Venture Capital Tycoon is out now on Steam - with a 10% launch discount through September 8.
Run your own venture firm: hunt deals, research founders, write the checks, and live with the results. Most bets fail. The one that doesn't pays for everything.
Thanks to everyone who wishlisted - this game exists because a solo builder kept writing checks to himself. Now it's your turn to write them.
See you at the office.
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Hotfix 1.0.1: personal checks unchainedPersonal checks now get their own slider. When a fund is nearly tapped out, "Invest personally" lets you back a company from operating cash, up to whatever cash you have on hand, not capped by the fund's remaining capital. If the fund can't cover the minimum check, the decision screen now points you to the personal route instead of a dead end. Reported by a player this week, fixed the same day.…Quick update on release timingVenture Capital Tycoon is finished and sitting in Steam's final review queue - the release is days away, not weeks. Wishlist notifications will go out the moment it's live. Thanks for the patience - and for the wave of wishlists this week. See you at the office.What Venture Capital Tycoon actually isVenture Capital Tycoon launches August 28, 2026. Here's what you're getting. You run a fund. You raise capital, you build a team, you decide who gets a check and who gets a polite no. Then you live with it. Some of your best calls look stupid for three years before they don't. Some of the obvious wins quietly die. The pitch: a management sim built around the part of investing that's actually in…