The Capital Market for Women Entrepreneurs
This program helps you understand every option for financing your business and the role the capital market can play in your growth strategy. We start with the classic sources — your own funds, grants, loans — and work step by step toward issuing shares or bonds. By the end, you will have a concrete action plan and a clear picture of how to prepare your business for investors.
What you will learn
- Compare financing sources and choose the ones that fit your business's current stage
- Understand the difference between debt and equity and how each affects control
- Explain how share issues and corporate bond issues work, through a public offering or a private placement
- Prepare the key documents for investors: business plan, financial model, pitch deck
- Build transparent governance and manage dilution of control
- Draw up a 90-day action plan for accessing financing
Syllabus
Capital for Women Entrepreneurs
A practical course on how to finance your business's growth, from your first savings to issuing securities. You will learn how to prepare for investors, communicate transparently, and keep your vision for the company.
- 01
Financing Your Business: Options and Stages
Discover the main sources of financing, how they fit each stage of a business, and what it means to choose between debt and equity.
14 min - 02
The Capital Market as a Source of Financing
Understand how your business can raise money through shares or bonds, via a public offering or a private placement, and when the time is right.
15 min - 03
Preparing Your Business for Investors
Learn which documents and figures investors expect, how to value your business in simple terms, and what due diligence involves.
16 min - 04
Governance, Transparency, and Investor Relations
Learn how to organize the company's leadership, separate personal and business finances, communicate with investors, and manage dilution of control.
15 min - 05
Next Steps and Support Resources
Build a 90-day action plan, learn what kinds of support are available, and follow a complete case study, from idea to bond issue.
17 min
Other learning tracks
Introduction to the Capital Market
The basics of financial instruments, trading mechanisms and the role of the stock exchange.
9 lessons Track 02How to List a Company on the Stock Exchange
A company's journey from the decision to list through admission to trading, plus the admission of municipal and government bonds to BIMx.
11 lessons Track 03Financial Analysis for Investors
Tools for evaluating and interpreting issuers' financial reports.
9 lessons Track 04ESG and Green Finance
Sustainability standards and instruments designed to finance green projects.
5 lessons Track 06BIMx Trading Infrastructure
ARENA Trading, exchange trader certification, trading simulations, membership admission, and the broker's role in admitting issuers.
9 lessons