backer
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SEIU-UHW West is the primary backer of Californians for Responsible Healthcare and the Yes on 44 campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
The league has been on life support since earlier this year, when Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, LIV’s longtime backer, abruptly pulled its funding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
According to Gryseels, the fund’s backers include family offices, as well as corporate and strategic investors from Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Its backers say the beavers have created new wetland habitats on the site, improved water quality and made the area more resilient to flooding and drought.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Citing documents shared with OpenAI's financial backers, the FT said the company put its annualized revenue at close to $50 billion as of the end of September.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Brockmans were listed among the group’s marquee backers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
No one knew better than Ernest that his expansion plans would outstrip the resources of the university, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Research Corporation, his customary financial backers.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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