Sentences with phrase «critical early stage capital»

It's because angel investors provide this critical early stage capital, and are involved in so many more young companies, that I believe they are more important to entrepreneurs, and the economy, than traditional VC funds.

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Early - stage capital can be critical to your venture's success.

But I have found that for an early - stage, technology - intensive start - up, government funding can nicely complement a seed - stage equity investment, reducing the equity dilution to the founders, increasing the capital available for commercialization, and providing critical leverage that neither source of funding could provide on its own.

Most recently, CRI has launched a new «venture philanthropy» program called the Cancer Vaccine Acceleration Fund (CVAF) as a means to catalyze development of next - generation therapeutic cancer vaccines and other immunotherapies by helping to address the critical shortage of capital available for early stage clinical trials.

Loan guarantees from the US government are a critical way for early stage companies to reduce their cost of capital for capital - intensive projects.