9th stream of the Venture Analyst online course kicks off

On April 23, with the support of IT Park, the 9th stream of the Venture Analyst online course is launched, designed for future and current venture investors, business angels, employees of accelerators and innovation departments of corporations, as well as startup founders.

The program will last 4 weeks, participation is free. The classes will be conducted by Investment Director of I2BF Global Ventures Denis Kalyshkin.

During the course, participants will learn:

• what is a venture fund and how does it work;
• market and competition analysis for a startup;
• main terms of the transaction (term sheet);
• capitalization table (cap table);
• investment memorandum, start-up analysis criteria, errors and cognitive distortions of a venture investor;
• Due Diligence process;
•  analysis of financial metrics of a startup and building a financial model;
• venture fund portfolio management, risk balancing, fund life cycle;
• group case studies: a) analysis of the Latin American venture market), b) analysis of the investment memorandum of Twitch based on the investment memorandum of the Bessemer fund;
• additional self-study materials and webinars on a career in a venture fund;
• online question and answer sessions with Denis Kalyshkin.

To date, the total number of course participants has exceeded 6,000 people.

You can sign up for the program by following the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2SrmMJKHjDW0rM9T0MW-Ym5u8n1VYaOZHZJve7ldQAY5IwA/viewform

About the organizer:

Denis Kalyshkin is an Investment Director of I2BF Global Ventures, more than 8 years of investment experience in the US and CIS with a focus on startups that transform old and boring industries (manufacturing, construction, logistics, etc.) using modern technologies (AI, Internet of things, RPA, robots and automation, SaaS, AR/VR).