Sentences with phrase «backed by one»

Virgin America, the low - cost airline backed by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, raised roughly $ 307 million in its initial public offering on Thursday, according to Reuters.

The New York - based company, backed by $ 54.4 million in venture funding, caters to what chief executive Jennifer Hyman calls the «woman 2.0,» a customer who values experiences over possessions.

First, the European debt crisis is a bit more complicated than Greeks going on a borrowing binge backed by German credit.

Add to that excellent health care backed by first - rate technology — medical tourism is a fast - growing industry here — and temperate weather throughout the year, and it's easy to see why tens of thousands of expats call this 18th - century colonial town home.

The design has so much potential to change lives that it's been backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

«ETNs are unsecured instruments backed by the credit of the issuer, and it tracks the performance of the underlying asset.

Many are key job creators, since companies founded by immigrants that are backed by venture capital have created an estimated average of 150 jobs per company and generated $ 63 billion in sales.

Cash flow financing is a loan that's backed by your projected cash flow.

The best decisions tend to be the ones backed by cold logic and empirical data, in business and in your career.

The deal was backed by an affiliate of billionaires Charles and David Koch.

And yet, we seem to have settled for Tay, a mildly annoying chatbot that is «learning» how to talk like a human being through artificial intelligence (and likely backed by a Microsoft cloud infrastructure).

GFL is backed by HPS Investment Partners and Macquarie Infrastructure Partners.

Another potential problem for Venezuela's petro plans is the initial issuance of the token will be backed by crude in the Orinoco heavy oil belt in the east of the country.

The upstart trading and exchange company, backed by financial heavyweights like the Royal Bank of Canada and Barclays, is now accepting applications from companies and issuers of investment products, offering an alternative to the Toronto Stock Exchange.

This comes on the heels of Maple, the New York food delivery startup backed by acclaimed restaurateur David Chang, closure in early May.

Singapore's Global Logistic Properties (GLP) agreed to be acquired by a Chinese private equity consortium backed by senior GLP executives for about S$ 16 billion ($ 11.6 billion), choosing it over a rival bid in Asia's largest private equity buyout.

Husky Energy - a Canadian oil giant backed by a Hong Kong billionaire - will also be seeking an exemption, this one covering the 2018 requirements for its small Superior, Wisconsin plant, spokesman Mel Duval told Reuters, disclosing the waiver for the first time.

• Bullhorn, which is backed by Insight Venture Partners, acquired Atlanta - based Peoplenet, an Atlanta, Ga. - based provider of cloud - based workforce management solutions.

Halliburton is in late - stage talks to acquire a fast - growing U.S. oilfield equipment supplier backed by Oklahoma energy and banking billionaire George Kaiser, according to sources familiar with the matter.

A Warren spokesman said later that Warren was referring to an April report by Politico that said separate legislation helping companies get approval for stem - cell treatments was backed by Ed Bosarge, a wealthy Texan.

A flying taxi company backed by Alphabet CEO Larry Page unveils its all - electric autonomous plane that takes off and lands vertically.

Sure, it's backed by science and engineering, but effective leadership emerges from empathy with those you want to lead and speaking their language.

Backed by their immense wealth and handsome annual incomes, these families are two - to - three times as likely to own a second property, boast a seven - figure investment account and own a home valued in excess of $ 1 million.

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Through partnerships with best - in - class technology providers, VirtualArmour delivers only leading hardware and software solutions for customers that are both sophisticated and scalable, and backed by industry - leading customer service and experience.

Kader says the company — which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz — has been experiencing triple digit revenue growth year over year for the last two years.

Those wild price swings are partly to do with the fact that cryptocurrencies aren't backed by an asset.

REcoin was advertised as «The First Ever Cryptocurrency Backed by Real Estate,» while DRC, or Diamond Reserve Club, claimed to be backed by investments in diamonds.

You need to invest wisely and any smart investment is backed by metrics.

The latest RIL - inked MoUs represent a positive step towards potentially bettering India's economy with a healthy combination of smart innovations backed by smart funding

First, the victim's effort to receive compensation is backed by the power of the state.

Riverwalk is an easy target because it is highly visible, has a large price tag, and is financed with a federal loan backed by a local motor fuel tax that, some argue, could be better used for purposes such as municipal schools.

Backed by blue - chip venture capitalists, including Accel Partners (an early investor in Facebook), Wonga looks destined to go public at some point, either on the Nasdaq or in London.

A stacked fight card that included UFC welterweight champion Georges St - Pierre and nine other Canadians provided plenty of action, backed by prodigious amounts of energy drinks, beer and impressive production values.

There's another source of recovery that involves little cost to the victim and is backed by the priceless punch of a social giant.

The messages are backed by surveys and studies arguing, for example, that paper made from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-- certified wood actually protects wildlife, flora and «the increasingly endangered North American manufacturing job.»

Complicating matters is that another standard from the Open Compute Foundation, backed by Facebook (fb), Google (goog), as well as LinkedIn parent Microsoft, is about building larger servers which will not fit into that mold.

He added that ICOs backed by real assets would allow companies to circumvent much of the Wall Street middleman apparatuses, such as the army of investment bankers and venture capitalists, and sell directly to would - be stakeholders.

«We can not support arbitrary cuts to future legal immigration levels,» said Daniel Garza, president of The LIBRE Initiative, which is backed by the Koch brothers.

With offices around the globe, the company is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners,.406 Ventures and Sigma Prime Ventures.

Such a programme has been backed by France and Germany following calls for bolstered security throughout Europe after a string of terror attacks on European soil, according to EU sources.

Bell Labs was backed by AT&T, the largest monopoly in the world, which allowed them to spend millions of dollars on research that might never prove profitable — a situation unimaginable for many of today's companies.

As a research - based thought leader whose reputation for client focus is recognized industry - wide, its business model is founded on strong client engagement backed by comprehensive competitive insights driven by data.

The assets being offered in an ICO aren't backed by an existing stream of revenues.

Backed by institutional investors and often friends and family capital, search fund principals conduct a one - time search to find, acquire and then run a privately held business.

• King Engineering, which is backed by ETC Partners, acquired Criser Troutman Tanner Consulting Engineers, a North Carolina - based engineering firm.

• Edward Don & Company, which is backed by Vestar Capital, acquired Atlanta Fixture and Sales Company Inc, an Atlanta - based food service equipment and supplies distributor.

Investments in a myRA account are backed by the U.S. Treasury, and there's no risk of losing money.

Friedman notes that leading investors such as Ray Dalio, founder of investment firm Bridgewater, called Bitcoin a «bubble,» while Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, has criticized non-flat cryptocurrency, which is currency not backed by a government.

I think being able to take risks backed by insight and then failing fast or succeeding big is really important.