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| 18.04.2025 | Cofertility's $7.25 Million Boost: A New Era in Egg Freezing | Cofertility is breaking barriers in the fertility landscape. The Los Angeles-based startup recently secured $7.25 million in Series A funding, bringing its total to $16 million. This funding round was co-led by Next Ventures and Offline Ven... |
| 17.04.2025 | Cofertility: $7.25 Million (Series A) Raised To Make Egg Freezing More Accessible | Cofertility, a human-centered fertility ecosystem that helps women freeze their eggs for free when donating half, announced the completion of a Series A funding round, led by Next Ventures and Offline Ventures, with additional support from ... |
| 15.04.2025 | NoScrubs: $2 Million Raised For Transforming Laundry Service Industry | NoScrubs, a technology company transforming the laundry service industry, announced a $2 million pre-seed funding round led by Initialized Capital with participation from Frontier VC.
The company’s transformative platform connects customers... |
| 08.04.2025 | Arena AI raises $30M to accelerate innovation in hardware testing with Atlas
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| 04.04.2025 | The Great Venture Talent Flux | 5 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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When is the right moment to shift your company, your role, or even your entire industry?
Ask a dozen people, and you’ll get a dozen different answers. But in venture capital, one thing... |
| 01.03.2025 | Human.org Secures $7.3 Million to Bridge the Gap Between Humans and AI | In a world where artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, the need for trust and alignment between humans and AI agents has never been more critical. Enter Human.org, a San Francisco and Dubai-based AI safety lab that recently raised $7... |
| 27.02.2025 | Human.org: $7.3 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised For Solving Alignment Between Humans And AI Agents | Human.org – a product-based AI safety lab dedicated to solving AI Alignment (AIA) – announced $7.3 million in pre-seed funding to build a trust infrastructure that ensures AI agents are verifiably aligned with human intent. Backed by invest... |
| 24.01.2025 | Spaceium Closes $6.3M Seed Funding | Spaceium, a Los Angeles, CA-based company building a network of in-space refueling stations, raised $6.3M in funding.
The round was led by Initialized Capital, with participation from Zeno Ventures, Olive Tree Capital, DTX Ventures, 16Z Sco... |
| 19.11.2024 | Приложением 2024 года по версии Google стало Partiful | Google опубликовала список «лучших приложений и игр 2024 года». «Приложением года» было названо Partiful. В списке также была отмечена лучшая игра AFK Journey и победители других категорий, таких как «лучшие приложения для нескольких устрой... |
| 08.11.2024 | Azura: Bridging the Gap in Decentralized Finance | In the ever-evolving landscape of decentralized finance (DeFi), Azura has emerged as a beacon of hope. With a fresh $6.9 million in seed funding, this platform aims to simplify the complex world of DeFi. Backed by notable investors like Ini... |
| 05.11.2024 | Azura: $6.9 Million (Seed) Raised To Make DeFi Mainstream | Azura recently emerged from stealth to launch the interfacing layer for decentralized finance (DeFi). And the company is backed by $6.9 million in seed funding led by Garry Tan’s Initialized Capital. Additional investors in that round inclu... |
| 28.10.2024 | Toulouse-based Beyond Aero raises $44M to electrify aviation | Beyond Aero, a mobility startup developing the first hydrogen-powered electric business aircraft, announced a successful Series A funding round, securing an additional $20M. Co-led by Giant Ventures and Bpifrance (the French Sovereign Fund)... |
| 22.10.2024 | Azura Raises $6.9M in Seed Funding | Azura, a San Francisco, CA-based company developing an interfacing layer for decentralized finance (DeFi), raised $6.9M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Garry Tan’s Initialized Capital. Additional investors included Volt Capital, Winkl... |
| 08.07.2024 | Formic: Robots-As-A-Service Automation Company Closes $27.4 Million | Formic, a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) automation company, announced it has raised another $27.4 million in Series A financing led by Blackhorn Ventures with participation from Mitsubishi HC Capital America, NEC and Translink Orchestrating Fu... |
| 01.06.2024 | Стартап планирует «взломать» спутник и установить на него свою ОС | Стартап Basalt Technologies попытается «взломать» неиспользуемый спутник и установить на него специальную космическую ОС.
