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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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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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A Visit to Beyond Aero in Toulouse
I traveled to Toulouse, France with our partner Andrew Sather to attend Beyond Aero’s board meeting last month. Beyond Aero is the first electric business aircraft using hydrogen propulsion to reach more than 800 nautical miles. Initialized welcomed the company to our portfolio in 2023. Building and commercializing a hydrogen-electric aircraft requires an extreme amount […]
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Your First Press Release
Traditionally, companies would use a press release to mark any significant company milestone, from fundraising to key hires, major partnerships, product launches, office openings, events and conferences, even key customer and sales milestones.
Here I will discuss why, when, and how to write a press release.
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