestigious venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, Silicon Valley investors Floodgate, and entertainment giant 20th Century Fox.
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After two years in stealth, Around's 12-person distributed team reveals that it's raised $5.2 million in seed funding over multiple rounds from Floodgate, Initialized Capital, Credo Ventures, AngelList's Naval Ravikant, Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover, Crashlytics' Jeff Seibert, and angel Tommy Leep.
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"The vote today will open the floodgate for Trump to go after those who have wronged him in this process," said Jack O'Donnell, a former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, N.J., who has broken with Mr. Trump.
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Driving the news: A "floodgate" of $25.5 billion of investment grade corporate debt unrolled yesterday, representing the highest number of issuers and the second highest amount of debt ever issued in a single day, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch data.
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The pattern was always the same: a few obligatory seconds devoted to questioning the ethics of our experiment, and then hastily unleashing a floodgate of rabid panelists who made the case for the gloomfang, and other panelists who cheered for the sprintarrow.
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Labdoor just closed on $3.4 million in Series A funding led by Floodgate, with participation from Correlation Ventures, Fyrfly, Zeno Ventures, Heroic VC, and Seabed VC. The company has now raised $6.6 million altogether, including from seed investors Mark Cuban, Rock Health, and Y Combinator.
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The organization, which quietly announced itself on Medium a few weeks ago, has already launched with a series of stories focused on notable women, including Jarrett; five-time Olympic medalist Nastia Liukin; and Ann Miura-Ko, the cofounding partner of the venture firm Floodgate.
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Plus, we'll head into the Startup Battlefield finals, with some of the most respected judges to ever grace our stage, including Theresia Gouw (Aspect Ventures), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch), Krishna Yeshwant (GV), Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate), and Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures).
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If the court decides that organizations can pick and choose which non-discrimination laws they follow, it could open a floodgate of discrimination in child welfare services against not only LGBTQ people but also people of different faiths, single women and people with disabilities.
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These startups made their way to the finale to demo in front of our final panel of judges, which included: Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Alfred Lin (Sequoia), Marissa Mayer (Lumi Labs), Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate Ventures) and Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch).
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"When I was starting in 2008, everyone said 'no one starts a venture capital firm,' " Miura-Ko, who launched Floodgate nearly a decade ago after a stint as an analyst at CRV and seven years obtaining a Ph.D. in cybersecurity, told TechCrunch's Connie Loizos.
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In the most infamous example, Facebook opened the floodgate to an era of social media-optimized news before abruptly killing it and decimating traffic to publishers; critics have also argued that the Google-Facebook online ad duopoly is choking the news business to death.
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One reason to be excited about GPT-2, says Ani Kembhavi, a researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, is that predicting text can be thought of as an "uber-task" for computers: a broad challenge that, once solved, will open a floodgate of intelligence.
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It newly has $3 million in backing from two venture firms that know the gig economy well, too: Floodgate, an early investor in Lyft (firm co-founder Ann Miura-Ko is on Lyft's board), and Fuel Capital, where TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque is now a general partner.
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"Then, when the dietary supplement law got enacted ... it opened a floodgate of quote-unquote probiotic products that weren't really probiotic, and the quality of the products were not as regulated as they should have been, having not gone through the ordinary FDA process," she said.
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Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, established VCs Theresia Gouw, the founder of a new firm called aCrew Capital, and Floodgate co-founder Ann Miura-Ko explained what they see as two distinct paths to the top of VC. One path is long, calculated and requires endurance.
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He is skipping the first four contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, but focusing on states that come next in the primary calendar, particularly as the floodgate of delegates open in March through a series of subsequent contests in big states across the country.
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Jonathan Singer, president of the American Association of Suicidology and associate professor of social work at Loyola University Chicago, told Insider that criminally charging someone for a suicide could potentially open a floodgate of criminal charges or lawsuits that would leave a host of other people potentially liable.
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Earlier this week, Kathryn Bigelow — the only woman to win a Best Director Oscar in the Academy's 90-year history — was quoted in The New York Times in a piece about how the Weinstein allegations "opened a floodgate" in Hollywood, unearthing dozens of old stories, and laying bare its toxic culture.
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Others of the 28 other VCs in attendance included Shawn Carolan of Menlo Ventures, Shahin Farshchi of Lux Capital, Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate, Maha Ibrahim of Canaan Partners, Bobby Yazdani of Cota Capital, Semil Shah of Haystack, Hunter Walk of Homebrew, James Currier of NFX Guild, and Josh Elman of Greylock Partners.
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While consumers should be free to install individual ad blockers, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) said in its guidelines, proposals like Shine's, in which ad blockers would be installed at a network-wide level, would essentially give internet providers a floodgate with which to control the flow of traffic.
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A short walk along the banks of the Ciliwung River from Mr. Bejo's floodgate, Manutur Sitanggang, the foreman of a floating excavator crew, said they dig up around 35,000 cubic feet of sediment each day, as they try to restore that section of the river back to a depth of 20 feet.
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"I think the EU move will be positive for U.S. soybean sales prospects to the EU but it will not open a floodgate," he said, adding that sales would be influenced by U.S.-China trade talks and on the future for Argentine biodiesel, which faces duties in the United States and could face measures in Europe.