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| 13.04.2024 | Automattic's Acquisition of Beeper: A Shift into Messaging | Automattic Inc., the parent company of WordPress, recently acquired Beeper for $125 million, marking a strategic shift into messaging. Beeper, known for its all-in-one messaging app, gained attention for its iMessage-on-Android solution. Th... |
| 09.04.2024 | WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multiservice messaging app Beeper for $125M | WordPress.com owner Automattic is acquiring Beeper, the company behind the iMessage-on-Android solution that was referenced by the Department of Justice in its antitrust lawsuit against Apple. The deal, which was for $125 million according ... |
| 03.04.2024 | Arena Announces Collaboration with AMD | AMD and Arena to scale deployment of the first AI test solution to enhance next-generation GPU performance optimizations
NEW YORK, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Arena, a developer of specialist AI foundation models, today announced a collab... |
| 28.03.2024 | Kidsy Raises Oversubscribed Round, Attracting Top Investors | Kidsy Co-Founders Shraysi Tandon and Sinan Sari
Kidsy, a break-out e-commerce company that helps keep merchandise out of landfills by bringing discounted baby and kids products to consumers, launches out of beta with an oversubscribed round... |
| 27.03.2024 | Credo Ventures joins $12M seed round for US-based Picogrid | Credo Ventures joins $12M seed round for US-based Picogrid
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| 22.03.2024 | Reddit's co-founder is bickering with investors on the company's big IPO day | Tech Reddit's co-founder is bickering with investors on the company's big IPO day
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| 19.03.2024 | TigerEye founders build on prior startup experience to create business simulation tool | TigerEye CEO Tracy Young and her husband and CTO Ralph Gootee helped build their previous startup, PlanGrid, into a $100 million ARR business before selling it to Autodesk for $875 million in 2018. Yet, despite that success, they always fel... |
| 13.03.2024 | Orbio Earth finds methane leaks that could cost oil companies billions this year | When it comes to greenhouse gasses, people tend to zero in on CO2, which is responsible for the majority of global warming. But then there’s methane, which has driven about 30% of climate change, according to the IEA. It’s a big enough thre... |
| 09.11.2023 | Decline in YC funding to SEA firms ‘not intentional’: CEO Garry Tan | Premium Content
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| 07.09.2023 | Fintech Company Alix Secures $5.5 Million To Unlock $84 Trillion In Wealth Transfers | As baby boomers age, $84 trillion in wealth will be passed along from one generation to the next. Alix |
| 11.07.2023 | Brief: Pano AI raises $17m growth round to expand its wildfire detection technology | US-based Pano AI has raised a $17 million growth capital round for its technology that can detect wildfires and issue warnings to local firefighters.
Valor Equity Partners led the round with participation from new investors Salesforce Ventu... |
| 24.10.2022 | Former Uber Health founder launches new startup with a fresh take on egg freezing | Women are choosing to start families later in life than ever before. Waiting longer to conceive often involves egg freezing, but that process is an expensive one. The average cost of egg freezing is between $10,000 and $20,000, and most ins... |
| 22.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Swiftly bags $100m for grocery tech, Pano’s $20m to fight wildfires with AI | This week, retail and grocery tech startup Swiftly bagged a mega-round while front-of-house restaurant software startup Zenchef cooked up new financing to expand its presence. In agtech, Pano raised funds to fight wildfires with AI and Land... |
| 30.08.2022 | Y Combinator's all-star alum and VC Garry Tan returns to take over the accelerator as its chief executive | The Initialized Capital founding partner Garry Tan is taking over as the CEO of Y Combinator.
