The Mom Tax, Creating More Black LPs, and Building the Web 3 Creator Economy

A newsletter for founders & friends (4th edition)

Hey 👋

Welcome to the 4th 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 finding investors, hiring a-players, and coping with stress? Subscribe below so you never miss another👇

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FOW Key Insights

💼 Building the Web 3 Creator Economy

Creator Economy Tools: Bridging Web 2 <> Web 3

📖 Future of Work Reads

• How leaders can solve the ‘face time’ problem in an era of hybrid and remote work (Fortune)

• This CEO Lets His Employees Work Whenever They Want—From Wherever They Want (WSJ)

• How Crypto Can Power the Future of Work for People of Color (Nasdaq)

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Top 3 Tweets

🥇 The Impact of the Mom Tax

Allison Byers @apbyers

A 🧵on the mom tax: Many people don't know that I was forced out of my tech operator job when I returned from maternity leave after we had our first child. At that time there weren't really viable fractional or part-time options for my skillset.

🥈 Ideas for Creating More Black LPs

Lavonya Jones @CoachLavonya

Question of the day: How do we create more Black LPs?

A few ideas from the replies:

• End accreditation requirements

• Catalyze successful founders and early employees

• Encourage more Black grads and other professionals to join large and emerging VC funds

• Incentivize and encourage more current accredited/HNI Black families to invest in GPs

🥉 Driving Growth with Free Tools

Ryan McCready @RyanMcCready1

With 2 simple tools, Ahrefs drives: 🔎 520k organic sessions 💰 $320k in traffic value That's more than their entire blog! How is this possible? It's actually pretty simple. Let's break it down. 🧵

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Resources

• A VC contact list by Areeb Pasha

• The State of Black Venture Report by BLCK VC

• A simple tool for easily creating landing pages like ours

• Black angel investors and VCs that invest in early-stage Web3

• A financial model template to track your venture investments

• A thread of investors to reach out to on Twitter

• Notion resources for founders who love Notion as much as I do

• The best business books

• What LPs look for when investing in VCs

• A quick note on board construction

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The World of Vitalize

• This week, The Vitalize Podcast featured Juan Jaysingh, CEO of Zingtree, a Vitalize portfolio company that recently raised a $15M Series A

• February 14th - Caroline is giving a presentation on “What Investors Look for in Due Diligence & Data Rooms”

• February 15th - Gale’s next founder roundtable

• February 15th - Vitalize Angels next live founder pitches

• February 16th-19th - Gale is visiting Miami! GPs and LPs, let her know if you want to meet up

• February 17th - Vitalize Angels’ AMA with David Chang

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

• Vitalize portfolio company open jobs

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Future of Work Funding Rounds

• Alchemy raised a $200M Series C

  • Alchemy is a developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications.

  • Top Investors: Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Addition, Coatue, Coinbase Ventures

• Radar raised a $55M Series C

  • Radar is a location data infrastructure platform that helps growth and product teams to build location-aware app experiences.

  • Top Investors: Insight Partners, Accel, Scott Belsky, Two Sigma Ventures, Fuel Capital

• Karbon raised a $66M Series B

  • Karbon is workstream collaboration platform for growing teams and enterprises to combine emails, discussions, tasks, and powerful workflows.

  • Top Investors: TIMIA Capital, Blackbird Ventures, Five Elms Capital, ACE & Company, CIBC Innovation Banking

• Airmeet raised a $35M Series B

  • Airmeet is an all-in-one events platform for virtual summits, meetups, and workshops that includes virtual social lounges for networking.

  • Top Investors: LetsVenture, Sequoia Capital India, Gokul Rajaram, Redpoint, Global Founders Capital

• Curve Health raised a $12M Series A

  • Curve Health delivers connected senior care via a platform that combines telemedicine, smart billing, health information exchange.

  • Top Investors: Alumni Ventures, Kapor Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Correlation Ventures, IDEO

• ComplYant raised a $5.5M Seed

  • ComplYant is a digital tax assistant for entrepreneurs that provide a simple, accurate way to follow tax deadlines.

  • Top Investors: Techstars, Craft Ventures, Mucker Capital, Techstars Los Angeles Accelerator, Slauson & Co.

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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.