1.   All its scientific equipment is leased from a venture company that specializes in providing such equipment.

2.   If oil is discovered, the private company and a PDVSA affiliate will form a venture company to develop the area.

3.   If these investors take an interest for example in new venture companies, this could provide a spark for the market.

4.   Like wealthy individual investors who are often dubbed angels, venture catalyst companies are filling a niche vacated by some of the more established venture firms.

5.   Other profit-sharing stock allocations often take place when a venture portfolio company is sold.

6.   The listing criteria for the second OTC market was designed so that venture companies that are yet to turn a profit could still raise funds to continue their operations.

7.   The venture company will build a semiconductor plant in Hsin Chu City, Taiwan.

8.   Potential targets include venture companies, real estate, privatisation projects and infrastructure projects, it added.