The phrase "a huge backer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who provides significant support, typically financial, to a project, organization, or individual.
Example: "The startup was able to launch successfully thanks to a huge backer who believed in their vision."
Alternatives: "a major supporter" or "a significant sponsor."
In March, he sued IBM, a huge backer of Linux, for damages of $1 billion, later upping this to $3 billion.
Q: Tony Abbott has made much of being a prime minister for Indigenous Australians – he's been a huge backer of the Recognise campaign – but has also cut Indigenous legal aid at the same time.
(He has a handicap of 9 and a wife, Junko, who can hold her own on the fairways. ) But for every good retirement project that Mr. Saeki had, Softbank, a huge backer of Internet ventures, got there first.
You're a huge backer of Spinvox, why shouldn't you hit back?
Kent was beside himself and worried that this new entry with a huge backer would steal his thunder.
That TokBox has secured plenty of venture capital money, including money belonging to Sequoia Capital (a huge backer of YouTube back in the day), means that it won't disappear like Pets.com.com
After launching on Kickstarter with a huge reception — backers pledged almost $3 million during the course of the campaign — the company ran into an obstacle when 3D Systems Corp. sued both FormLabs and Kickstarter for patent infringement.
A huge number of his backers were first-time voters, registering only on election day.
Fault is currently at $98.7m in the US and $163m worldwide, and is set to be a huge cash earner for backers Fox 2000, bouncing back from the disappointing The Monuments Men.
South Sudan's international backers have taken a huge stake in its stability and success.
That would be a huge gain for the private equity backers at Silver Lake who led Skype's carve-out from eBay, clarified copyright issues with its founders and tweaked its software.
