Valuation & Cap Table: Mastering Your First Raise
"Securing early-stage investment requires more than a well manicured pitch... it requires an understanding of equity structures and ownership mechanics. This workshop teaches the structural foundations of share ownership, showing exactly how shares behave, distribute and shift as a business matures. By mapping out these dynamics, we will learn about the principles of dilution, equipping yourself with the predictive foresight to adjust early fundraising without compromising your long-term control of your company.
Navigating equity also means looking at your business through an institutional lens. The session provides founders with the analytical skills to look at their own capitalisation tables, teaching you how to spot red flags that could render your cap table uninvestible. Finally, the workshop anchors these equity mechanics to reality by introducing three widely used frameworks to value early-stage ventures. Cost to Duplicate, Berkus method and the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model.
Key Outcomes:
An actionable framework for managing company shares and evaluating equity distribution. You will gain the diagnostic tools necessary to maintain a clean, investor-ready cap table, alongside a practical grasp of foundational valuation methodologies to base future negotiation on."
Navigating equity also means looking at your business through an institutional lens. The session provides founders with the analytical skills to look at their own capitalisation tables, teaching you how to spot red flags that could render your cap table uninvestible. Finally, the workshop anchors these equity mechanics to reality by introducing three widely used frameworks to value early-stage ventures. Cost to Duplicate, Berkus method and the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model.
Key Outcomes:
An actionable framework for managing company shares and evaluating equity distribution. You will gain the diagnostic tools necessary to maintain a clean, investor-ready cap table, alongside a practical grasp of foundational valuation methodologies to base future negotiation on."
These workshops are available for startups in the Aalto Startup Center community, for those in any of the Startup Center Programs (Business Generator, ESA BIC Finland, Research to Business, Aalto Creatives, ESA Phi-Lab Finland).