The phrase "adventure capital" is not correct in English; the correct term is "venture capital." You can use it when discussing funding provided to startups and small businesses with high growth potential.
Example: "Many entrepreneurs seek venture capital to help launch their innovative ideas and scale their businesses."
Alternatives: "startup funding" or "investment capital."
Queenstown is often described in guidebooks and on tourism Web sites as a "natural theme park" and "the adventure capital of the world".
The town sits next to the Ben Lomond scenic reserve, but is also marketed as "the adventure capital of New Zealand".
The X Prize, he said, brought out backers more comfortable with sponsoring a competitor than a business -- adventure capital, as opposed to venture capital, began to flow.
So why, then, did he give his squad carte blanche to get on it in New Zealand's adventure capital, having played one of their four pool games?
Comer brought to the meeting his investment adviser, who quipped that Lackner wasn't looking for venture capital so much as "adventure capital".
The adventure capital of the world doesn't rest on its laurels – New Zealand is constantly dreaming up new ways to terrify tourists.
What this means is that Anchorage — unlike Interlaken, in Switzerland, Jackson Hole, Wyo., and other winter adventure capitals — has a robust sports scene in which tourists are almost an afterthought.
In addition to his Bain Capital exploits in adventure capitalism -- he was largely a corporate takeover artist, not a venture capitalist -- he was a bishop in the Mormon Church, and apparently took it quite seriously, using his great wealth throughout to build the Mormon organization, for which he gets big tax breaks.
For a change of scenery, head over the Pacific, and enjoy a Reef and Rainforest Tandem Sky Dive in Cairns or hop over to the extreme sport hotspot of New Zealand, where you can enjoy tandem skydives in Rotorua or the adventure-capital of the south, Queenstown.
Queenstown is the adventure sport capital of New Zealand.
With a glut of cheap money and a new generation of adventure seekers, venture capital firms have sprouted up all over the planet.
