backer
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Another backer is Jump Trading Group, which recently hired a team to launch its compute-trading business when the futures go live.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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
“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
Alphabet’s growth fund CapitalG led the round, joined by existing backers IVP and Sapphire Ventures and new investors GIC and DFJ Growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Several large labor unions were big backers of Proposition 40.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Other backers include playwright and screenwriter James Graham, who wrote stage shows including Ink, Quiz and Dear England, as well as Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright and The Crown's Peter Morgan.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The deal between TeamLab and OCVibe backers is worth more than $100 million, Bloomberg reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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
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