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
A backer of the prime minister said, when Burnham had faced tough questions in the by-election campaign, "he's fallen apart".
From BBC ● 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
It also counts Point72 Ventures, the venture unit of Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management, as a backer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
Some operators have been forced to seek deeper-pocketed backers to fund their next phase of expansion, according to several people working on the deals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Hawaii and Oregon have laws that allow for the forfeiture of an animal during a criminal case, according to the bill’s backers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Harborne is one of the party's most important financial backers, having donated £15m to Reform since the start of last year.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
That story, published Monday, was too much even for his staunchest backers.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Financial backers of both institutions—the Chemical Foundation in Columbia’s case and William Crocker, a banking and railroad magnate, in Berkeley’s case—seemed eager to pony up funds to cover Sloan’s further research.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
