VitalizeVC

VITALIZE Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm formed in 2018 as a $16 million seed-stage fund, based in Chicago, Illinois. It went on to raise a $23 million Fund II; both funds are now fully deployed, and the firm is not currently making new investments. Beyond capital, VITALIZE built a 150+ LP community alongside 50 Future-of-Work experts, tracking roughly 10 meaningful assists per portfolio company each year. It also ran VITALIZE Angels from 2021 to 2025, an angel group letting non-accredited investors invest as little as $1,000, growing to 500+ members and $1.5 million deployed. The firm invests exclusively in WorkTech — people-first, data-driven B2B and B2B2C software transforming how work gets done — avoiding hardware, direct-to-consumer businesses, and narrow HR-tech tools. Notable portfolio companies include The Mom Project, Elevate K-12, and Placer.ai. VITALIZE typically wrote initial checks of $250,000 to $750,000 into seed rounds of $2–5 million, targeting startups under three years old with a completed product, $500K+ ARR, and sub-$20M valuations, following a transparent process that could close in as little as a week.