seed money
capital for the initial stages of a new business or other enterprise, especially for the initial operating costs.
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They should help shoulder the financial cost or provide seed money to groups interested in setting up biogas systems.
We Could Power Our Homes With Food Scraps. Here’s What’s Stopping Us | Dr. Ananya Mukherjee | August 26, 2021 | Singularity HubAndela, which won early seed money from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, boasts a huge network of freelancers that serves about 200 firms.
The company, which has raised $3 million in seed money from investors, sees an opening in the women’s footwear market, which Felix says has been underserved by a “shrink it and pink it” mentality.
Motherhood Could Have Cost Olympian Allyson Felix. She Wouldn't Let It | Sean Gregory | July 8, 2021 | TimeThiel hired Vance out of law school at his investment firm Mithra Capital and later contributed seed money for Vance’s own Ohio-based venture capital firm.
J.D. Vance Launches Contradiction-Filled Campaign in Ohio | Roger Sollenberger | July 2, 2021 | The Daily Beast“Some of the initial seed money has come from his family foundation,” Miller said of Guo, who also goes by the name Miles Kwok.
Trumpworld App Is Bankrolled by Fugitive Chinese Billionaire | Will Sommer, Adam Rawnsley, Asawin Suebsaeng | July 1, 2021 | The Daily Beast
Famously, Ted Turner in 1997 founded the United Nations Foundation with a generous $1 billion in seed money.
How Does Zuckerberg’s Ebola Pledge Measure Up To Other Bigwig Donations? | Nina Strochlic | October 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir seed money came from a smuggling operation that they ran prior to the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from the UK to China.
He has said that an anonymous donor has contributed “seed money” and he is presently looking for “avenues of funding.”
Clean Crack Pipes for All! San Francisco’s Final Social Justice Frontier | Michael Daly | January 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 30-year-old tradition has taken to Kickstarter for charitable seed money.
Riccardo Tisci Defends Kim Kardashian's MET Dress; Chris Christie Still All About the Fleece | The Fashion Beast Team | May 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHoodie-wearing 20-something startup CEOs celebrate seed-money investments with rounds of Jäger bombs.
Barclay had figured out the seed money from the sale of the mortgages.
A Certain Rich Man | William Allen White
British Dictionary definitions for seed money
money used for the establishment of an enterprise
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