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Welcome to the 18th 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 Millions of Dollars via Cold Emails

Check out the whole thread, but I included the recap tweet for you too 😊

🥈 Interesting Company Attributes

Throwback I found recently - still relevant and worthy of a top 3 tweet

🥉 Increasing the Number of Women Investors

Great ideas and also some amazing women in the replies for founders to reach out to

Resources

• Advice for founders navigating the months ahead

• How to find an executive coach

• The best banks for fast-growing startups

• Everything to know about SEO

• What to understand about seed valuations

• Growing to $100M in revenue w/o VC funding

Future of Work Reads

• The future of retreats (Axios)

• Adidas’s jaw-dropping new office sets an audacious standard for the future of work (Fast Company)

• Future of Work: ‘The office as we know it is over,’ Airbnb CEO says (The Washington Post)

• What Does the Four-Day Workweek Mean for the Future of Work? (MIT Sloan)

• Gen Z and the end of work as we know it (World Economic Forum)

The World of VITALIZE

• This week, The VITALIZE Podcast featured Elizabeth Yin, Co-Founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in hilariously early startups.

  • Watch on YouTube

  • Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

• Gale was quoted in a Fast Company article that included advice for founders on navigating the months ahead

• We had our May founder pitches for VITALIZE Angels this week 😊

• Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies

Future of Work Funding Rounds

• SpotOn raised a $300M Series F

  • SpotOn provides mobile payment technology and management system for restaurants and small businesses.

  • Top Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Mubadala, Franklin Templeton Investments, DST Global

• Glean raised a $100M Series C

  • Glean provides a work assistant that allows and helps employees find any piece of data through at their workplace.

  • Top Investors: Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Slack Fund

• Solidus Labs raised a $45M Series B

  • Solidus Labs is a crypto-tracking company that provides tailored compliance and risk monitoring solutions for digital assets.

  • Top Investors: FTX Exchange, Global Founders Capital, GSR, 645 Ventures, Naval Ravikant

• Mathison raised a $25M Series A

  • Mathison is a platform that helps employers achieve diversity, equity and inclusion in their hiring and retention programs

  • Top Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, F-Prime Capital, JP Morgan, Flucas Ventures, Gaingels

• LucidLink raised a $20M Series B

  • LucidLink is a developer of a cloud-native file service that connects creative teams working on shared data sets.

  • Top Investors: Headline, Adobe, Bain Capital Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, S28 Capital

• StackHawk raised a $20.7M Series B

  • StackHawk is a SaaS company that helps developers identify and remedy security vulnerabilities in the applications.

  • Top Investors: Flybridge, Sapphire Ventures, Foundry Group, Matchstick Ventures, Costanoa 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.