Build & Stress-Test Your Corporate Venture Model

A 14-week cohort where corporate teams and venture professionals design and pressure-test fund models — with two extra sessions tailored to corporate venturing.

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What you’ll get

Over 40 hours of live interactive content

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    A board- & LP-ready fund model - not a template, your model, built week by week.

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    Masterclasses, challenges, and expert panels.

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    Corporate-focused insights - two exclusive sessions covering venturing foundations and structures.

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    Real-world cases and frameworks - from both GPs and corporates.

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    Peer exchange and community - structured feedback and support throughout.

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    Certification - proof that you’ve done the work and can stand behind your model.

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Don’t take our word for it

  • "Almost certainly the single most useful webinar I’ve ever attended."

    CFO at a venture fund, UK (fund successfully raised Fund II)

  • "It was deeply reassuring to see that what I’ve built is good enough — and to get ideas on how to make the model more flexible."

    GP at an emerging fund, UK (recently reached first close)

  • "Strong guidance on how to build a fund model and avoid the pitfalls. Much appreciated the real-life insights."

    GP at a one of the most established Nordic early-stage funds

  • "Thoughtfully structured, but also informative, entertaining, and well put together."

    Angel Investor, Germany

  • "Lots of content from an experienced operator, grounded in both theory and practice."

    Principal at a Swiss family office

  • "Very useful from my perspective as fund controller - intense, but in the best way."

    Fund Controller, Germany

What’s inside

This isn’t a “watch some slides” kind of program. Every week you’ll build, share, and stress-test your model — piece by piece, challenge by challenge.

You’ll be pushed to make assumptions explicit, defend your strategy, and refine your work with direct feedback from peers, GPs, LPs and corporates.

By the end, you won’t just understand fund modelling — you’ll have a model and strategy that can stand up to both LPs and your board.

Week 0

Corporate Venturing Foundations

How corporates align strategy, mandate, and governance to kick off a venture effort.

Week 1

Foundations of Fund Modelling

Core logic and structures of VC funds, fund procedures and fee mechanics, intro to key KPIs (MoIC, TVPI, DPI, IRR). Includes a mini-model workshop with an assumption sheet starter.

Week 2

Challenge #1 – Your Assumption SheeT

Kick off by drafting your initial assumptions: fund size, strategy, entry checks, reserves, exit horizons. Share with peers for structured feedback — a baseline for everything that follows.

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Week 3

Essential Building Blocks

Portfolio construction, capital deployment pacing, exit multiple scenarios, and how LPA terms shape model outcomes.

Week 4

Challenge #2 – Portfolio Strategy

Defend your construction strategy (portfolio size, ownership targets, reserve plan) in front of peers. Expect pushback.

Week 5

Assumptions Sheet Construction

Build a fully detailed assumptions sheet. Explore sensitivity analysis, scenario impacts, and strategic levers you can tweak.

Week 6

Challenge #3 – Model Breakdown

Submit your first full working model. Open peer review and live troubleshooting — a “dress rehearsal” before LP scrutiny.

Week 7

Portfolio Construction & Decomposition

Entry & follow-on modelling, asset valuation, write-offs, NAV tracking and planning for exits.

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Week 8

LP Expert Panel

Hear directly from allocators how they evaluate models, what they ignore and where they dig deepest.

Week 9

Fund Terms & KPIs

Deep dive into key metrics (TVPI, DPI, IRR), dashboard design for reporting and how GPs present numbers internally vs externally.

Week 10

Challenge #4 – Dashboard Showcase

Share your LP-facing dashboard (Excel, Airtable, Causal — your choice). Peer + expert feedback on clarity, storytelling and LP expectations.

Week 11

Fund Returner Capstone

Reverse-engineer return pathways from successful funds. Work through live group exercises to map realistic paths to outperformance.

Week 12

Week 13

GP Expert Panel

Lessons, mistakes, and best practices from managers who’ve lived through multiple fund cycles.

Corporate Venture Structures

Compare evergreen, single-LP, balance sheet and hybrid structures — with lessons on governance, tax, and what actually works in practice.

Wrap-Up at EUVC Awards Show

Cohort closes in person. Final Q&A, peer networking, and exclusive access to a private side event - capped off with the EUVC Awards Show.

👉 Plus ongoing weekly peer feedback threads, accountability check-ins & community challenges

DAvid Cruz e Silva

Founder of eu.vc – Europe’s Venture Community, David has designed and delivered training programs for more than 300 VCs across Europe in the past year alone (average rating: 4.7/5). An operator-turned angel LP, he backs top-tier European early-stage funds, leads an angel syndicate, and serves as a Venture Partner with Isomer Capital.

Through EUVC, David has helped emerging managers sharpen their fundraising strategies, founders navigate venture, and LPs allocate with confidence. He’s also the host of the EUVC Podcast and a regular speaker on Europe’s venture ecosystem.

