Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:16 What inspired you to become a VC?
07:18 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
11:19 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
14:32 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
17:13 How do people contact you?
17:26 Thank you
Featured Guest Bio:
Claude is a Vice President of Volition Capital’s internet and consumer investment team. She joined Volition in 2019 and focuses on investments in e-commerce and tech-enabled services, with sector interests in digital health, telco, and consumer subscription services.
Fund Information:
Volition Capital is a growth equity firm established in 2010 that focuses on investing in high-growth, founder-owned technology businesses across the U.S. and Canada that generally have between $5 million and $50 million in revenue with demonstrated capital efficiency.
Fund Site:
https://www.volitioncapital.com/
Fund Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/volition-capital https://twitter.com/volitioncapital?lang=en
Guest Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudedejocas/ https://www.volitioncapital.com/team/claude-de-jocas/
ShowNotes
In this episode of the Female VC Lab podcast, we speak to Claude, Vice President of Volition Capital.
1. Career Beginnings: Learn about Claude's early career at L2, a data-driven consulting firm in New York where she crafted digital strategies for traditional consumer brands being disrupted by digitally native challenger brands.
2. Beauty Sector Insights: Hear about her time in the beauty sector and how she helped larger companies mimic or acquire rising competitors before they became too threatening.
3. Venture Capital Interest: Discover what sparked Claude's interest in venture capital and led her back to Harvard Business School with an aim of pursuing an MBA focusing on early-stage startups through internships at seed funds.
4. Growth Equity & Data-Centric Approach: Understand why Claude was drawn towards growth equity and how it allowed her to evaluate businesses based on concrete data while applying a consumer-centric perspective.
5. Joining Volition Capitall: Get insights into why joining Volition Capital felt like being part of a high-growth startup within an established firm – very appealing given her background.
6. Investment Philosophy & Bootstrapped Businesses: Explore Volition Capital’s investment philosophy which focuses on capital-efficient businesses signifying sustainable business models and learn about Claude’s personal resonance with bootstrapped businesses due to her experience at 2U - a fully bootstrapped yet high-growth business during her early years there.
7. Empathy for Entrepreneurs: Delve into why as an investor, bootstrapped founders appeal to Claude since they've figured out significant aspects of their business model while confronting market realities daily.
8. Current Focus: Find out more about current opportunities that the team is exploring related to global workforce trends post-pandemic.
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