venture capital

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venture capital (uncountable)

  1. (business) Money invested in an innovative enterprise in which both the potential for profit and the risk of loss are considerable.
    • 2017, William Irwin Thompson, Self and Society, →ISBN:
      In this unreflective boomerism of American hypercapitalism, one has to hype one's project to attract venture capital.

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