Venture capital (VC) is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as biotechnology, IT, software, etc. The typical venture capital investment occurs after the seed funding round as growth funding round (also referred t...
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Parent Industry:
Organizations in this industry:
- Benchmark Capital ,
- Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers ,
- Ardesta ,
- Draper Fisher Jurvetson ,
- Sequoia Capital ,
- New Enterprise Associates ,
- Y Combinator ,
- Fourth Block ,
- Mitsubishi UFJ Capital ,
- Sevin Rosen Funds
Works Written About This Topic:
- Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories ,
- Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital
Also known as:
- VC