Supporting the Business Lifecycle with vcfo
vcfo offers flexible consulting solutions to support businesses at every stage of their lifecycle, from startup and growth to maturity and turnaround. Our services include strategic planning, capitalization, financial management, M&A support, HR and Talent leadership and more. We design the plan and then roll up our sleeves to support execution.
Comprehensive Solutions for Every Stage
Every organization should have access to strategic senior-level finance, HR, and recruiting talent, regardless of size, budget, lifecycle, or business challenge. Our highly experienced consultants develop customized engagement solutions and deliver results through part-time, interim, project-based, or full-time support.
We make decisions that are in your best interest, just as if it is our company. We are committed to making your business stronger and optimizing your value through expert guidance, tailored solutions, and a collaborative approach.
Expertise, Experience & Customizable Solutions
Startup Stage
Startups face unique challenges, such as securing initial funding and establishing effective yet affordable financial systems and infrastructure. vcfo provides the expertise needed to build a solid foundation for sustainable growth. We ensure your business plan speaks to the issues that matter to investors, support fundraising activities, and establish necessary infrastructure. We also provide the tactical support to execute operationally until you are ready for permanent hires.
Growth Stage
As your company grows, managing increased complexity and ensuring operational efficiency becomes critical to your success in scaling operations. The vcfo team streamlines processes, optimizes financial performance, and supports strategic expansion. We enhance reporting effectiveness, ensure seamless integration of acquired entities, and implement the right financial systems to support your growth.
Mature Stage
Mature businesses must focus on sustaining growth, optimizing operations, maximizing value, and preparing for potential exits or succession planning. vcfo strategic guidance will maximize value and ensure long-term success. Growth may come from transactions, either acquisitions or mergers. Our team can provide operationally oriented Quality of Earnings Reports, support negotiations, assist with any required capital raiseand design and lead pre- and post-merger integrations. To support organic growth and value optimization, we use our proprietary tool, v360® Enterprise Value Roadmap, to identify areas of value optimization and guide recommendations critical to this stage of the business life cycle.
Transaction / Turnaround Stage
During significant transitions, such as mergers or financial turnarounds, businesses benefit from our deep operational experience in similar situations. We have been through numerous business cycles supporting our clients. We cut to the chase with immediate recommendations for necessary expense reductions and revised forecasts. We support renegotiation of credit and other financial facilities. We try to work things out but if necessary or advisable under the circumstances, we assist our clients with the most optimal possible moves through the bankruptcy process.
Enhance Operational Excellence and Value with a Comprehensive v360® Enterprise Value Roadmap
v360 is the ultimate value optimization experience designed to help you see your business as the market does. Our comprehensive report illustrates potential growth in value and delivers a set of actionable recommendations that, when adopted, will help enhance value beyond the numbers.
Work with vcfo to Optimize Operations And Enterprise Value
From developing your financial strategy, supporting funding opportunities, to optimizing value, scaling infrastructure, and supporting transaction activities of all sorts, vcfo provides tailored solutions to ensure stability and growth. We can augment your team, fill an interim staffing hole, or serve as the entire team depending on your requirements.
Strategic Support
Creating a financial plan to support your objectives and pinning together the cash it will require is job one whether you are a startup or immersed in growth. Your plan will address many other strategic elements such as your plan for using your equity over time for funding and key talent acquisition purposes. We look at what your plan will mean to your own ownership over time. A smaller piece of a bigger pie (taking dilution to accomplish your goals) often makes sense, but you should know what your decisions mean before making critical decisions with equity at every stage of evolution.
Funding your Vision
Your plan will have a requirement for capital/cash whether you are self-funding, leveraging debt, pursuing grants, or seeking outside sources. Likely it will be a combination. Each type of funding has different characteristics. Advising you on the best options available to you and then supporting the process of securing them is a critical element of our strategic support.
Optimizing Value
Every business owner and executive team should be focused on increasing shareholder value. It is so critical that we tapped our expertise and experience to create our proprietary v360™ Enterprise Value Roadmap. With this tool we provide actionable recommendations in a variety of areas across the company ensuring your value is optimized at every stage of growth and ready for whatever transaction you may be considering. Important to know, we illustrate in advance an estimated ROI on executing these recommendations. End game = optimized value at every step of your company’s life.
Transaction Support
Transactions come in many flavors. Whether you are planning an acquisition, bringing in Private Equity, or looking ahead to succession or exit planning, we can lead through every step from strategy formulation to Quality of Earnings reports and transaction negotiation to detailed execution.
Scaling Infrastructure
Your infrastructure needs day 1 (with 1-5 employees) and year 5 (with perhaps 100+ employees) are likely vastly different. Strategically we address this need to scale support systems as the company grows as an element of our forward forecasts. Operationally we then recommend and implement changes necessary over time whether they are systems, internal processes or talent issues. We help our clients stay ahead of the inflection points where failed infrastructure investments stifle growth.
Augmenting your Team
In most of our engagements our CFO and/or CHRO team members join a client as a long-term member of their C-suite team on a fractional basis. We often bring in other members of our team to augment or fill additional needs. We can also drop in and bridge situations where a company loses a key resource through notice or illness and needs support until they can backfill the position.
