IE Business School

Advanced Venture Capital: Managing and Growing a VC Firm

IE Business School

Finance

About Programme

The program will deliver the financial and management tools and share the expertise of seasoned practitioners to build, manage and grow a VC firm. This uniquely comprehensive program covers everything you need to know to scale your VC fund or firm to the next level. It covers the main challenges investors face when building and running a VC firm, and managing the portfolio. Expert practitioners will share proven methodologies and their insights on how to define a VC firm’s value proposition and investment strategy, structure the fund, raise the funds, build strong relationships with LPs, manage the portfolio, create value, set up an effective monitoring and reporting system, and compensate staff and partners, among other topics.

Programme Content

Scaling up from business angel to managing a VC firm is not a simple task and requires specific knowledge and tools that either you learn by trial and error, or you obtain from seasoned practitioners that have gone through the process, backed by proven methodologies.

BUILDING THE FIRM

Fund strategy
Value proposition
Fundraising
Investor relations
Firm structure
GP-LP contracts
The entrepreneurial nature of a VC firm

MANAGING THE PORTFOLIO

Investment strategy
Portfolio management
Capital allocation
Managing company boards
Value creation
Desinvestment strategy

RUNNING THE FIRM

Governance bodies
Building the team
Partner/staff compensation
Compliance
Monitoring and reporting

Programme Audience

Business angels and individual VC investors
Fund managers and GPs
LPs of VC funds/firms
VC portfolio managers
Corporate VCs
Family offices
VC service providers (legal and finance advisors, consultants)
Financial institutions with an interest in VC investing (fund of funds, pension funds, mutual funds, sovereign funds, endowments, banks)

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