Venture capital
Venture capital From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For the process of financing by venture capital, see Venture capital financing . History of private equity and venture capital Early history (origins of modern private equity ) The 1980s ( leveraged buyout boom) The 1990s ( leveraged buyout and the venture capital bubble) The 2000s ( dot-com bubble to the credit crunch ) v t e Venture capital ( VC ) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc). Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity , or an ownership stake. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support wi