The company boasts a strong group of initial investors from a recent "around $1 million" angel round – True Ventures, Jeff Clavier, James Currier, Caterina Fake, Geoff Ralston, Raymond Stern, and Michael Tanne.
In another, there he was, cocktail in hand at some fashionable city watering hole, overheard boasting to a group of friends: Yes, my younger sister, Briony Tallis the writer, you must surely have heard of her.
Last year, the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley put out a press release boasting that a group of its students working toward graduate degrees in financial engineering were interning at places such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas.
The stealthy group boasts a fairly eccentric group of investors, including Kevin Spacey, a couple of football players and, yes, Shakira.
Adding to its allure was the boast that a group of local lifeguards regularly leapt off the Cross Bay (among other bridges) for fun.
The exchange, which is privately held, boasted an influential group of minority shareholders, which included Mr. Deripaska's Eni+, a unit of the Chinese shipping company Cosco Group and a unit of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world's biggest bank by market value.
The TechStars inaugural London Demo Day boasted an impressive group of companies, but we put our heads together and came up with a consensus decision on our top pick, as well as a couple of runners up for the show.
Boasting an elite group of musicians in his eponymous orchestra, Ellington had a career that spanned 50 years composing masterpieces like "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" and "Prelude to a Kiss," appearing in short films and and touring Europe.
Milus' boasts a mother-of-pearl face.
Bloomberg is an active and outspoken member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group that boasts a membership of 600-plus mayors from across the country.
