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Welcome to the 13th 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

🥇 The Top Startup Accelerators

Yes, that’s me, but I promise the replies to the tweet are incredible

🥈 Sharpening Your Analytical Thinking

🥉 Managing Burn Rate

Resources

• A free platform for finding a co-founder

• Questions to ask in customer discovery calls

• A marketplace for hiring vetted fractional executives

• A platform for finding startup incubators, accelerators, and investors

• Metrics that matter most in early-stage startups (Aggregated responses)

Future of Work Reads

• Our office will never be the same. This is how to rethink the future of work (Fast Company)

• Wall Street is battling to determine the future of work from home (CNN)

• When the Future of Work Means Always Looking For Your Next Job (TIME)

• Hybrid Work Is Here to Stay, LA Business Leaders Say (dot.LA)

• Work remote, get paid less? The battle dividing offices will define the future of work (The Guardian)

The World of VITALIZE

• Abstract (VITALIZE portfolio company) CEO Patrick Utz was on the Political Hope podcast discussing the political landscape and how Abstract is innovating in policy-making

• We had 3 more amazing founder pitches for VITALIZE Angels this week

• Gale is joining Claude Cimeus in Chicago for the Fireside Nights series on Tuesday, April 19th

• Justin (That’s me!) was featured in the Workspaces newsletter

• This week, The VITALIZE Podcast featured Alex Damianou, Founder of OpenAxis, a company that helps you tell stories with data

• Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies

Future of Work Funding Rounds

• SamCart raised an $82M Series B

  • SamCart is an e-commerce platform designed for digital creators.

  • Top Investors: Fin Venture Capital, TTV Capital, Eldridge, George Kaiser Family Foundation, eGateway Capital

• Tive raised a $54M Series B

  • Tive develops a hardware and software platform designed to track the conditions of shipments.

  • Top Investors: Techstars, Fifth Wall, Qualcomm Ventures, RRE Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures

• Prelude raised a $24M Series A

  • Prelude is an autonomous red team tool packaged as a desktop application.

  • Top Investors: Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, IA Ventures, Revolution‚Äôs Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Four Rivers Group

• EvolutionIQ raised a $21M Series A

  • EvolutionIQ is an AI startup that offers claims guidance solutions for insurance companies and carriers.

  • Top Investors: Asymmetry Ventures, Sedgwick Claims Management Services, FirstMark, Plug and Play Tech Center, First Round Capital

• Community Gaming raised a $16M Series A

  • CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize esports tournaments.

  • Top Investors: Animoca Brands, ConsenSys, Dapper Labs, BITKRAFT Ventures, Hashed

• Cofactr raised a $6M Seed

  • Software and logistics to help hardware companies automate their electronics supply chain

  • Top Investors: Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, REMUS Capital, Broom 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.