backer
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The United States is Taiwan's most important security backer and biggest arms supplier.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
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
The company's backers include Nvidia and major investment firms Blackstone and Jane Street.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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
To raise money for his new startup, Amodei turned to powerful backers in the EA community—including Sam Bankman-Fried.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
For years his intricate affairs had rolled along smoothly; he and his partners, his backers, his help, the people on his team—they had all proceeded cautiously, carefully, conservatively, successfully.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
