Vocap Insights
“Owning the Hill” – Making Small Markets Your Friend
Discover how focusing on a tightly defined market can accelerate your business growth. Learn why starting narrow, refining your product, and dominating a niche ("owning the hill") is a winning strategy for scaling efficiently and building market leadership.
Founder-Investor Alignment: The Impact of Fund Economics
Evaluating potential investors? Aligning with their expectations is key to your company’s success. Learn about venture fund economics, portfolio math, and essential questions to ensure your goals match your investors' desired outcomes.
Cypris: Why We Invested
The Vocap team is excited to announce our latest portfolio addition, Cypris, an AI-driven research platform tailored for R&D teams. Vocap led Cypris' $5.3 million Series A round...
Top Talent from Universities: A Strategic Advantage
Attracting top university talent can fuel your company’s growth. Discover key strategies to align your recruitment process with what recent graduates value and practical steps to build strong campus relationships for future success.
TAM Part 3: Framing the Opportunity
Learn how to effectively frame your market opportunity by addressing four key levels: end market, value unlock, total addressable market, and currently addressable market. Knowing how to balance these elements will create a compelling narrative that resonates with investors.
Crushing the Introductory Call with a VC
Whether you're gearing up for your first VC call or refining your pitch, nailing that initial conversation is essential. In this blog, the Vocap team provides actionable insights and tips to help you stand out and set the stage for successful fundraising.
How to Get Smart on a Market
Whether you're a VC evaluating a new investment or a management team considering an adjacent vertical, incisive market research is key. In this post, Emery Waddell shares his toolkit for finding the “signal” behind an informed thesis.
Emery Waddell Promoted to General Partner
Learn how Emery’s financial expertise, strategic insights, and dedication to emerging B2B SaaS companies will continue to drive success for our portfolio companies and the firm.
Transforming AI: the Future of Hardware from Positron’s Cameron McCaskill
Get up to date on AI hardware advancements and how to leverage them with insights from Positron AI’s Cameron McCaskill.
“Only in YPO”: a Lifeline for Young CEOs
For young CEOs at the helm of companies, the role can often feel isolating. But groups like the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and Entrepreneurial Organization (EO) offer a lifeline, providing...
YourSix: Why We Invested
The Vocap team is thrilled to announce the latest addition to our portfolio, YourSix, which provides a modern, device-to-cloud software operating system for physical security…
Leveraging Expertise: Build the Team Behind Your Team
Navigating the early phases of scaling a software company can feel like steering a ship through a meteor storm in deep space…
The Art of a Crisp Data Room
Ahead of any fundraise, building a tight initial data room is key…
Inside the R&D Black Box: Finding the Sweet Spot for Spend
For many founders, especially those that haven’t managed product & engineering teams before, the R&D function can feel a bit like a black box…
Top Tips to Run a Kick-Ass Board Meeting
The bane of every Founder & CEO’s existence: the dreaded board meeting…
CFOs and Financial Leadership: What Many Founders Miss
What does a bona fide CFO bring to the table? Are they really worth the price tag? When should I hire one?
Questions like these have many founders scratching their heads…
Three Ways to Play Offense Against the ‘Great Resignation’
The media is hyping ‘the Great Resignation’, but if you are an early-stage tech company, you are likely experiencing this more as ‘the Great Poaching’…
Digging the Moat: 2 Non-Obvious Concepts for Startups
“The most important thing to me is figuring out how big a moat there is around the business. What I love, of course, is a big castle and a big moat with piranhas.” – Warren Buffett