Sentences with phrase «prominent backers»

Prominent backers of the project included Science Blockchain.

The reform slate — two incumbents and two allies running for open seats — has its own prominent backers.

After endorsing Steele three weeks before last January's hotly - contested election, Greer quickly became one of Steele's most prominent backers within the RNC.

Other prominent backers include City Comptroller Scott Stringer, State Sen. Brad Hoylman, Congresswoman Grace Meng, Council member Ritchie Torres and an array of labor unions with ties to the Working Families Party.

Mr Johnson, one of David Miliband's most prominent backers for the leadership, does not dispute that the older Miliband would have been offered the shadow chancellorship if he had agreed to serve in his sibling's team.

Interestingly, Hills» startement comes on the heels of yet - another anti-WFP release from New Yorkers for Growth, the conservative PAC founded by two of Levy's most prominent backers: State GOP Chairman Ed Cox and John Faso.

He and his brother Charles G. Koch are prominent backers of conservative causes and candidates.

Corti has some prominent backers in the AI community, amongst others Danny Lange, an investor in Nordic venture capital firm ByFounders.

«There's just no way,» said Cuban, who became a prominent backer and surrogate for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Loeb is a prominent backer of charter schools and the education reform movement, which the governor has embraced, much to the chagrin of public teachers unions and their allies in public education advocacy organizations.

The bill's most prominent backer in the Senate has been Staten Island Democrat Diane Savino, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference.

Scaramucci has been involved in fundraising before, having worked as a prominent backer of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.

Ken Langone, the founder of Home Depot and a prominent backer of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, also gave Cuomo $ 25,000.

During that election, Nixon was a prominent backer and surrogate for de Blasio.

The Senate's most prominent backer of the bill, Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse), said Wednesday there are active discussions to amend the bill in a way that all sides can agree on.

He promised to be a more prominent backer of the 1993 law that provided $ 800 million in new education money for public schools, put forth a plan for higher standards and assessments, and moved to equalize school funding over...

A top GOP fundraiser and prominent backer of President Donald Trump stepped down from his Republican National Committee post Friday after revelations that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen arranged a $ 1.6 million settlement with a former Playboy model the donor had impregnated.

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In total, it has raised $ 589 million from prominent venture backers including Fidelity Investments, which led the last round, as well as Andreessen Horowitz and Venrock.

Since his identity as Hogan's backer was revealed, Thiel's crusade against Gawker has been decried by a number of prominent journalists and defenders of a free press, who note that a billionaire bankrupting a media outlet as part of a personal vendetta raises serious questions about free speech.

The company, based in Santa Monica, Calif., has raised more than US $ 20 million, with backers including the firm of Andreessen Horowitz, Mark Cuban, Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, and a number of prominent venture capital firms.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

He was one of the earliest backers of the president's political ambitions, and during the 2016 campaign served as a prominent adviser and spokesman, despite disagreements with others on the campaign.

Facebook's board of directors includes two investors — Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel — whose firms have been prominent crypto backers.

Last week, Instagram, which has just a handful of employees, closed a financing round worth more than $ 50 million with several prominent investors, including Sequoia Capital, an early backer of Google, Thrive Capital, the firm run by Joshua Kushner, and Greylock Capital, an early investor of LinkedIn.

Thiel is a prominent early backer of cryptocurrencies, with his venture capital firm, Founders Fund, holding crypto assets.

While white evangelicals overall are among the biggest backers of Trump's efforts to restrict and better screen refugees, prominent evangelical leaders and institutions have consistently championed compassion toward refugees.

Though the remarks triggered criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some prominent American backers of Israel, Gallup found that the speech was «not a watershed in Jewish views toward Obama.»

The two are prominent Republican and Tea Party backers and already Syracuse area Congressional Candidate Dan Maffei has seized on the issue and called on Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle to give back donations from the Koch brothers PAC.

Both Mercers are prominent donors to Republican causes, invested in Breibart News and are backers of President Donald Trump.

Cohen also thanked his supporters, along with the NY Times and the Post, which endorsed him; and two of his most prominent political backers: Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

The hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, a prominent charter school supporter and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

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.

Several prominent MPs, including some previous backers of Boris, quickly announced their support for Gove.

In addition to firing out a terse statement after the Queens Democratic Organization through their support behind Liu, dubbing it an «old boys club,» her supporters were also on hand to pass out campaign literature boasting her prominent woman backers when Liu launched his campaign.

Trump's backers appear to have mounted the most organized primary campaign effort in the state, with supporters of other prominent candidates including Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and Jeb Bush, either barely visible or nonexistent, GOP insiders said.

«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 interview.

Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. has reportedly jumped on the Espaillat bandwagon after backing Mr. Rangel in 2012, adding yet another prominent Latino backer to Mr. Espaillat's coalition.

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.»

Though much of the local establishment, beyond Ms. James, has deserted Mr. Rangel, he is still counting on prominent Washington backers to help him pull out a victory against Mr. Espaillat, Pastor Mike Walrond and Yolanda Garcia.

«Bernie is on a roll, with money and young voters flocking to his side, and if it remains that way through the South and he is standing tall after Super Tuesday, it's possible he could win New York,» said a prominent Clinton backer.

We're told Meek Mill, born Robert Williams, has had a number of prominent, vocal backers come forward since his sentencing last Monday, the likes of which include

One applicant, Achievement for All Children (AAC), formed last year under the leadership of several prominent school choice backers, including a former state lawmaker who led the push to create the takeover district.

Melvoin and Fitzpatrick - Gonez can claim support, however, from prominent Democratic charter backers.

, among them Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad, a prominent education reform backer.

But a new set of numbers circulating among prominent school choice advocates in Raleigh indicates the opposite, much to the consternation of public school backers in North Carolina.

His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin, was not only an art collector, but also a backer of the 1913 Armory Show and a friend of prominent twentieth century artists including Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp, and Walt Kuhn.

Their firms have been prominent crypto backers.

Fundrise, based in Washington DC, has been getting quite a bit of attention in the past year with hefty investments from prominent real estate and technology backers.