Pre-Seed Founder Salaries, Advice for First-Time Founders, and A Startup Pivot
A newsletter for founders & friends (20th edition)
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Welcome to the 20th 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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🎧 1 Year of The VITALIZE Podcast!
About a year ago, we launched The VITALIZE Podcast (Originally called Talking Venture). Since then, the show has been listened to thousands of times and we’ve featured some amazing Founders and Investors like:
Wes Kao of Maven
Hunter Walk of Homebrew
Ruben Harris of Career Karma
Deena Shakir or Lux Capital
Alexandra Zatarain of Eight Sleep
Mac Conwell of Rarebreed Ventures
As well as dozens more!
We’ve also received glowing reviews from listeners like Viktor:
We just wanted to thank you for all the support and let you know that there’s much more more on the way!
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Top 3 Tweets
🥇 Advice for First-Time Founders
🥈 A Startup Pivot
🥉 Pre-Seed Founder Salaries
Here’s a spreadsheet with some of the top replies from the tweet below:
🎉 Bonus: Congrats Sydney!
Resources
A platform for advertising in premium email newsletters
A startup CEO salary report
A database for VC outreach
A collection of pitch deck templates
12 insights on product-market fit
Future of Work Reads
Why remote work will lead to greater success (Computerworld)
The Rise Of Hybrid Natives (Forbes)
Human capital at work: The value of experience (McKinsey)
Workforce Preferences Barometer 2022 (JLL)
An AI-enabled workforce is the future of customer engagement (Fast Company)
The World of VITALIZE
NOWHERE Co-Founder Ana Constantino was featured in the Futures 100 Innovators Report
This week on The VITALIZE Podcast we had a throwback, featuring Amanda DoAmaral of Fiveable, a company making learning social by building spaces for young people to grow together. Amanda raised a $10M Series A since our discussion and we thought it’d be a great time to resurface her interview 😊
Watch on YouTube
Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Caroline wrote an article sharing her findings on maternity leave in VC after speaking with ~60 VC firms
Gale is hosting a couple of free “Angel Investing Playbook” webinars in June
Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies
Future of Work Funding Rounds
Ordr raised a $40M Series C
Ordr's platform monitors IoT devices to minimize the vulnerability of computer networks to cyberattacks.
Top Investors: Mayo Clinic, Battery Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, TenEleven Ventures
Vendia raised a $30M Series B
Vendia is a real-time data cloud, offering a fast and scalable way to share operational data across data silos, clouds, and partners.
Top Investors: Lux Capital, Operator Partners, Correlation Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Floodgate
CloseFactor raised a $4.5M Seed
CloseFactor provides automated sales research and contextual insights leveraging machine learning.
Top Investors: Sequoia Capital
Mintlify raised a $2.8M Seed
Mintlify uses AI to auto-generate documentation based on source code.
Top Investors: Y Combinator, Bain Capital Ventures, TwentyTwo VC, Quinn Slack
Techmate raised a $2M Round of Funding
Techmate Technologies is a software platform for on-demand technical support for small businesses.
Top Investors: Y Combinator, LAUNCH, Hustle Fund, The Syndicate.com, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
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.