How to Model Venture Funds

9.5

(10 ratings)

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1 Day

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Cohort-based Course

Live 3 hour workshop for angels, syndicate leads, and venture investors to learn how to model venture funds.

Hosted by

Taylor Davidson

I've helped over 47,000 founders and investors as Founder/CEO of Foresight

Course overview

Understand how the economics of venture funds work

Starting a fund, syndicate, or getting started with angel investing? It's important to understand how to budget for investments and forecast returns for your limited partners. Come for the education, leave with a model you can use.


The workshop is three hours long and can be joined live or watched on your own time. All students will receive the slides, the example spreadsheet, the case study, and the recording of the full workshop, and all of the materials can be downloaded for viewing on your own time.

Who is this course for

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First-time general partners and junior venture capitalists working on a venture capital fund.

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Syndicate leads and angel investors wanting to structure their investing tracking and reporting.

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Founders or executives looking to understand how the economics of venture funds work.

Key outcomes

Model fund capital budgeting and deployment

How to use assumptions around fund size, management fees, and expenses to create a forecast of called capital, expenses, and invested capital over time.

Create a portfolio construction model

Cover a few common ways of approaching portfolio construction models and discuss the pros and cons of each, and how to use them in our forecast of investments and proceeds. We will cover simple and complicated ways of forecasting portfolios.

How to model proceeds and distributions

Using our forecast of invested capital and our portfolio construction logic, we will cover how to create a forecast of proceeds from investments and a waterfall of distributions, including preferred returns, GP catchups, and carried interest.

Present key metrics and key reports

Using our forecast of fund cash flows, we will introduce how to calculate unrealized gains and residual values, using our portfolio construction approach to forecast the underlying changes in value in the portfolio not captured in our realized cash flow forecasts.

Bonus: Model a management company

This is a bonus session using prerecorded video, to cover how to model the forecasted revenues and expenses for the management company. If time, will address questions and comments in the session.

9.5

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See what people are saying

        I have followed the content of Taylor on how to model VC funds (blog posts, templates, videos) and this course wraps it all up. Excellent for understanding the basics and the most important concepts.
Joaquin Stephens

Joaquin Stephens

Partner
        Excellent course. It is a difficult topic to present as attendees will have different experience levels - and Taylor did a great job making this work for all attendees.
Howie Schwartz

Howie Schwartz

Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
        This course was great because you could get real-world practice with a realistic VC fund model and work through some of the issues you would face in actually building your own from scratch. Very helpful for my growth.
Brett Long

Brett Long

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How to Model Venture Funds

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$379 USD

Dates

Apr 19, 2023

Payment Deadline

Apr 19, 2023

Meet your instructor

Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson

Founder and Managing Director, Foresight

Taylor Davidson is the founder of Foresight, which helps entrepreneurs use financial models for business decisions.


Through his template financial models and strategic advisory services, he has helped over 44,000 entrepreneurs from 116 countries on financial planning, projections, fundraising, valuations, and business strategy.


Taylor has also worked with over 600 angel investors and venture funds on investment strategy, portfolio tracking, capital planning, and fundraising.


He created this workshop to help first-time founders and junior venture capitalists learn the fundamentals of modeling cap tables.


He created the Cap Table and Exit Waterfall Masterclass to help founders and VCs learn how to understand and build cap tables and exit waterfalls for their financing rounds.


He partnered with Chris Wattig to create Finance for Founders to help founders learn how to build an FP&A function at their companies.


Contact him at hello@foresight.is or @tdavidson on Twitter.

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Join an upcoming cohort

How to Model Venture Funds

Cohort 3

$379 USD

Dates

Apr 19, 2023

Payment Deadline

Apr 19, 2023

Workshop Details

3 hour workshop
  • Wednesday, April 19

    12:00pm - 3:00pm EST

    Modeling a venture fund from start to finish in three hours, with Q&A, live over Zoom.

  • Build a model you can use

    We'll build a model live, and you'll leave with a model you can use and the knowledge to build your own from scratch.

  • No required homework or prereading

    Structured to be manageable for busy professionals with actionable takeaways that you can use in your businesses today.

  • Join live, watch anytime

    The workshop will be recorded, so you can watch again if you have to miss a section, or just want a refresh on the material.

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Join an upcoming cohort

How to Model Venture Funds

Cohort 3

$379 USD

Dates

Apr 19, 2023

Payment Deadline

Apr 19, 2023

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Join an upcoming cohort

How to Model Venture Funds

Cohort 3

$379 USD

Dates

Apr 19, 2023

Payment Deadline

Apr 19, 2023

$379 USD

9.5

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