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Aug. 29, 2022

Tony Jamous explains The Value of Working Remotely

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Aug. 28, 2022

Deena Shakir shares her experience on Transitioning from Founder to Investor

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Aug. 27, 2022

Alex Damianou reveals Why He Funded Andrew Yang’s Campaign

Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital, The Vitalize Podcast includes two main series. The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world. The goal? To help develop the next generation of amazing investors. The Future of Work series takes a look at the…

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Aug. 26, 2022

How Talent Shortage Fueled the Growth for Oyster #vc #venturecapital #founder

Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital, The Vitalize Podcast includes two main series. The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world. The goal? To help develop the next generation of amazing investors. The Future of Work series takes a look at the…

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Aug. 25, 2022

Deena Shakir, Partner at Lux Capital shares The BIGGEST Investment Opportunity in the Future

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Aug. 25, 2022

Evaluating Innovation in Enterprise Stacks & Raising 3 Funds as a Solo Female GP, with Shruti Gandhi

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Shruti Gandhi (@atShruti), founder and General Partner of Array Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on solving impactful problems in the world leveraging revolutionary technology. Often that means category-leading startups that take advantage of data, analytics, workflows, and new platforms to change the way…

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Aug. 23, 2022

Alex Damianou unfolds How OpenAxis Became the "Instagram" for Data Sharing

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Aug. 21, 2022

Tony Jamous, CEO and founder of Oyster explains How the company built its brand

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Aug. 18, 2022

From Bad Idea to Goldmine & Becoming Market Leaders in EV Charging, with Peter Barba & Zygi Zabieta

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Peter Barba (@pbarba_22) and Zygimantas (Zygi) Zabieta (@zzabieta), Co-Founders of Lectrium, a full-service platform for EV home charging o a mission to make every home EV-ready. They make the home charging installation process easy through their network of EVITP certified electricians. At Lectrium, they believe…

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Aug. 11, 2022

Disrupting VC, an Inside Look at SEC Regulations, and How to Survive Fundraising, with Jesse Randall

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Jesse Randall (@SweaterCEO), CEO and Co-Founder of Sweater Ventures, a VC fund that pools money from millions of regular people and invests it into emerging technology and product companies poised for growth—companies you’ll see in your daily life or at work. At Sweater Ventures, they…

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Aug. 5, 2022

Founder Evaluation Framework & Post-Investment Support, w/ Shayna & Noramay of Supply Change Capital

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Shayna Harris (@mamashayna) and Noramay Cadena (@noramayc), co-founders and managing partners at Supply Change Capital, a VC firm that believes in a future of food that is sustainability-mindful, supply chain efficient, better for you, and culture rich. They invest at the intersection of food, culture,…

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July 28, 2022

Raising a $50M Fund to Elevate Diverse Founders, with f7 Ventures' General Partners Kelly and Joanna

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Kelly Graziadei (@kkgraz) and Joanna Lee Shevelenko, the founders and General Partners of f7 Ventures (@F7Ventures), a seed investment fund comprised of seven senior female operators who met at Facebook. With expertise in product, engineering, sales, marketing, partnerships, HR, and operations, they invest in and…

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July 25, 2022

Angel Investing Playbook with Gale Wilkinson of VITALIZE Venture Capital

Gale Wilkinson, Angel Investor and Managing Partner at VITALIZE Venture Capital, shares her angel investing insights from 45+ personal angel investments! Join VITALIZE Angels: https://airtable.com/shrQ8C0HaLjjdnofB More about us: VITALIZE Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture fund and now includes both a fund as well as…

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July 21, 2022

The Path to Executive Coaching, Getting Unstuck, and Improving Team Communication, with Amy Wong

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Amy Eliza Wong (@amyelizawong), the founder of Always On Purpose®. She is an executive leadership coach, author, speaker, and facilitator working with organizations such as Airbnb, Salesforce, Roku, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more. Amy offers transformative leadership development and cutting-edge communication strategies to executives and corporate…

