Sentence examples for ventures close from inspiring English sources

Riggs has invested in ill-starred ventures close to Mr. Allbritton's heart, such as the thoroughbred breeder Calumet Farms, and failed high-technology deals.

The reports describe amazing things: planets orbiting other suns than ours, stars born and stars dying, greedy black holes wolfing down whatever ventures close enough, the long, cliffhanging search for the missing mass of the universe.

Unlike most venture capital firms, which buy pieces of nascent companies, AE touts itself as a late-stage financier, injecting capital into ventures close to going public or getting bought out.

But as it ventures closer to the sun, ISON will become increasingly harder to see.

For one thing, it ventures closer to the present and includes relatively modest postwar designs by Americans like Claire McCardell and Bonnie Cashin.

On the other, heavily leveraged upstarts succumbed to the unsustainability of their business model, with many Oklahoma ventures closing shop.

VENTUREBEAT Shasta Ventures Closes New Fund  |  The Silicon Valley venture capital firm has raised $265 million for its third fund, more than its $200 million target.

Index Ventures closed on two funds totaling $1.65 billion earlier this month.

Index Ventures closed a €350m early stage fund in 2009.

Starburst Ventures closes $200 million debut fund to back space tech startups.

Anything that ventures closer than a certain distance from the black hole falls in to it, even photons zipping along at light speed.