Top Startup Accelerators, Sharpening Your Analytical Thinking, and Managing Burn Rate
A newsletter for founders & friends (13th edition)
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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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🥇 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’s 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.