venture capitalist

English

Etymology

    From venture capital + -ist.

    Noun

    venture capitalist (plural venture capitalists)

    1. An investor who invests money in an innovative enterprise for which the potential for high profit and the risk of loss are both considerable.
      Alternative form: VC (initialism)
      Hypernyms: capitalist, investor < person
      Near-synonym: angel investor
      • 2026 November 5, Erin Somers, “Lab-grown meat was supposed to save the world. What happened?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
        After peaking in 2021, investment began to fall off. In 2023, the industry raised a measly $177m globally.
        But it wasn’t only venture capitalists who had started to grow sceptical of cultivated meat. The technology soon became a target of conservatives.
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