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venture capitalist

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Michael Brown, a venture capitalist and an early leader of the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley branch, the Defense Innovation Unit, gives the department an “incomplete” grade on its transformation efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

The tech leaders included Eric Schmidt, former Google chief executive; Reid Hoffman, a LinkedIn co-founder; Vinod Khosla, a venture capitalist; Yann LeCun, a computer scientist; and Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

The billionaire venture capitalist and founder of Khosla Ventures sat down with me in Menlo Park, Calif., for the latest episode of The WSJ Money Interview.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

The incorporation documents for HAL9001 were signed by the venture capitalist Roman Sobachevskiy.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2026

De Soto was a novel figure: half warrior, half venture capitalist.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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