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It is curious to consider whether the Supreme Court has opened the proverbial floodgate to the registration of prejudicial or offensive marks — those which could be deemed disparaging, immoral or scandalous under the law — including, for example, "Ku Klux Klan," which was refused registration in 2005, "Coffee Nazi," which was refused registration in 2014, or even "Islamic Terrorists," which was applied for earlier this year.
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Founded: 2012 by Manual Medina, Gordon Hempton, Andrew Kinzer, and Wesley HatherTotal funding: $237.96 millionInvestors: Three Point Group, Founders' Co-op, Version One Ventures, Techstars, Floodgate Fund, Mayfield Fund, Trinity Ventures, M12, Four Rivers Group, Spark Capital, Sapphire VenturesMost recent funding round: The Salesforce competitor raised $114 million in a combination Series E round that included debt and venture funding on April 16, 2019.
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The startup, which has seven locations in Asia and North America, has taken plenty of people through the sweat-inducing experience, including quite a few high-profile investors who are ready to buy into Sandbox's vision for VR. Sandbox VR just closed a $68 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with further participation from Floodgate, Stanford University, TriplePoint Capital, CRCM, Shrug Capital and Alibaba, as reported by Business Insider.
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After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges' notes and narrowed the list down to six finalists: Augmedics, colormass, Future Family, Matic, Onēva and Pi. These startups made their way to the finale to demo in front of our final panel of judges, which included: Theresia Gouw (Aspect Ventures), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate), Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch) and Krishna Yeshwant (GV).
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This year, we're again going to be taking stock of what trends have so far defined 2019 — and what may be around the corner — and we're thrilled to announce the VCs who will help us to answer some of these questions: Ann Miura-Ko, a cofounder of the seed- and early-stage venture firm Floodgate, and Theresia Gouw, a cofounder of the early-stage venture firm Aspect Ventures.
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"Once we allow [facial recognition tech in schools], it's going to open a floodgate for millions and millions of dollars of state dollars being spent on technology that is really questionable in terms of its reliability, in terms of its accuracy, and in terms of its value, versus the risks that come with using this technology, in terms of privacy, in terms of false positives, and so many other things," Wallace said.
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Lyft's board of directors Former Senior Advisor to President Obama Valerie Jarrett Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz GM President Dan Ammann Icahn Capital's appointee Jonathan Christodoro Investor and former Trulia CFO Sean Aggarwal Rakuten's Hiroshi Mikitani Floodgate Fund's Ann Miura-Ko Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer CapitalG partner David Lawee Alphabet's investment in Lyft wasn't a question of necessity for the five-year-old ride-hail player, sources say.
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Neil Shen — Sequoia Capital China Lee Fixel — Tiger Global Management Bill Gurley — Benchmark Alfred Lin — Sequoia Capital Jeffrey Jordan — Andreessen Horowitz Peter Fenton — Benchmark Brian Singerman — Founders Fund Mary Meeker — Bond Matt Cohler — Benchmark Ravi Mhatre — Lightspeed Venture Partners Joshua Kopelman — First Round Capital Bryan Schreier — Sequoia Capital Allen Zhu — GSR Ventures Mike Volpi — Index Ventures Sameer Gandhi — Accel JP Gan — Qiming Venture Partners Ann Miura-Ko — Floodgate Hans Tung — GGV Aydin Senkut — Felicis Ventures Ben Horowitz — Andreessen Horowitz
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" Ultimately, Rothenberg tells the professors, the idea from the start was to borrow from the best of top venture firms to create a next-generation juggernaut: "At times, I've said, 'What if you could take the service-model approach of Andreessen Horowitz, and the founder-first community building offline and online approach of First Round Capital, with the processing power and reach of Silicon Valley angels, and the discretion of Floodgate, and the judgment of Sequoia?
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"We don't advertise because it's a floodgate," said Joan Hodges-Wu, founder and executive director of the Asylum Seekers Assistance Project (ASAP), a two-year-old nonprofit that serves roughly 25,000 asylum seekers in Washington, DC. ASAP helped Saba with a weeklong job-readiness training that enabled her to move up from working at a gas station to a hotel—which, while still far from her field of journalism, was able to offer health insurance, helping immensely with her pregnancy.
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" In a follow-up statement, she added, "I'm a teacher and an investor, I have a Ph.D. in math modeling, and I think like an engineer, so thinking about myself and my business from a branding and marketing perspective doesn't come naturally to me, but these are important factors in the success of all kinds of businesses all over the world, which is why I engaged OutCast to help me think through and formalize both the Floodgate brand and my professional brand.
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Location: San Francisco Competitors: Green Dot, NetSpend, RushCard, One Financial Employees: 18 Capital raised: $3.35 million from First Round Capital, Floodgate, Cowboy Ventures, Bee Partners, The Sand Hill Angels and NFX Guild Metrics: The company says that it has figured out a way to 4X standard industry metrics Team: Leonardo Shapiro (co-founder and CEO) Endeavor entrepreneur, 15 years of experience in emerging payments, Chris Boas (co-founder and COO) pioneer of agent banking in Latin America and Asia, Ruth Ann Gonzalez (former head of North America marketing at The Gap) and Bill Neil (15 years of experience on field operations).
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