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Model the Future — Venturely Urban's Series A

A four-round, advanced entrepreneurship & digital-sustainable strategy simulation set inside Venturely Urban, Lda., an 18-month-old Lisbon smart-mobility startup (28 employees, €1.4M ARR, €220K/month burn, ~9 months runway).

4 rounds Executive English, Español

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About this simulation

A four-round, advanced entrepreneurship & digital-sustainable strategy simulation set inside Venturely Urban, Lda., an 18-month-old Lisbon smart-mobility startup (28 employees, €1.4M ARR, €220K/month burn, ~9 months runway).

A lead investor will anchor a €6M Series A, but only if the team presents — within one 8-week fundraising cycle — a coherent business model where digital and sustainable value reinforce each other, a disciplined generative-AI plan, and a defensible smart-city ecosystem position before a global mobility super-app takes it.

Playing the venture lead, you (1) diagnose why the consumer-app model burns cash — a blended CAC of €34 against an LTV of €41 is a 1.2x ratio, far below the 3.0x investors expect — and find where sustainable value (emissions cut, city outcomes) is given away instead of priced; (2) choose and design the model — Consumer app (big TAM, weak economics & moat), B2B city SaaS/data (smaller TAM, strong margins & retention), Ecosystem/platform (network effects, needs scale), or a sequenced hybrid — and reset pricing to reach ≥3.0x LTV/CAC while making digital and sustainable value compound (per René Bohnsack's digital-and-sustainable business-model-innovation work); (3) decide whether and where to deploy generative AI against its ~€45K/month cost — consumer trip-planning, operations automating municipal reporting cities pay for, build-vs-buy, or not-now — as a value driver, not a slogan; and (4) choose a defensible ecosystem position (data partner to cities, integration hub for transit/charging operators, or consumer aggregator), defend it against the incoming super-app, and pitch the €6M raise as one coherent story.

The math rewards a focused model with priced sustainability and ≥3.0x unit economics, AI placed on the task customers pay for, a defensible wedge with a path to scale, and an integrated pitch — and punishes the five classic errors: growth over economics, sustainability as cost/PR, AI everywhere, refusing to choose among the three models, and an incoherent raise.

Final KPIs track Runway (months), LTV/CAC ratio, Investor Confidence, and Ecosystem Moat.

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Why does the current consumer-app model burn cash?
  • Where is sustainable value currently given away rather than monetised?
  • Set the LTV/CAC target you will commit to investors (x)
  • Choose the business model to build with the €6M.
  • Reset the revenue mechanic — how do you price sustainable value?
  • Where do you concentrate the €6M? (share to the chosen model's go-to-market, %)
  • Where do you deploy generative AI against its ~€45K/month cost?
  • Build vs. buy the AI capability.
  • Monthly generative-AI budget you commit (€K/month)
  • Choose Venturely's ecosystem position.

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Unit Economics, Confidence & Moat Trajectory

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in New Venture Creation.

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