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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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In this Initialized community event, founders Siqi Chen (Runway) and Daksh Gupta (Greptile) will share their experience of building in public, the results they’ve seen, and provide their advice to other founders.
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Founder Q&A with TigerEye’s Tracy Young
This week, TigerEye launched a new AI Analyst that brings quick, data-driven insights to go-to-market teams with a super simple chat interface. It’s like having an on-demand business expert that can answer complex questions about forecasts, customer metrics, and revenue trends — no spreadsheets or SQL skills needed. Ahead of the launch, we sat down […]
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Founder Spotlight: Greptile’s Daksh Gupta
For this month’s founder spotlight, we spent the day at Greptile’s HQ in San Francisco with CEO Daksh Gupta. Greptile is an AI expert on any codebase that reviews pull requests, answers hard questions about complex codebases, writes Linear ticket descriptions, and more, all with full codebase context. Here’s a slightly edited version of the […]
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