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Venture Capital Masterclass

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  Course Bundle: Venture Capital Investment Process + Fund Strategy

Venture Capital Masterclass

  •   3 Courses
  •   27h 41m
  •   19,566 Students

Wall Street Prep’s comprehensive masterclass covering the full venture capital investment process. Learn how top venture capital firms source deals, analyze markets, structure investments, guide portfolio companies, and generate returns for their funds.

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Your Complete Guide to Navigating Venture Capital in the Real World

WSP Venture Capital Masterclass
WSP Venture Capital Masterclass

This job-focused training program teaches what firms look for, how to network effectively, how to interact with founders, and how to position your experience to stand out in a competitive recruiting environment.

Learn Directly From Venture Capital Practitioners

This course is designed for those in or pursuing a career in venture capital, as well as founders and operators who want to understand how VC investors evaluate opportunities. Guided step-by-step by VC professionals, you will learn how venture capitalists develop investment theses, assess markets, meet founders, and evaluate companies using real examples and frameworks used inside top-tier firms.

Hands-On Training Across the Full VC Deal Process

Go beyond theory through practical exercises in sourcing, due diligence, financial modeling, cap table analysis, and term sheet evaluation. Work through case studies including Uber’s fundraising history to understand how great companies are financed and how top firms like Sequoia, Benchmark, a16z, and Tiger Global make investment decisions.

Master Venture Capital Fund Strategy and Exit Outcomes

Understand the venture capital business model, how funds are structured, and how returns are measured using metrics like IRR, MOIC, TVPI, DPI, and RVPI. Learn how investors support companies after the deal through board involvement and governance, and how exits are structured across M&A and IPO scenarios.

What You Will Learn

How Venture Capitalists Build Investment Conviction

Understand how professional investors form a differentiated point of view on markets and identify opportunities capable of venture-scale returns.

  • Evaluating market structure, growth vectors and secular tailwinds
  • Calculating TAM, SAM, and SOM using both top-down and bottom-up approaches, including the limitations of TAM as a predictive tool in venture capital
  • Identifying compounding engines of value creation and early signals of breakout potential versus false positives

Founder Evaluation and Investor Alignment

Learn how top investors assess founders and early company quality when traditional financial data is insufficient.

  • Founder-market fit and behavioral indicators of exceptional operators
  • Aligning incentives between founders and investors to reduce long-term agency risk

Deal Sourcing and Proprietary Access

Study how elite investors create advantaged deal flow and secure allocations ahead of the broader market.

  • Developing proprietary sourcing engines through outbound outreach, founder references and utilizing your network
  • Building a high value network in a market known for its “co-opetition”

Deal Structuring and Term Sheet Economics

Learn how investment teams structure investments to align incentives and limit their downside risk throughout the full financing lifecycle.

  • Modeling and managing cap tables to evaluate unpriced rounds (SAFEs and Convertible Notes) and priced rounds (Seed, Series A, Series B, etc.)
  • Creating and analyzing term sheets - know the impact of liquidation preferences, participation rights, anti-dilution mechanics, and control provisions on your investments

Portfolio Support, Governance, and Outcome Management

Understand the responsibilities of investors post-investment and the mechanisms that drive value creation across a portfolio.

  • Board management, corporate governance, and conflict resolution between investors and founders
  • Operational value creation models and post-investment support structures

Fund Strategy, Portfolio Construction, and Return Distribution

Gain a sophisticated understanding of the “business of venture capital,” including how venture fund strategy shapes investment behavior and long-term performance.

  • The VC fund legal structure, capital calls, co-investment strategy, and LP expectations
  • Measuring fund performance through IRR, MOIC, TVPI, DPI, RVPI, and the power law distribution that drives portfolio construction decisions

Breaking Into Venture Capital

Develop a practical strategy for entering and succeeding within a competitive industry environment.

  • Building credibility, developing a differentiated voice, and demonstrating proprietary insight
  • Networking strategies that create real access to firms, founders, and LPs
  • Preparing for interviews through thesis presentation, market analysis, and investment case articulation

Who Should Take This Course?

