Top 1200 Venture Capital Quotes & Sayings

Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.

The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs.

Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.

I often say Policy Planning is very analogous to a venture capital firm. A venture capital firm sees an interesting idea and puts money behind it; in Policy Planning, we look for promising ideas and then put contacts and relationships behind it.

It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that.

There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.

I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.

At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch.

There are not many people from top-tier venture capital firms who are focused on the seed stage.

When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility as a business woman. With no access to venture capital, money was scarce and high-cost, debt-based capital was all I had.

I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.

I think it's embarrassing for our industry that we have such low diversity across senior-level management at all of the mainstream, top-tier venture capital firms.

The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.

Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

Venture capital is an inherently optimistic form of investment - which is both its primary strength and its primary weakness.

I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.

State funds, private equity, venture capital, and institutional lending all have their role in the lifecycle of a high tech startup, but angel capital is crucial for first-time entrepreneurs. Angel investors provide more than just cash; they bring years of expertise as both founders of businesses and as seasoned investors.

Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world.

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.

Unlike a normal venture fund, we never stop raising capital. We can always absorb new capital on the platform and into the next deal as long as we feel it won't distort the allocation and the pricing.

It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier venture capital firms. I look forward to adding to the firm's very bright future.

I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they're smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all categories - its economic impact is proven. The more of it the better.

Inspirational content really resonates, like how to raise venture capital.

One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.

So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.

How many of the unicorn companies are really prosaic businesses - like limousine services or renting rooms in your house? The original VC firms from the '70's made their money and established the reputation of their respective brands by leveraging big cleverness with small capital, not small cleverness with big capital, and that's what's going on with these unicorns. That has never worked and it won't work this time. It doesn't produce venture quality returns, and it never will.

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

Given my venture capital background, I know the tech sector well.

We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

Techstars has done a great job accelerating and providing venture capital to the most promising companies to make the biggest long-term economic impact.

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia.

I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

Blockchain Capital was the first dedicated venture fund to invest in crypto and blockchain.

Venture capitalists Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital, Steve Jurvetson of DFJ, and Dave McClure of 500 Startups all left their firms following accusations of misconduct.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be established, a new important employee to be found, or a business technique to be learned. The venture investor must always be on call to advise, to persuade, to dissuade, to encourage, but always to help build. Then venture capital becomes true creative capital - creating growth for the company and financial success for the investing organization

We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious.

I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

Venture capital is debt. People don't understand that.

One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.

One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th.

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.

I would have loved to invest in Salesforce when I was active in venture. I didn't know the founder, Marc Benioff, well enough, and he didn't really rely on venture capital, but I remember the first time I met him and got to talk about Salesforce when they were still private. I thought, 'Damn, that is going to be a huge company.'

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.