Leland+ for Venture Capital

Example Market Deep Dive: LLMs in Legal Tech

Explore the impact of LLMs on the legal profession, uncovering key trends, successful applications, and risks in legal tech.

Banking to Buy-Side: IB & Venture Playbook [6/17/2026] (Recording)

Many finance professionals see investment banking as a stepping stone, but far fewer understand how to successfully make the jump to the buy side. This session is for candidates interested in venture capital, investing, and long-term finance careers who want a clearer roadmap for navigating that transition. You’ll learn how investment banking experience can be leveraged for buy-side opportunities, what firms look for in candidates making the move, and how to position yourself throughout the recruiting process. Join live to hear from two experts with extensive experience across both investment banking and venture capital and ask questions about your own career path. The speakers have firsthand experience navigating these industries and will share the patterns they see across successful transitions, common mistakes, and what differentiates candidates who break through. Expect practical insights and advice similar to what’s covered in 1:1 career coaching conversations.

Banking to Buy-Side: IB & Venture Playbook [5/18/2026] (Recording)

After this session, you'll understand how investment banking experience translates into a credible VC narrative and where most candidates lose the thread making that transition. We'll cover how to position deal experience for early-stage fund interviews, what VC firms actually look for in candidates coming from IB versus other paths, and how to think about sourcing as a differentiator when you have limited buy-side exposure. Attending live means you can bring your specific background and get a direct read on how it lands, which a recording cannot replicate. The coach works inside this industry and will share the patterns they see across candidates who successfully make this move, giving you a real look at how practitioners evaluate this transition.

Sector Overview: AI/ML & Foundation Models

AI/ML & foundation models are huge in VC today. Check out this industry snapshot to get an industry overview, learn key metrics, industry players, and valuations.

Sector Overview: Marketplaces

Learn about marketplaces, their key growth drivers, key players, metrics and benchmarks, and what VCs look for.

Sector Overview: Infrastructure & Security

Learn about Infrastructure and security, their sub-sectors, metrics, valuations, and VC must-knows.

Sector Overview: Crypto & Web3

Crypto has quickly become a huge industry. Check out its key growth drivers, sub-sectors, major players, and what excites VCs.

Sector Overview: Healthcare & Digital Health

Learn about the Healthcare & Digital Health industries, their key players, metrics, valuations, and what VC's look for.

Sector Overview: Fintech

Learn about the Fintech Industry, its sub-sectors, key players, valuations, and how VCs approach it

Sector Overview: Consumer Tech

Consumer Tech has a massive market. Learn about its key growth drivers, metrics, economics, and what excites VC's.

Sector Overview: Deep Tech & Defense

Learn how VC approaches the Deep Tech and Defense industries. Learn about the market, key players, metrics, and valuations.

Sector Overview: Sustainability & Energy

Learn about the Sustainability and Energy industry and what VCs look for there. Check out key metrics, valuations, and major players in the space.

Sector Overview: Enterprise SaaS

Learn more about the Enterprise SaaS Industry, the market it operates in, sub-sectors, metrics, valuations, and what it means for VC.

CloudCore Series C Case Instructions

Full case study: evaluate a Series C SaaS investment including financial analysis, market assessment, and investment recommendation. Includes: blank modeling template and completed answer key with annotations.

Market Map Template

Spreadsheet framework for creating professional market maps by category, stage, and competitive positioning.

VC Modeling Test ANSWER

Don't download this file until you have completed your timed practice assessment.

90-Day Action Plan Template for VC Recruiting

Create a comprehensive 90-day action plan for breaking into VC with your unique positioning.

VC Recruiting Workbook

Template to articulate your unique value proposition and background story for VC recruiting; Evaluate your current track record and identify 3 goals to strengthen your candidacy over the next 90 days.

Behavioral Answer Tool

Framework tool for structuring answers to the most common VC behavioral questions using the STAR method.