Course curriculum

    1. Pre-Requisite Video: Virtual Market Pitch

    2. Pre-Requisite Video: Distort Labs Pitch

    3. Pre-Requisite Video: Reality Bytes Pitch

    4. Pre-Lesson Form

    5. Slides: Fundamentals of Venture Finance

    6. Fundamentals of Venture Finance

    7. Case Study: Valuing a Start-up

    1. Slides: Term Sheet Theory

    2. Term Sheet Theory

    3. Case Study: Sample Term Sheet

    1. Slides: Fundamentals of Building a Cap Table

    2. Fundamentals of Building a Cap Table

    3. Case Study: Modeling a Series A

    4. Case Study: Modeling a Series A Fundraise (Class Spreadsheet)

    5. Slides: Fundamentals of Building an Exit Waterfall

    6. Developing an Exit Waterfall

    1. Pre-Session Exercise

    2. Board Governance Theory: Part I

    3. Fundamentals of Board Governance

    4. Board Governance Theory: Part II

    5. Wateng Systems Inc Case

    6. Case Study - Board Governance

    1. MedTech Live Lab

    2. Cybersecurity Live Lab

    3. ClimateTech Live Lab

    4. CleanTech Presentation by Val Chiykowski

    5. CleanTech Pre-Read: Direct Air Capture

    6. FinTech Live Lab

About this course

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  • 28 lessons

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Meet Your Instructors

Adam Sterling

Assistant Dean (Executive Education), Berkeley Law

In addition to his administrative duties, Adam teaches courses and oversees research on topics including venture finance, corporate governance, and ESG. Previously he was a startup and venture capital attorney at Gunderson Dettmer. Adam’s writings and work have appeared extensively in the press; including contributions to The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and The New York Times.

Katie Peardon

Partner, Fasken Emerging Tech Group

Katie Peardon is a corporate lawyer at Fasken Vancouver. She provides strategic counsel to companies in the technology sector, specializing in early-stage, venture capital, growth equity, private equity and M&A transactions.

Kate Grant

Business Advisor, Fasken Emerging Tech Group

Kate has spent her career working within the tech ecosystem assisting in growing and scaling startups and emerging companies. Currently, I she is an active advisor and work within the North American ecosystem as an angel investor.

Lindsay Clark

Counsel, Fasken Emerging Tech Group

Lindsay advises growing technology companies on a full range of corporate and commercial matters. She has acted extensively as a trusted advisor to early-stage and venture-backed technology companies throughout Canada. She also regularly acts for Canadian, US and other international funds and companies investing in, or purchasing, growth-stage technology companies.

Laura Fetter

Counsel, Fasken Emerging Tech Group

Laura is a corporate/commercial lawyer in Toronto with a reputation for performing quality work and innovative thinking. As a member of the firm’s Emerging Technology group, Laura advises clients regarding formation, governance, financings, acquisitions, exits, and commercial contracts.

Taylor Davidson

Founder & CEO, Foresight

Taylor Davidson helps entrepreneurs and investors create and use financial models for business decisions through his template financial models, professional development classes, and strategic advisory services at Foresight. He has worked with over 50k founders and investors worldwide since 1998 on financial projections, investment strategy, fundraising, and business strategy.

Michael Robinson, CFA, ICD.D

Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, University of Calgary

Dr. Michael Robinson is a Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance in the Haskayne School at the University of Calgary and has been an angel investor, a venture capitalist, and a private equity board member at various stages of his career. He has recently published a book, Founder’s Guide to Governance: Beyond a Good Idea, that is being used in credit and Executive Education programs across Canada.

Val Chiykowski, PhD

Associate, Evok Innovations

At Evok Innovations, Val leans in heavily on the technical due diligence for Series A clean-tech companies and the development of investment theses. Prior to Evok, Val worked with the Creative Destruction Lab to develop mentorship programming for advanced material start-ups and SDTC to provide non-dilutive funding to cleantech companies. She holds a BSc and PhD in Chemistry and Materials.

Laviva Mazhar

Principal, Luge Capital

At Luge Capital, Laviva focuses fintech investment opportunities. She is also involved with various organizations as an advisor including Founder Institute, Front Row Ventures, Holt Accelerator, InsurTechNY and InsurTech North. She was selected to be on the 2017 Global Women in FinTech Powerlist and on Canada’s 2019 Top 50 Women in Fintech by Digital Finance Institute.

Meryeme Lahmami

Principal, Pender Ventures

Meryeme joined Pender Ventures in 2022 to help further develop its health tech investing practice. Previously, she worked at BDC Capital’s Women in Tech Venture Fund, where she led investments in early-stage and growth companies across biotech, enterprise software and digital health.

Etienne Gauthier

Associate, Inovia Capital

Etienne participates in investment sourcing activities, due diligence efforts, and post-investment support to portfolio companies. Before joining Inovia, Etienne was a Growth Equity Investment Analyst at CDPQ, the second-largest pension fund in Canada, where he focused on investment opportunities from Series C to pre-IPO, mainly in the sector of B2B SaaS. Prior to CDPQ, he worked in Strategy Consulting at Roland Berger, supporting large-scale organizations and Private Equity investors in their strategic planning and commercial due diligence efforts.