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Gain the critical skills needed to evaluate and invest in early-stage startups
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The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events SpecialistRecent years have seen a global rise in the size of seed and angel investment deals. Investors are finding more opportunities to drive innovation, create jobs, and bolster their own wealth-generating portfolios through early-stage investment.
Would you like to go from being a potential investor to a key player in scaling promising startups? You’ll need the ability to find and evaluate opportunities as well as have familiarity with risks and rewards, portfolio management, and networking skills.
Join us for Angel Investing (Online) to learn angel investing methodologies through a blend of academic and practitioner-based training. Your Faculty Director is Angela Lee, the founder of 37 Angels, an investing network that has evaluated over 20,000 startups. Plus, pre-recorded interviews with eminent industry veterans David Beatty and Joanne Wilson will provide an insider’s perspective and bring to life many of the concepts taught in the program by discussing real-world scenarios from the angel investment space.
Value of seed and angel deals in the second quarter of 2021, approximately US$2.5B higher than the previous year’s same quarter.
Increased likelihood of survival past four years when startups receive angel investment.
The increase in angel investing groups in the United States since 2000.
By the end of the program, you will be able to:
High net-worth investors seeking tools to identify and invest in promising startups:
Early-stage startup entrepreneurs seeking to understand an investor’s perspective and learn strategies to secure funding:
Explore how angel investing fits into the startup ecosystem, including identifying players and stakeholders. Explore the risks and rewards and the different stages of startup funding.
Learn how to shortlist high opportunity startups and determine investment and market potential. Explore due diligence and discuss non-negotiables and red flags with founding teams.
Discuss how the term sheet negotiation process lays the groundwork for investment, including structures, financial terms, and governance terms. Learn to calculate ownership dilution across the life of a startup.
Review the methodologies of determining value and investment potential. Learn to assess a startup’s risk and ability to mitigate them, create a valuation scorecard, and calculate startup exit value.
Understand how to create wealth through a healthy portfolio and discuss refinancing and exit strategies. Identify and develop your own portfolio strategy and calculate the value of your portfolio over time.
Learn through real-world examples from lead faculty, who will share lessons learned from the industry. Discuss the role of negotiation, networking, mentorship, and other soft skills in advancing your investing agenda.
Explore how angel investing fits into the startup ecosystem, including identifying players and stakeholders. Explore the risks and rewards and the different stages of startup funding.
Review the methodologies of determining value and investment potential. Learn to assess a startup’s risk and ability to mitigate them, create a valuation scorecard, and calculate startup exit value.
Learn how to shortlist high opportunity startups and determine investment and market potential. Explore due diligence and discuss non-negotiables and red flags with founding teams.
Understand how to create wealth through a healthy portfolio and discuss refinancing and exit strategies. Identify and develop your own portfolio strategy and calculate the value of your portfolio over time.
Discuss how the term sheet negotiation process lays the groundwork for investment, including structures, financial terms, and governance terms. Learn to calculate ownership dilution across the life of a startup.
Learn through real-world examples from lead faculty, who will share lessons learned from the industry. Discuss the role of negotiation, networking, mentorship, and other soft skills in advancing your investing agenda.
World-Renowned Faculty
Learn from accomplished faculty, and industry experts whose diverse backgrounds encompass a broad range of disciplines
Guest Speakers
Accomplished academics and experts offer unique perspectives and the opportunity to put learning into practice
Peer Interaction
Stimulating discussions with like-minded global peers expand your professional network and build a supportive community
Engaging Assignments and Activities
Hone business acumen and executive skills with try-it activities that help you redefine your potential
Investor Interviews
Your program experience includes extensive insight into current angel investing trends through recorded investor interviews with seasoned experts in the field, including:
Boost Your Network
Learn how to effectively grow your network and leverage it to advance your investing agenda, and build a value-proposition pitch to use when introducing yourself to potential connections.
Angela Lee
Professor of Professional Practice in Finance, The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center, Columbia Business School
Angela Lee is an award-winning professor and former Chief Innovation Officer at Columbia Business School, where she teaches venture capital and leadership programs. Angela started her career in Product Management and then moved to consulting at McKinsey & Company. She launched four startups and is also the founder of 37 Angels, an investing network that has evaluated over 20,000 startups and invested in 90+ startups.
She also serves as a venture partner at Fresco Capital, an early-stage venture fund that focuses on the future of work, digital health, and sustainability. She was awarded the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence at Columbia Business School in 2020 and won the Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom in 2022.
Angela has spoken at the White House and NASA and is an expert in teaching online and making learning scalable. She is a sought-after expert on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, MSNBC, and Fox Business. She was also recognized by Inc. as one of the 17 Inspiring Women to Watch, by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the six Innovative Women to Watch, and by Crain’s as a Notable Women in Tech.
David Beatty
Joanne Wilson
Upon completion of the Angel Investing (Online) program, you will receive a certificate of participation from Columbia Business School Executive Education. This certificate also awards two credits towards the Certificate in Business Excellence, which grants select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn More
Download BrochureYour digitally verified certificate will be issued in your legal name and emailed to you, at no additional cost, upon completion of the program, including all modules of the program (online, in person, or live online, inter-module). All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Columbia Business School Executive Education.
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