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
Pipeline giant Energy Transfer, whose boss is a backer of the upstart bourse, said it would move its primary listing there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
While his backers have argued that many of the problems the nation faces are inherited, Merz himself is deeply unpopular.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Besides Philippine telecom company Globe Telecom, which has a 34% stake in Mynt, backers include Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and private-equity firm Warburg Pincus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
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
“Now then, as promised, we should discuss putting together a small group of backers to invest seed money in your show.”
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
