The company has changed.The way it's led hasn't caught up.
VScale Accelerator — a 12-month engagement for women tech founders scaling in the U.S. market.
Every business has two structures. One the market sees. One it doesn't.
The visible structure creates growth. The invisible one determines whether growth can continue.
Most founders invest heavily in the first structure and assume the second will follow.
Growth introduces complexity, and complexity places new demands on leadership, decisions, alignment, and execution. The architecture that created your early success wasn't designed for what comes next.
Organizations grow to the limits of their architecture. Ours is the work of evolving it — deliberately.
- Leadership architecture
How leadership is constructed — not coached.
- Operating alignment
One organization, moving as one system.
- Organizational leverage
More output from the structure, not more effort from the people.
Organizational Capacity — what emerges.
VScale Accelerator was founded by Kate Blake and Robin Raymond.
In 1999, Robin co-founded a women-led B2B software company, raised $13.1M in angel and venture capital, and scaled it to seven figures in revenue — and experienced firsthand how the work of building the company changes as the company grows. Since 2020, she has been guiding founders and their leadership teams on strategy and tactics to scale.
Kate has spent 16 years inside the moment this page describes — the one where the company has changed and its leadership hasn't yet. More than 12,000 sessions with founders and their teams, doing the deliberate, specific work of closing that gap.
Robin has made the climb. Kate has evolved the leaders making it. You'll work with both.
The engagement runs twelve months, and it has a shape.
It begins with an accurate picture. An in-depth assessment of your leadership and organization, debriefed with your full team — then a full-day onsite to align on where you're going and set the first ninety days.
It runs on a quarterly rhythm. Each quarter opens with a working session to reset the next ninety days, and continues through facilitated roundtables where your team clears what's actually in the way.
It works on the leaders continuously. Monthly sessions with you as CEO, a room of founders scaling alongside you, dedicated time for your technical leadership — and unlimited access between.
It closes by opening the next year. A two-day retreat with your leadership team: reassess the strategy, set the roadmap, leave with a plan the whole company can get behind.
The inaugural cohort is forming now. Five founders.
Applications are reviewed as they arrive.
It's small on purpose — organizational evolution isn't a workshop.