Raising Funds for Your Startup

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Grenoble Ecole de Management

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Raising Funds for Your Startup

The course Raising Funds for Your Startup is an online class provided by Grenoble Ecole de Management through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Get to grips with the basics of funding a start up and understand the process of successful financing rounds.

Course description

Understand the process of funding a start up
4 weeks

Almost all startups need external financing, but new entrepreneurs rarely have training in fundraising.
On this course, you’ll learn the basics of financing a start-up. You’ll explore how important financial backing is for success and how to attract and negotiate with investors.
This course is also available in French. To join the French run of the course, visit the course page.

How to identify and convince potential investors?
How to estimate the financing need and the value of the venture?
How to negotiate with equity investors?
How to prepare and succeed in the post-investment phase?

Identify the potential investors in startups and understand their decision process and their selection criteria
Design a sound financing plan in order to estimate the financing needs and the value of the startup, which determines the founders ‘dilution when raising equity
Reflect on the process and the main issues of the negotiation of agreements between founders and external investors along successive financing rounds
Identify the key points to watch in order to succeed the post-investment phase and prepare the exit.

This course is aimed at entrepreneurs who are considering or preparing a financing round. It can also be useful for students of entrepreneurship or management, and to anyone wishing to get a better understanding of the actors, processes and consequences of a financing round.
A general knowledge in business will help, though it is not required.
This course is taught by a French team, but all course resources will be in English or subtitled in English.

Grenoble Ecole de Management
For the past 30 years, Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) has established itself in France and abroad as a leading business school through expertise in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Prerequisites & Facts

Raising Funds for Your Startup

Course Topic

Business & Management, Entrepreneurship, Finance & Accounting

University, College, Institution

Grenoble Ecole de Management

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Raising Funds for Your Startup

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / Grenoble Ecole de Management you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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