Venture capital
Also known as: VC · risk capital · seed capital · Capital Risk
Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc.
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primary funding mechanism for dot-com startups
The influx of venture capital during the late 1990s provided the liquidity that allowed unprofitable internet companies to scale rapidly, directly inflating the market bubble.