backer

Example Sentences

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Last year, the startup began searching for a big backer to support its research agenda.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

The analyst is a particularly ardent backer of Blue Owl, which he initiated at Outperform in 2023.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Buffett was a big backer of the Kraft Foods and Heinz merger in 2015.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

He wonders whether it might be best for optics if the disgraced financier — the biggest financial backer to Brockman’s nonprofit Edge Foundation — didn’t attend after all.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 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