A founder in Y Combinator's 2008 cohort, Tan served as a partner at the firm from 2010 to 2015.
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| 29.08.2022 | Garry Tan’s return is a full circle moment for Y Combinator | Initialized Capital was venture capitalist Garry Tan’s answer to a need first highlighted by Y Combinator. As a partner at the accelerator from 2010 to 2015, Tan spent time working with companies to better understand what they needed from i... |
| 29.08.2022 | Y Combinator's all-star alum and VC Garry Tan returns to take over the accelerator as its chief executive | Garry Tan is a founder and managing partner at Initialized Capital. Initialized Capital
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| 31.07.2022 | A tale of two surveys: Fintech VCs change tune on investment landscape | Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll ... |
| 27.07.2022 | 8 fintech VCs discuss the shifting investing landscape and how to pitch them in Q3 2022 | Last year, more than 20% of venture dollars went into fintech startups globally, according to CB Insights. Equally notable:
One-third of all unicorns created in 2021 were fintech companies.
This year, market conditions are dramatically diff... |
| 24.02.2022 | Seeking to level the e-commerce recommendation engine playing field, Depict.ai raises $17 million in Tiger Global-led round | Stockholm-based Depict.ai has raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by Tiger Global. Offering e-commerce merchants an AI-based product recommendation engine that requires no historical sales data, the funding will be used to ke... |
| 15.02.2022 | Ro Raises $150M, Launches New Digital Clinic for Skincare | What You Should Know:
– Ro raises $150M in new funding led by ShawSpring Partners, with participation from General Catalyst, FirstMark Capital, TQ Ventures, SignalFire, BoxGroup, The Chernin Group, Initialized Capital, Altimeter Capital, Ba... |
| 10.02.2022 | Radial Analytics Raises $3M to Optimize Patient Care Transitions | What You Should Know:
– Radial Analytics, a Concord, MA-based company optimizing patient care transitions with real-time decision-support solutions for payers and providers, today announced it has raised $3M in funding led by Initialized Ca... |
| 21.12.2021 | Runwise saves money and the planet by educating dumb buildings | In the U.S., around 13% of greenhouse gases are spewed out of commercial and residential buildings. You’d be forgiven for scratching your head and asking why. If you tour a typical New York building, you’ll often find that the tech that run... |
| 15.12.2021 | The top policy battles for 2022, explained | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
I know it’s only a Wednesday, but I’ve been quite reflective the past 24 hours as I prepare for T... |
| 14.12.2021 | The Cambrian explosion and Darwinian effect on digital health startups | VCs from F-Prime, DCM, Initialized Capital, GSR, Optum, and Providence Ventures at Invent Health
Last month, Vator and UCSF Health Hub held their latest salon, called Invent Health Virtual Event - Primary Care and the New Medical QB, which ... |
| 07.12.2021 | Jupe wants to solve for X, where X is the 1.5B people without adequate shelter | “We’re not making fucking glamping tents for bros at Coachella,” Jeff Wilson, co-founder and CEO at Jupe is eager to reassure me, as he outlines his vision for the company. “At this point, food is a distribution problem, clothing is largely... |
| 30.11.2021 | Video: Disrupting the digital health establishment; What VCs and corporate strategists are financing | Invent Health Virtual Event Primary Care and the New Medical QB: Third Session
Moderators are Dr. Archana Dubey (CMO Consultant, HP; Chief Clinical Officer, AliveCor) and Bambi Francisco Roizen (Founder and CEO, Vator). Joining themKyle Lui... |
| 04.11.2021 | Senior Companion Platform Papa Raises $150M at $1.4B Valuation | What You Should Know:
– Senior companion and support platform Papa, today announced a $150M in Series D funding to extend the reach and scale of Papa’s innovative solution. With a valuation of $1.4B, this funding round, led by SoftBank Visi... |
| 13.10.2021 | These are the top 53 voices in Silicon Valley teaching you everything you need to know about how to invest in VC and startups | All-in podcast/youtube This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Unlike other types of institutional investors, venture capitalists love to share business know-how.
