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Welcome to the 24th edition of Re:VITALIZE, a newsletter with tactics, strategies, and stories on building companies plus cool things we’re seeing in the future of work.

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Top 3 Tweets

🥇 A Pitch Deck for Raising $6.5M

🥈 What to Know About Term Sheets

🥉 The Best Five-Word Startup Pitches

I tweeted this and got 1,000+ responses 🤯. Thank you to everyone who took the time to write a response! Here are 10 of my favorites: 

Resources

• 9 Essentials of Raising VC Money

• Sketch notes from ConvertKit’s Craft + Commerce creator conference

• 30 resources to help you find and attract amazing talent

• The path to $1.5M ARR in 3 years

• A tool for how to split startup equity

Future of Work Reads

• The Future of Work, According to Beyonce and Mick Jagger (Bloomberg)

• Future of Work Week (CoinDesk)

• How Upskilling Can Drive Employee And Business Growth (Forbes)

• Making the Future of Work More Inclusive (Nasdaq)

• Why workplace technologies must be beneficial to both employers and employees (World Economic Forum)

The World of VITALIZE

• This week on The VITALIZE Podcast we had on Mariam Hakobyan, Co-Founder & CEO of Softr, the easiest no-code platform for building custom apps and portals, in minutes.

  • Watch on YouTube

  • Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

• Gale hosted her second “Angel Investing Playbook” webinar with more than 300 attendees between the two webinars

• Swati Garg, Founder & CEO of Melo Associates, did a fantastic AMA for our VITALIZE Angels community

• Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies

Future of Work Funding Rounds

• Gloat raised a $90M Series D

  • Gloat is an internal talent marketplace that allows people to be matched to internal career opportunities.

  • Top Investors: Lumir Ventures, Accel, Generation Investment Management, Eight Roads Ventures, Intel Capital

• PicnicHealth raised a $60M Series C

  • PicnicHealth turns medical records into datasets that can be used for R&D by developers of medical products.

  • Top Investors: B Capital Group, Y Combinator, Amplify Partners, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Felicis Ventures

• Evinced raised a $37.5M Series B

  • Evinced is a startup that builds tools to check website accessibility.

  • Top Investors: Insight Partners, Capital One Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures, Engineering Capital, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund

• Kogniz raised a $10M Series A

  • Kogniz offers leverages computer vision and artificial intelligence to create safer, smarter workspaces using predictive safety.

  • Top Investors: The Indy Fund, Ulu Ventures, super{set}, H. Barton Asset Management, Tom Chavez

• AI Squared raised a $6M Seed

  • AI Squared is a low-code platform that easily integrates AI into business applications.

  • Top Investors: NEA, Ridgeline Partners

Written by Justin Gordon, Director of Marketing at VITALIZE, a venture capital firm and 300+ member angel investing community for everyone investing in U.S.-based B2B software founders in the work revolution. Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.