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“Your Idea My Money” is nothing but Venture capital. Investment is necessary for every business activity without investment no business can exist. This we can very well realize when we just think of the position of a person who is innovative ,ambitious ,having new ideas, ready to take risk but left without investment. In order to bridge this gap a helping hand arises by the name Risk Capital. It means long term risk equity finance where the primary reward for its provider is eventual capital gain and not the interest or dividend yield. it is the beginning of financing new and budding enterprises to grow rapidly but also development capital for later stages of business. The RBI defines venture capital as an activity by which an investor supports an entrepreneurial talent with finance and business skills to exploit market opportunities and thus obtain long term market gains. Venture capital firm serves as an intermediary between investors for high return and entrepreneur in scarce of capital. It carries both a loss and the returns. The sources of venture capital are investment companies, wealthy private individuals, banks, pension funds, trusts, corporations and insurance agencies etc. This paper focuses on 1) the need of venture capital to new entrepreneurs 2) the recent trends in providing venture capital 3)the relevance of venture capital towards economic growth.