Sentences with phrase «with financial backers»

With financial backers including CRV, Shasta Ventures, and Greylock Partners.

Such programs receive public funding, and contract out services to for - profit providers, which in many cases are associated with the financial backers of the venture.

Many firms have «sin clauses» with their financial backers that outline the types of companies they are strongly discouraged from backing, such as adult entertainment outfits.

This mayo is deelish and with financial backers like Bill Gates, expect HCF to be changing the way we think of vegan food in the very near future.

Executives from the failing firm along with its financial backers from the Mercer family have already started a new company called Emerdata that could be a «rebranding» effort, the New York Times reported.

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Until now, crowdfunding has come from backers who donate money with no expectation of a financial return, but that's about to change.

The financial platform — which nabbed $ 17.5 million in funding earlier this year, with backers that include former Citigroup, PayPal and JPMorgan Chase execs — boasts a 98 percent customer - retention rate, Shinar says.

Many of the companies using crowdfunding today are actually organizations with their own substantial PR and marketing budgets — as well as a full back - office support staff of internal PR people, marketing experts and financial backers fueling and helping their campaign.

Sky News has learnt that Vice is in discussions with «a handful» of prospective financial backers about raising approximately $ 500m (# 397m) to plough into its international expansion and a move into scripted programming.

Stephen K. Bannon's main financial backer is formally cutting ties with the former Trump adviser.

It was clear even before Kraft Heinz came right out and said as much Tuesday that liberal Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and conservative Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and their respective backers had little reason to bash each other for not doing enough to keep Oscar Mayer's Madison plant open with taxpayer - backed financial assistance.

According to Yessi Bello Perez's report at Coindesk, one of South Korea's largest financial institutions Shinhan Bank was the major backer with close to half a million dollars.

A man of middle age with hay fever, a hitch in his cross-handed putting stroke and no financial backer — someone like this doesn't even belong on the tour.

Eastern Christian draws students from Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, but it does not have a permanent campus yet, with founder and financial backer David Sills IV considering three sites in Elkton, Md..

Less often, but not infrequently, a family member with leadership or business experience, or someone suggested by an important financial backer for the campaign, is brought on to fill that role.

The group also insists it isn't coordinating with Cuomo, but many of the NY - LEAD members are financial backers of the governor.

Firstly, Bucharest has just released the first instalment of 60 million euros as part of a financial assistance agreement with Moldova, offering de facto support for the current governing coalition in Chisinau, which is oriented around the Democratic Party and its controversial backer, Vladimir Plahotniuc.

Former NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks is mulling a mayoral run and meeting with potential financial backers, despite retiring in 2014 after a falling out with former NYPD Commissioner William Bratton.

Bharara has subpoenaed the offices of Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino about dealings with de Blasio financial backers Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who have been linked to recent city pay - to - play scandals.

After a breakfast in San Francisco with Silicon Valley titans such as Chris Larsen, Munjal Shah and Bitcoin backer Ben Lawsky, the former New York state financial services chief, Cuomo will head to LA.

(Airs 1/11/18) A 2014 encore program with WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Robert Gleason, Author of The Nuclear Terrorist: His Financial Backers and Political Patrons in the U.S. and Abroad.

De Blasio said that he had conversations «over the course of 2014» and into the next year with two financial backers who are now at the center of a federal investigation, acknowledging more extensive contact with the men than he had previously.

All of which has raised the stakes for Sampson and Duane, who are feeling the heat from their liberal colleagues and gay - rights groups, which themselves are grappling with the frustrations of their financial backers.

In a move that angered some of his financial backers, Mr. Jeffries endorsed the president's contested nuclear deal with Iran a few days later.

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

He has subpoenaed the offices of Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino about dealings with de Blasio financial backers Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who have been linked to recent city pay - to - play scandals.

But Schneiderman's crusades could sour Cuomo's relationship with real estate players, who are by far his biggest financial backers.