Meet THE Instructors

Jeppe Høier

Jeppe is the founder of EUCVC, the leading platform for corporate venture capital in Europe. Through the EUCVC podcast, summit, and community, he’s created a space where corporates, VCs, and founders meet to figure out how Europe can build competitive corporate-backed innovation at scale. With years of experience working with corporates and CVC teams, Jeppe brings sharp insights into how companies can design, launch, and grow their venture strategies — and avoid the many pitfalls along the way.

Marc Penkala

Marc is Co-Founding Partner at āltitude and brings over a decade of hands-on VC experience as an investor, advisor, and angel. A former Investment Director and serial entrepreneur, Marc has advised multiple European family offices and venture funds on structuring and operations.

He has co-taught more than five EUVC masterclasses on fund modelling (120+ attendees, rated 4+/5), making him one of the most trusted trainers for emerging managers looking to professionalise. Beyond teaching, Marc is an active angel with 25+ startup investments, a three-time founder, and a widely read voice on venture through his writing and speaking.

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Who It’s For

This cohort is for anyone who needs to think seriously about fund models — whether you’re raising, backing or supporting VC funds. For corporates, it’s also a chance to understand how fund modelling applies to your strategy and how to structure a corporate VC practice that works.

  • If you’re setting up or managing a venture arm, this cohort helps you pressure-test assumptions, refine your model, and explore the structures that fit corporates best.

  • Understand the financial mechanics behind venturing, compare structure options, and learn how to judge a credible model.

  • See how fund modelling links to broader innovation strategy and how it can complement M&A, JVs, or partnerships.

  • If your day job is evaluating acquisitions and partnerships, venturing often sits in a grey zone. This cohort shows you how CVC can complement your M&A playbook, where it adds value (and where it doesn’t), and how to model outcomes your CFO will trust.

Limited Enrollment

Limited Enrollment

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Standard: € 3,500

Full access to the 14-week program, including all corporate-exclusive sessions, masterclasses, expert panels, community challenges, and certification. Perfect if you’re joining solo.

We reserve the right to review and validate eligibility.

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Team PAckages: Custom Pricing

Send a team of 2–5 from your corporate and work through the program together. Each participant gets full access and certification - and your team gets a shared learning curve.

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Frequently asked questions

  • Every Wednesday from 15:00–17:00 CET, starting 14 January 2026, wrapping in the week of 20 April 2026 during the EUVC Awards Show in London.

  • Fully interactive. Expect weekly community challenges, peer feedback and expert grilling. Passive observers won’t make it to certification.

  • Yes. Every participant gets a free EUVC Awards Show ticket as part of the program. It’s the final closing event — and the perfect chance to meet your cohort in person.

  • Yes - and no. You don’t need to be an Excel wizard, but you do need to be comfortable with numbers and fund mechanics. We won’t dumb it down. If you’re in VC (or seriously planning to be), you’ll keep up.

  • We cap it at a manageable size so everyone gets feedback and peer accountability. This is not a webinar series. We tend to try to keep our programs capped at 30 participants or so.

  • Yes - but only as long as you are an EUVC Community Member. You’ll get all the resources, guides and recordings for life, plus the EUVC resource collection.

  • We can’t promise commitments. What we do promise is a model that passes LP scrutiny and helps you communicate your strategy credibly. The rest is on you.

  • The more you put into it, the more value you extract; so it’s completely up to you. We recommend around 3–4 hours per week (2 hours live + ~1–2 hours on challenges and peer review). Over 12 weeks, that’s ~40 hours total.

  • Individually, the masterclasses alone are worth the price. The cohort format adds peer accountability, expert panels, LP feedback, certification, and a free EUVC Awards Show ticket and 12 months of complimentary EUVC Community access - making the €2.5k price point a no-brainer.

  • Because this isn’t “just training” - it’s building the actual fund model you’ll use to raise, refine strategy, and report to LPs. For employers, it’s professional development + direct fund value creation. The cost is marginal compared to the cost of getting fund modelling wrong.

  • Nope. The focus is Europe (and the Summit is in London), but we’ve had participants from across the world join past EUVC programs. A kick ass model speaks any language in the world.

  • Yes. Masterclasses are recorded, but we strongly recommend attending live - that’s where the value of feedback, peer interaction, and grilling comes in. This is particularly true for the AMAs, Q&As and community challenges as these are not recorded.

  • Perfect. This isn’t just for Fund I. We’ll help you refine, update, and stress-test models at any stage - especially useful if you’re preparing for a new raise or rethinking portfolio strategy.

  • That’s fine. Many participants join to prepare for a future raise, sharpen their internal strategy, or simply to level up their skills. The cohort gives you a complete toolkit you can apply whenever you launch - and a peer network that’ll still be there when you do.