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

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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.

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Why Initialized led Garage’s seed round and participated in its Series A for $18M total funding. America’s local governments and public safety departments are the backbone of our communities, yet the way they buy and sell the most essential equipment needed for doing their jobs hasn’t changed in decades. Garage is a modern, AI-powered marketplace designed to streamline how specialized equipment is bought and sold.

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The Future of Orbital Defense: Why We’re Leading Orbital Operations’ $8.8M Seed Round
The Future of Orbital Defense: Why We’re Leading Orbital Operations’ $8.8M Seed Round

Meet the team building high-thrust orbital vehicles to transform satellite defense and logistics. As our world grows more dependent on space-based infrastructure for defense, intelligence, communications, science, and commerce, the criticality — and vulnerability — of orbital assets has never been more pronounced. The US Department of Defense, NASA, commercial operators, and our allies around […]

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Agents at Work
Agents at Work

How Initialized founders view the future of human-in-the-loop AI Less than a year ago, ‘agentic AI’ was an industry-specific term that, even for journalists covering the space, was hard to define. Flash forward to today: AI agents are not only part of the cultural zeitgeist, they have started infiltrating everything we do.  As LinkedIn gets […]

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