There's the aforementioned Cantor backers group.
Before play began there was an auction: Each pair was sold to a backer or group of backers, the minimum bid being $12,500.
But some, like Mr. Waxman, find a backer or group of investors who let them create their vision, and then stay out of their way.
"I have had chickens since I was 6," said the duchess, a committed backer of groups championing the countryside.
The early SDK has been in testing with "hacker" backers — a group of about 100 people who pledged $235 or more for the privilege of early tinkering rights — for the past few months, and some of the apps they've created will be released alongside the SDK.
Unfortunately for MEK backers the group has history in this respect, with Human Rights Watch and the RAND Corporation revealing human rights and cultic abuses taking place inside the MEK.
Funded by deep-pocketed, left-leaning backers, the groups have invested heavily in what political operatives call the ground game - voter identification, outreach and data collection - as well as mainstream media campaigns.
Observe that while every energy policy dispute has its own unique set of activists, arguments, lawyers, NIMBYs, activists, financial backers, trade groups, regulators, and elected officials, the battles are all driven by the same ideal: the ideal of eliminating fossil fuel use and using green energy instead.
Meanwhile, major financial backers, including groups funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, have been sidelined from publicly backing GOP primary candidates, partly out of fear they might alienate their divided base.
Its principal backer in the group is AXA, with its powerful chairman, Claude Bébéar.
