We’re delighted to announce that the Revolution Communications and Marketing Team is hosting virtual office hours for portfolio companies that are in need of communications, messaging, and branding guidance.

If you’d like to connect with the Revolution Communications Team, we recommend that you please utilize office hours. While you may hear from the team outside of Office Hours regarding other ideas and opportunities, we are hoping that this will allow them to be in touch with companies that have immediate questions and needs.

On the portal, we launched a new, cool feature: Portco-to-Portco Practical Advice. In this section, you will hear a variety of Q&A's featuring expertise across the ROTR portfolio. For this edition, let's hear from Justin Beals, CEO and Co-founder of ROTR portfolio company Strike Graph, a compliance SAAS solution simplifying security certifications like SOC 2 Type I/II, ISO 27001 and FedRamp.

Hear more P2P Practical Advice here.

Are in the ROTR Orbiit? In October we launched our very first portfolio engagement product: The ROTR Collective, peer-to-peer matching in partnership with Orbiit. We were *thrilled* to see the stats, and testimonials from our first engagement, and November's matches have already been made! 

As a refresher, the goal is to connect you and your senior executives with peers within the ROTR portfolio community to discuss topical issues and form a professional relationship through 1:1 matching.

So far we've covered data-driven business development, selling to enterprise clients, tackling tough conversations, building an engaged remote team, and more! You don't want to miss out on December's round!

“I enjoyed the opportunity to speak with a C level executive from a different industry, with a totally different background. I now have a CEO from out of my existing network I can go to when I need to see things through a new lens, and hopefully he feels like he has a new resource in the People Experience business who can help him and his team out from time to time with either strategic or tactical input on all things HR as needed in the future!” - Tracy Cote, Chief People Officer, StockX

Learn more about The ROTR Collective here.

Looking for guidance when fundraising? At each stage of your company company’s growth, you’ll need an effective fundraising strategy. The resources below are largely designed to support the process of going from Seed to Series A, but many tips and tools can be applied for later stages as well.

We suggest reviewing this deck as a primer before you develop your pitch deck and start building your target investor list. We often see founders simply “update” a Series Seed deck to make it “Series A ready." We strongly recommend building a new deck from scratch for each new stage of the company. If you’d like to talk through the strategy points in this deck, please contact Anna Mason (anna.mason@revolution.com) to set up a call.

While fundraising, you need to find investor contact information, manage your pipeline, and prepare to respond to investor emails in minutes.

This means having an organized process for following up and tracking deal flow. A great process can lead to more investor meetings, more capital raised, and an organized database of investors that can be used for your current and future fundraises.

Manage your fundraising with maximum efficiency with our investor tracking template (Click here).

For instructions on how to use the template, read more here.

(Austin, TX) Send personalized corporate gifts at scale.

Loop & Tie’s platform allows companies to send personalized gifts at scale, enabling customers to stop sending a one-size-fits-all gift and instead send a collection of gift options.

Want to get connected? Shoot me (amira.ouji@revolution.com) an email.

(Salt Lake City, UT) Outfit your teams with custom products or swag.

Cotopaxi is a digitally native outdoor gear brand that inspires adventure and moves people to do good For CEOs looking to outfit their teams with bags, jackets, water bottles and other products or swag, Cotopaxi would love to help find the right product fit.

Want to get connected? Shoot me (amira.ouji@revolution.com) an email.

(Dallas, TX) Maximize rep engagement for your remote sales teams and productivity for free for 6 months for teams that sign up before the end of the year.

Arcade is a gamified incentive engine that helps sales leaders increase the retention and performance of remote AE's and SDR’s. It’s easy to roll out because it’s fully integrated with Salesforce and accessible through Slack directly, designed to instantly reward and recognize revenue-driving activities (such as calls, demos set, deals close) in real-time.

Want to get connected? Shoot me (amira.ouji@revolution.com) an email.