Certificate Program Venture Capital Investment Analyst

Instructor : Rajesh Mane Get entry into the world of Venture Capital & startup investments. Build a strong vocabulary of VC & startup terms. Deep dive into the basic concepts & terms used in investment industry. This session helps you understand various types of VC funds categorised by their investment strategies & focus areas.

Instructor : Rajesh Mane For your successful entry as an analyst in VC funds, you need to understand the steps for analysing any investment deal, various criteria, parameters, methods used by VC funds. You will gain first hand experience in evaluating a few world investment opportunity as case studies. The session also gives you a detailed overview of decision making framework used by global VC funds.

Instructor : Ankit Jain Understand investment stages & lifecycles including most referred terms such as Seed, Series A, Series B, Pre IPO etc. Know how such stages differ from each other, and how you will need to change your decision making process while moving from one stage to next stage. You will get an insightful knowledge into various investment strategies such as Growth, PE, Buyout / Secondaries, Debt among others.

Instructor : Ankit Jain Discover various structures to make an investment. This session helps you understand different ways such as equity, debt, CCD, CCPS, OCPS, SAFE, Single tranche / multi tranches investment methods. You will learn the best methods for different occasions to get best outcome from your VC investment.

Instructor : Rajesh Mane Know in & outs of how most successful VCs make decision to invest in fast growing consumer brands such as BoAt, MamaEarth, Mokobara when these brands were very small. Our instructors will share various terms, parameters & key information to make investment decisions for brand investments. Lean more about Unit Economics & how it plays pivotal role in analysing investment decisions.

Instructor : Rajesh Mane For you to be a successful VC, you also need to know about writing & presenting your investment analysis, research in correct format. This session will teach you how to write an investment thesis or memo. You will gain real world understanding about how analysts & investment team members present their thesis to Investment Committee members. Know investment thesis of the most successful companies in the world such as Youtube, Airbnb among others.

Instructor : Ankit Jain Most successful investments are done at idea stage in VC world! Learn more about how VCs analyse, evaluate & build confidence to invest in startups at idea stage! This session will tell you more about how VCs analyse idea stage startups without any proven business model or without any financial data! Our instructors will share a case study of a startups which got investment at idea stage, and then became $1Bn+ company in next 10 years!

Instructor : Ankit Jain Learn the most critical legal & financial aspects for a successful VC investment. Every Investment analyst have a strong hold on various legal & financial methods to protect their investments. VCs are offered ‘legal rights’ to protect their investments, you need to know how such ‘legal rights’ affect you in future if your investment performs well or how you can protect your invested capital in case of fraud or failure. Our experts will give you a good overview of legal paperwork for investments.

Instructor : Rajesh Mane To be a successful investment analyst, you should know how to keep track of your invested startups. This session will give you in-depth understand about ‘should you make more investments in the same startups if its performing very well or should you avoid investing if its not performing very well’. Most VC investors make investment in the same startup 2-3 times whenever the startup needs additional capital. Learn more about how VC evaluate startups in growth stage Vs early stage.

Instructor : Ankit Jain Due diligence is the most critical step in your investment decision making process. Most VC funds will take 2-8 weeks to conduct a detailed due diligence on startups before making the final investment. As investment analysts, you must know about perform such due diligence, our instructors will guide you on types of information to be collected for due diligence, how to collect such information, and how to analyse such information. Learn about various ‘red flags’ which are the discovered regularly.

Instructor : Rajesh Mane VCs have made significant profits by investing in marketplaces like Amazon, Zomato, Nykka. Learn about how such investment decision are made. Learn about various parameters & most important aspects while evaluating such marketplaces. How parameters & process change while investing in a marketplaces vs brands. Learn about how to perform analysis on working capital management, supply chain & distribution.

Instructor : Ankit Jain ‘EXIT’ is a term used when a VC successfully exit or divest or make profits by selling its investment to someone else. It’s crucial to understand how the most successful VCs plan their ‘EXIT’. Learn about types of EXITs, duration of EXITs, investment return calculation on EXIT. Our instructors will teach you how successful ‘EXIT’s are structured & executed. Know about challenges during ‘EXIT’ and how to overcome such challenges.

Instructors : Rajesh Mane Many successful VCs have focused investment strategies such as deeptech investments across biotech, healthcare, space tech or AI ML, or impact focused investments such as employment generation, better healthcare or clean energy solutions. Investment analysts in such VC funds are evaluating investment with different approach, this session will deep-dive into how such VCs evaluate investment opportunities, and key ingredients of a successful investment!

This is an online exam with two sections Section I of 20mins : 10 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) assessment of basic concepts. Section II of 25mins : 1 Investment Decision Case Study Section I is of 50 marks (5 marks /MCQ) and section II is of 50 marks. You need total of 60 marks to successfully complete the IAA. Successful completion of IAA leads to ‘Certificate of Merit’, and are eligible to appear for internship placements; Please note that Top 5 Candidates receive Internship Offers In VC funds. Other successful IAA candidates can apply for open opportunities. If fail to pass IAA, you can reappear for exam within a month OR you can rejoin the program in the next batch without any additional fees for one more time.