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The private equity simulator for analysts, MBAs, and deal teams

Practice the full private equity deal lifecyclebefore you invest in or interview for one.

  • 9 Desks
  • 8 Arenas
  • 4 AI Advisors

Nine desks, one live deal, sourcing to exit. Rehearse the lifecycle and leave the mistakes in the simulator. You make the calls, the model reacts, and an AI advisor tells you what a partner would have done.

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Professional monthly is $13 for your first month, then $39/month. First-time subscribers only.

PAUSE 1 OF 5Tombstone, deal closedDeal tombstone: acquired, $1.2B, closed 2026

Elite practical deal lifecycle, M&A and private equity training

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One platform, four ways in

Practice. Learn. Certify. Play.

Everything in the simulator sits in one of four places. Pick the one that fits your day.

Practice

Run a live deal from sourcing to exit.

  • Deal Sourcing Desk
  • Valuation Desk
  • Deal Store: 100 plus deals and your own company
Explore Practice

Learn

Build knowledge one step at a time.

  • 25 learning paths
  • 13 books and 185 cheat sheets
  • 16 deal case studies
Explore Learn

Certify

Show your skills and your progress.

  • Quizzes and exams
  • Certificates and badges
  • Career DNA
Explore Certify

Play

Test your judgement under pressure.

  • Solo: The Forge, Board Simulation
  • Duels: Ladder Duel, The Closing Table
  • Team capstone: The Phoenix
Explore Play

Certificates show your practice and results. They are not an accreditation.

Watch

Three short films. Pick one.

The product, the institute behind the curriculum, and a walk through a live deal. Press play and the film starts right here.

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PE Simulator: the flight simulator for private equity

Nine desks, one live deal from sourcing to exit. Practice, learn, certify, and play.

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Who trains here

Private equity grade.Built for the desks around the deal.

A PE lifecycle sandbox for PE professionals and the advisors, bankers, and operators who sit next to them.

  • Investors and sponsors

    • Private equity professionals
    • Operating partners
    • Value creation advisors

  • Dealmakers

    • Investment bankers
    • M&A advisors
    • Strategic consultants

  • Builders and leaders

    • MBA and graduate students
    • C-suite leaders
    • Post-integration leaders
Dealflow

One deal, end to end

You run a private equity deal through its whole life: source it, value it, plan the growth, create the value, operate the company, and exit. AI advisors sit at the table. Every stage leaves an artifact you keep.

Self-paced. Always on.

One deal, end to end. One deal from sourcing to exit. Every stage leaves a document you keep. 0:18

  • Live deal pipeline
  • Screening framework
  • Market comparables

You

  • Screen targets against your thesis
  • Score six deal drivers
  • Shortlist and commit

Read the private equity deal lifecycle

Beyond the deal

Game simulations from crisis decisions to a full fund career. Multiplayer for teams.

Proof you keep

Certification exams and certificates built to carry onto LinkedIn.

Clear pricing

$13 first month, then $39/month. Cancel anytime.

Access Proprietary Deal Flow

Move up the simulation. Unlock proprietary private equity deal flow.

Deal store

  • Aldermore deal caseAldermore 2026
  • RWC deal caseRWC 2026
  • WeWork deal caseWeWork 2019
  • Refinitiv deal caseRefinitiv 2018
  • Arm deal caseArm 2016
  • Careem deal caseCareem 2016
  • Enron deal caseEnron 2001
  • Action deal caseAction 2011
  • Twitter deal caseTwitter 2022
  • Chrysler deal caseChrysler 2007

Company names and logos appear in educational case scenarios only. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.

Why not a course

Everyone else teaches you the deal.We make you run one.

Reading about a deal and running one are different skills. Only one of them gets hired.

Courses and prep programs

  • Watch someone else build the model
  • Static case PDFs
  • You learn what happened
  • Finish with a certificate

PE Simulator

  • Build with feedback
  • Live, reactive model
  • You find out what you would do
  • Finish with a track record
Ask us anything

The questions people ask before they start.

Type anything about the simulator. A real answer comes straight back, grounded on what ships in the product today.

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Hi there. Ask me anything about PE Simulator: the desks, the deal, pricing, who it is for. I will keep it short.

AI answers grounded on our published FAQ, trust, and pricing pages. It can be wrong. No account data collected here.

Prefer to read? Common questions are in the FAQ

Built by operators, validated by practitioners

Private equity training that earns the marks, not just displays them.

PE Simulator was built in collaboration by Valuethropy and VCI Institute. Every module is informed by people who have actually run deals.

What learners say

“Closest thing to a partner-level case interview. The outputs made my plan obvious.”

PE ASSOCIATEMid-cap buyout

“The most practical finance content I have seen. Tight, deal-tested frameworks we could apply in our portfolio the same week.”

OPERATING PARTNEREnterprise value creation

11 career levels

Progress tracked from Student to Managing Director.

Every simulation earns XP toward the next level. Vice President is where most learners aim first.

  1. Student

    Starting your PE journey

  2. Intern

    Learning fundamentals

  3. Analyst

    Building analytical skills

  4. Associate

    Executing deals

  5. Vice President

    Leading deal teams. Target

  6. Director

    Directing portfolio VC

  7. Principal

    Shaping strategy

  8. Partner

    Driving fund performance

  9. Senior Partner

    Leading the firm

  10. Managing Partner

    Building institutions

  11. MD

    Industry legend

  12. Partner's whiteboard

    Easter egg. The deal that never leaves the board.

