How to Use venture capital in a Sentence

venture capital

noun
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  • Most venture capital firms mythologize the Zucks and Musks of the world.
    — Tom Chavez, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The problem with venture capital and these ideas is it’s not a fast return.
    — Time Staff, Time, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The region’s top three venture capital deals of the quarter were each worth at least $150 million.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • At a venture capital dinner this spring, the topic of Haun’s background came up.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • What’s more, Black founders receive just 2% of venture capital, and Black women get a measly 0.02% share of the VC investment.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
  • So when Bitkraft, a venture capital firm focused on gaming, expressed a desire to invest, the two took the leap.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Sequoia, the venture capital firm that Moritz helped run, has backed Klarna for the past 15 years — and was also an early investor in Google.
    — Aisha S Gani, Fortune Europe, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Vance would go on to work for Thiel at his venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
  • However, much of what was promised in venture capital has been rolled back amid sweeping DEI backlash over the last two years.
    — Pauleanna Reid, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The recent boom has been fueled, in part, by venture capital investors.
    — Matthew Perrone, Fortune Well, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The fund will be managed by Greycroft, a venture capital firm.
    — Meris Lutz, ajc, 14 July 2023
  • Alon-Beck says the Holmes case will have a chilling effect on new startups seeking venture capital.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Kearney, now a partner in a venture capital firm in Cambridge, Mass., has two young boys growing up Celtics fans.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 July 2022
  • Dandelion is structured as a for-profit and has raised seed funding from a trio of venture capital firms.
    — Casey Ross, STAT, 21 June 2023
  • Fortune spoke to three venture capital investors to find out.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 25 May 2022
  • Since leaving Disney, Iger has joined a New York venture capital firm.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • This was a historic flight for SpaceX, the venture capital world’s second most valuable startup.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
  • So, what steps should be taken to help the venture capital ecosystem finally catch up?
    — Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • But the nature of venture capital is that investors raise funds well in advance of deployment.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 13 June 2022
  • The venture capital firm matched his salary, and offered no shares, equity, or carry.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Hoffman, who did not respond to a request for comment through his venture capital firm, is not mentioned on the website of Women4Us.
    — Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Oct. 2024
  • His approach for his own ventures is to put up half the funding, and get a venture capital firm — these days, often Polaris — to provide the other half.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
  • Tal, 36, lives in Manhattan with his girlfriend, Arielle Kogut, a partner at a venture capital firm.
    — Tammy La Gorce, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • In 2023, tech startups should be prepared for more funding from venture capital firms.
    — Steve Taplin, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Layoffs have been a central feature of the US tech industry in the last two years as interest rates have risen and venture capital funding has dried up.
    — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Conway is founder and a managing partner of the venture capital firm SV Angel.
    — Brian Schwartz, CNBC, 12 July 2024
  • In the world of venture capital, though, there’s a familiar pattern to the way history repeats itself.
    — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Chew, 40, took the helm of TikTok about two years ago after spending most of his career in investment banking and venture capital.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Despite the billions that venture capital firms put into the company, FTX had none of those outside investors on its board.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The announcement of her death led to an outpouring of condolences from a wide range of tech and venture capital leaders on Friday night.
    — Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2024

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