Some have develo... |
| 07.10.2021 | Who beat out Tiger Global as the most active venture investor of the third quarter? | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Hedge fund giant Tiger Global turned itself into the 800-pound gorilla of venture capital deals i... |
| 10.08.2021 | Как руководителю сохранить работоспособность сотрудников в гибридном формате | Год пандемии привел к массовому переходу на дистанционную работу и это оказалось тяжелым испытанием для бизнеса. Потерялась классическая офисная сплоченность, но это только малая часть снежного кома проблем. Эмоциональное выгорание, нехватк... |
| 01.06.2021 | Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield and Away's Jen Rubio just had their first child together. Here are 13 other power couples who rule the tech world. | Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and wife Miranda Kerr. Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Snap Inc
Slack's Stewart Butterfield and Away's Jen Rubio just had their first child together.
They're among over a dozen other leaders in the tech industry in re... |
| 22.04.2021 | Satellite imagery startup Albedo closes $10M seed round | While most startups today are creating software, not every upstart enterprise is taking a code-only approach to building a business. Some of today’s most ambitious startups are aiming quite a bit higher.
Albedo is one such company. The rece... |
| 13.04.2021 | This VC Gave Coinbase Its First Check | The early days of Coinbase are now the stuff of Silicon Valley legend.
Take for instance the moment when, fresh out of the famous Y Combinator accelerator, Coinbase co-founder Brian Armstrong showed the rapid increase in the price of a cryp... |
| 03.04.2021 | One-stop construction logistics company Curri secures US $ 6 million | Curri, a California based startup that provides organised delivery of construction materials and supplies, announced on 2nd April 2021 that it has raised US $ 6 million in its Series A round. The round was led by Brick and Mortar Ventures a... |
| 24.03.2021 | The return of neighborhood retail and other surprising real estate trends | The pandemic made remote work and on-demand delivery normal far faster than anyone expected. Today, as the world beings to emerge from the pandemic, location doesn’t matter like it did a year ago.
As shocking as it sounds, we could be enter... |
| 08.02.2021 | Reddit, Inc. announced that it expects to receive $499.999996 million in funding from Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz LLC, Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, Tencent Holdings Limited and other investors | Reddit, Inc. announced that it will issue 11,771,852 series E preferred shares at issue price of $42.4742 per share for the gross proceeds $499,999,996.2 in funding on February 8, 2021. The shares are convertible, non-redeemable and non-cum... |
| 28.01.2021 | Miami and Austin aren't really the new Silicon Valley. Startup founders are building fully remote companies, survey finds. | Kim-Mai Cutler. Garry Tan This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
About 40% of founders now think startups should be remote from day one, according to a new survey.
Companies are ... |
| 23.01.2021 | How VCs and founders see 2021 differently | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Click here if you want it in your inbox eve... |
| 17.12.2020 | The Mom Project, a Job Site for Moms Returning to Work, Nabs $8 Million from Initialized and More | Chicago-based startup The Mom Project, a platform specifically built to help female knowledge workers find jobs after pausing to raise kids, picks up a Series A of $8 million that it plans to use to bring its job marketplace to more cities ... |
| 02.12.2020 | Ridecell Secures $45 Million To Help Fuel Growth and Expansion | Ridecell Secures $45 Million To Help Fuel Growth and Expansion
December 2nd, 2020 | by Diptii Tiiku, Senior Director of Corporate Marketing | Posted in: Across The Board
We’re excited to announce that we have secured $45 million in our Seri... |
| 18.11.2020 | Jinx launches a text-to-buy dog food platform, with help from Initialized Capital | Jinx is launching a simple way to buy dog food and manage orders via text message.
