Nate Smith

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.

This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.

Substack is a new media app that connects you with the creators, ideas, and communities you care about most. Founded in 2017, Substack is building a new economic engine for culture by putting publishers in charge and enabling subscribers to support the work they deeply value. There are more than 5 million paid subscriptions to writers and creators across the Substack network.

Lilypad enables users to run AI and other compute workloads on an open, distributed compute network. Anyone can get paid to connect their compute nodes to the network and run jobs. Building (actually) open AI infrastructure.

Godwoken is a key component of Nervos layer-2, working in conjunction with the Rollup technique to create a scalable, EVM-compatible layer for the Nervos network. With Godwoken, developers can build decentralized applications (dApps) on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and run them on the Nervos network, increasing the scalability and efficiency of the network. Godwoken provides a solution for dApp builders who seek the advantages of Ethereum - Like its community, good tools, and documentation - but not the drawbacks that Ethereum faces, such as network congestion, high gas fees, oversaturation and scalability issues.

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.