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Welcome to the 3rd 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.

I’m Justin, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize and host of our show, The Vitalize Podcast.

For those who don’t know Gale, Caroline, and the rest of our team, we’re a venture capital firm and 300+ member angel community investing in the future of work. Founders interesting in working with us can pitch us here.

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FOW Key Insights

💼 Defining Future of Work

📖 Future of Work Reads

• How The Creator Economy Is Disrupting Higher Education (Forbes)

• Why ‘the future of AI is the future of work’ (MIT)

• New Digital Skills Index from Salesforce Reveals 76% of Global Workers Say They Are Unequipped for the Future of Work (Salesforce)

Top 3 Tweets

🥇 Angel Investors for Your Cap Table

Did I just include my own tweet? Yes, I did, but it’s actually valuable so I’m leaving it in here and you can’t stop me!

🥈 Hiring A-players

🥉 Founders Supporting Founders

Founder Resources

• Defining your culture as a founder

• Building a great brand for your startup

• A little inspiration from YC’s Black-founded companies

• How to get real feedback as a founder

• Coping with stress as a founder

• How to come up with a great business idea

• Navigating prioritization and trade-offs

The World of Vitalize

• This week, The Vitalize Podcast featured Ruben Harris of Career Karma and Heather Hartnett of Human Ventures.

• February 9th - Twitter Spaces with Gale and Justin

• February 9th - AMA with Angel Investor Stella Garber for Vitalize Angels members

• February 14th - Caroline is giving a presentation on “What Investors Look for in Due Diligence & Data Rooms”

• February 15th - Gale’s next founder roundtable

• February 15th - Vitalize Angels next live founder pitches

• February 16th-19th - Gale is visiting Miami! GPs and LPs, let her know if you want to meet up

• February 22nd-25th - Gale and Caroline are visiting Los Angeles

• Vitalize portfolio company open jobs

Future of Work Funding Rounds

• Metafy raised a $25M Series A

  • Metafy is an online coaching platform that enables video gamers to monetize their talent through coaching and courses.

  • Top Investors: Tiger Global Management, Entrée Capital, DCM Ventures, M25, Musha Ventures

• Tint.ai raised a $25M Series A

  • Tint is an AI-empowered insurance platform that provides tools required to launch, manage, and optimize insurance programs.

  • Top Investors: QED Investors, Y Combinator, Nyca Partners, Plug and Play Tech Center, Deciens Capital

• Deepnote raised a $20M Series A

  • Deepnote is a collaboration platform for data scientists.

  • Top Investors: Y Combinator, Accel, Elad Gil, Index Ventures, Lachy Groom

• Krista Software raised a $15M Series A

  • Krista is an Intelligent Automation platform.

  • Top Investors: Rally Ventures, Grotech Ventures, iGrafx

• Pragli raised a $5M Seed

  • Pragli is a virtual office platform for remote teams with a virtual water cooler, avatars, and fast conversations.

  • Top Investors: Polymath Capital, Manu Kumar, Jett Fein

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 future of work. Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.