venture capital

1. 1.

   wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises

   Synonymsrisk capital

   Broadercapital

Questions about venture capital

What does venture capital mean?

venture capital means "wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises".

What is another word for venture capital?

Close synonyms include risk capital. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is venture capital a common word?

venture capital is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.