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July 14, 2022

Raising a $52M Fund as a Solo Latina GP in the Midwest, with Samara Hernandez of Chingona Ventures

Justin Gordon (justingordon212) talks with (@SamaraMHernandz), the Founding Partner at Chingona Ventures, an institutionally-backed pre-seed stage fund investing in the next generation of badass founders building technology and technology-enabled companies all over the U.S. In May 2022, Chingona Ventures announced the close of their $52M Fund II. Samara has over…

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July 7, 2022

Raising a $25M Fund and Implementing a Unique Model with a Narrow Investment Thesis, with Drew Leahy

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Drew Leahy, Managing Partner at Hawke Ventures (@hawkeventures), an early stage consumer and B2B marketing technology fund. He is also the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Hawke Media. Prior to Hawke, Leahy was Chief Marketing Officer and co-founder of SnapSuits.com, a tech-forward men’s fashion e-retailer with over $2M+…

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June 30, 2022

Organic Growth Loops, Customer-Led Product Development, & the No-Code Landscape, w/ Mariam Hakobyan

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Mariam Hakobyan (@mariam_hakobyan), Co-Founder and CEO of Softr, the easiest no-code platform for building custom apps and portals, in minutes. With Softr, you can build client portals, internal tools, marketplaces, online communities, resource directories, websites and more. They believe the world is missing out on…

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June 23, 2022

Distributed Work as a Global Resilience Strategy and Becoming a Unicorn, with Oyster’s Tony Jamous

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Tony Jamous (@jamingo), the CEO and founder of Oyster, a Global Employment Platform that empowers companies to hire, pay, and care for team members wherever they are in the world. Oyster allows growing companies to tap into the global talent pool and offer their remote…

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June 16, 2022

The Work Revolution: Inside VITALIZE's Investment Focus with Gale Wilkinson

In this episode, Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks again with Gale Wilkinson (@galeforceVC), Founder and Managing Partner at VITALIZE, a seed-stage venture fund and angel community investing in The Work Revolution. In this round with Gale, we dig into the details of the Work Revolution and VITALIZE's investment focus. Previously, Gale…

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June 9, 2022

Derisking Deep Tech, Managing a Broad Thesis, and Evaluating Credibility, with Maryanna Saenko

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Maryanna Saenko (@FutureSaenko), Co-Founder and Partner at Future Ventures, which supports passionate founders who are forging the future. For the past 25 years, Future Ventures has backed the visionaries who push the boundaries of possibility and explore the frontier of the unknown. They focus on…

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May 26, 2022

The VITALIZE Team on Changing the Face of Venture and the Less Glamorous Side of Working in VC

In this special episode, Justin Gordon (@justingordon212), the Director of Marketing with VITALIZE Venture Capital, interviews three key VITALIZE team members, Founder and Managing Partner Gale Wilkinson (@galeforceVC), Partner Caroline Casson (@carolinecasson_), and Community Manager Larissa Insogna (@LarissaInsogna). VITALIZE Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture…

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May 19, 2022

Investing in Emerging Markets, Raising a Second Fund, and Those Twitter Threads, with Elizabeth Yin

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Elizabeth Yin (@dunkhippo33), Co-Founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a VC fund that invests in pre-seed software startups. Hustle Fund is often the first check into a startup or in the first round of funding. Beyond the usual criteria that VCs typically look for,…

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May 12, 2022

Designing the Future of Human Connection in the Metaverse & Sourcing Web3 Talent, with Jon Morris

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Jon Morris (@yojonmorris), Founder and CEO of NOWHERE, an online metaverse platform that aims to revolutionize gathering with patent pending video presence technology that allows serendipitous social mingling between conversations with friends or colleagues at conferences, meetings, or parties all within dynamic web environments. Jon…

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May 10, 2022

Future of Disability - AMA with Zuby Onwuta | Vitalize Angels

More about us: Vitalize Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture fund and now includes both a fund as well as an angel investing community investing in the future of work. Vitalize has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The Vitalize Team: Gale -…

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