venture capital
noun
: capital (such as retained corporate earnings or individual savings) invested or available for investment in the ownership element of new or fresh enterprise
called also risk capital
venture capitalism
noun
venture capitalist
noun
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Portugal’s new program requires prospective visa holders to put about $500,000 into qualifying investment, venture capital funds and scientific or technological research.
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Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Duggal began the fund in 2014 to invest in good ideas from women who’d been ignored by a predominately male venture capital culture.
—Misty L. Heggeness, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Higher interest rates, a capital market retraction and a push by almost all venture capital into artificial intelligence collectively hit property tech hard.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
That track record gave him the kind of bulletproof confidence to raise roughly $7 million in venture capital for Friend, backed by Pace Capital, Caffeinated Capital, and Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
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Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Duggal began the fund in 2014 to invest in good ideas from women who’d been ignored by a predominately male venture capital culture.
—Misty L. Heggeness, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Higher interest rates, a capital market retraction and a push by almost all venture capital into artificial intelligence collectively hit property tech hard.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
That track record gave him the kind of bulletproof confidence to raise roughly $7 million in venture capital for Friend, backed by Pace Capital, Caffeinated Capital, and Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Venture capital.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/venture%20capital. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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