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Mr Hain, who was one of the Labour leader's earliest backers in the battle for the party's top job, indicated that he may take on a new role away from Westminster.

Last week, it reached an all - time high, making millionaires out of its early backers in the process.

In a typical ICO campaign, a predetermined percentage of the new cryptocurrency is distributed among early backers in exchange for fiat or other (more established) cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum.

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.

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Sanghavi updated the community of Kickstarter backers in early November that production was underway and the jackets were being produced.

In addition to his own continued commitment to the idea of The Coolest, Grepper said that he was buoyed by the enthusiasm of his earliest backers.

Other investors in the current round include Archina Capital, Adidas, General Electric and JSR Corp. along with Carbon's earlier backers, Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake Kraftwerk and Reinet Investments.

«$ 5tn in five years is a stunning and unprecedented figure,» said Ellen Dorsey, at the philanthropic Wallace Global Fund, one of the earliest backers of the fossil fuel divestment movement.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»

«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

Forbes reported late Tuesday that Thiel, an early backer of Facebook and a co-founder of PayPal, had played a lead role in financing the litigation.

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.

Hartenbaum, a partner at Draper Richards in San Francisco and an early backer of the online phone service Skype, stumbled upon those comments, posted by an anonymous entrepreneur, on a website called TheFunded.com.

The early Bitcoin backers, who reportedly own about 40,000 bitcoins (a cool $ 27 million or so in U.S. dollars), could blast off by the end of the year.

Some 33,000 backers have kicked in money for Crowfall's development, and ArtCraft — which has also raised money from traditional early - stage investors — likes the idea of offering them a stake in the game's financial outcome, said J. Todd Coleman, the company's creative director.

Other investors in the deal include GV, Polaris Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Spectrum 28, Asset Management Ventures, Charles River Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Allen and Company and earlier backers Data Collective and Founders Fund.

One of the early backers of Workday was Jeff Bezos, in one of his many investments.

SoftBank said in an emailed statement that at least two of Uber's early backers intend to sell.

SAN FRANCISCO — For many of Oculus VR's early backers, news that the virtual reality start - up was selling to Facebook for $ 2 billion was a little like watching Bob Dylan star in a Super Bowl Chrysler commercial.

Well known as investors in Twitter and early backers of Foursquare, which recently raised $ 20 million in Series B funding, Union Square Ventures is lead by Brad Burnham, Fred Wilson, and Albert Wenger.

Union Square Ventures Well known as investors in Twitter and early backers of Foursquare, which recently raised $ 20 million in...

Venture - backer The DAO, which was formed to invest in start - ups and projects linked to cypto platform Etherium's ether, was shuttered following scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission over its coin offerings earlier this year.

He was an early backer of Yahoo and Alibaba in the 1990s.

Unlike the case of initial public offerings, where much of the value is already priced in at the IPO launch, or even the traditional venture capital system, an ICO allows investors to not only become financial backers but also early adopters, since the investment coin's long term value is in future products or services.

Our pre-sale is an opportunity to invest in Eterbank's token (EterPay) as early backers of the project with our highest possible bonuses, before the official Initial Coin Offering.

He is a catalyst and Board Advisor to Airswap and Power Ledger in the crypto segment and was among the earliest backers of Canva, Color Genomics, Tweetdeck / Twitter, Wish.com and Zoom Video.

Instead, it has become a mess with the tightly controlled fundraising process in disarray as early backers sell their tokens for handsome returns.

That's just some of the examples of unofficial deals that are flowing as early backers who got Gram tokens cash in on demand, which has only increased following the cancellation of the public sale.

General Assembly was worth $ 440 million after its last, $ 70 million investment round, according to a report in Axios, which means that early stage investors will see a nice return on their investment while many later stage backers — including Wellington Management and Fresco Capital are looking at some pretty flat returns.

Amazon has been a champion for the LGBT community as early supporters of the Equality Act, backers of marriage equality campaigns, and active voices against legislation that discriminates against transgender people in states across the country.