  • Aspiring & Incoming
    VC Analysts
  • VC Associates
    & Investors
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Start-up Employees
    & Execs
  • MBAs & Business
    Undergrads

This is the same training program Wall Street Prep delivers in-house to investment professionals at growth equity, private equity, and technology-focused investment firms evaluating venture-backed companies

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Get the Venture Capital Masterclass Certification

VC Masterclass learners are eligible to earn Wall Street Prep's globally recognized Venture Capital Masterclass Certification. The certification is earned by successfully completing the final exam from each of the program's 7 courses. These online assessments can be taken any time after enrollment in the program.

What's Included

88 Lessons
9h 46m

LBO Modeling

 88 Lessons  9h 46m

Leveraged buyout (LBO) modeling is used widely by investment banks and private equity firms and is often part of a finance interview. In this course, you will learn how to build a real, complex LBO model from scratch.  You will start by learning about basic LBO concepts, typical deal structures, and current industry dynamics. You will then begin th ...

Leveraged buyout (LBO) modeling is used widely by investment banks and private equity firms and is often part of a finance interview. In this course, you will learn how to build a real, complex LBO mo ...

Leveraged buyout (LBO) modeling is used widely by investment banks and private equity firms and is o ...

132 Lessons
5h 6m

The Private Equity Deal Process

 132 Lessons  5h 6m

Led by former private equity professionals, this course takes a deep dive into the Private Equity deal process and the day-to-day responsibilities of a PE professional. Designed for incoming and prospective PE associates as well as investment bankers and lenders working with PE clients, this boot camp is an insider's walkthrough of the key phases o ...

Led by former private equity professionals, this course takes a deep dive into the Private Equity deal process and the day-to-day responsibilities of a PE professional. Designed for incoming and prosp ...

Led by former private equity professionals, this course takes a deep dive into the Private Equity de ...

118 Lessons
12h 49m

LBO Modeling in the Lower Middle Market

 118 Lessons  12h 49m

This LBO modeling-focused course focuses on a Middle Market transaction, where private equity professionals often operate with little structure. First, you will listen in on a conference call with the Managing Partner of a hypothetical private equity firm and, through step-by-step videos, learn to build a monthly LBO model from scratch that answers ...

This LBO modeling-focused course focuses on a Middle Market transaction, where private equity professionals often operate with little structure. First, you will listen in on a conference call with the ...

This LBO modeling-focused course focuses on a Middle Market transaction, where private equity profes ...

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Venture Capital Masterclass Highlights

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highlights intuitive Intuitive, Practical, and Built for the Real VC Workflow

Wall Street Prep’s Venture Capital Masterclass is designed to be intuitive, self-paced, and deeply practical. The program walks learners through the full venture capital investment lifecycle, from sourcing and thesis development to diligence, deal execution, and portfolio support. Using real-world case studies including Uber’s fundraising history, learners engage with authentic VC workflows such as market sizing, founder evaluation, cap table modeling, and term sheet analysis. The course emphasizes how venture capital decisions are actually made inside top firms and what it takes to think and operate like a professional VC investor.

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highlights support center Expert-Led Support Center

Upon enrollment, students receive free and unlimited access to Wall Street Prep’s Online Support Center. Learners can ask questions, download updated resources, and receive guidance from a dedicated support team made up of experienced finance and investing professionals. This ensures clarity on complex venture topics such as fund economics, term sheet mechanics, valuation tradeoffs, and portfolio construction, helping learners confidently apply concepts to real investment scenarios.

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highlights tutoring Private Online Tutoring (Additional Fee Applies)

For those seeking personalized guidance, live one-on-one online tutoring is available for an additional fee. Sessions are conducted via video chat and allow students to work directly with experienced professionals on venture-specific topics such as investment thesis development, cap table modeling, or interview preparation. Tutors and students can collaborate in real time using shared models, a virtual whiteboard, and integrated file sharing to deepen understanding and accelerate learning outcomes.

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Prerequisites

The program assumes a basic introductory knowledge of accounting (e.g. interaction of balance sheet, cash flow, and income statement) and proficiency in Excel. Students with no prior background in Accounting should enroll in the Accounting Crash Course. Students with limited experience using Excel should enroll in the Excel Crash Course.

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