Fundraising Advice from a Successful Venture Capitalist (Udemy.com)
By an Award Winning MBA Prof, Ivy League MBA, former Goldman Employee with Hedge Fund and Venture Capital Experience
Created by: Chris Haroun
Last updated September 2026
What you will learn
- #1 Best Selling Fundraising Course on Udemy!
- Dramatically increase your chances of raising money (22 lessons taught by an award winning graduate business school professor, venture capitalist, author and entrepreneur).
- Understand how to raise money from high net worth investors, venture capitalists and strategics/corporations.
- Understand how to present like Steve Jobs to investors.
- Understand what to include in your pitch presentation to investors.
- Understand how to network and get meetings with potential investors.
How it compares
Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 15% of them
- Reviews481#671 of 1,211 by number of reviews
- Length1.8 hoursshorter than 69% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 96% of them
Course Description
#1 Best Selling Fundraising Course on Udemy! ** According to Business Insider: "Haroun is one of the highest rated professors on Udemy, so you can expect to be in good hands through the course of your education." **
This course willteach you everything you need to know about raising money from anyone, including venture capital firms from an award winning business school professor, venture capitalist, entrepreneur and author including:
- Learn the secrets of networking and how to get a meeting with almost anyone.
- Learn how to pitch your business model to anyone including venture capital firms.
- Learn what you should and should not include in your presentation slides.
- Learn how to present your business model like Steve Jobs.
- Learn how to turn "no" into "yes".
...and much more.
Chris has over 20 years of experience in raising money, starting companies and advising companies including work experience at Goldman Sachs and founding several companies. He has raised over $1bn. He has an MBA in finance from Columbia University and he is an award winning business school professor and frequent guest lecturer at Stanford and Berkeley. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area and he is a partner at a prominent venture capital firm. Chris has written numerous articles in VentureBeat, Entrepreneur Magazine, Wired Magazine, AlleyWatch, Pulse as well as an interview on venture capital on Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) which is Hong Kong's oldest and sole public service broadcaster.
Thank you,
Chris Haroun
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
481 Reviews
Chris Haroun
Award Winning Professor Featured in Forbes, NBC, Business Insider, CNN & Entrepreneur
Please join me for my weekly Office Hours Q&A on my YouTube channel every Thursday from 8am until 10am Pacific time. Here is my bio thanks:
Chris Haroun is the founder & CEO of the 300+ hour online Haroun MBA Degree Program®, an award winning business school professor, MBA graduate from Columbia University & former Goldman Sachs employee. He has raised/managed over $1bn in his career.
He also has work experience at hedge fund giant Citadel, consulting firm Accenture & several firms that he has started, including an investment firm that had a venture capital investment in Facebook several years before the Facebook IPO.
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Reviews
By Alok Sarkar on 12/15/2022
There are some good nuggets of gold here. The content is somewhat fluffy. But the instructor is genuine, both in what he says and in his professional background. On balance, I bought the course on sale, and I do think over time it would payoff 1000X
By Reza Deldadeh on 3/25/2020
This course is brilliant for people who want to raise money and they have no idea how it is gonna happen! Also by taking this course, you can develop other skills as how to be a better leader of your business ... I mean the qualities that are a must you need to have to succeed.
By Francisco Caeiro on 1/5/2017
The course doesn't really give lot of useful info on how to raise VC which was what I expected from this course. The course if full of videos from others and honestly I was disappointed with the overall content. It has a couple of tips that may be worth the discounted price I paid but if I had paid the full price I would have been absolutely gutted.
By Joshua Lee on 11/24/2016
A good intro to the world of VC and how they think and what they are looking for. My only gripe would be the slides can change pretty fast on some lessons while the presenter is talking and hence i had to stop the video to read it.
By Eduardo Pujol on 11/20/2016
I felt it was shallow in some areas. I would have liked to see examples of presentations, pitches, and real life stories about teams who failed in their presentation and why, to have a grasp of the most common mistakes
By Jennifer Depew on 9/2/2016
This was an engaging and quick moving course which provided an overview of what steps occur in raising venture capital and traits that venture capitalists look for in a start-up company. The growth of venture capital firms historically was presented and examples of firms who invest venture capital in start up companies currently were provided.
By Ying He on 10/29/2015
Great course! Unlike other courses, this course is simple, deep and insightful! Love the way that the course is organized, and also the way we learn. Too much information hidden inside the course and need to learn over and over to get the deep points. LOVE IT!!!
By Heidi Rockwell on 10/22/2015
You can tell that Chris loves what he does and is passionate about raising money. It was more that comprehensive and informative it was entertaining and brought emotions and memories. I learned a lot and I am thankful for this course, feeling inspired.
By Bernardo Ito on 10/7/2015
In this course, Mr. Haroun explains the real methods to connect and raise money from potential clients/partners. This is not another course with useless theory that is worthless in the real world. Here you will really learn how businesses get done!!.
By Jurgen Homola on 10/7/2015
Prof Chris Haroun is the real deal... Anyone who has raised $ Billions is the REAL DEAL... The other reason: Chris is THE ONLY PERSON I have heard talking about setting up an LLC when you raise capital... and THAT says it all. Most so-called 'experts' don't talk structure and either give you the wrong advice, or leave it up to you to decide. Chris is DEFINITELY someone I would have on my advisory board. What I also found PHENOMENALLY interesting with Chris' course is that he is THE ONLY PERSON I HAVE ENCOUNTERED in the VC game, who is willing to give up the actual secret how the VC industry started... It's normally a taboo subject. I have raised more than $90 mm between 2000 and 2006. I wish I had this information then. You have it all laid out brilliantly in this course what took me MONTHS to learn the hard way - although I'm grateful for that experience too ;)... I can honestly say that if you are raising money for your venture, you NEED this course. Don't hesitate. Just do it (you'll learn about the power of 3 in this course too...). The least you'll get from this course is YEARS of knowledge, cleverly compacted into one amazing course - filled to the brim... The 'glass isn't half full', IT RUNS OVER!!! You want passion and find out how to raise investor capital? Here you have it - right here! And yes, you still need to learn more but this is a PHENOMENAL course to set you in the right direction. What are you waiting for? It's the tenacious & decisive entrepreneurs - those who take action in spite of fear who make it. It's your move... Convert your dream into a life changing experience for you and those whom you will affect by taking action...
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