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Sourcing Amazing Talent, Building Web3 Communities, and Unscalable Startup Hacks
A newsletter for founders & friends (17th edition)
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Welcome to the 17th edition of Re:Vitalize, a newsletter with tactics, strategies, and stories on building companies plus cool things weāre seeing in the future of work.
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Top 3 Tweets
š„ Building Web3 Communities
I co-founded two of the most hyped communities in web3: @MyBFF and @CPGCLUB.
How & why I got here:— Jaime Schmidt (@jaimeschmidt)
May 11, 2022
š„ Engaging with Investors and Other Founders
Founders/CEOās of early stage companies: itās your job to engage with investors and other founders. Seeing way too many folks sending assistants, ops managers and others. Out the gate, the bet is 99% on you!
— Clarence Bethea (@Clarence_Bethea)
May 11, 2022
š„ Sourcing Amazing Talent for Early-Stage Startups
Some of the best responses to this tweet:
compiles lists of employees that were laid off from other startups. Great resource of so many talented individuals caught in wrong place at wrong time. Great talent acquisition opp for startups actively hiring.
— Joshua Grollman (@grollman_j)
May 9, 2022
@hirerunner is one option. @TheEdlyft@Career_Karma@BitwiseInd are great @Backstage_Cap headliners.
— Arlan šš¾ (@ArlanWasHere)
May 10, 2022
Maybe a non-obvious one but founders from pre-seed / seed who didn't make it.
Many go quietly though so I'd be keeping tabs on select pre-seed / seed companies who raised ~15-18 months ago and haven't raised their A rounds. They can make cracking first hires.
— Keith Lynn (@lynnastyie)
May 9, 2022
Hereās a helpful list of resources: medium.com/aleria/our-resā¦
— Lisa Russell (@lisaadrienne_)
May 9, 2022
A mini-thread of answers.
1) Social events + clubs. Many high-performing, talented, motivated students will attend the local chapter of engineering or other identity clubs. BMES, IEEE, etc. Many of those clubs are looking for industry speakers on a *weekly* basis. If you're 1/x
— Mathew Roberts (@caritas3t)
May 10, 2022
Read all the responses here
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Future of Work Reads
How to Build a Thriving Corporate Culture in a Hybrid World (Inc.)
Google tweaks its products for new reality: Hybrid work (The Washington Post)
The future belongs to businesses that can evolve with an adaptive workforce (Fortune)
Hybrid models and digitization: The future of work in 2022 and beyond (Fast Company)
Busting three myths about the future of work (Computer World)
The World of VITALIZE
Suma Wealth Co-Founder, Beatriz Acevedo, was featured on the 100 Latinas List, a compilation of trailblazing women
This week, The VITALIZE Podcast featured Jon Morris, CEO and Founder of NOWHERE, an online metaverse platform that aims to revolutionize gathering with patent-pending video presence technology that allows serendipitous social mingling between conversations with friends or colleagues at conferences, meetings, or parties all within dynamic web environments.
Watch on YouTube
Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Larissa hosted an AMA with Zuby Onwuta, a VITALIZE Angels member, about the future of disability and how we get more investment for disabled innovators
Justin (yea, thatās me š ) was interviewed on The Most Interesting People in the World and Portfolio Career podcasts
Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies
Future of Work Funding Rounds
Chainalysis raised a $170M Series F
Chainalysis provides blockchain data services to detect and track crypto fraud for governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Top Investors: Digital Currency Group, Techstars, Accel, FundersClub, Paradigm
Stord raised a $120M Series D
Stord provides brands with an integrated platform combining freight, fulfillment, warehousing, packaging, and parcel / last-mile delivery that offers full visibility and insight across their supply chains.
Top Investors: Lineage Logistics, Lux Capital, BoxGroup, B Capital Group, Founders Fund
WizeHire raised a $30M Series B
WizeHire is a hiring platform built for SMBs.
Top Investors: Tiger Global Management, Mercury, Amplo, Sandeep Jain, Ruchit Shah
Walnut raised a $100M Series A
Walnut is a point-of-sale lending company that helps patients pay for healthcare over a period of time. Walnut works with healthcare providers so that a patientās bill can be paid back through $100-a-month increments for 30 months, instead of one aggressive credit card swipe.
Top Investors: AngelList, Pareto Holdings, Gradient Ventures, 2048 Ventures, Goodwater Capital
OtterTune raised a $12M Series A
OtterTune automates the complex and time-consuming process of database performance optimization. The technology uses machine learning to safely analyze and continuously optimize those settings to help companies of all sizes run their databases more efficiently at a lower cost.
Top Investors: Accel, Intel Capital, Race Capital, 10X Capital
Heard Technologies raised a $10M Series A
Heard Technologies operates as a financial back office software platform for therapists.
Top Investors: Footwork, Tom Williams, Founders' Co-op, Charley Ma, Act One 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.Ā Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.