What is Venture Capital?
VC in 33 Seconds
What exactly is venture capital—and why does it matter? In this quick video, we explain the vital role VC plays in fueling innovation. Venture capital provides early-stage funding to bold, high-ambition startups that aim to change the world. Learn how this unique part of the economy helps visionary entrepreneurs turn big ideas into reality.
VC in 33: What is Venture Capital?
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Curious about venture capital and its impact? In this short video, we break down what VC is and why it plays a crucial role in supporting innovation. Venture capital offers early funding to ambitious startups working to solve big problems and shape the future. Discover how this funding model helps turn bold ideas into real-world solutions.
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Laura Bordewieck Rippy
Managing Partner, Green D, Yard & Women's FundLaura is the Managing Partner of Green D Ventures and brings operational perspective as a CEO, Chairman, and executive in technology startups. She also served as CEO at Handango, creating the first marketplace of mobile apps. At Microsoft, she co-founded two businesses as an intra-preneur in an elite swat team spun out of Bill Gates’ office. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and AB in Government from Dartmouth (‘89).
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Laura Rippy:
Venture capital is this very special part of the economy. It’s capital that is invested in the earliest stages of companies that have massive, massive ambition. These are companies that have visions of being enormous impact to the world. And venture capital comes in at that very early stage when the companies are just getting off the ground to give them the capital, the money, to get started.
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