corporate venturing

corporate venturing The provision of risk capital by one company, either directly or by means of a venture-capital fund, for another company. This may be undertaken as a means of obtaining information about the company requiring venture capital or its market, of taking a first step towards acquiring the company, or of moving into a new market cheaply and without needing to acquire the relevant expertise and personnel.

• stakeholders
• stale bull
• stale cheque
• stalemate industry
• stamp duty
• stamp duty land tax
• stamp duty reserve tax
• Standard and Poor’s 500
• standard application blank
• standard cash flow pattern
• standard cost allowance
• standard costing
• standard deviation
• standard direct labour cost
• standard direct labour rate
• standard direct materials cost
• standard direct materials price
• standard fixed overhead cost
• standard hour
• Standard Industrial Classification
• standardization strategy
• standardized marketing mix
• standard marginal costing
• standard materials usage
• standard mix