Sentences with phrase «companies as backers»

This company had mostly American oil companies as backers — hence the Persia / BP Iraq / American oil division by Roosevelt.

Not exact matches

It didn't take long to realize that given the volume of orders, and the complexity involved in co-ordinating the shipment of components, that the company would not be able to ship by September, as it had promised Kickstarter backers.

The transactions are structured so as to spare institutional backers of the ride - hailing firm the pain of marking down the value of their investments, while at the same time offering staff an exit well below what they may have been hoping for before the company was hit by a string of governance scandals.

Companies such as Tee Launch can create and fulfill your T - shirt orders directly to your backers.

Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos's venture company, Bezos Expeditions, is a backer and the company has managed to acquire former Tektronix CEO Rick Wills as chairman.

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.

Additionally, as an early backer you will have the earliest access to the company and a greater impact on the direction of Misty II and future products.

In addition to GAC, a state - affiliated car maker, Uber China's backers now include the HNA Group, a major travel and logistics company (best known in China as the owner of Hainan Airlines, the country's largest privately - owned airline); China Taiping Insurance, a Hong Kong - listed insurance company; China Life, another insurance company; and CITIC Securities, an investment bank part of the state - backed CITIC Group.

Still, Al - Naji sees Basis playing a winner - takes - all game, in what investor Deshpande and presumably the company's other backers see as a multi — billion opportunity.

Homejoy was able to raise funding, but not enough to grow the company as big as its founders and backers had hoped.

PITTSFORD — As more than a dozen states investigate energy companies over an alleged global warming coverup, Vermont RICO 20 professor Alan Betts says backers aren't engaged in an anti-free-speech witch hunt.

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.

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.

Sackler also created 50 CAN, a national charter school advocacy group and Sackler was a major financial backer and advocate for Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company formed by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's former commissioner of and his associate, Dacia Toll, who now serves as the CEO of Achievement First, Inc..

Apple's many backers are trying to rewrite history and cast Amazon as the villain in the Cupertino company's first major antitrust case.

As usual for Indiegogo, the company will offer incentives to early backers.

+ Join our team for a week (Airfare and Lodging not included) + A statue of your likeness with your name etched on it, in the Pilots hall of honor inside the game + Your name listed in the credits as a team member + all Rewards listed in BACKER BOSS tier + 500,000 Company scrip

Our first book has been very well - received — with tremendously positive reviews from backers and the press alike — which places welcome pressure on myself and Read - Only Memory as a company to build on what we've started.

The main issue here is that, since I was brave enough to write that first blog, and which contained sentiments others were already thinking, whispering, or discussing in the back alleys of the Internet, I became the face and target of the company's attacks, as well as that of the many toxic backers of the project.

As Kickstarter makes clear in its terms of service, the company considers itself a third - party, merely facilitating a transaction between creators and backers (while skimming a percentage off the top).

As of April 10, a total of $ 601,773 in pledged donations have been tallied from some 8,164 backers at the start - up company's Kickstarter page.

Many backers are more concerned about getting their perk than they are about the company's financial health and long - term impact, and maybe rightly so, as the perk is their return on their investment.

SolSource is also offering a sweet deal of 25 units as a «Retailer Starter Pack» for pledges of $ 2,475, which could be an excellent opportunity for those looking to moonlight as solar boosters, as well as a bundle deal for both of the company's models for $ 496, which would give backers a home unit and a camping unit.

In 2014, Niel Record, the founding chairman of his own specialist currency management company, and trustee of the free market Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, was named for the first time as a financial backer.

A tactic used by ethanol backers trying to defend the relatively defenseless Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is attempting to frame the RFS debate as one between America's oil and natural gas companies and renewable energy.

The Board consists of the former Director General of MI5, Lord Evans of Weardale (as mentioned by Artificial Lawyer, last year), alongside Jack Stockdale, Chief Technology Officer, and Dave Palmer, Director of Technology, at cyber security company Darktrace (which is also part - owned by key Luminance backer Mike Lynch and his Invoke Capital fund.)

The level of responsibility that a reward - based crowdfunding campaign has to its backers may not be as high as that of a company seeking to raise equity.

The decision to issue that abrasive statement came from Jia Yueting, the company's co-founder, main financial backer, and (as of December) CEO, according to current and former employees who spoke to The Verge on the condition of anonymity.

Coinbase, whose backers include venture - capital firms Greylock Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, could seek a license from the SEC as an exchange, but registering as a broker - dealer is viewed as a less cumbersome step that would allow the company to move into markets the SEC regulates.

Whether it will be as a backer of an ICO or, in the case of post-ICO companies, by purchasing coins, another kind of crypto - based investment or simply equity - based deals.

There was the lag on payments to the factory's construction company, the senior staffers jumping ship, the confusing debut of a seemingly competing car from the company helmed by its principal backer, the lawsuits from a supplier and a landlord who said they weren't getting paid, the work stoppage on the factory, the state officials in Nevada who said Jia didn't have as much money as he claimed (something that Jia denied in a haters - are - my - motivators statement), and the fact that leaders in that state copped to never really knowing much about FF's financials before approving that incentive package.

As this charger and Samsung's many compatible phones suggest, the company is one of the biggest backers of the Qi wireless standard.

Things got worse for team Tezos as one of the backers filed a Class Action against the company and everyone else involved.

Jia Yueting, a company co-founder and its main financial backer, told employees in a meeting last week that he has lined up a new round of funding, and that he is taking over as CEO of the beleaguered electric car company, multiple former employees tell The Verge.

Initial coin offerings (ICOs), also known as initial public coin offerings, crowdsales or token sales, are a new form of startup funding where a company raises funds by issuing its own digital token to early backers in a somewhat similar manner as a company would issue shares to new investors.

The company website also lists Roger Ver as a «backer».

«The representatives have told firm backers that a cascade of cash into technology companies has stretched their valuations to historic highs, making stakes in startups as dangerous a risk as ever.

«As a publicly traded company, Invitation Homes and its Wall Street backers have access to capital that most individual buyers could never dream of,» Dawson says.