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venture capital

[ven-cher kap-i-tl] / ˈvɛn tʃər ˌkæp ɪ tl /
NOUN
money for investment in new enterprise
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Egan-Jones addressed effects on venture capital, pointing out that startups can reach scale faster with less money, so those firms will ultimately lose leverage and see returns compress.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Top contributors to Building a Better California include Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder; John Doerr, chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins; and Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

And while the number of venture capital deals dropped for the fourth straight year, their value rose by 28 percent to $510 billion in 2025.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Much of the venture capital establishment didn’t put money into Anthropic because they viewed it as a David to OpenAI’s Goliath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Investment and venture capital funds became the second most important source quantitatively.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin




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