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Raising $30M Without an "In" With Investors, How to Achieve Success in Business, and Lessons on Raising Capital
A newsletter for founders & friends (26th edition)
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Welcome to the 26th 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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🥇 How to Achieve Success in Business
1/ A decade ago, one of my best friends took over his family's electrical business and worked 6 days a week to grow the company. He recently achieved a generational wealth level exit.
He told me a story once that helped me understand how his family achieved such success.
— Kevin Lee (@kevinleeme)
7:12 PM • Jul 11, 2022
🥈 Raising $30M Without an “In” With Investors
I've raised over $30 million in investment from angels and VCs for my start up @theriveterco. I was 37, pregnant, & leaving a career as a litigator.
I'll share my really basic playbook for those of you just starting out without an "in" with investors. 🧵
— Amy Nelson (@Amy_K_Nelson)
12:19 PM • Jul 11, 2022
🥉 Lessons on Raising Capital
Raising capital is tougher than ever
It's even more challenging when you're just getting started
Here's everything I learned while raising capital
(before the markets crashed, but much is still valid today)
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— Zeb Evans (@DJ_CURFEW)
4:42 PM • Jul 6, 2022
Resources
How to Get 2k+ website visitors per day via Google
Why SAFEs may no longer be standard for early-stage raises
How 50 of today's biggest consumer companies came up with their startup idea
The real value of the best investors
Mistakes from 25 seed investments
How to close the credibility gap with prospects
Future of Work Reads
The Way We Work Has Changed. So Should Offices. (Bloomberg)
Millennials and Gen Z are better off returning to office, says future of work expert (Fortune)
4 tactics that get teams to collaborate no matter where they are (Fast Company)
Fiverr’s CEO said the US is still in the ‘early innings’ of remote gig work (Protocol)
How Data Has Changed the World of HR: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and More (ADP)
The World of VITALIZE
This week on The VITALIZE Podcast we had Samara Hernandez, the Founding Partner at Chingona Ventures, an institutionally-backed pre-seed fund investing in the next generation of badass founders building technology and technology-enabled companies all over the U.S.
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Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
We had our July pitches for VITALIZE Angels this week!
We passed 50 guests on The VITALIZE Podcast 🤯
Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies
Future of Work Funding Rounds
Adaptive Real Estate raised a $6.5M Seed
Adaptive is a startup that develops software to help construction companies manage their spending
Top Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, BoxGroup, Foundamental, Third Kind Venture Capital, Exponent Private Equity
Continuum Technology raised a $12M Series A
Continuum helps companies carry out layoffs. It also offers executives guidance on other challenging issues such as talent acquisition and compensation strategy.
Top Investors: Uncork Capital, Day One Ventures, Oceans, Pelion Venture Partners, Sander Daniels
Uplevel raised a $20M Series A
Uplevel is a startup that develops tools to help companies evaluate the productivity of their software engineers
Top Investors: Madrona Venture Group, Norwest Venture Partners, Cota Capital, Voyager Capital, Bruce Chizen
Tecton raised a $100M Series C
Tecton is a startup whose platform helps software developers deploy machine learning
Top Investors: Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, Tiger Global Management, SV Angel
Coalition raised a $250M Series F
Coalition is a cyber insurance startup that provides policyholders with a tool that assesses cyberrisk in real time
Top Investors: Valor Equity Partners, Index Ventures, Hillhouse Capital Group, T. Rowe Price, General Atlantic
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.