The phrase "an upfront capital" is not correct in standard English; it should be "upfront capital" without the article "an." You can use it when discussing initial investments or funds required before starting a project or business.
Example: "To launch the new venture, we need to secure upfront capital to cover initial expenses."
Alternatives: "initial capital" or "startup capital."
"The M.T.A. has learned the hard way that it is one thing to ask a developer to make an upfront capital investment, and quite another one to maintain something on a day-to-day basis over the years," said Juliette Michaelson, the director of strategic initiatives at the Regional Plan Association, a policy, research and advocacy group.
In the United States, in most markets, there is an upfront capital rebate.
Which means that an organization does not require an upfront capital investment in hardware (servers that store the data for running emails) or software.
They offer an easy service contract that a business could pay each month, thereby eliminating the need for an upfront capital expenditure.
France did a good job of not requiring any upfront capital anymore, so you can form a SAS (the equivalent of an American C corp) with €1.
Competitors are moving to a Software as a Service (SaaS) operating model that is radically changing pricing from a large upfront capital expenditure model to a subscription based model.
On-prem requires a larger upfront capital investment for hardware and installation.
Providing a one-off upfront capital investment to kickstart developments that are stalled due to cash flow problems or lack of confidence.
Long an unprofessional backwater of some 35,000 loosely organized mom-and-pops, the $14 billion market for professional dry cleaning is one-twelfth the size of office supplies; expansion requires a lot of upfront capital.
Amazon web services and other cloud-computing technologies have enabled small teams of engineers to build large scalable products and scale to millions of users without a lot of upfront capital.
No, they do not bring in direct revenue and they cost quite a bit of upfront capital.
