backer

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Sajith Pai of Blume Ventures, an early stage Indian start-up backer said Shah was getting an "even bigger canvas to paint his bold brushstrokes in".

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

“Tech has been a long backer of his, but at the same time there is this growing national outcry against data centers.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2026

In a lengthy essay last weekend, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, a major backer of OpenAI, detailed how he thinks companies can fight against AI labs capturing the economic returns of entire industries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026

It was not Su’s only foray into the space industry; his company has been a high-profile backer of some of SpaceX’s Chinese competitors.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026

Ever attuned to the ebb and flow of research funding, he recognized that the government stood to become as generous a financial backer as the medical foundations he had mined to build the sixty-inch.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik