Venchurnyy kapital – eto riskovyy kapital, finansiruyushchiy innovatsionnye proekty malykh firm, kotoryy kharakterizuetsya ryadom osobennostey, otlichayushchikh ego ot bankovskogo i promyshlennogo kapitala. Sushchestvuet ryad istochnikov venchurnogo finansirovaniya: granty, biznes-angely, venchurnye fondy. Bol"shaya chast" venchurnykh investitsiy prikhoditsya na dolyu fondov. V svyazi s etim fandrayzing (sozdanie venchurnykh fondov) vystupaet v kachestve katalizatora dlya innovatsiy, povyshaya tem samym razvitie strany v tselom.