Step-by-Step Guide to Raising VC (taught by a former VC)
Taught to Harvard Business School founders, this class is a field manual that will spell out each step of the process.
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Taught to Harvard Business School founders, this class is a field manual that will spell out each step of the process.
Raising Venture Capital is a nebulous process. The concepts of VC fundraising are actually very simple - the problem is that they are unwritten. This bootcamp is meant to serve as a step-by-step guide to help you prepare for and execute the fundraising process with confidence. This is a class that was taught to several Harvard Business School founders in January of 2024.
Filled with real exercises, templates, and guest lectures from 4 different seed stage venture capitalists, this class is meant to serve as a field manual to help you raise capital.
Why did we design this course? If you've ever taught some one your favorite card or board game and watched them play for the first time, you'll empathize with the pain you feel watching some one make all the classic mistakes. As venture investors, that is how we felt watching our portfolio companies fundraise. This was not because they were unsophisticated or lacked the capability. It was because we had the benefit of seeing dozens of transactions every month, watching the best of the best fundraise. Our Founders on the other hand, had to spend all their time working on their business and often would only fundraise once every 18-36 months.
We built this playbook to ensure our Founders didn't make those common simple mistakes that so many founders make in their fundraising journey. We wanted to give our Founders a simple playbook that they could follow to ensure they ran a competitive, momentum driven process and got the best outcome they could for their business. Therefore, this course is not about theory. This is a field manual that will guide you along the steps to get the best terms for your startup.
Today, this playbook has been transformed into a talk that has been given at accelerators and some of the top MBA programs in the world, including Wharton, Harvard Business School, and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.
It is taught by Oliver Spalding, an Instructor at The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and early-stage investor. It is TA'd by Pancrazio Auteri, a multi-time exited founder & CPO who now serves as a coach for Berkely Haas's SkyDeck Accelerator program.