Labour MP Eric Joyce's conviction for assault left a vacancy from 2015 in his Falkirk constituency that the Unite trade union - Labour's biggest financial backer - was determined to fill with their own man or woman.

Monsanto is also the financial backer of a 15 - person company called Preceres, a kind of skunk works it established just off the campus of MIT, where robotic mixers are busy stirring RNA together with coatings of specialized nanoparticles.

The panel will introduce some of the communication strategies needed for communicating with potential financial backers.

The high - tech food start - up company Hampton Creek, now renamed JUST, and its CEO Josh Tetrick, and its financial backers with Bill Gates among them, see this as the future of food.

Sonny heads to America with Muriel looking for financial backers to help launch the next jewel in his crown of exotic hotels.

While it lasted — for 13 years — the now - defunct Career Ladder had many of the elements that merit pay backers believed a good program should have, including multidimensional evaluations and a hierarchy of professional development (in other words, a career ladder) that was coordinated with significant financial and professional rewards.

In 1995, with TFA on the ropes from financial instability and a scathing attack by influential professor Linda Darling - Hammond, who argued that TFA teachers were ill - prepared for the challenges of today» s classrooms, founder Wendy Kopp needed the Carnegie Corporation and other influentials to convince TFA» s backers not to turn off the funding spigot.

That brought outside fundraising for Tuck nearly even with outside fundraising by the California Teachers Association, the biggest financial backer of Supt. Tom Torlakson.

On April 16, Howard Blume reporting for the Los Angeles Times said, «Austin Beutner has emerged as a leading contender to run the Los Angeles school district, with backers saying he is smart enough and tough enough to confront its financial and academic struggles.»

But one Texas town, with the help of some financial backers and a prestigious interior design prize, has changed one empty store into a thing of beauty.

But that Digital Manga is again using a system like Kickstarter — typically used by individuals or small groups without financial backers or partners that companies have — still just doesn't sit right with me.

IMO is majority owned by Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) which provides it with an incredibly strong financial backer with well diversified operations.

So it would be a little disingenuous to have game ideas before you have a team»; a situation that publisher and financial backer EA appears to be perfectly fine with.

The first thing the visitor sees on entering the SALT Galata building is Pierre - Joseph Proudhon's anarchist slogan Property is Theft, which is attached to the marble staircase in letters interlaced with the logo of Garanti Bank, the financial backer of SALT.

MOCA's key financial backer, Eli Broad, will present the new director along with the museum's co-chairs, Maria Bell and David Johnson, and city Councilwoman Jan Perry, the museum announced today.American museum directors typically come from within the curatorial, academic or other nonprofit ranks.

In his book 2008 book Red Hot Lies, author and climate realist Chris Horner noted that DeSmogBlog's financial backer, John Lefebvre, is «currently a guest of the federal government's correctional officers as a consequence of certain business transactions, a fact that certainly would be of great interest had he instead cast his lot with the climate optimists.»

By reducing the financial risks and uncertainties of building power plants with CCS systems, it would also encourage investments in such plants by developers and their financial backers.

Mercer was a key financial backer of Donald Trump's election campaign and Mercer's daughter, Rebekah, was a member of the committee tasked with shaping the new Trump administration.

The only ones with enough money to do this type of thing are governments and our «Big Oil» financial backers.

The next major steps will be to find financial backers — people with capital to support the initiative — and to line - up buyers.

You are a Tenant who is unemployed or who has no or a poor credit history but who has a parent, friend, or financial backer who has agreed to assume financial responsibility in the event that you can not pay the rent, utility or other costs related to the lease with your Landlord.

Because the Federal Elections Commission determined that the movie is an «electioneering communication,» promoters must comply with campaign finance rules, which require a political disclaimer and disclosure of the film's financial backers.

It is only rumors but people have gussed that AmTrust Financial Services, a New York insurer with $ 21 billion in assets is the backer.