For your team · Deal Room
M&A / Investment Deals · M&A / Investment Deals (PE, VC, Corporate Dev)
Run a fund. Source, diligence, value, negotiate, close, integrate — deal by deal.
Deal Room adapts the continuous-operations model to PE/VC investment work. Every active day, the inbox surfaces 2-5 deal events spanning the full lifecycle: a banker pitching, a diligence finding that changes valuation, a negotiation moment, a close mechanic, an integration challenge, a portfolio update. Some events are multiple-choice with deltas to dry powder, valuation accuracy, diligence rigor, negotiation, and returns; others ask for a 100-180 word written response that a senior PE/VC partner LLM grades on investment reasoning, discipline, and stakeholder awareness. Persistent fund state — AUM, dry powder, deals closed/walked, four pillars — compounds. Three industry lenses reframe the entire experience: Private Equity (control deals, leverage discipline), Venture Capital (signal/syndicate dynamics), Corporate Dev (strategic vs. financial rationale).
Every team is scored on four pillars that compound across the sim. They aggregate into a composite the leaderboard ranks by, and the professor can see per-pillar deltas in the gradebook.
DCF rigor, comp discipline, refusing to overpay.
Price + structure + walk-away discipline.
Finding the issues before they find you. Asking the right questions.
LP-level outcomes across the portfolio.
Written responses graded by Claude as a senior partner — judges investment reasoning, discipline, and stakeholder awareness.
AUM, dry powder, deals closed vs. walked — multi-week fund metrics that compound, not single-decision toy state.
Private Equity, Venture Capital, Corporate Dev — same engine, very different decision lenses and events.
Professor picks active days, events per day, response window, total length (up to 16 weeks).
Flexible — typical: 5-6 weeks Mon-Fri at 3 events/day.
Designed for ~15-30 students in teams of 4-5. Each team runs one persistent fund.
MBA private equity / venture capital electives, M&A and corporate development courses, finance capstones.
The only sim that puts students in the GP/dealmaker seat continuously. Deal lifecycle stretched across many weeks rather than one batched-round deal exercise.
One of many pre-authored prompts from the sim’s Week 1 debrieflibrary. Grounded in the team’s actual decisions and used as a scheduled teaching moment.
Week 1 debriefThe banker pitch you took seriously
A banker pitched at least one deal to your team this week. Which one did you engage on, and which did you pass on inside 30 minutes? What signal in the teaser separated the two — sector fit, seller quality, or valuation anchor?
A single in-tray event drawn from the sim’s live event catalog — the kind of decision a student team sees in their inbox on any given active day.
I have an interesting opportunity that fits your thesis — a $40M-revenue specialty manufacturer. EBITDA $7M, growing 12%. Owner ready to sell. Not yet shopped widely. Want a meeting?
Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle via LTI 1.3. Students launch from your LMS with single sign-on; one-click grade publish posts scores back with the rubric breakdown as the comment.
Per semester. No platform fee, no per-section charge, no seat minimums. Institutional invoicing available.