How to Use capital-intensive in a Sentence

capital-intensive

adjective
  • This is always one of the most capital-intensive times for a launch company.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The bottom line: Growing plants indoors is energy- and capital-intensive and is a difficult business to scale with VC.
    — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025
  • What's next: Expect to see more capital-intensive climate startups with high burn rates trip up in a frozen funding market.
    — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
  • And the more uncertainty there is, the less likely that investors or lenders will be prepared to finance capital-intensive projects.
    — The Editors, National Review, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Roughly 1 million units are subject to the new capital-intensive rules.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
  • After all, film is a capital-intensive business that is hit-driven.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The capital-intensive purchase wound up tanking Mattel’s stock price within two years.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The clean energy system of the future will be capital-intensive, which means that its behavior will be highly influenced by where funds are willing and able to flow.
    — Kassia Yanosek, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Brands handle their own shipping, and Flip handles the less capital-intensive business of customer service and returns.
    — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The first is meant to bring solutions to suppliers, and the second will help those same suppliers finance those capital-intensive improvements.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Texas passed a law that enabled big projects to avoid school taxes, which helped attract chipmaking plants, wind power farms and other capital-intensive investments.
    — Mitchell Schnurman, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • To a certain extent, that’s to be expected given the bearish market for technology stocks in the last two years and the risks involved with novel, capital-intensive business models.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 12 July 2023
  • The stock lost more than half its value last year and the company has been reckoning with slowing sales while also trying to move deeper into the capital-intensive business of chip fabrication.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Bootstrapping a business is hard; bootstrapping a capital-intensive frozen food business is even harder.
    — Forbes Membership, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The chilly funding environment continues to catch up with capital-intensive climate tech startups seeking to scale.
    — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • Higher interest rates and rising costs have hurt the companies in what are often capital-intensive industries.
    — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Clean energy supply chains are long, complex, and capital-intensive.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • These capital-intensive models need skilled operators, technicians, and engineers who take longer to train and will demand higher wages.
    — Steven Dudash, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • In capital-intensive fields such as biotechnology, little has changed.
    — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Here’s how: • Larger loans: Real estate is capital-intensive.
    — Brandon Elliott, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • That includes a move away from capital-intensive AI model research to focus instead on market-ready offerings like a new business-to-consumer interactive app.
    — Rana Wehbe Watson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • All this focus on the long term is possible because of Rebellion’s unusual and perhaps unique position in the capital-intensive gaming industry.
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • New cement plants are also capital-intensive and require extensive fundraising to construct.
    — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
  • In her chapter of the handbook, the Tax Foundation’s Erica York explains that our tax code is punishing capital-intensive sectors like manufacturing.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 23 May 2024
  • This is especially true for companies with weaker balance sheets or those in capital-intensive industries.
    — Ivan Illan, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • However, the industry must also understand that AI needn’t be capital-intensive.
    — Siby Vadakekkara, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Manufacturing, channel, or go-to-market partners, funding, right, to support a capital-intensive development process, and many more.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Look beyond the alluring badge and bodywork for a moment: The objects Mercedes-Benz and its rivals produce are insanely complex, ever-changing, and hugely capital-intensive—and must succeed in an utterly cutthroat market.
    — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Even as VCs are deploying, capital-intensive businesses are at a disadvantage compared to leaner models.
    — Alex Lazarow, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Startups are highly scalable and capital-intensive, which means that capital acquisition and management are crucial skills for finding success.
    — Abdo Riani, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025

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