Kickstart your venture investing journey.
The 4-month venture investing accelerator will help a select few participants build & sharpen their investing skills, gain practical experience in making investments, and understand the inner workshops & recent changes in the Indian venture capital and startup ecosystem. The accelerator is built both for investors who have just started out, and those who are planning to start investing. The cohort will be carefully selected to ensure suitable diversity and maximised peer learning.
A 3-day intensive and immersive bootcamp on the IIM Ahmedabad campus. The participants will meet with their peers and engage with their instructors in-person.
Participants will learn directly theoretical and practical basics from the best in the industry. Learning sessions delivered by IIMA professors, Partners at IIMA Ventures, and leading industry experts
Participants access exclusive curriculum designed by IIMA professors, IIMA Venture Partners, and leading industry experts. They will also access case-based learning sessions by IIMA professors with India-centric investment cases.
After the bootcamp, each participant will access shadow-guidance from team members of the IIMA Ventures’ in-house investing team, through 30-60 minute progress virtual checkins, ensuring that the theory learnt at the bootcamp is ingrained via practice.
Participants will build a rich network by interacting with their peers, professors, investors, startup founders, and other crucial stakeholders of the VC ecosystem.
The Venture Investing Accelerator is the only program participants will need to kickstart their venture investing careers, as it lets them start working on a live deal under the mentorship of IIMA Ventures’ investing experts.
Understand startups, how they work and create value. Get acquainted with the investment landscape, fund types & investment stages. Understand risk-return frameworks, and more.
Develop an investment thesis. Understand the role of LPs, discover other must-knows of operating in equity and venture debt investment space.
Developing a comprehensive approach for developing sourcing channels, evaluating rubrics for selecting startups, preparing investment memos.
Learn about governing bodies and important compliance requirements, understand how to structure funds, develop a view on fund level P&L, how to structure incentives and distribution.
Learn about building & structuring deal flows, performance monitoring, frameworks, designing profitable liquidity events, designing & documenting exit plans.
Learn the approach to startup performance metrics (financial, traction, other) through different growth stages & sectors, structuring MIS reporting for investees, guiding & supporting startups, board seats, and developing indicators for exits.
Learn valuation methodologies for startups, understand & structure dilution for value protection, stricture term sheets.
Build a scouting and evaluation framework to maximise investment outcomes for GPs.
Unpack the complexities around syndication including conflicts, secondaries and LP reporting and taxation.
Get acquainted with the right technology tools for fund management and build team-leading mindsets and capabilities.
In person boot camp tailormade for new investors and case-based teaching methodologies. Dive into India-centric case-studies for improved learning.
30-60 minutes check-ins with IIMA Ventures team or subject matter experts to provide guidance.
