Sentences with phrase «financial backers in»

There are, surely, only a handful of financial backers in the world who would be willing or able to finance such an ambitious project, and to such a preposterous degree of finesse.

But they agreed that the de Blasio - backed cap — which has the endorsement of the mayor's financial backers in the taxi medallion industry — is too severe.

With the run - up of the stock market in recent years and the home equity, millennials have a very powerful financial backer in their parents.

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Its backers are financial markets insiders who have become frustrated by the state of affairs today and want to see more competition in securities trading.

BlackRock began in the headquarters of Blackstone, its first financial backer, which gave BlackRock a $ 5 million line of credit for a 40 % stake.

In the summer of 1999, Sequoia Capital, the legendary backer of Oracle, Apple, and Cisco, led an investment of $ 25 million in Musk's new financial services firm, X.coIn the summer of 1999, Sequoia Capital, the legendary backer of Oracle, Apple, and Cisco, led an investment of $ 25 million in Musk's new financial services firm, X.coin Musk's new financial services firm, X.com.

In a sense, a business plan used for seeking funding is part of a negotiation taking place between you and your prospective financial backers.

In most cases, though, they are financial investments in which backers are motivated by the potential proceeds from a large damage awarIn most cases, though, they are financial investments in which backers are motivated by the potential proceeds from a large damage awarin which backers are motivated by the potential proceeds from a large damage award.

Even if backers fully understand the risks of investing in crowdfunded startups, they'll certainly be expecting — and entitled to receive — frequent updates and financial reports.

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.

Hughes became the owner, publisher and editor - in - chief of The New Republic in March and has also been a strong advocate and financial backer for same - sex union campaigns.

And Fusion and its financial backers may feel that they are getting enough value out of their staff in other ways apart from just raw traffic to their website — and giving the company $ 30 million more suggests they have confidence in its vision.

In a report tonight on The Daily Beast, 24 - year - old Luckey is revealed as a financial backer for Nimble America, an organization that promotes Trump in the forthcoming presidential election through online and real - world advertising and viral postIn a report tonight on The Daily Beast, 24 - year - old Luckey is revealed as a financial backer for Nimble America, an organization that promotes Trump in the forthcoming presidential election through online and real - world advertising and viral postin the forthcoming presidential election through online and real - world advertising and viral posts.

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.

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.

However, Uber has received around $ 5 billion in support from different financial backers, including the Qatar Investment Authority, New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark and Fidelity.

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.

While most of these groups will frequently call for increased transparency in government, some refuse to make public their own financial backers.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

As described in this Financial Post article, Deloitte notes the success of Kickstarter, through which over two million backers pledged over $ 320 million, as being an indication of crowdfunding's popularity to come.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.When in 1876, the Scot, Alexander Graham Bell and his financial backer, Gardiner G. Hubbard, offered to sell the patent...

At the beginning when we started building the Federation, in the framework of the current policy, the State's hand was forced by the financial backers who said: «there needs to be civilian representation and approval of the programmes if you want us to fund them.»

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.

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..

In December, UEFA rejected a request to waive Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules for AC Milan, saying they remained unconvinced about the club's new Chinese backers.

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.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who had been a financial backer of the Senate Republicans» political efforts, received multiple mayoral control extensions during his time in office.

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.

«During this election we have seen some extraordinary statements, in many cases very, very unpleasant statements by Ukip financial backers and candidates,» he said.

By the end of next week, Blake could find himself off the Democratic primary ballot, owing thousands of dollars in back taxes and owing an explanation to his financial backers and fellow Obama alumni.

Paladino rarely donates to black political candidates and was a major financial backer of Brown's opponents for mayor in 2005 and 2009.

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 AbroaIn Conversation with Robert Gleason, Author of The Nuclear Terrorist: His Financial Backers and Political Patrons in the U.S. and Abroain the U.S. and Abroad.

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.

Those same forces, big financial backers of Cuomo, are also huge players in the fight for control of the Senate and they are spending enormous sums of money to maintain or even strengthen Republican control of the chamber.

The hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused the African - American woman who leads the Democrats in the New York State Senate of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

The rift between the WFP and some of its most powerful financial backers began in 2014 when party activists wanted to back little - known Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout over Cuomo, who they felt was not progressive enough.

Aspiring entrepreneurs at the University at Buffalo will participate in a rapid - fire competition expected prepare them for pitching business ideas to potential financial backers.

«Has she seen the very worrying series of reports this week by openDemocracy, on the role of dark money in the EU referendum, including revelations of illegal donations to the DUP and new questions today over the real wealth of Arron Banks, the main financial backer of Leave?

The announcement caught even some of Ms. Moskowitz's top backers by surprise, and threw open the question of who, if anyone, would carry the banner for school - choice advocates — including, among others, some of New York's financial elites — in a 2017 campaign.

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.

The Serbian - born, London - based designer had a busy summer, opening her first store in London, taking on a new financial backer and rebranding her eponymous label as simply «Roksanda.»

It's primarily the fans that have supplied the funds for the project, and in doing so proven a viable audience for any other potential future financial backers.

To think that the financial backers of the film originally demanded that the Black Knight scene — in which he loses his limbs in a duel («it's only a flesh wound!»)

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.

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.