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venture capital

[ ven-cher kap-i-tl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

funds invested or available for investment in a new or unproven business enterprise (often used attributively): a venture capital firm. : VC
Startups may seek private equity or venture capital as alternative funding sources;
a venture capital firm.

venture capital

capital that is provided for a new commercial enterprise by individuals or organizations other than those who own the new enterprise
See risk capital
another name for risk capital

First recorded in 1940–45

But that same year it also rasied nearly $300 million in venture capital.

Personics flamed out in one of the biggest busts in venture capital history.

And in 2012, 16 European companies backed by venture capital went public, raising 379 million Euros between them.

Venture capital funding also steers clear, with a 39th-place finish in Access to Capital.

Check out Privateer Holdings, a venture-capital firm based in Seattle that is about to close on $7 million in funding.

They raised venture capital to sue us, because we have such deep pockets.

Parallel to the most advanced and promising scientific endeavors, venture capital underwrites the industries of the near future.

Investment and venture capital funds became the second most important source quantitatively.

In the USA – the private sector invented its own enormously successful support structures (such as venture capital funds).

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