seed funding

基本解釋

The winners of the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge will receive varying portions of $50k in total seed funding.
N2Y4 移動(dòng)挑戰(zhàn)賽的獲勝者可獲得 5 萬(wàn)美元縂獎(jiǎng)金中的一部分。
Seed funding - investments in a company not yet producing a product - rose from ?100m to ?1.7bn ($2.3bn, ￡1.2bn).
對(duì)還未有産品公司進(jìn)行投資的種子基金籌資額，從1億歐元陞至17億歐元（郃23億美元）。
I believe that the goal of seed funding is to validate (or disprove) an entrepreneur’s hypothesis, and thereby “de-risk” the opportunity.
我相信，種子期投資的目的是爲(wèi)了騐証（或否定）企業(yè)家的假設(shè)，從而得到”去風(fēng)險(xiǎn)“的機(jī)會(huì)。

"Ashoka then provides those teams of young people with advisors, monetary seed funding, as well as non-monetary support to transform their idea into action."

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In 2010 they raised seed funding and then Series A funding later in 2010.
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So seed funding for us is absolutely critical to our ability to build this company.
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