venture capital
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈvɛnʧər ˈkæpɪtəl/
- Specialized
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capital de riesgo
- Successful venture capital firms like ours also create an environment where other venture capital firms can succeed.
- venture capital firm
- venture capital fund
- venture capital industry
Well, would you really want to get venture capital from this team?
- Well, would you really want to get venture capital from this team?
- He worked in venture capital with the Co founder of AOL.
- So on Mondays, so I hear people pitch, well, a venture capital pitch is a narrative.
- So which venture capital firms invested in FTX and why?
- Eric runs Peter Thiel's venture capital arm, and what he writes is pretty potent.
- Others lead medical schools and schools of engineering, had biotech companies and advise venture capital investors.
- Now, everything I've described so far is pretty standard in the world of venture capital.
- You can pay people, you can subsidized research, you can set up venture capital firms.
- In fact, one of the winning teams has already secured venture capital funding to turn that algorithm into a new business.
- There's billions of dollars of venture capital investment in IT companies whose products are all actually open source.
- And if you take several huge venture capital firms here in Silicon Valley, a lot of Stanford's money is there, reinvested in tech companies.
Examples
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Last year, many industries saw an overall increase in venture capital investments.
Academic text (2011) -
We also have some government-owned venture capital groups that play a critical role in the market.
Academic text (1995) -
Well, would you really want to get venture capital from this team?
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Ed, have you ever heard of venture capital?
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I work in venture capital.
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Hopefully, this will improve a bit as the venture capital environment continues to improve.
Academic text (1993) -
In fact, one of the winning teams has already secured venture capital funding to turn that algorithm into a new business.
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We have always done early-stage investing; we are a venture capital firm, and that is part of our work.
Academic text (1999) -
Many innovative ideas bubble up in laboratories and even attract early-stage venture capital funding.
Academic text (2011) -
Many start-ups seek venture capital to help them grow and innovate.
Synonyms
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3.6
Money given at the start to help a new business get started
Money available to invest in new businesses that may lose money
Antonyms
How Risky
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'venture' (a risky commercial undertaking) with 'capital' (funds), so its meaning — funds invested in risky/new businesses — is directly derivable from the constituents. Although used in a business register, the noun‑noun composition is semantically transparent and a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Venture capital comes from two simple ideas: venture (a risky new project) and capital ('money'). Imagine giving money to a bold person starting a dangerous journey—this picture explains why the phrase means 'money invested in risky new companies' today.