seed money
Plural
seed monies
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the initial amount of money needed to start a business or project
- The entrepreneur used seed money from family and friends to launch her start-up company.
- Venture capitalists provided seed money to the tech start-up to fund product development and initial marketing efforts.
- The university's innovation center offers seed money grants to faculty members to support the development of promising research projects.
- The non-profit organization received seed money from a philanthropic foundation to kick-start its community outreach program.
- As a crowdfunding campaign stretch goal, the project creators aimed to raise enough seed money to establish a small business around their innovative product idea.