Sentences with phrase «with the backing from»

-- Mike Zivin, co-founder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million Series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans, as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

Britain's financial sector, with backing from the government, wants two - way market access based on Britain and...

With backing from private equity firm Athos Capital, the 90 - employee franchise company has expanded rapidly.

«We decided to sell not the technology, but the benefits,» says Raviv, who started the company in 2008 with backing from a Philadelphia incubator while an undergraduate engineering student at University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in May.

The startup has raised a little under $ 40 million in funding with backing from Alphabet's venture capital arm GV, among others.

-- Mike Zivin, cofounder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

Britain's financial sector, with backing from the government, wants two - way market access based on Britain and the EU accepting each other's banking rules to avoid damaging the UK economy's most important sector.

Hotel Tonight closed a $ 3.25 million Series A round earlier this year, with backing from Battery Ventures, Accel Partners, First Round Capital and others.

New companies like Boom Supersonic are trying to make use of the technology for transoceanic routes, with backing from investors like Richard Branson and Japan Airlines.

That bill is now facing pressure from the Human Rights Campaign with backing from companies including IBM and Bank of America.

To date PRPPs have had the upper hand, with backing from the federal government and four provinces.

Local rivals like Didi Kuaidi — itself valued at $ 16.5 billion with backing from Chinese behemoths like Tencent and Alibaba (baba)-- have kept pace with Uber's investment in the country (Uber's China business is valued at around $ 8 billion based on its latest funding round in January).

At US urging, and with backing from Britain, France and Germany, a global financial watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), last month decided to place Pakistan back on its watchlist of countries with inadequate terrorist - financing controls, potentially hurting Pakistan's fragile economy.

Post, of MosaMeat, who created the first hamburger from cultured animal cells in 2013 with backing from Google billionaire Brin, believes some of his competitors have set unrealistic timelines to market in part because that's what tech investors want to hear.

MLS top - level domain with backing from the MLS Domains Association, but there is a competing applicant, Afilias Limited, and the domain remains in contention.

The company raised millions from investors in an initial coin offering last year, with backing from the boxing great Floyd Mayweather.

He's also chairman of a $ 26 million fund, BH Logistics, established in April with backing from a Chinese conglomerate, and a $ 40 million fund involved in shale oil exploration, according to documents filed in June and first reported on by Bloomberg News.

Two companies hail from Shenzhen: UBTECH, maker of humanoid robots and Cambricon, an AI chip maker with backings from the prstigious Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Pishevar started the firm in 2013 with former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Scott Stanford, with backing from TPG and other investors.

admin Cryptinfo In March 2016, it emerged that computer scientists at University College London had devised a crypto - currency known as the RSCoin with backing from the Bank of England.

Because Deming has always had an intriguing relationship with time, we weren't all that surprised when she reached out to us late last week to let us know her San Francisco - based venture firm, The Longevity Fund, has now established a new accelerator program — one with backing from famed investor Marc Andreessen, the early - stage venture firm Felicis Ventures and other, unnamed investors.

The VC firm closed its third fund of $ 74 million in November 2015 with the backing from leading investors such as Rockefeller Brothers Fund, JP Morgan Chase and Omidyar Network.

Sean Oldfield, founder and chief executive of Castle Trust, has decided to step down after seven years as CEO of the firm he founded in 2011 with backing from J.C. Flowers & Co., the US private equity firm.

The author of the «we - passages» represents himself as going with Paul to Troas and then to Macedonia (16:8 -11), sailing with him back from Philippi to Troas (20:5 — Is) and thence going to Jerusalem (21.1 — 18) and Rome (27.1 — 28.16).

With backing from the Ford Foundation, the Rainforest Alliance has begun a new effort with AMAN, the Samdhana Institute, Kaoem Telapak, and other local NGOs to do just that.

Really poor management in not dropping Ramsey, and it's no surprise we've looked poor with him back from injury.

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They've introduced supervised injection sites, and look as though - with backing from the Gardai no less - they'll soon become only the second nation in the world to decriminalise the possession of all drugs.

With backing from the Republican and Conservative parties, Bohen defeated Democrat Patrick B. Burke with 52 percent of the vote in last Tuesday's special eleciton in an Erie County district where there are more than twice as many Democrats as GOPers.

The Bronx, represented by Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (and at least a handful of Bronx Council members), with backing from the retailers union and the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance (KARA), wants Related to require their Armory mall tenants to pay a living wage ($ 10 an hour, plus benefits).

Rajkumar, with backing from DID, unsuccessfully challenged Margaret Chin in the 2013 City Council election.

With backing from across the spectrum — from Stephen Kinnock, Chuka Umunna and Nicky Morgan, to leading Brexit campaigners Bernard Jenkins, Harsimrat Kaur and John Mills — this is something that can cross so - called divides, and inject some much - needed citizens» say into the process.

The decision made by Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant to extend the grant funding for thirty one projects registered with Environment Wales until the end of March 2017, came following a persistent campaign, led by the Environmental groups and with backing from William Powell, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for the Environment.

On 14 April 1999, Marsden introduced the Cancer Care Bill [6] with backing from cancer charities including Macmillan Cancer Support, under the Ten Minute Rule that would create the first comprehensive directory of cancer services in the UK to aid patients in identifying the location and type of cancer care available.

Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng's bid to win re-election as one of the Democratic National Committee's five vice chairs picked up a slew of endorsements from New York's delegation to D.C. today, along with backing from influential state leaders.

Noble, with backing from officials in at least 10 towns, has called for a new five - year agreement with the same 85.5 / 11.5 / 3 percent split.

Tom Perriello, who ran for Virginia governor in 2017 with backing from party liberals, says intense primaries, crowded or otherwise, don't have to spell doom the winner.

With backing from AstraZeneca, Targacept is testing two compounds against Alzheimer's disease.

And with backing from the Wellcome Trust and the Sky Arts channel (which is producing the fascinating accompanying documentary series, Computer Says Show), it's an ingenious way to raise funds for an activity as inherently high - risk as launching a new musical.

With backing from the UAW, graduate students began campaigning for employee rights and the opportunity to unionize in the fall of 1997 — which ultimately led to a ballot this spring.

With backing from the Glaucoma Research Foundation, and their commitment to collaboration, the CFC is poised to make significant inroads in the knowledge and understanding of the disease.

Sony CEO Amy Pascal is stepping down in the wake of the company being aggressively hacked, but will continue producing films with backing from Sony.

With backing from QC Entertainment, Blumhouse Productions (the company behind horror hits «Paranormal Activity» and most recently «Split») and distribution from Universal Pictures, Peele turned the pitch into a script filled with scares, laughs and searing social commentary about race and racism in America.

Aviron was formed in 2017 by veteran executive David Dinerstein with backing from BlackRock.

Aviron formed in 2017 with backing from BlackRock.

Based on the novel by French writer Irene Nemirovsky the production is a co-venture for the Weinstein company and BBC films with backing from France's TF1 Droits Audiovisuels and Entertainment One.

Grammar schools are being allowed to expand through annexes — which critics claim are new schools — with backing from a # 200 million fund.

Some TFAers, after their 2 years are up, move up to Superintendent or higher with the backing from their corporate reform TFA organization and Broadies (Michelle Rhee, King in NY, many more).

Martinez had been elected four years ago with backing from the teachers union.