How would the Wright Brothers get funding from VCs?

The Wright brothers did get funding from a venture capitalist, Charles Ranlett Flint's merchant banking house Flint & Co. Flint is better known for his roll-ups, including merging four companies into the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (better known by the name it took a few years later: IBM), U.S. read more

istory is not especially kind to the Wright brothers where the airplane business is concerned. It certainly seems they had little to crow about. Their aircraft company did not prosper; it struggled along for six hard years until it was finally sold. read more