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venture capital
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  • One venture capital guy had actually laughed, a big and genuine laugh, on the phone — laughed a good long time.   (source)
    venture capital = working for a firm that provides start-up money for new companies
  • That was the date of a now famous meeting, in which Robert Swanson, a venture capitalist, approached Herbert Boyer, a biochemist at the University of California.   (source)
    venture capitalist = someone who provides start-up money to a company
  • Alan had never checked or known his credit score but was told, by every bank and even a few venture capital firms, that his score made him untouchable.   (source)
    venture capital = providing start-up money for new companies
  • In the 1980s, he founded his own venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California, and began buying up pieces of other companies that had grown too large and unwieldy.   (source)
  • Though stolen artworks are often used as negotiable instruments to supply venture capital for drug trafficking and arms deals, the DEA has defended itself against criticism in what the art-crimes division of the FBI has called a "bungled" and "amateurish" handling of the matter, issuing a public statement apologizing for the accidental death of Mrs. Huidobro while also explaining that their agents are not trained to identify or recover stolen artwork.   (source)
    venture capital = money
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