The success of some of the projects launched after raising funds through ICOs and the huge returns to early backers means that investing in ICOs can be a very good idea.

The budget is expected to pass at the end of March, and early voting backers want it taken care of in the spending plan.

Police launched an investigation into possible breaches of the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 earlier this year, after claims that Labour was offering wealthy backers a seat in the House of Lords in return for loans.

The WFP was an early backer of the campaign for a $ 15 minimum wage and the paid family leave law and helped recruit iron worker Randy Bryce to run for retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan's congressional seat in Wisconsin.

Kaine, an early backer of Barack Obama in the 2008 in his primary fight against Hillary Clinton, said he believes that the Democratic Party is more unified today than it was at this point eight years ago, following the protracted primary battle between the pair.

With Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras, an early Mark - Viverito backer who ultimately bucked Mr. Crowley, standing nearby, Mr. Crowley also said he thought his delegation would hold onto at least some of its old leadership positions in the council, despite the bitterness of the race.

Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello is a big Lazio backer — he was a very early supporter, coming out in January when Lazio was still battling the specter of Erie County Executive Chris Collins.

John Graziano, the Albany County GOP chairman and one of the state party's ten vice-chairs - and a key early Steve Levy backer - was muted this morning on the topic of how his delegates will vote at the convention in Manhattan this week.

Mayor de Blasio has not made an endorsement in the Harlem congressional race, but one of the Mayor's early backers last year is throwing its support behind one of Congressman Charles Rangel's opponents.

Cuomo early on lavished attention on the area, seeking to invest state resources in private industry and becoming a backer of keeping the Buffalo Bills in western New York.

Yesterday, three members of Congress from New York City — including Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, an early backer of Barack Obama in 2008, and a prospective mayoral challenger to de Blasio in 2017 — added their names to the list of Clinton endorsements.

Nixon, who was an early and enthusiastic backer of Bill de Blasio and served on his mayoral transition team, responded to that argument in the interview on NY1.

«In the context of all that's going on, as reported in the Times, I don't think that the governor should be running for reelection,» said tate Sen. Bill Perkins, an early Obama backer who is the first prominent African - American official to call for Paterson to end his bid, in an intervieIn the context of all that's going on, as reported in the Times, I don't think that the governor should be running for reelection,» said tate Sen. Bill Perkins, an early Obama backer who is the first prominent African - American official to call for Paterson to end his bid, in an interviein the Times, I don't think that the governor should be running for reelection,» said tate Sen. Bill Perkins, an early Obama backer who is the first prominent African - American official to call for Paterson to end his bid, in an interviein an interview.

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Brokenshire is a May loyalist, who spent five years as a junior minister in her Home Office and was among the early backers for her leadership campaign.

Early Apple backer Sequoia Capital and Vertex Venture Holdings have invested $ 20.5 M in Qingchifan, another dating app.

Vertical took on the feature, which took some time to find a backer in the U.S. «Many distributors liked the story, but they found it challenging to present something new like this to an audience,» said director Ayman Jamal earlier this week.

Back in July, Double Fine announced it would go the Early Access route as an equitable way to both complete the game while still giving it to backers before the general public, as was promised.

Here's the latest in a series of occasional case studies I've been doing the past few years, this one about an education - focused PAC called Democrats For Education Reform that was an early backer of Barack Obama and had lots of early success, but has struggled in recent years as its oponents (the teachers unions, mostly) have shifted tactics and politics have gotten more polarized.

According to charter and school integration authors Richard D. Kahlenberg and Halley Potter (2014), Shanker and the early backers of the Minnesota law believed that these schools should be guided by three tenets: experimentation, or the ability to use innovative approaches to teaching and learning that could inform and influence reforms in traditional public schools; teacher voice in the design and operation of the school — something Shanker saw as a direct result of collective bargaining; and integration, in the sense that schools should be ethnically, racially, and socioeconomically diverse.