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A team entirely unique to venture...

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...with varied passions, perspectives, and professional backgrounds — founders, builders, engineers, designers, journalists, and more.

Meet Initialized

Committed to our Founders for the Long Haul

Our team is built to guide you from 0 to 1, but we're your advisors for life. We provide seed stage founders — from enterprise SaaS to sustainability, health to hard tech, artificial intelligence to infrastructure, consumer to crypto — with the tools to build companies and navigate the venture landscape.

We are grateful for the opportunity to do so.

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“My First…” is a new monthly series written by Jen Wolf, managing partner at Initialized Capital. The initial key decisions at an early stage startup can make or break your company’s chances of success and survival. In this monthly series, Jen will speak with various founders within the Initialized portfolio about their first experiences in […]

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FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT: eqtble CEO Joseph Ifiegbu
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This month, we’re sitting down with eqtble CEO Joseph Ifiegbu. eqtble is an HR Analytics platform that assists companies in deciding whom to hire, promote, and retain. Here is a slightly edited version of the conversation: Q: Tell us a little about your background and why you decided to become a founder. A: I’ve known I wanted to be a founder […]

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