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The complete, no-paywall toolkit for people who work in and around venture capital — 40+ interactive calculators, plain-English guides, a nearly-1,000-term glossary, and document walkthroughs. Everything here is free to use, free to embed, and free to cite.
Most of what gets published about venture capital sits behind a signup wall, a sales call, or a subscription. VC Beast takes the opposite approach: the reference material a founder or an emerging fund manager needs to make a real decision should be open. This page is the single index of everything on VC Beast that costs nothing — no account, no trial, no credit card. If a resource is listed here, you can open it and use it right now.
We built these resources because the honest, numbers-first version of venture knowledge is surprisingly hard to find. Vendor blogs are written to sell a product. Course platforms gate the useful parts. And the terms that trip people up — a liquidation preference, a pro-rata right, the difference between a GP and an LP — rarely come with a worked example. Our tools and guides fix that: every calculator shows the math, every guide uses concrete dollar figures, and every glossary entry is written to be understood, not to pad a page.
The four sections below group everything by what you’re trying to do: run the numbers, learn how the machine works, understand the documents, and look something up. If you only take one thing from this page, start with the calculators — they turn abstract venture math into something you can feel by dragging the inputs around.
Free calculators & tools
More than forty interactive calculators, all running in your browser with nothing to install. Founders use them to model a cap table before a fundraise; emerging managers use them to size a fund, model carry, and stress-test returns. The most-used ones can also be embedded on your own site — look for the “Embed this calculator” panel on each tool page.
All Free Calculators
40+ interactive calculators for founders and investors — dilution, cap tables, carry, fund returns, runway, SAFE conversion, and more.
Founder Calculators
Dilution, SAFE, cap table, runway, ARR growth, unit economics, and liquidation-preference tools.
Investor & Fund Calculators
Carry, management fee, fund returns, waterfall, portfolio construction, and check-size models.
Fund Readiness Quiz
A five-minute self-assessment of whether you're ready to raise a first fund.
What Type of VC Are You?
A ten-question quiz that maps your investing style to one of six archetypes.
Embed on your site
These calculators ship as standalone widgets you can drop into any web page with a single copy-paste snippet. Each one stays fully interactive, credits VC Beast, and links back to the full tool.
Guides & explainers
Long-form, plain-English explanations of how venture actually works — from the split between fees and carry to the mechanics of a capital call. These are the pieces we point people to when they ask “wait, how does that part work?” Each one is written to stand on its own, with real numbers rather than hand-waving.
Guide Library
35+ long-form guides spanning fund formation, fundraising, deal terms, and portfolio management.
Learning Paths
Structured, multi-step journeys through the core areas of venture capital.
GP vs LP Explained
The two sides of a fund — who commits capital, who deploys it, and how the economics split.
Fund Economics (2 and 20)
How management fees and carried interest actually work, with worked numbers.
Capital Call Process
How funds draw committed capital from LPs, step by step, with timing and mechanics.
SPVs Explained
What special purpose vehicles are, when to use one, and how they're structured.
Exits & Liquidity
IPOs, acquisitions, secondaries, and how proceeds flow back to the cap table.
Document & template walkthroughs
The paperwork of venture capital — fund documents, term sheets, cap tables, and diligence checklists — explained clause by clause. These free walkthroughs demystify what each document does before you ever sign one, whether you’re a founder reading your first term sheet or a first-time GP assembling a fund’s legal stack.
VC Fund Documents Explained
The LPA, subscription docs, side letters, and Form D — what each document does and why it exists.
Cap Table Guide
How to read and model a cap table from incorporation through exit.
Series A Guide
What a Series A really requires — metrics, process, and term-sheet expectations.
Term Sheet Guide
A clause-by-clause walkthrough of a venture term sheet.
SAFE vs Priced Round
When to raise on a SAFE versus a priced round, and how each converts.
Anti-Dilution Explained
Full-ratchet versus weighted-average protection, in plain English.
Due Diligence Checklist
The document and data-room checklist investors work through before a term sheet.
SaaS Metrics Reference
ARR, NRR, burn multiple, magic number, and the Rule of 40 — defined and benchmarked.
Reference & careers
When you just need to look something up: a nearly-1,000-term glossary, a deep FAQ, and the career resources for anyone trying to break into or move up in venture. Bookmark the glossary — it’s the fastest way to decode a term mid-negotiation.
VC Glossary (nearly 1,000 terms)
A plain-English definition for every term you'll meet in venture capital.
VC FAQ (100+ questions)
Direct answers to the questions founders and emerging managers actually ask.
How to Get a Job in VC
The career guide — roles, paths, and how to break in without a banking pedigree.
VC Interview Questions
50+ real interview questions with answer frameworks.
Who these resources are for
Emerging fund managers get the most out of the investor calculators. If you’re sizing a first fund, the fund-size, management-fee, and carry tools let you pressure-test your economics before you ever talk to a lawyer or a placement agent — and the fund-return model shows exactly what gross multiple your portfolio has to hit to clear a given net return to LPs. Pair those with the fund-economics and capital-call guides and you have the working model of a fund on one screen.
Founders tend to start with the dilution and cap-table tools, usually the week a term sheet lands. Model the round, see where your ownership ends up after the option-pool top-up, and check the SAFE conversion math against what the investor is telling you. The term-sheet and anti-dilution guides translate the clauses that move the most equity so nothing in the document is a surprise.
Operators, analysts, students, and writers lean on the glossary and the guides. They’re the fastest way to get precise about a term mid-conversation, and — because they’re free to cite — they show up in briefs, memos, and coursework. Everything here is built to be a reference you can point other people to, not a lead-capture funnel.
Free to embed, free to cite
Writers, operators, and educators are welcome to reference these resources. Most tool pages carry a “Cite this page” box with a ready-to-copy citation, and the headline calculators offer a copy-paste embed. A simple link back to the source page is all we ask — that’s what keeps these resources free to build and free to use.
Frequently asked questions
Are these resources actually free?
Yes. Every calculator, guide, glossary term, and reference linked on this page is free to use with no paywall and no account required. VC Beast also sells premium fund-launch templates separately, but nothing on this page is gated.
Can I embed a VC Beast calculator on my own website?
Yes. Several of our most-used calculators — including the carry, management fee, fund return, dilution, SAFE, and runway calculators — have a standalone embed you can drop into any page with a copy-paste snippet. Each embed carries a 'Powered by VC Beast' credit and a link back to the full tool.
Can I cite a VC Beast page in an article or report?
Yes, and we make it easy: most tool and benchmark pages include a 'Cite this page' box with a ready-to-copy citation (title, publisher, URL, and access date). A link back to the source page is all we ask.
Do I need to sign up to use the tools?
No. The calculators run entirely in your browser and require no login. A free newsletter subscription unlocks extra features like emailed results, but the core tools are open to everyone.