How to Use venture capital in a Sentence

venture capital

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  • Most venture capital firms mythologize the Zucks and Musks of the world.
    — Tom Chavez, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The region’s top three venture capital deals of the quarter were each worth at least $150 million.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • At a venture capital dinner this spring, the topic of Haun’s background came up.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • What’s more, Black founders receive just 2% of venture capital, and Black women get a measly 0.02% share of the VC investment.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
  • So when Bitkraft, a venture capital firm focused on gaming, expressed a desire to invest, the two took the leap.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Sequoia, the venture capital firm that Moritz helped run, has backed Klarna for the past 15 years — and was also an early investor in Google.
    — Aisha S Gani, Fortune Europe, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The recent boom has been fueled, in part, by venture capital investors.
    — Matthew Perrone, Fortune Well, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The fund will be managed by Greycroft, a venture capital firm.
    — Meris Lutz, ajc, 14 July 2023
  • Alon-Beck says the Holmes case will have a chilling effect on new startups seeking venture capital.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Dandelion is structured as a for-profit and has raised seed funding from a trio of venture capital firms.
    — Casey Ross, STAT, 21 June 2023
  • The venture capital firm matched his salary, and offered no shares, equity, or carry.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In 2023, tech startups should be prepared for more funding from venture capital firms.
    — Steve Taplin, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Layoffs have been a central feature of the US tech industry in the last two years as interest rates have risen and venture capital funding has dried up.
    — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Chew, 40, took the helm of TikTok about two years ago after spending most of his career in investment banking and venture capital.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Despite the billions that venture capital firms put into the company, FTX had none of those outside investors on its board.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • This month, the venture capital firm Menlo Ventures closed a deal to invest $750 million in Anthropic.
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • This is the second mass layoff announcement this year from Flexport, which has raised more than $2 billion from venture capital firms.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Steve Job's son Reed Jobs is launching a venture capital firm, Yosemite, with a focus on investing in new cancer treatments.
    — Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Kyle Stanford, lead venture capital analyst at PitchBook That hasn’t stopped many of the biggest names in global tech from jumping on board.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Casado’s venture capital firm sent a letter to Biden laying out its concerns.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Founders Fund, a venture capital fund led by Peter Thiel, withdrew all of its deposits, Bloomberg reported.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Then, after a brief stint in the world of fashion, Murty returned to the venture capital space when her father founded Catamaran Ventures.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
  • On Thursday, lawmakers will engage with officials from Big Tech and venture capital, the source said.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Vijay Pande, a general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said health care is at a turning point.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers in venture capital and private equity.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • But its implosion did set off a wave of concern, not just about the banking sector, but about how venture capital firms behave in Silicon Valley.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • For its part, the British government is trying to make private capital more accessible in the venture capital realm.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Research the venture capital firms that are a good fit for your company, and understand their investment criteria and process.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Nearly $2 million of Epik funds was used in Kingdom Ventures, Monsters’ venture capital firm, according to the report.
    — William Turton, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Scores of retired CEOs are readily available to mentor younger leaders, and venture capital funding is easier to access than in many of the newer tech hubs.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024

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