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Why We Invested in Levanta
The Rise of Creator-Driven Commerce As a testament to its effectiveness as a performance-based marketing strategy, affiliate marketing has been around for decades While the channel’s core... more
Levanta Secures $20 Million in Series A Funding Led by Volition Capital to Accelerate Creator-Driven Commerce
Pictured from left to right: Spencer McKenney (Chief Technology Officer), Ian Brodie (Chief Executive Officer), and Rob Schab (Chief Marketplace Officer) SEATTLE, Nov 19,... more
Volition Capital Named to Inc.’s 2024 List of Founder-Friendly Investors
We are excited to share that for the second consecutive year, Volition Capital has been named to Inc Magazine's Founder Friendly list! We are grateful to Inc Magazine for this... more
Managing Partners Sean Cantwell and Roger Hurwitz Named Top Software Investors of 2024
We are excited to share that Volition Capital Managing Partners, Sean Cantwell and Roger Hurwitz, were recently named Top Software Investors of 2024 by GrowthCap Congratulations Sean and... more
Sam Sherman: How to Lead Your Company in Difficult Times
Pictured: Sam Sherman, Automatiq CEO For companies operating in the live events and hospitality space, COVID was a worst nightmare turned reality Live events were canceled for over a... more
Interview with Aditude CFO Josh Schenker
Pictured: Josh Schenker, Aditude CFO Volition Press: Great to be connecting Josh! Congratulations on recently announcing the acquisition of Hashtag Labs Are you able to share some insight... more
Why Volition Invested in Grove Collaborative (Again)
In August 2023, Volition made a $10M investment into Grove Collaborative (NYSE: GROV), and I joined the Board of Directors of the company Today, roughly a year later, we are very excited to... more
Paul Melchiorre: When to Prioritize a Channel Partner Sales Model
Pictured: Paul Melchiorre, SAB Member at Volition Capital Over the years, I have received countless questions on best practices in sales and go-to-market strategy Today, I wanted to spend... more
Kelly Barnum: 4 Keys to Hiring a Great Executive at a Growth Stage Business
Pictured: Kelly Barnum, Sr Talent Manager Building the Ideal Profile An important piece of advice I give to management teams who come to us for help with the executive search... more
Volition Edge: Building World Class Enduring Businesses
In July, Pete Lamson crossed the 90-day mark as Volition Capital’s Chief Operating Officer and Head of Portfolio Operations A largely arbitrary milestone, but meaningful in that enough... more
Volition Capital Team Hires & Analyst Class 2024
Volition Capital is thrilled to welcome several new hires as well as our Analyst Class of 2024 New Deal Team Members Danielle Brown, AssociateBefore... more
Jim Ferry: Google Predictably Punts on Deprecating Cookies
Pictured: Jim Ferry, Partner at Volition Capital Over my past 10 years at Volition Capital and since our founding, we have been active investors in the AdTech space Our investments have... more
Niraj Shah: A Conversation with the Wayfair CEO
In this episode of Scaling Success, Volition Capital Managing Partner, Sean Cantwell, sits down with Wayfair CEO and Volition Capital SAB Member Niraj Shah Sean and Niraj discuss a... more
Investor Roundtable 2024
Investor Roundtable Contributors (Left to Right): Tiger Henderson (VP, Software), Emily Pawlak (Sr Associate, I&C), Steve Achatz (Principal, I&C), Melanie Jordan (VP, Software),... more
Behind the Scenes with Larry Cheng
In this episode of Scaling Success, Volition Capital Managing Partner, Sean Cantwell, sits down with Volition Capital Managing Partner, Larry Cheng Sean and Larry discuss a variety of... more