Private Markets

Venture Capital

Cap tables, term sheets and fund economics.

Overview

The mechanics of early-stage investing that every VC professional and founder-facing investor needs. We cover cap tables, term sheets, valuation and the fund economics that sit behind the cheque.

Who it's for: VC professionals, angels, and corporate venture teams.

What you'll cover

  • Cap tables: ownership, option pools and dilution
  • Pre-money and post-money valuation
  • Term sheets: economics and control
  • Convertible notes, SAFEs and priced rounds
  • Fund economics: waterfalls, carry and the J-curve
  • Modelling ownership and returns across rounds

What delegates can do afterwards

  • Build and interpret a cap table across multiple financing rounds
  • Calculate pre- and post-money valuation, dilution and ownership
  • Interpret the economic and control terms in a term sheet
  • Explain fund economics, including waterfalls, carry and the J-curve

Discuss a programme

Tell us who the programme is for, roughly how many delegates, and what they need to be able to do afterwards. We will come back with a proposed structure and outline.