Sentences with phrase «from financial backers»

The new movement has been secretly under development for more than a year and is said to have secured # 50m from financial backers, including the multimillionaire founder of LoveFilm.

To bring the report to a wide audience we added an interpretive preface, «The Evidence of Things Unnoticed,» a foreword from William Bennett, and a brief letter to alumni from our financial backer, Thomas Klingenstein.

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

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

Michael Dell and his financial backers are betting it will be easier to engineer a turnaround without having to pander to the stock market's fixation on whether the company's earnings are growing from one quarter to the next.

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.

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.

The Financial Times reported (paywall) that the round includes $ 60 million from some of Silicon Valley's biggest venture capital firms, including Google backer Kleiner Perkins and Uber investor Benchmark.

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.

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.

Morrison needn't have worried about the reactions of his Disciples readers and financial backers — whose opinion concerned him profoundly since the journal still operated tenuously, almost from issue to issue.

Gluten - free microbrewery secures expansion funds from multiple backers - Scottish Financial News, 23 August 2017

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..

When I asked about the paradox of condemning the Tea Party but receiving large amounts of money from one of the Tea Party's most prominent financial backers, David Koch, Lhota responded strongly.

He added the move is necessary because Martins has already begun getting commitments of financial support from backers.

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.

Missing from your reporting is any info about the Partnership for Educational Justice, especially their financial backers.

Many of those developers, including the principals on the Hotel Syracuse project, were among Walsh's earliest financial backers when he decided to run — a point that has caused some grief from critics and opponents.

Brown's biggest financial backers during the recent six - month period come from the local business community and include the Buffalo Niagara Partnership as well as the 43 x 79 political action committee formed by some of the city's top business leaders.

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.

Its name comes from the combination of «long - feathered raptor» and the name of one of the Chinese financial backers who funded the research.

He said its financial backer Syngenta donated the research to The Golden Rice Humanitarian Board (GRHB) and does not hold rights to make money from it.

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.

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.

Funding for the project comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — which also was a major financial backer for the development of the common core — the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

Both their campaigns received record - breaking financial support — an estimated $ 30 million — from their respective backers, making it the most expensive political contest in the state, almost three - times more expensive than that of the governor's seat.

In this instance being loyal to your financial backers has to take a back seat to the legal rights of the common man or woman to be protected from abusive attacks.

Now, as the ship's master, Christopher Jones, eased the Mayflower into its dockage at Rotherhithe, an ancient landing place two miles down the Thames from London that had become a huddle of boatyards, sailors» cottages, and merchants» warehouses, the financial backers eagerly awaited news about the one thing they cared about most: what saleable cargo the ship had brought back from the New World.

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.

The last time I heard from my «Big Oil» financial backer was when they gave me a # 15 Argos voucher for my loyalty card.

It also had to coordinate the assignment of leases related to more than 50 tracts of land from local landowners as security for the project's financial backers.

Don Rainey of Grotech Ventures, one of the financial backers behind the number two group - buying player LivingSocial, says he sees a future in which consumers looking for a night out can bid on offers of discounts from local merchants in a real - time, stock exchange - style marketplace.

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.

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.

Electric vehicle maker Faraday Future is planning to raise $ 1 billion as it seeks to protect itself from the financial woes of its main backer, China's LeEco

Robert Mercer, a billionaire investor and top financial backer of conservative causes, is stepping down as co-chief executive of Renaissance Technologies, as the giant hedge fund faces a backlash from some clients who resent Mr. Mercer's embrace of polarizing political figures.

Electric vehicle maker Faraday Future is planning to raise $ 1 billion as it seeks to protect itself from the financial woes of its main backer, China's LeEco, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Faraday Future is also experiencing an exodus of talent as it struggles to replace the vanishing financial support from its main backer, which has stalled manufacturing of the FF91.

Fortunately for all parties involved, from the vendor to the Realtor to the financial backer and the builder, there was a willingness to explore creative solutions and share in the financial returns that this leading edge project still promised to deliver.

Moreover, long - time CEO Larry Siegel stepped down from his post in order to continue working on development of the Xanadu project with its new financial backers.