The startup says it has developed “the first text-to-buy platform in the legacy pet food space,” in partnership with its investor Initialized Capital and the... |
| 24.09.2020 | Supply chain digitizer Silo raises $9m in Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz | Cloud-based supply chain platform Silo has raised a $9 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors in the round include Initialized Capital and Haystack Ventures. This brings its total funding to $12 million since lau... |
| 30.07.2020 | Four keys to building your startup | At last week’s Early Stage virtual event, founders and investors shared some of their best insights about startup building and what they’re looking for in their next investments. We’ve assembled a compilation of insights covering different ... |
| 22.07.2020 | Shelf Engine raises US$ 12M to reduce food wastage in grocery stores | Shelf Engine provides an automated prediction engine that recommends what to order every day. It uses machine learning to help grocery stores bring in their orders to minimize waste and maximize profits. The idea is to remove inefficiencies... |
| 26.06.2020 | Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital | Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital, the investment firm he co-founded in 2011 with Garry Tan, as first reported by Axios and confirmed by TechCrunch. The move comes weeks after Ohanian publicly stepped down from... |
| 09.06.2020 | Top 10 companies that have raised funding in the men's health space | While funding women's health startups is rising, men's health so far isn't seeing the same boost
Funding for women's health startups is on the rise after traditionally lagging behind. While that's a great thing, the same can't be said for s... |
| 18.05.2020 | Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian will speak at Johns Hopkins’ virtual commencement | He may not be a household name on par with Microsoft’s Bill Gates or Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg — not yet anyway — but Alexis Ohanian is a 37-year-old entrepreneur and investor who seemingly has it all.
At 23 he co-founded Reddit, which is ... |
| 16.04.2020 | Investors explain COVID-19’s impact on consumer startups | Home fitness and games as gathering places are a few of the startup verticals propelled by unprecedented shifts in behavior due to shelter-in-place orders. We surveyed the top investors in consumer and social apps to learn about 2020’s star... |
| 11.04.2020 | Startups Weekly: Where social startups will get funding in the future | [Editor’s note: Want to get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that startups can use by email? Subscribe here.]
While consumer tech has matured as a startup category in recent years, many investors continue to be bullish on specific ... |
| 07.04.2020 | Investor survey results: Upcoming trends in social startups | Voice-based social networks and gaming as a new form of identity were among the top emerging trends in consumer social startups, according to an Extra Crunch survey of top social tech investors. Meanwhile, anonymity and dating apps with a s... |
| 26.03.2020 | Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian on how to survive these crazy days and what to learn from them | Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian founded Initialized Capital roughly nine years ago and they’ve closed four funds since, including most recently in late 2018.
That $225 million vehicle is roughly twice the size of their previous fund, but becau... |
| 11.02.2020 | A venture capital firm started by Alexis Ohanian has hired away Reddit's head of HR to bring culture to startups | Katelin Holloway
Katelin Holloway is the newest partner at Initialized Capital.
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| 20.12.2019 | Alexis Ohanian: Florida Tech needs a story | Facebook
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| 09.10.2019 | Papa Raises $10M to Expand “Grandkids on Demand” Platform to Address Social Isolation in Seniors | – Papa raises $10M in Series A funding to expand “grandkids on-demand” platform to help reduce social isolation in seniors.
– Adds partnerships with multiple large health insurance plans, including Humana, Aetna, Priority Health and Alignme... |
| 24.09.2019 | Knøx raises $8.25 million, launches new digital asset custody service | Knøx, a Monreal-based digital asset protection startup, has raised an $8.25 million seed round and is launching a digital asset custody service for institutions and fiduciaries.
