04-614 African Venture Funding
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course provides tools for raising funds for startups and other early stage businesses in SubSaharan Africa and gives students an understanding how financing from angels, venture capital, private equity, development institutions, strategic investors, and crowd funding finds its way to entrepreneurial ventures from founding through exit. The course will provide insights from the point of view of both business owners seeking funding and investors seeking companies to invest into as they make critical decisions that affect their future. The course will be heavily case oriented and focused on SubSaharan Africabased companies and investments. Students taking this course should have an interest in entrepreneurship, managing companies, andor venture investments. The ability to effectively access and manage capital can mean the difference between a successful venture and an unsuccessful venture resulting in significant wealth for investors, executives, managers, and employees of a company. Knowledge gained on funding of ventures will be a key differentiator in an organizations ability to successfully outperform its competition. The ability to understand ventures from the investment on down to corporate actions will add value in decisions in this domain and will make students an increasingly valuable asset to any global organization.
Prerequisites: none listed
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