Want to attract the right early-growth investor? Learn how understanding sourcing strategies—like direct outreach, referrals, and conference networking—can help you build relationships, increase visibility, and secure the best-fit financial partner for your next stage of growth.

Securing a term sheet is just the beginning. Learn how to navigate post-term sheet due diligence, from managing detailed data requests to customer validation, technical assessments, and market analysis, ensuring a strong foundation for investor partnerships.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Get up to date on AI hardware advancements and how to leverage them with insights from Positron AI’s Cameron McCaskill.

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...

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…

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Ahead of any fundraise, building a tight initial data room is key…

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…

The bane of every Founder & CEO’s existence: the dreaded board meeting…

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…