Cresco's Master Class #6 : Venture Capital and Corporate Venture Capital

Startups and scaleups typically raise external equity funding from investors to grow their business to the next stage. From day 1 such equity funding needs to be carefully thought through at the strategic, financial, business and governance level. Raising equity funding from corporates (so-called CVC) adds another layer of complexity because of the strategic nature of such investment.

Topics:

• Design and structuring of a capital raising strategy, from (pre)seed through different series of growth capital
• Design and structuring of a governance model tailored to the development and growth stage
• Need for balanced relationships with corporate investors, from a freedom to operate, fundraising and exit perspective

What will you learn:

• How to plan for and negotiate with various types of investors, from business angels to venture capital investors
• How to pro-actively plan your capital raising strategy, adequately balancing valuation with investor protection
• How to align founders/management and investors from a governance and exit perspective
• How to negotiate with a corporate investo

Each master class starts at 12 am, lunch is included.

Host or Publisher La Grand Poste