Capabilities

In support of Vermont’s emerging businesses, VCET capabilities, resources and competencies are aligned around:

►Building Teams

►Accessing Markets & Customers

►Securing & Investing Capital

Every start-up is unique, but all share many common challenges and milestones during the early years of product, service and organizational development.  

Through a combination of hands-on mentoring, technical assistance, strategic counsel and an unequaled network of partners, people and infrastructure, VCET offers  a compelling and locally unfair advantage to portfolio companies.

Firms benefit by reducing their direct costs (e.g., lower burn rate and reduced capital need), accelerating time to market (e.g., prototyping facilities, early revenues and first customers) and allowing for more rapid and extremely qualified team building (e.g., interns, graduate fellows, business advisers and executive recruitment, etc).

This ecosystem and framework of hands-on assistance leverages invested capital, reduces business and execution risks, increases job creation and accelerates liquidity events and options.

Our approach, interests and daily pursuits are aligned with the entrepreneur's interest in creating a next generation employer and financial success here in Vermont.