risk capital

noun
venture capital.
Origin:
1945–50

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risk capital
 
—n
chiefly (Brit) Also called: venture capital capital invested in an issue of ordinary shares, esp of a speculative enterprise

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Cultural Dictionary
risk capital (venture capital)

Money invested in high-risk enterprises.

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Example sentences
Members receive the benefits of the organization and provide the risk capital
  to operate the business.
Furthermore, innovation requires risk capital, and governments usually tolerate
  more risk than individual investors do.
How many companies are going to want to risk capital on bringing a theory to
  product if the resulting product can't be protected.
Risk capital is best provided and managed by qualified, professional investment
  groups.
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