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venture capitalist

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noun

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

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Its use exploded, and venture capitalists clambered to invest.

From The Wall Street Journal

He claimed in online interviews that he had interests from venture capitalists and was looking to expand.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s totally unprecedented for one company to be so active across the board,” said Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist and fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Initiative on the Digital Economy.

From The Wall Street Journal

The minutes showed the board had authorized the CEO to contact venture capitalists to raise $10 million.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the midst of the cloud’s emergence in 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared that “software is eating the world.”

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