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Welcome to the 109th edition of Re:VITALIZE, a newsletter with tactics, strategies, and stories on building companies plus our favorite future of work reads, going out to 3,300+ people each week. Forward to a friend who may want to subscribe.

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🥇 Rise of Storytelling Founders

🥈 Promise & Product Fit

🥉 Passion Fuels Startups

Founder Resources

• The increasing gap between pre-seed and seed

• Preparing your startup for a successful fundraising journey

• Sales is a founder’s superpower

• How to keep investors engaged during fundraising

• Tools for decoding your market and competition

• The secret ingredient incredible pitches had in common

• Average Marketing vs. Great Marketing

Future of Work Reads

• 3 Ways To Manage A Divided Workplace Post-Election (Forbes)

• Building Resilience in Change Management: Insights for CHROs (Gartner)

• Gen Z's videos complaining about having to work in an office have reached millennial workers, and opinions are divided (Business Insider)

• Six experts on what the election means for workplaces (Time)

• Why Workplace Well-Being Programs Don’t Achieve Better Outcomes (HBR)

• Will AI make work burnout worse? (BBC)

The World of VITALIZE

• Alembic (Fund I) was named in a new Gartner® emerging tech report

• Areto Labs (VITALIZE Angels) won the STWS - Sports Tech World Series 2024 Australia & New Zealand Sports Tech Award for Social & Fan Engagement

• Virtual Sapiens (VITALIZE Angels) partners with Chiefable

• VIVA (VITALIZE Angels) closed its $2.2M funding round led by Chingona Ventures

• Open jobs at VITALIZE portfolio companies

Written by the team at VITALIZE, a venture capital firm and 300+ member angel investing community for everyone, investing in U.S.-based B2B software founders innovating in WorkTech. Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.