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Venture Capitalist

Venture decisions get made with nothing to compare against. You size a market bottom up, read a term sheet for its preference, and follow dilution across rounds.

Venture Capitalist careers are found across firms like

Accel
Peak XV
Sequoia
Lightspeed
Bessemer

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Practise the questions firms actually asked

100 real Venture Capital interview questions from 12 firms, each with a model answer and the mistakes to avoid.

Asked at General Atlantic, Insight Partners and 10 more firms

Practise interview questions

Crack the puzzles interviewers love

100 Venture Capital brainteasers, from probability to mental maths. Try each one first, then read the worked solution.

7 traced to firms
12 topics
30 hard ones

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Work the cases like a real round

100 Venture Capital case studies: a business, its numbers and a task. Work it on paper, then open the solution one step at a time.

33 traced to firms
13 topics
30 hard ones

Work the cases

Case 009Core

Follow one seed cheque through the whole venture process: a fund buys 15% of Sopanvik Freight for Rs 3 crore, is diluted by three later rounds, and the company sells in year eight. What is the stake worth at each stage, and what is the IRR?

1Why does a seed fund's stake shrink even though it never sells a share?
2What is the stake worth at each stage?
3What is the return at the sale?

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Practise the questions firms actually asked

Crack the puzzles interviewers love

Work the cases like a real round

Short Selling Mechanics

Long Short Mechanics

Fund Waterfalls and Carry

The LBO in Structure

Precedent Transactions and Why They Differ

Reading a Term Sheet Structurally

Building a Comparable Companies Table

Reading a Cash Flow Statement

Building a Working Capital Schedule

Sizing a Market

Reading a Term Sheet as a Founder

How a Venture Round Actually Works

Building a Discounted Cash Flow

Reading a Sector Before a Company

Analysing an Issuer's Credit

Duration and What It Does Not Tell You

Bond Pricing and Yield Mechanics

Tax Aware Portfolio Decisions

Building a Client Risk Profile

Goal Based Planning Arithmetic

Credit Exposure and How It Is Reduced

Value at Risk and What It Hides

Common Size and Trend Analysis

Ratio Analysis That Says Something

Backtesting a Strategy

Hypothesis Testing

Cleaning Financial Data

Regression for Finance

Retrieval and Grounding for Finance

Document Extraction in Finance

Hedging a Real Exposure

The Greeks, Practically

Futures, the Basis and What Moves It

Reading an Option Payoff

Comparing Funds Without Being Fooled

How a NAV Is Struck and Which Day You Get

Reading a Fund Factsheet Properly

Rebalancing: When, Why and What It Costs

Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation

Measuring Risk in a Portfolio

Writing an Investment Thesis

Reading an Annual Report Fast

Spotting Quality of Earnings Red Flags

Building a Revenue Forecast From Drivers

Breaking Into VC Bootcamp

Equity Research Bootcamp

Portfolio Management Bootcamp

Mutual Funds Bootcamp

Investment Banking Analyst Bootcamp

Private Equity Analyst Bootcamp

Quant & Hedge Fund Analyst Bootcamp

Financial Analyst Program Bootcamp

Risk Management Program Bootcamp

Private Wealth Management Bootcamp

Debt Capital Markets Bootcamp

Derivatives Foundation Bootcamp