Design & Structure Your Corporate Venture Fund Model

A 14-week program for corporates to go from “we need a venture arm” to a board-ready model and structure — combining strategy frameworks, fund mechanics, and peer learning.

What you’ll get

Over 40 hours of live interactive content

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    A clear decision framework: when (and when not) to launch a CVC.

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    A board-ready venture model tailored to your corporate context.

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    Comparative insight into corporate structures: evergreen, balance sheet, single LP, sidecar.

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    Real-world case studies from successful (and failed) corporate ventures.

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    Peer exchange with corporates, LPs and VCs.

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    Certification to validate your team’s completion.

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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 design, build, and stress-test your corporate venture strategy — piece by piece, challenge by challenge.

You’ll be pushed to make your mandate explicit, defend your structure, and refine your model with direct feedback from peers, corporates, GPs, and LPs.

By the end, you won’t just understand corporate venturing — you’ll have a board-ready strategy and the confidence to stand behind it.

Week 0

Corporate Venturing Foundations

Unpack how corporates launch and validate venturing initiatives — from strategy alignment and mandate design to early experiments that win internal buy-in.

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.

Week 14

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.

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

Explore evergreen, single-LP, balance sheet, and hybrid models — with real case lessons on governance, tax, and fit for your corporate strategy.

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.

Who It’s For

This cohort is for anyone who needs to think seriously about corporate venture strategy - whether you’re setting up a CVC, managing an existing arm or advising at board level. If you want to move beyond slides and buzzwords into defensible models and structures, this is for you.

  • Whether you’re launching a new CVC unit or professionalizing an existing one, your challenge is to prove both strategic and financial value. Internally, you need a mandate and a structure your board will back. Externally, you need to show founders and co-investors that you’re more than “innovation theatre.” This cohort helps you do exactly that: define your mandate, pressure-test your structure, and build a board-ready model you can actually defend.

  • If you’re tasked with evaluating a venture arm, you need more than optimism and case studies - you need hard numbers and structural clarity. This cohort equips you with the frameworks and models to compare evergreen vs. balance sheet setups, understand risk-return tradeoffs, and judge whether venturing fits your company’s strategic and financial goals. By the end, you’ll know what good looks like - and what pitfalls to avoid.

  • Maybe you’re not managing a fund yet, but you’re responsible for shaping how your company engages with startups. This program gives you the tools to translate strategy into numbers, stress-test different approaches, and understand how venture investing complements M&A, JVs, and partnerships. If you want your innovation agenda to have teeth, this is where you start.

  • If your day job is evaluating acquisitions, partnerships, and investments, venturing often sits in a grey zone. Is it a pipeline for M&A, a strategic hedge, or a standalone growth lever? This cohort helps you understand how corporate venturing can complement your M&A playbook, where the synergies are (and aren’t), and how to model returns in ways your CFO will respect. You’ll leave knowing when to buy, when to partner, and when to build a venture arm.

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.

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.

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.