Figuring Out Product-Market Fit, Managing Your Mental Health, and Doing Things Differently
A newsletter for founders & friends (15th edition)
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Welcome to the 15th 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 a Fund and Doing Things Differently
Read the entire announcement in the thread for more insights
🥈 The Importance of Remote and Flexible Work
🥉 Promises from a Manager
Resources
Getting to $300k in monthly revenue with zero paid ads
Managing Your Mental Health While Running a Startup
Lessons on resiliency from a repeat founder
13 Metrics for Marketplace Companies
An explanation of bookings vs. revenue
How to know if you’ve got product-market fit
Future of Work Reads
What flexibility really looks like in the future of work (Fast Company)
The Critical Role of Food in the Future of Work (TIME)
Why Optimizing Employee Performance Is The Future Of Work (Forbes)
Here’s why tech companies are investing in learning subscriptions (Protocol)
How to make ‘work of the future’ work for everyone (MIT)
The World of VITALIZE
VITALIZE portco, NOWHERE, is hosting a Metaverse World Building Competition
The Mom Project (Another VITALIZE portco), has their Recharge Summit on May 9th to celebrate Moms
VITALIZE Angels is launching a new education program in the next few weeks
This week, The VITALIZE Podcast featured Jonathan Siddharth, Founder & CEO of Turing, a company that helps you source, vet, match, and manage the world's best software developers remotely.
Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies
Future of Work Funding Rounds
Harness raised a $175M Series D
Harness is a continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.
Top Investors: JP Morgan, Gaingels, Norwest Venture Partners, GV, Silicon Valley Bank
Qualified raised a $95M Series C
Qualified.com is a B2B marketer that helps Salesforce users with sales pipeline generation
Top Investors: Norwest Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, Redpoint, Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures
Replicant raised a $78M Series B
Replicant is a contact center automation software that helps companies automate their most common customer service requests.
Top Investors: Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Stripes, Atomic, Omega Venture Partners
Enervee raised a $35M Series B
Enervee is a marketplace for energy products. Its platform combines data science, behavioral science, and digital marketing to drive energy-related buying decisions across dozens of consumer product categories.
Top Investors: JP Morgan, Obvious Ventures, SaaS Capital, Kerogen Capital, Don Epperson
Rooser raised a $23M Series A
Rooser is a seafood trading platform that connects seafood buyers and suppliers across Europe, providing them with the tools they need to trade efficiently, negotiate prices, and process deliveries.
Top Investors: Index Ventures, GV, Point Nine, Dylan Field, David Nothacker
Perfect Venue raised a $3.6M Seed
Perfect Venue is an event management software for independent venues and hospitality groups.
Top Investors: Hustle Fund, Defy.vc, Amity Ventures, Wisdom LLP, Context 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.