backer
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Private equity backer TSG, which took a 22% stake in the brewer in 2017, is set to lose £27.6m.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Gazprom publicly became the IBA’s financial backer, filling its coffers with tens of millions of dollars.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Energy Transfer’s executive chairman Kelcy Warren, who Forbes estimates is worth over $9 billion, is a major backer of TXSE’s parent company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
“The track record of memecoins has been rocky at best, and it was not clear that this issue had either the backer or the timing to buck that trend.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 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
OpenAI was founded in part because its backers, including first investor Elon Musk, feared that AI's development would end up in the hands of Google, which they believed could not be trusted with the technology.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
In Asia, tech investor Softbank Group, one of OpenAI’s biggest backers, closed 11% lower Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
When Schwarzenegger left office, his supporters turned the protocol foundation over to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown’s backers, who in turn handed it over to Newsom’s team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
"I can't tell someone not to go to their sister's wedding," said one MP leading efforts to persuade backers of the bill to vote.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Another challenge for Jim and Paul was to remain in close contact with core PIH backers.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
