Venture Investment

2021/2022

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

HSE Banking Institute

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 4 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course gives general overview of venture investments as one of the types of alternative investments, widely expanding asset class in last decades. During the course covered will be the history of venture industry, its role in economics and innovations, current state of affairs and dynamic. The course discovers how venture capital industry works, its inherent upsides and downsides, basics of investment process and valuation techniques, goals of the VC players and other equally important aspects.

Learning Objectives

• The main goal of the course is to provide listeners with a wide, however, general knowledge of Venture Capital Industry and with tools and resources to track it and self-develop to the level sufficient for participation in venture capital fundraising and analysis of potential investments into venture companies. The objective of this course is to survey the venture capital industry and to provide students with an understanding of the origination, valuation, execution, monitoring, and realization of venture capital transactions and of the process of investing in venture capital funds.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• The listeners should know the history of VC industry, its current state and dynamics and place in the space of alternative investments; know main aspects of and be able to participate in the due diligence, valuation, structuring steps of the investment process, among others; know differences among VC and other Alternative Investments.

Assessment Elements

• the assessment of students' activity during classes
• mid-term test
• final exam

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 4th module
  0.25 * the assessment of students' activity during classes + 0.5 * final exam + 0.25 * mid-term test