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Welcome to the 20th 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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🎧 1 Year of The VITALIZE Podcast!

About a year ago, we launched The VITALIZE Podcast (Originally called Talking Venture). Since then, the show has been listened to thousands of times and we’ve featured some amazing Founders and Investors like:

• Wes Kao of Maven

• Hunter Walk of Homebrew

• Ruben Harris of Career Karma

• Deena Shakir or Lux Capital

• Alexandra Zatarain of Eight Sleep

• Mac Conwell of Rarebreed Ventures

As well as dozens more!

We’ve also received glowing reviews from listeners like Viktor:

We just wanted to thank you for all the support and let you know that there’s much more more on the way!

You can subscribe to The VITALIZE Podcast below:

• Subscribe on YouTube

• Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

Alright, let’s go to your regulary scheduled newsletter content 😊

Top 3 Tweets

🥇 Advice for First-Time Founders

🥈 A Startup Pivot

🥉 Pre-Seed Founder Salaries

Here’s a spreadsheet with some of the top replies from the tweet below:

🎉 Bonus: Congrats Sydney!

Resources

• A platform for advertising in premium email newsletters

• A startup CEO salary report

• A database for VC outreach

• A collection of pitch deck templates

• 12 insights on product-market fit

Future of Work Reads

• Why remote work will lead to greater success (Computerworld)

• The Rise Of Hybrid Natives (Forbes)

• Human capital at work: The value of experience (McKinsey)

• Workforce Preferences Barometer 2022 (JLL)

• An AI-enabled workforce is the future of customer engagement (Fast Company)

The World of VITALIZE

• NOWHERE Co-Founder Ana Constantino was featured in the Futures 100 Innovators Report

• This week on The VITALIZE Podcast we had a throwback, featuring Amanda DoAmaral of Fiveable, a company making learning social by building spaces for young people to grow together. Amanda raised a $10M Series A since our discussion and we thought it’d be a great time to resurface her interview 😊

  • Watch on YouTube

  • Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

• Caroline wrote an article sharing her findings on maternity leave in VC after speaking with ~60 VC firms

• Gale is hosting a couple of free “Angel Investing Playbook” webinars in June

• Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies

Future of Work Funding Rounds

• Ordr raised a $40M Series C

  • Ordr's platform monitors IoT devices to minimize the vulnerability of computer networks to cyberattacks.

  • Top Investors: Mayo Clinic, Battery Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, TenEleven Ventures

• Vendia raised a $30M Series B

  • Vendia is a real-time data cloud, offering a fast and scalable way to share operational data across data silos, clouds, and partners.

  • Top Investors: Lux Capital, Operator Partners, Correlation Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Floodgate

• CloseFactor raised a $4.5M Seed

  • CloseFactor provides automated sales research and contextual insights leveraging machine learning.

  • Top Investors: Sequoia Capital

• Mintlify raised a $2.8M Seed

  • Mintlify uses AI to auto-generate documentation based on source code.

  • Top Investors: Y Combinator, Bain Capital Ventures, TwentyTwo VC, Quinn Slack

• Techmate raised a $2M Round of Funding

  • Techmate Technologies is a software platform for on-demand technical support for small businesses.

  • Top Investors: Y Combinator, LAUNCH, Hustle Fund, The Syndicate.com, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

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.