venture capitalist

British  

noun

1. a person or company that provides capital for new commercial enterprises

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Example Sentences

So proposes Mark Stevens, a former venture capitalist and current trustee of the University of Southern California.

From The Wall Street Journal

Selected by Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist and a research fellow at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy.

From The Wall Street Journal

Silicon Valley’s startup model encourages “a fake it until you make it” strategy: Pretend to be successful to attract the coders, venture capitalists and customers that bring actual success.

From The Wall Street Journal

What happens to the AI trade right now depends on the confidence of this relatively small group of venture capitalists, corporate CEOs, and private-equity executives.

From Barron's

But experts say it also signals a maturing of India's start-up ecosystem after a painful funding winter where money had all but dried up and early-stage venture capitalists were finding it difficult to cash out.

From BBC

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