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Welcome to the 15th 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

🥇 Raising a Fund and Doing Things Differently

Read the entire announcement in the thread for more insights

🥈 The Importance of Remote and Flexible Work

🥉 Promises from a Manager

Resources

• Getting to $300k in monthly revenue with zero paid ads

• Managing Your Mental Health While Running a Startup

• Lessons on resiliency from a repeat founder

• 13 Metrics for Marketplace Companies

• An explanation of bookings vs. revenue

• How to know if you’ve got product-market fit

Future of Work Reads

• What flexibility really looks like in the future of work (Fast Company)

• The Critical Role of Food in the Future of Work (TIME)

• Why Optimizing Employee Performance Is The Future Of Work (Forbes)

• Here’s why tech companies are investing in learning subscriptions (Protocol)

• How to make ‘work of the future’ work for everyone (MIT)

The World of VITALIZE

• VITALIZE portco, NOWHERE, is hosting a Metaverse World Building Competition

• The Mom Project (Another VITALIZE portco), has their Recharge Summit on May 9th to celebrate Moms

• VITALIZE Angels is launching a new education program in the next few weeks

• This week, The VITALIZE Podcast featured Jonathan Siddharth, Founder & CEO of Turing, a company that helps you source, vet, match, and manage the world's best software developers remotely.

• Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies

Future of Work Funding Rounds

• Harness raised a $175M Series D

  • Harness is a continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.

  • Top Investors: JP Morgan, Gaingels, Norwest Venture Partners, GV, Silicon Valley Bank

• Qualified raised a $95M Series C

  • Qualified.com is a B2B marketer that helps Salesforce users with sales pipeline generation

  • Top Investors: Norwest Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, Redpoint, Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures

• Replicant raised a $78M Series B

  • Replicant is a contact center automation software that helps companies automate their most common customer service requests.

  • Top Investors: Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Stripes, Atomic, Omega Venture Partners

• Enervee raised a $35M Series B

  • Enervee is a marketplace for energy products. Its platform combines data science, behavioral science, and digital marketing to drive energy-related buying decisions across dozens of consumer product categories.

  • Top Investors: JP Morgan, Obvious Ventures, SaaS Capital, Kerogen Capital, Don Epperson

• Rooser raised a $23M Series A

  • Rooser is a seafood trading platform that connects seafood buyers and suppliers across Europe, providing them with the tools they need to trade efficiently, negotiate prices, and process deliveries.

  • Top Investors: Index Ventures, GV, Point Nine, Dylan Field, David Nothacker

• Perfect Venue raised a $3.6M Seed

  • Perfect Venue is an event management software for independent venues and hospitality groups.

  • Top Investors: Hustle Fund, Defy.vc, Amity Ventures, Wisdom LLP, Context Ventures

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.