Funding Academy
Learn how private fundraising actually works
Six structured modules covering the full arc from first investor meeting to signed and funded — with knowledge checks, educational calculators, and completion certificates.
Fundraising Fundamentals
How private capital actually works
Understand the private funding landscape: rounds, instruments, investor types, and what happens from first meeting to wire.
- The funding landscape
- Rounds and instruments
- Running a fundraising process
- What investors actually underwrite
Valuation & Dilution
Pricing your company without guesswork
Learn how private companies are valued, how each round dilutes the cap table, and how to model outcomes before you negotiate.
- How private valuation works
- Reading a cap table
- Modelling dilution across rounds
- Structure beats headline price
SAFEs & Convertible Notes
Conversion mechanics, demystified
Caps, discounts, MFN, pre- vs post-money SAFEs, and how a stack of notes converts at the priced round.
- SAFE mechanics
- Convertible notes
- Conversion: a worked example
Building the Data Room
Diligence-ready from day one
What investors expect to find, how to structure documents, and how to run a clean diligence process.
- What belongs in a data room
- Running the diligence process
- Disclosure discipline
Investor Relations & Reporting
Turning investors into allies
Running an effective process, monthly updates, board communication, and managing bad news well.
- The monthly investor update
- Managing bad news
- Running an effective board
Closing & Compliance
Getting to signed and funded
Term sheets, definitive documents, closing conditions, and the regulatory basics of private offerings.
- Reading a term sheet
- From term sheet to signed documents
- Private offering compliance
Educational content only. Bright Capital Academy materials, calculators, and certificates are provided for general educational purposes and are not legal, tax, financial, accounting, or investment advice. Outputs are illustrative models based on the assumptions you enter — they are not valuations, offers, projections, or guarantees of any outcome. Always consult qualified professional advisers in your jurisdiction before acting.