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Which well-known company began as a venture-backed startup?

venture

[ven-cher] / ˈvΙ›n tΚƒΙ™r /




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With Holmes serving an 11-year federal prison sentence in Texas, Evans is raising their children while pursuing a new biotech venture of his own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

F1's first venture into Las Vegas was not successful.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

During this same period, Vance worked as a venture capitalist who was close with tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

The company has said the venture - backed by nearly £5m from South of Scotland Enterprise - made sense for its business with the quality of Scottish produce "second to none".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Miss Mary declared she felt, for her part, she never dared venture.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«

The push behind big AI ventures is "very much still in effect," said JPMorgan Chase's Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Barnum.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

If a planet ventures too close to its host star, the star's gravity can drag it inward and eventually engulf it.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

We did, however, register a website for our new school ventures, ProPublicaAcademy.com, and even designed some fun pencils to show our school spirit.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Densmore’s a busy guy, with various charitable causes and artistic ventures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

He ventures forward, one paw on the string, then the other.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

The Scottish government has ventured into similarly contentious territory as it tries to find a long-term solution to Scotland's record-breaking prison population.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

In this most recent chapter, Heyward has ventured into the front office, Freeman is adding to his Hall of Fame candidacy, and they’re once again on the same team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

They also ventured farther into space than any humans had ever traveled before, setting a new distance record for human spaceflight.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

In it, Anthropic’s Mythos 5 ventured out on the internet and tried to trick two unidentified developers into adding malicious software to their open-source coding project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

We’d been in Los Angeles for just a couple of months, and the only times I’d ventured out of Chinatown were for school and piano.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Leo has taken no long voyages this summer, instead venturing to Pavia, Lampedusa and Assisi for short visits.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

For two weeks each spring, as the young start venturing from their burrows, this team drives a daily circuit and records every numbat spotted.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Footwear brand Cole Haan is venturing further into travel and lifestyle with its first collection of luggage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

A notable increase in Mexican Americans venturing south to reconnect with their roots, language and culture, according to longtime observers and travel figures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

It was like those old Romanian bubbe-meises my mother used to tell me, tales of Fat-Frumos venturing out to defeat the fire-breathing zmeu or save the boyar’s daughter.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros


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