MGMT 297

Venture Capital Strategy

Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Covers the management of early-stage investment funds: limited partnerships, fundraising, strategy, portfolio construction, sourcing, target selection, due diligence, valuation, term sheets, advising and monitoring, follow-on funding, and exits. Instruction is from the perspective of the investor.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Unlocks

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