risk capital

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Britain has a history of growing medium-size tech companies that end up in foreign hands for want of risk capital at home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

The Iranian judiciary confirmed Soltani was under arrest but said he had not been sentenced to death and his charges meant he did not risk capital punishment.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

The bitcoin-to-gold volatility ratio drifted below 2.0, implying that “bitcoin currently consumes 1.8 times more risk capital than gold.”

From MarketWatch • Nov. 6, 2025

The index grades states on research and development, risk capital and entrepreneurial infrastructure, investment in human capital, tech employment and tech concentration, and dynamism.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2022

Owing to the unfairness of German competition by methods just exemplified, a manufacturer, as a rule, does not care to risk capital in the payment of a number of chemists for making "fine chemicals."

From New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various