Venture Capital Private Equity Program

After completing the foundational models in VC and PE, you can choose between two comprehensive specialized electives, each meticulously crafted for VC and PE, respectively. These electives delve deeper, presenting you with critical insights that go beyond the basics.

• VC Decision Making: This elective will help you learn how to create a successful investment strategy to improve venture fund performance. You will establish your individual investment criteria and intelligently diversify your portfolio.

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• Leveraged Buyouts: This elective will help you build a comprehensive understanding of leveraged buyouts (LBO) and the process of completing them. You will learn how to evaluate a potential LBO opportunity in PE and effectively execute the deal.

Note: Session topics are subject to change.

You will take part in mandatory live online series led by Columbia Business School faculty, applying learnings from core modules. These sessions will improve and expand your understanding of venture capital funding strategies and help you better assess various industries and startups for their economic potential. Apart from gaining a strategic eye, they will also inform you about the latest regulatory landscape in private equity.

• Evaluating a Startup

• Assessing an Industry

• Navigating an Exit

• Understanding the Private Equity Valuation Creation Levers: The LBO Model and Beyond

• The Eyes of a Strategic

• Say It Ain't So: The Evolving Regulatory Landscape Facing Private Equity

Note: Live online series topics are subject to change.

Venture Capital Capstone

In the VC capstone project, you will assess the investment potential of two organizations that participated in an Entrepreneur Roundtable Accelerator Online Demo Day, a showcase where investors can learn more about investment opportunities. You will watch pitches for each organization. Then, applying your learnings from the program, you will answer a series of diligence questions to evaluate each option. Your answers will serve as the basis for a diligence summary that you will submit for faculty feedback. Challenges addressed in this capstone include identifying risks and rewards and performing thorough diligence encompassing people, problems, progress, and price.

Private Equity Capstone

In the PE capstone project, you will select an organization and evaluate its investment potential, focusing on the sourcing and due diligence steps of the deal process. Applying what you have learned, you will answer a series of questions to identify, define, and analyze the components needed to complete a PE transaction. Your answers will serve as the basis for a diligence summary that you will submit for faculty feedback. Challenges addressed in this capstone include recognizing a sound investment, measuring ESG, valuing a potential investment, determining the purchase price, and developing an exit strategy.

A choice of one in-person open-enrollment elective offered in three locations — New York City, Dubai, and Paris will enable you to focus on a specialization of your interest and help unravel the intricacies of your selected topic. Designed to enhance your understanding of the VC and PE sectors, it will help position you as a serious investment strategist aiming to take your organization to newer heights. A list of select current availabilities is below:

• Driving Strategic Impact

• Financial Analysis and Valuation

• Leading in a Data-Driven World: Developing Quantitative Intuition™

• Persuasion Strategies

• Real Estate Investing

Note: While Columbia Business School Executive Education will attempt to accommodate participant preference selections, we cannot guarantee that all preferences will be granted due to the high demand for our open-enrollment programs. Electives are subject to change.

Meet your cohort peers and faculty in person on Columbia Business School’s Manhattanville Campus in New York City during an optional two-day networking event. This event provides you with an opportunity to network with your peers as well as professionals from other cohorts to create a lifelong community of global executives.

Note: Session topics and networking event duration are subject to change.

This private equity program provides essential skills, knowledge, and networking opportunities that can significantly enhance your prospects of entering the private equity field. It helps you discover deal evaluation, portfolio management, and value creation strategies.

Yes, the venture capital program covers crucial aspects of venture capital, including startup evaluation, term sheet structuring, and portfolio management, which are essential for those aspiring to become venture capitalists.

Yes, the program includes specialized electives that allow you to dive deeper into either venture capital or private equity, depending on your career goals.

The program includes peer learning with high-achieving professionals from around the globe and an optional two-day on-campus networking event, helping you build valuable connections in the private equity industry.

While the program does not specifically focus on how to start a venture capital firm or starting a private equity firm, it does provide in-depth knowledge of venture capital operations, decision-making processes, and industry best practices, which are crucial for those considering launching their own venture capital firms.

Yes, the program includes financial analysis and valuation modules that cover essential aspects of private equity accounting and financial management.

The Venture Capital and Private Equity Program spans 9 to 12 months, allowing for a comprehensive learning experience while accommodating working professionals.

Yes, the Venture Capital and Private Equity Program includes a capstone project that allows you to apply your learnings to a real-world case, demonstrating your ability to tackle complex investment scenarios.

The Venture Capital Private Equity Program has been designed with your busy schedule in mind. You will be required to commit no more than three to five hours per week, enabling you to benefit from this transformative program while fulfilling your day-to-day work responsibilities. The impactful program offers a blend of self-paced modules and live interactions.

The 9- to 12-month learning journey includes live online and video online sessions with renowned faculty, industry experts, and global peers. You can take advantage of weekly live sessions and the Slack channel to ask questions and discuss ideas with your cohort participants. Real-world examples and a debrief of the program learnings are delivered through a combination of recorded video and live online lectures. The program concludes with an optional two-day on-campus networking event on the Columbia Business School campus in New York City.

The program fee covers teaching fees, all academic material, and access to online coursework. The fee does not include accommodations for the two-day in-person networking event, travel expenses (domestic, international, visa fee, and more), and other expenses not specifically mentioned in the fees.

You can pay the full program fee up front or pay in easy installments. If you apply well in advance of the program start date, you can receive a fee benefit. If you would like to approach your company with a sponsorship request for this program, here is a customizable template that you can use.

Yes. Closed-captioning and transcripts for all pre-recorded videos as well as closed-captioning for recordings of live sessions is available.

Emeritus collects all program payments, provides learner enrollment and program support, and manages learning platform services.

For the program refund and deferral policy, please click the link here.

Program fees for Emeritus programs with Columbia Business School Executive Education may not be paid for with Title IV financial aid funds. Participants may be able to pay the program fee with funds from the GI Bill, the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Act of 2008, or similar types of military education funding benefits. Participants must contact the Columbia University’s Office of Military and Veterans Affairs to determine benefit eligibility.

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