captar recursos

English translation: raising of funds, funding

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Spanish term or phrase:captación de recursos
English translation:raising of funds, funding
Entered by: MJ Barber

16:21 May 27, 2003
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial / project financing
Spanish term or phrase: captar recursos
ACME posee experiencia concreta en captar satisfactoriamente recursos para proyectos de adquisición y BOT [Construcción, explotación y reversión] de una naturaleza similar. En los últimos cinco años, ACME ha cerrado acuerdos de financiación para 10 proyectos de carreteras de peaje.

It is obtaining financing, but is there a specific way of saying it?
MJ Barber
Spain
Local time: 17:02
raising capital
Explanation:
or
raising funds
Known in the trade as "hunting up venture capitalist pigs"
Selected response from:

William Stein
Costa Rica
Local time: 09:02
Grading comment
I'm going to go with raising funds.
Thanks to all.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2raising capital
William Stein
5 +1raise funds
Simona de Logu
5 +1funding
Manuel Cedeño Berrueta
5raise resources
Michael Powers (PhD)
5attract funds
Marian Greenfield


  

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raising capital


Explanation:
or
raising funds
Known in the trade as "hunting up venture capitalist pigs"

William Stein
Costa Rica
Local time: 09:02
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 1214
Grading comment
I'm going to go with raising funds.
Thanks to all.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gordana Podvezanec
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agree  Belinda Adams
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raise resources


Explanation:
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Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 11:02
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raise funds


Explanation:
another possibility.

Simona de Logu
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:02
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Henrique Magalhaes
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attract funds


Explanation:
or raise funds

I wouldn't go with raise capital:

banks do this by attracting deposits... companies in many ways... could be capital or through debt issues...

Marian Greenfield
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funding


Explanation:
Lozano Irueste y Gil Esteban dan “funding” como primera opción; Lozano Irueste da también “fund-raising” y “drumming-up of funds/resources”.

También he visto “taking funds”.

Saludos,

Manuel


Manuel Cedeño Berrueta
Local time: 11:02
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 1154

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lorianne Weston: funding works very nicely here because of the object: funding projects...
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