Wednesday webinar at 1: Deep dive into venture capital fund investing

In today’s saturated venture capital landscape, distinguishing exceptional funds from the rest has become increasingly challenging. With every fund marketing itself as a top performer, investors are left navigating a sea of similar-sounding strategies and performance claims—raising the critical question: How can they truly separate signal from noise?

Join Steve Balaban, CFA, the contributing author for the alternative Investments section of the CFA® Program, for this engaging session that will guide investors on how to identify top-tier venture capital funds and spot the differences among them. 

The session will include:

Assessing the Venture Capital Team: Have the skills to identify leading venture capital teams, a key capability for selecting high-return early-stage investments.

Exploring the Fund's Investment Strategy: The secrets to asking the right questions to identify what truly makes a fund's strategy unique.

Decoding the Investment Process: Better understand the nuances of the various venture capital fund processes from deal sourcing to due diligence, to value creation and exit.

If you're allocating capital, advising clients, or building your own fund, this session will sharpen your ability to spot quality in a crowded VC landscape.

Speaker: 
Steve Balaban, CFA, Chief Investment Officer of Mink Capital 

Steve Balaban, CFA, is a thought leader on private equity with experiences as an investor, advisor and award-winning lecturer. He is the Chief Investment Officer of Mink Capital where he advises, consults and educates family offices on how to invest in private equity. 

Steve is also an award-winning lecturer at the University of Waterloo where he has created new courses on private equity, wealth management and the international course, a course that takes students to different areas of the world each year. His approach to education is unique as he uses innovative technologies and experiential teaching methods to explain concepts to his students. His passion for teaching resulted in being the only lecturer in the history of the University of Waterloo to win both the Distinguished Teaching Award (Steve Balaban – Distinguished Teaching Award) and the WUSA Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award in the same year.