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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seed capital
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Investment for the year a record £28 million of which approximately a third was in seed capital for digital projects?
▪ The company was originally styled Information Workbench and Sippl provided the seed capital.

Usage examples of "seed capital".

Susan's accepting - and she's forking up some of her vesting money as seed capital for a larger equity stake - and she's clinching the title of Creative Director.

But now, with Korona Director Flinto Kinnis's excited assurances that they would potentially develop an invisibility generator, Calimar needed large amounts of seed capital.

Once we started shifting the copper here, and the mining shares in all manner of other things, we had some seed capital and took up a number of margin loans to get into the serious action—.

A company worry has always been that one of our number might siphon off very small amounts of money over a long period and use that as seed capital for transactions which -- though they exist outside the Business -- are only possible thanks to the contacts, trust and information that person's membership of the company has brought and which grow exponentially until they distort the relationship between the apparent and real economic effect that person produces.

When my uncle Max Adcock, the not-very-successful buccaneer capitalist, told me about the next great stock raid or franchise operation that was going to make him rich at last, if only Uncle Cubby would help him out with a little seed capital, I always listened.

Once we started shifting the copper here, and the mining shares in all manner of other things, we had some seed capital and took up a number of margin loans to get into the serious action—.