Matthew Mottola

The autonomous digital workforce for GTM teams. With two digital workers live today, 11x helps sales, marketing, and growth teams create, qualify, and convert pipeline across every channel in one unified platform. Trusted by teams worldwide, from high-growth startups to large enterprises, including Xerox, UST, Gupshup, Sage, Checkr, and Rho. Backed by a16z and Benchmark, 11x is automating GTM workflows to free humans to focus on what they do best: creating, innovating, and building relationships.

VITALIZE Venture Capital is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture fund and angel community investing in the future of work. Vitalize has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

The autonomous digital workforce for GTM teams. With two digital workers live today, 11x helps sales, marketing, and growth teams create, qualify, and convert pipeline across every channel in one unified platform. Trusted by teams worldwide, from high-growth startups to large enterprises, including Xerox, UST, Gupshup, Sage, Checkr, and Rho. Backed by a16z and Benchmark, 11x is automating GTM workflows to free humans to focus on what they do best: creating, innovating, and building relationships.

Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors. Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more. EF is backed by some of the worlds leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t. For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.com Were hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers

Every ambitious individual on the planet deserves the right to start their own business. We enable freelancers to own their own business through software + science. How? By building software that NEVER gets in between you and your client. Instead, our software tackles key processes that close clients, nurture key relationships, and increase the capacity & scope of what you can deliver.

Technology and talent need each other. But more times than not, the talent world and technology world stay in their own bubbles. The result, rather than modern talent strategies that drive business growth, is "what weve always done". Practically speaking, this looks like a talent ecosystem that hasnt matched its technology potential. Rather than enterprise compliant and embedded talent pools that use AI driven matching to connect the right person, with the right skills, under the right contract (freelance, full time, etc), leaders are stuck with approved vendors and an archaic talent experience. Yet talent norms are quickly changing as 2025 is the first year where staffing is expected to contract by 5% globally. At Human Cloud, we know whats possible when leaders merge the best of talent with the best of technology, and we enable our clients to match talent and technology potential with commercial reality. So what are we? We are the global advisory firm at the intersection of technology and work. We do three things really well. 1: We help large, Fortune 500 enterprises, design, build, and scale their future workforce. 2: We help industry solutions grow through a sustainable customer, partnership, and acquisition playbook. We call it the Bread Crumb Strategy, and weve yet to see a better growth playbook for talent solutions. 3: We help governments and investment firms make strategic decisions into how their portfolios and initiatives should embrace digital workforce solutions. Youve probably seen us on a stage, in an article, or used our data. We have a top 5% global podcast (#1 in freelance category). We published The Human Cloud with HarperCollins. And weve contributed across Forbes, Entrepreneur, and many major media publications. But deeper than our data or thought leadership, youve probably met a client who fundamentally transformed their industry through digital first talent models. Visit us today at https://humancloud.work