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Welcome to the 10th 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

🥇 How to Diversify Your Team, Community, & Cap Table

🥈 Brands & Identity

🥉 The Ladders of Wealth Creation

Resources

• Thoughts on startup boards at the seed stage

• Normal salary ranges for seed stage founders

• A playbook for getting on 100+ podcasts in 6 months

• Product Hunt’s tech stack

• Tips for improving your SEO

Future of Work Reads

• The Great Resignation continues, as 44% of workers look for a new job (CNBC)

• Deloitte opens first ‘future of work’ designed office in Newcastle (Deloitte)

• Remote-work boom powers Firstbase to $50M Series B (TechCrunch)

• Metaverse and the Future of Work: Are you ready for the change? (Analytics Insight)

• What Is The Future Of Work In Higher Education? (Forbes)

• What the Anti-work Discourse Gets Wrong (The Atlantic)

The World of Vitalize

• Enklu, a Vitalize portfolio company, has internship openings for this summer

• SUMA Wealth Co-Founder & CEO Beatriz Acevedo will be featured as a main stage speaker for the 2022 #WeAllGrowSummit hosted by #WeAllGrow Latina

• This week, The Vitalize Podcast featured Jonathan Heiliger, General Partner at Vertex Ventures

• It’s been 6 months since our public launch of Vitalize Angels and Gale shared in a Twitter thread how it’s going

• Stella Garber joined our Vitalize Angels community for an incredible AMA

• Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies

Future of Work Funding Rounds

• CommerceIQ raised a $115M Series D

  • CommerceIQ is an omnichannel management platform that helps large brands use machine learning and automation to increase e-commerce sales.

  • Top Investors: Insight Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund, Shasta Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Madrona Venture Group

• Glia raised a $45M Series D

  • Glia enables companies to deliver in-person customer experience online. With a single line of code, companies can identify and engage their highest-value web visitors through video, voice, chat, and co-browsing to increase online conversions and improve customer support.

  • Top Investors: Insight Partners, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Tola Capital, Wildcat Capital Management, Grassy Creek Ventures

• WorkRamp raised a $40M Series C

  • WorkRamp is an all-in-one learning platform for training customers, partners, and employees.

  • Top Investors: PeopleTech Angels, Liquid 2 Ventures, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, OMERS Ventures

• Handle raised a $10M Series A

  • Twelve Labs is a machine learning solution for summarizing and searching video that could make quicker and easier work for both consumers and creators.

  • Top Investors: Index Ventures, Techstars, Radical Ventures, Expa, Fei-Fei Li

• Meaningful Gigs raised a $6M Seed

  • Meaningful Gigs is a tech-enabled marketplace that up-skills and connects skilled African digital designers with enterprise companies.

  • Top Investors: Gaingels, Reach Capital, Rethink Education, Stage 2 Capital, Kepple Africa 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 future of work. Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.