{"id":4049,"date":"2023-03-09T23:39:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T23:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/venture-capitalist\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T23:39:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T23:39:27","slug":"venture-capitalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/venture-capitalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture Capitalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA Venture Capitalist or \u2018VC\u2019 is a private equity investor who identifies and provides capital to companies in exchange for an equity stake. A Venture Capitalist can be an individual or a firm which invests in early-stage companies with high-growth potential.<br \/>\nThe companies can be startups or small companies with potential for expansion but do not have other sources for funding or are not yet ready for accessing equity markets. A VC invests in these companies and may also work with them.<\/p>\n<h2>Venture Capitalist Explained<\/h2>\n<p>a) A Venture capital firm can source money for its own operations from big individual investors, institutions or corporates etc.<br \/>\nb) A VC aims to invest in a company during its growing stage for maximising its returns and not always in startups only.<br \/>\nc) Once the company becomes successful, VCs may move out through selling stake to others or through a public issue.<br \/>\nd) A VC might invest in several companies at a time.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Venture Capitalist or \u2018VC\u2019 is a private equity investor who identifies and provides capital to companies in exchange for an equity stake. A Venture Capitalist can be an individual or a firm which invests in early-stage companies with high-growth potential. The companies can be startups or small companies with potential for expansion but do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}