Hiring Resources, 22 Investor Databases, and Common Fundraising Mistakes

A newsletter for founders & friends (5th edition)

Hey 👋

Welcome to the 5th 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.

I’m Justin, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize and host of our show, The Vitalize Podcast.

For those who don’t know Gale, Caroline, Larissa, and the rest of our team, we’re a venture capital firm and 300+ member angel community investing in the future of work. Founders interesting in working with us can pitch us here.

Did you miss last week’s newsletter about The Mom Tax, Creating More Black LPs, and Building the Web 3 Creator Economy? Subscribe below so you never miss another👇

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FOW Key Insights

💼 Two FOW Ideas People Get Wrong

Matt Redler 🐆 @MattRedler

Most people are getting two ideas very wrong: “The 9-to-5 is dead” “The 40-hour work week is dead” Most people read the statements above and assume that the 9-to-5, 40-hour week is the problem. But they’re completely missing the point. Here’s why:

📖 Future of Work Reads

• The Age of Anti-Ambition: When 25 million people leave their jobs, it’s about more than just burnout (NYT)

• Future of Work: CEOs’ new role as ‘armchair epidemiologists’ means more flexible plans (The Washington Post)

• The future of employee perks in the post-pandemic workplace (VentureBeat)

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Top 3 Tweets

🥇 22 Investor Databases

Alex Macdonald @alexfmac

Founders: reload the money guns 💸🔫 500k people viewed this thread last year on investor databases 🤯 I've since added 9 more databases and put them in a post for you: 📒 22 Investor Databases 💰 400k investors

Alex Macdonald @alexfmac

💰Here are 13 investor databases for seed stage Founders looking to raise money. 100k+ investors. Not Techcunch. Not AngelList. These are the databases you haven't heard of. This is to all the Founders hustling on a Saturday 🍻 Happy hunting 🎯

🥈 Common Fundraising Mistakes

Rachel Soper Sanders @rachelssanders

5 common mistakes founders make when raising their seed and how to avoid them. (I know because I made a lot of them!) A🧵

🥉 Welfare → Becoming a Millionaire by 28

Jarrid Tingle @jarridvtingle

It’s time to share my story 📖 I went from growing up on welfare to becoming a millionaire by 28. A thread on the power of education, kind people, and self-actualization.

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Resources

• The best predictors of startup success

• A community of current and future founders who are exploring or building their next big thing

• The startup-investor matching tool

• The best hiring resources from Twitter

• Perspective on blocking and tackling

• How to operate at peak performance

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The World of Vitalize

• This week, The Vitalize Podcast featured Bo Ren, an Angel Investor and Director of Early Stage Startups at Silicon Valley Bank

• We had 4 more amazing founders pitch our Vitalize Angels community this week and launched a new platform for members

• Gale gave a presentation on the best practices for portfolio monitoring & reporting

• February 22nd-25th - Gale and Caroline are visiting Los Angeles

• Vitalize portfolio company open jobs

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Future of Work Funding Rounds

• Check raised a $75M Series C

  • Check Technologies is a payroll infrastructure startup that offers software development services.

  • Top Investors: Stripe, Index Ventures, Thrive Capital, Contrary, Bedrock Capital

• Mystery raised an $18.5M Series A

  • Mystery is the all-in-one tool to maintain and enhance corp culture and morale through team events, employee rewards, and measured results.

  • Top Investors: Endeavor, Gaingels, Liquid 2 Ventures, Greylock, Moving Capital

• Eyrus raised a $12M Series A

  • Eyrus provides real-time workforce progress and updates for large-scale commercial construction projects.

  • Top Investors: Autodesk, Motley Fool Ventures, Fuel Venture Capital, Spring Mountain Capital, Temerity Capital Partners

• Neo.Tax raised a $10M Series A

  • Neo.Tax builds a tax filing and automation software for businesses to claim the R&D tax credit.

  • Top Investors: Lux Capital, GV, Uncork Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Acrew Capital

• Haul raised a $10M Seed

  • Haul is an online employment platform for CDL drivers.

  • Top Investors: Will Redd, B Capital Group, Global Founders Capital, FJ Labs, Next Coast Ventures

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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 future of work. Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.