The funding round was led by Initialized Capital, which was Co... |
| 01.08.2019 | Eatsa is dead; long live Brightloom! (And its leading robotic retail & software as a service) | The legendary American novelist Samuel Clemens — far better known by his nom de plume Mark Twain — was once famously called upon to debunk a morbid outbreak of fake news suggesting that he had died on a trip to London, riddled with debts an... |
| 13.06.2019 | 10 Minutes With Alexis Ohanian on Why He’s Investing in FoodTech & Agtech | A couple of weeks ago, Silo, a marketplace for perishable food producers and distributors, raised $3 million in seed funding led by Initialized Capital, the fund founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan. Launched in 2018, t... |
| 21.05.2019 | Bringing tech efficiencies to the agribusiness market, Silo harvests $3 million | Roughly $165 billion worth of wholesale produce is bought and sold every year in the U.S. And while that number is expected to go up to $1 trillion by 2025, the business of agribusiness remains unaffected by technology advancements that hav... |
| 10.04.2019 | Как эволюционировать от Reddit до Aging Tech | Рассматриваем продвижение темы технологий для пожилых на примере Алексиса Оханяна из Initialized Capital.
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| 12.03.2019 | Truepill, the ‘AWS for pharmacies,’ gets $10M from Initialized Capital | Venture capitalists’ latest on-demand delivery bet is in the pharmaceutical space.
Truepill, an online pharmacy powering delivery for the likes of Hims, Nurx, LemonAID and other direct-to-consumer healthcare brands, has nabbed a $10 million... |
| 28.02.2019 | iUNU raises $7.5m for greenhouse ‘system-as-a-service’ using computer vision | Greenhouse decision support software company iUNU closed a $7.5 million venture round with existing early-stage Midwest investor NCT Ventures and AI-focused BooststapLabs. The Seattle-based startup closed a $6 million round in August 2017 w... |
| 26.02.2019 | Polis, the door-to-door marketer, raises another $2.5 million | Polis founder Kendall Tucker began her professional life as a campaign organizer in local Democratic politics, but — seeing an opportunity in her one-on-one conversations with everyday folks — has built a business taking that shoe leather a... |
| 17.12.2018 | The Mom Project, a job site for moms returning to work, nabs $8M from Initialized and more | If you are a mother who has taken a break from full-time employment to raise kids, you may have also experienced the challenge that is jumping back into the working world after your break.
You may find you need more time flexibility; you ha... |
| 17.12.2018 | The Mom Project, a job site for moms returning to work, nabs $8M from Initialized and more
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| 17.10.2018 | YC Top Companies List – 2018 | We’re excited to share a list of Y Combinator’s top companies. The top 100 YC companies are listed by valuation1 (including the top 12 exits), as of October 16, 2018.
We put this list together to help people get to know some of the fastest... |
| 17.10.2018 | YC Top Companies List - 2018 | We’re excited to share a list of Y Combinator’s top companies. The top 100 YC companies are listed by valuation1 (including the top 12 exits), as of October 16, 2018.
We put this list together to help people get to know some of the fastest... |
| 17.10.2018 | Seattle startup vets take on Google with Helm, a new $499 personal email server | The Helm. (Helm Photos)
A Seattle-area startup is aiming to take on giants such as Google and change the way we do email with a new physical personal email server.
Helm today unveiled its $499 device that lets consumers send and receive ema... |
| 03.10.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, October 3 | FOUR NEW THINGS
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| 02.10.2018 | Ohanian’s Initialized raises $225M 4th fund to turn founders into cyborgs | “Right now we’re in this Empire Strikes Back moment,” says Initialized Capital’s Garry Tan, referring to tech giants ruthlessly copying and competing with fresh ideas. “We think the startups represent the Return Of The Jedi.” It’s that will... |
| 19.09.2018 | Design for Startups by Garry Tan | Former YC partner Garry Tan, the cofounder of Initialized Capital and a design expert describes how to effectively integrate design into a product development process.
Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/ |
| 08.02.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, February 8 | ARMED WITH DATA
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| 23.08.2017 | Homebuying startup Open Listings expands to Seattle with backing from Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian | Open Listings’ home page. (Open Listings Photo)
When Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian started looking for a new place about two years ago, he didn’t opt for a traditional broker or go through a big online service like Redfin. Instead, he lo... |
| 22.08.2017 | Reddit Cofounder & Joe Montana Invest in $6m Seed Round for Stealthy iUNU | Seattle-based greenhouse software company iUNU has raised $6 million from Initialized Capital and Liquid 2 Ventures, run by Reddit-cofounder Alex Ohanian and NFL hall-of-famer Joe Montana, respectively. Second Avenue Partners and Fuel Capit... |
| 15.06.2017 | Talking with Alda Leu Dennis, the newest partner at Initialized Capital | It’s only been a few days since she started her new job, but Alda Leu Dennis, the newest partner (and COO) of Initialized Capital, seems like she’s ready to hit the ground running.
Given her background, that’s not surprising. Dennis just jo... |
| 20.03.2017 | PlateIQ cooks up $4 million for restaurant management platform | As any fan of Kitchen Nightmares may know, the restaurant business is not for the faint of heart, nor is it likely to generate fat margins. Now, a startup called PlateIQ has raised $4 million in new funding to help restaurants automate acco... |
| 23.02.2017 | Initialized Capital leads $4M round for Privacy Labs startup that helps users ‘take control of their data’ | Giri Sreenivas and Dirk Sigurdson. Photos via Privacy Labs.
Giri Sreenivas and Dirk Sigurdson already launched and sold one security company. Now they’ve raised a sizable seed investment round from top venture firms for another security-rel... |
| 18.02.2017 | Co-founder conflict | Garry Tan Contributor
Garry Tan is managing partner at Initialized Capital, a seed-stage VC firm. He was previously a partner at Y Combinator. Before that he was co-founder of Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and an early employee at Palanti... |
| 09.02.2017 | Agtech Funding (& Exit) Sheet: Observant Acquired by Jain, Winnow Solutions Raises Convertible, more | Observant, the Australian manufacturer of in-field hardware and cloud-based applications for precision farm water management, has been acquired by Jain Irrigations, the global irrigations business. Observant was founded in 2003 by Simon Hol... |
| 07.02.2017 | TerrAvion Raises $10m Series A from Tech VCs to Expand Aerial Imaging Business | TerrAvion, the San Leandro, California-based startup providing aerial imagery from manned aircraft to farmers, has raised $10 million in Series A funding.
Every week, TerrAvion takes hundreds of low-altitude flights to capture bird’s-eye vi... |
| 17.01.2017 | Initialized Capital adds three new partners to the roster | Initialized Capital, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that was founded by former Y Combinator partners Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan, has added three new partners.
Eric Woersching comes aboard the five-year-old outfit as a gene... |
| 10.01.2017 | The outlook for Bay Area startup space in 2017 | Kim-Mai Cutler Contributor
Kim-Mai Cutler is an operating partner for Initialized Capital, an early-stage venture firm and was previously a journalist covering technology, finance and policy issues at TechCrunch -- best-known for her long-f... |
| 24.10.2016 | Initialized Capital Closes $115M Third Fund | Initialized Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based early stage venture capital firm, closed its $115m third fund.
Initialized III will invests $500K to $1M in early stage tech companies just starting out, when they have zero to 10 employees. It... |
| 24.10.2016 | Initialized Capital raises $115 million for its third fund | Initialized Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm started by former Y Combinator partners Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan, has raised $115 million for its third fund. The focus is on investing in companies that are just getting started ... |
| 21.06.2016 | With voter verification, Brigade becomes a more legitimate platform for political debate | Kim-Mai Cutler Contributor
Kim-Mai Cutler is an operating partner for Initialized Capital, an early-stage venture firm and was previously a journalist covering technology, finance and policy issues at TechCrunch -- best-known for her long-f... |
| 09.06.2016 | OpenVote launches a publishing platform, crowd-voting tool for political debate | Kim-Mai Cutler Contributor
Kim-Mai Cutler is an operating partner for Initialized Capital, an early-stage venture firm and was previously a journalist covering technology, finance and policy issues at TechCrunch -- best-known for her long-f... |
