Venture Capital

A form of private equity financing where investors provide capital to early-stage companies with high growth potential in exchange for equity stakes. Silicon Valley's legendary venture firms -- Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins -- have backed companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon before they became household names. Venture capital is a high-risk, high-reward asset class where a single breakout investment can return an entire fund many times over.