Four specialist AI advisors

Ask, generate, model, and actwithout leaving the sim.

VIC, The Brain, CFO Assistant, and VALIA are wired into the workspaces where you work. Each one is built for a different moment in the deal lifecycle.

See what the AI advisor says when your sourcing thesis breaks

Example from VIC on the Deal Sourcing desk.

PE SIMULATOR / VIC

You

We can pay 14x EBITDA if growth stays at 12 percent.

VIC

A 14x entry only works if the growth rate and the exit multiple both hold. Stress the downside before you commit the screen.

VIC

PE Expert Advisor

Your personal PE expert. Ask anything about deals, valuation, strategy. Get instant, expert-level analysis.

  • Analyze margins vs. industry benchmarks
  • Surface top risks in any deal

The Brain

Report Generation

Turns simulation work into professional deliverables. Memos, risk registers, value creation reports from your data.

  • Generate IC memos from pipeline
  • Create risk registers from portfolio data

CFO Assistant

Financial Modeling

Specialized support for numbers-heavy tasks. Forecasts, normalization, board-ready materials.

  • Build financial forecasts
  • EBITDA normalization assistance

VALIA

Quick Prompts

Contextual quick prompts. Surfaces relevant actions based on where you are. One click, no typing.

  • In Sourcing: Score deal, draft memo
  • In Valuation: Run sensitivity, compare

Three ways to start

Choose how you want to start.

Every path leads to the same product. Only the first step is different.

Best for most people

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You are ready to practise.

  • All four areas, all desks
  • Save your deals and your scores
  • Cancel any time
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Start learning now

You want to build knowledge first.

  • 25 learning paths
  • 13 books and 185 cheat sheets
  • 16 deal case studies
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Brochures

Take it with you. Share it with your team.

One full brochure and three short extracts, one for each area. Free PDFs, no sign-up.

Prefer to talk it through? Send the brochure to your team lead, then try it together.

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Simple pricing

Start where you are.Scale when you need to.

Professional for individuals and learners. Team when you need the multiplayer capstones and higher AI limits.

Your first month of Professional is $13.

First-time Professional monthly subscribers pay $13 today, then $39/month from month two. Team and annual plans are billed at their normal price. Cancel anytime from your account.

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Professional

Individuals, students, and solo practitioners

Was $39$13first month

Your first month of the Professional tier is $13.

Then $39/month from month two. First-time subscribers, monthly plan only. Cancel anytime from your account.

Less than one hour of consulting fees.

  • All 12 simulation modules
  • All 4 AI advisors (VIC, Brain, CFO Assistant, VALIA)
  • 50 AI queries / day
  • Super Prompts, The Forge, The Digicorn
  • Power Hour up to 2x VC$
  • Unlimited simulations and lessons
  • VC$ Exchange access
  • Export (PDF / Excel)
  • Verified certifications
Start Professional for $13

Renews at $39/month after your first month.

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For teams

Team

Advanced multiplayer and higher AI limits

$69/mo

Annual: $690/yr, saves 2 months. Professional annual: $390/yr, saves 2 months. Billed at the normal price.

A fraction of one analyst seat per month.

  • Everything in Professional, plus:
  • Phoenix, Fake Leader, and C-Suite Arena (multiplayer capstones)
  • Invite-based multiplayer groups
  • 100 AI queries / day
  • Power Hour up to 3x VC$
  • Team dashboard and creator mode

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Enterprise solutions

For universities, business schools, training centers, and firms.

If you train cohorts at a university, business school, training center, or corporation, we can scope a custom enterprise deployment. That can include white-label branding, tailored content and deal knowledge bases for your organization, seat pricing, SSO, and curriculum design. Contact us to create the solution. The PE Simulator is built in collaboration by Valuethropy (AI and platform architecture) and VCI Institute (curriculum and certifications). For curriculum and cohort questions, the VCI Institute team handles support. For platform and AI questions, reach us via valuethropy.ai.

  • White-label branding for your institution or firm
  • Custom content and knowledge bases for your curriculum or deal desk
  • Cohort licensing with admin dashboard
  • SSO, billing on invoice, MSA available
  • White-glove onboarding and live walkthroughs
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Trust and legitimacy

A real business.Clear rules. Fair treatment.

We take payments seriously, respect your privacy, and design toward strong security practices. You should know who you are buying from before you start.

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    Professional and Team billing runs through Stripe inside the simulator app. Card details are processed by Stripe. They are not stored on this marketing site.

  • Privacy respected

    This marketing site collects almost no personal data. Analytics use Google Consent Mode. You can accept or decline cookies, and you can ask us to delete marketing contact data.

  • SOC 2-aligned practices

    We design and operate toward SOC 2-aligned practices for access control, change management, and data handling. This is not a claim of current SOC 2 certification.

  • Fair treatment

    You can cancel anytime from your account. Your access continues until the end of the period you've paid for, and you won't be charged again. Payments are generally non-refundable. If something went wrong with your purchase, contact support and we'll review it.

  • Real operators

    PE Simulator is built by Valuethropy (AI and platform) with VCI Institute (curriculum and certifications). Legitimate product work, not a slide deck reskin.

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Answers before you get started.

A short list of what new users ask most often. More detail lives inside the product and at valuethropy.ai and vci.institute.

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