Sentence examples for specialist venture from inspiring English sources

But some new, interesting owners are entering the market – specialist venture capitalists, for instance, which have often made a notable success of these educational projects.

North Sea oil specialist Venture Production jumped 154p to 734p after Centrica, up 0.75p at 247p, bought a 22% stake and suggested it may make a full bid which would value the business at more than £1bn.

They are envious of Silicon Valley's ecosystem of established names, serial entrepreneurs, marketing experts and specialist venture capitalists, who complement a first-rate ideas factory at nearby Stanford University.America's appetite for riskier ventures reflects past glories as much as native boldness.

They include Jeremy Gibbs, former chief executive of specialist venture capital consultancy, Matthew Batstone, former marketing chief of the Economist Group and a trustee at Bedales, a £30,000-a-year boarding school, and Roy Brown, the founder of Metier Management Systems which pioneered computer project management systems in the 1970s and 1980s.

The new administration in Seoul also wants to help improve agriculture in the North by supplying seeds, fertiliser and specialists, says Lim Dong Won, the president's senior secretary for foreign policy and security.Two specialists ventured north in January to inspect farms.

Banks have hung back somewhat and let other lenders, such as insurance companies and specialist funds, venture into commercial property alongside them.So far, says Alison Le Bras, a banking analyst at Fitch, a credit-rating agency, bad-debt problems at European banks have arisen mostly because of international exposures to Argentina, Enron and WorldCom.

This smaller division contains the FT plus an assortment of highly-profitable specialist publishing ventures.

For the last two years, buyout specialists and venture capitalists have been not-so-quietly lobbying Congress on the issue, hoping to forestall what now looks increasingly inevitable.

Pearson likes investors to focus on the performance of the FT Group, a big division with a turnover of £850m that includes the Financial Times, several specialist publishing ventures and Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial markets data.

The goal is to bring researchers, entrepreneurs, educators, technology specialists, and venture capitalists together in an environment that promotes collaboration, exchange of ideas and skilled workers, and sharing of physical resources such as lab space and equipment.

Firms cluster together for a variety of reasons: the skills that are available in a particular area, the concentration of specialist services and the venture capital from investors with a close understanding of their market.