Dutch East India Company
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- 1. a Dutch trading company founded in 1621 to develop Dutch trading interests in western India, South America, and West Africa.
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Dutch chartered company responsible for trade and colonization in the New World
The Dutch West India Company or WIC was a chartered company of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors, formally known as GWC. Among its founders were Reynier Pauw, Willem Usselincx, and Jessé de Forest. Wikipedia