risk capital

noun

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National regulators must commit to a genuine reassessment of how Solvency II treats risk capital. Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025 But Rogoff believes this has starved the economy of risk capital and eroded its economic growth. Kevin Coldiron, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025 Gates said, pointing out that the main obstacles include securing risk capital to fund these solutions. Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 May 2025 These areas are notoriously difficult to launch a startup in, as most ideas require resources such as labs, scientific equipment, consulting, market research, and access to risk capital that are either difficult to access or are cost prohibitive. Jon Stojan, USA Today, 1 May 2025 This 4 to 1 fund raising ratio, of private vs public, now underscores the prominence and effectiveness of private equity as a preferred path for companies to acquire risk capital. Joel Shulman, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 By the 1990s, however, as American corporations curtailed their own internal research operations, scientists and engineers were left with only one avenue to bring their innovations to market: seek risk capital and launch a start-up. L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 23 Mar. 2017 Although the public markets have dried up since the pandemic, the need for risk capital has only increased. Joel Shulman, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 Ultimately, risk capital will flow in competitive markets to the highest and best use. Joel Shulman, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1927, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of risk capital was in 1927

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“Risk capital.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/risk%20capital. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

Legal Definition

risk capital

see capital

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