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Initialized Capital
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 15 มี.ค. 2019
We set the standard in seed stage venture capital, backing founders with grit, audacity, and a spark of rebellion. We test for obsession and intellectual honesty and make it clear we mirror that mentality. We're excited by what could be, resilient in the face of challenge, ambitious, empathetic, and collaborative.
Our team is built for what you need now, guiding you and helping develop your skills in every facet of your business, but most crucially, what you need at seed: building your company and team, refining your story, reaching product market fit, and raising your next round.
Initialized invests across all sectors and is an early backer of companies like Coinbase, Instacart, Rippling, Flexport, and Flock Safety. With $3B+ in assets under management, our portfolio includes 175+ companies worth close to $200B in company valuations, with 25+ valued at $1B or more.
Our team is built for what you need now, guiding you and helping develop your skills in every facet of your business, but most crucially, what you need at seed: building your company and team, refining your story, reaching product market fit, and raising your next round.
Initialized invests across all sectors and is an early backer of companies like Coinbase, Instacart, Rippling, Flexport, and Flock Safety. With $3B+ in assets under management, our portfolio includes 175+ companies worth close to $200B in company valuations, with 25+ valued at $1B or more.
How HomeVision is Disrupting Mortgage Underwriting with AI
Vince Chu, cofounder of HomeVision, joins the "High Bit" podcast to discuss how his team is automating real estate valuations at scale. From overcoming technical challenges to scaling AI-powered underwriting, Vince explains how HomeVision is changing the game for both lenders and appraisers.
Chapters:
2:30 Vince’s Early Career at Posterous and Initialized
3:45 Why HomeVision Was Created to Disrupt the Mortgage Underwriting Industry
7:00 How HomeVision Uses AI to Process Mortgage Documents
14:00 Challenges of Working in File Cabinet Businesses as an Engineer
20:00 Solving Whack-a-Mole Problems in Product Engineering
25:40 The Importance of Building Frameworks and Internal Tools
31:30 Why a Human Layer Is Needed for Interpretability and Transparency
Chapters:
2:30 Vince’s Early Career at Posterous and Initialized
3:45 Why HomeVision Was Created to Disrupt the Mortgage Underwriting Industry
7:00 How HomeVision Uses AI to Process Mortgage Documents
14:00 Challenges of Working in File Cabinet Businesses as an Engineer
20:00 Solving Whack-a-Mole Problems in Product Engineering
25:40 The Importance of Building Frameworks and Internal Tools
31:30 Why a Human Layer Is Needed for Interpretability and Transparency
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Strategic Finance in Tech: Lessons from Superhuman, Runway, and Rippling
มุมมอง 33214 วันที่ผ่านมา
Initialized hosted a discussion with Andrew Meyer, Superhuman's head of finance, along with experts from Runway and Rippling. They explored the evolving role of strategic finance in tech, and how modern tools like Rippling and Runway are shaping the industry. The session covered the challenges finance teams face today, the importance of integrated systems, and offered tips for early stage start...
Navigating Startup Finance: Insights from Superhuman, Runway, and Rippling
มุมมอง 1614 วันที่ผ่านมา
We hosted a discussion with Andrew Meyer, Superhuman's head of finance, along with experts from Runway and Rippling. They explored how finance professionals are taking on broader roles in business, using creativity to drive real impact. The conversation also highlighted the importance of financial sustainability and understanding the consumer's needs in reshaping enterprise software.
Democratizing the Future of AI in Image Generation with Suhail Doshi
มุมมอง 15514 วันที่ผ่านมา
Our managing partner, Brett Gibson, spoke with Playground AI founder Suhail Doshi about advancements in AI-driven image generation and their new Playground v3 image foundation model. Suhail shared Playground’s mission to make graphic design more accessible, enabling users to create items such as T-shirts, logos, social media posts, and even memes. They discussed the gap between language and ima...
How Global Enterprises Are Going AI-Native With Arena’s Pratap Ranade
มุมมอง 8914 วันที่ผ่านมา
On the latest episode of our podcast “High Bit,” Brett Gibson spoke with Pratap Ranade, CEO of Arena, about the intricacies of using AI to convert data into real-time simulations for optimizing sales, pricing, and marketing strategies. Pratap explained how Arena navigates the complexities of large-scale enterprises, including those in the consumer goods and advanced manufacturing industries. He...
Beyond the RSVP: How Partiful Is Redefining Social Gatherings with CEO Shreya Murthy
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In this interview, our managing partner Jen Wolf chats with Partiful CEO Shreya Murthy, who shares the story of how she built her company to change the game in event planning and help people connect. As part of the video interview, we also co-hosted a garden-themed happy hour, which was a great way to see Partiful’s tools in action. Driven by her personal challenge to establish a social circle ...
Life at a Startup: Inside Look at Cofertility with CEO Lauren Makler
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Welcome to the second episode of our new series, "Life at a Startup: Inside Look." This series reveals the day-to-day realities, challenges, and wins of startup life within the Initialized portfolio. In this episode, we visited the LA home office of Cofertility CEO Lauren Makler. In the interview, Lauren discusses the possibility of building a strong team culture while working remotely. She als...
Life at a Startup: Inside Look at Picogrid’s HQ in El Segundo
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Welcome to the first episode of our new series, "Life at a Startup: Inside Look." This series reveals the day-to-day realities, challenges, and wins of startup life within the Initialized portfolio. In our premiere episode, we visit Picogrid, an early stage startup working to revolutionize the defense technology sector. Founded by Zane Mountcastle and Martin Slosarik, Picogrid brings together e...
Insights from Startup Grind: Navigating the AI Fundraising Frenzy
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At Startup Grind Global in Redwood City, Brett participated on a panel discussing the AI fundraising climate. The panel included Vanessa Larco, partner at NEA, and Kobie Fuller, general partner at Upfront Ventures, and was moderated by James Joaquin, managing director and cofounder of Obvious Ventures. This panel covered the state of AI valuations, the defensibility of AI startups, and the fast...
Insights From Founders at Our Inaugural Talent Summit
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At our recent Talent Summit in San Francisco, startup founders from our portfolio, including Jacinda Shelly of Apero Health, Ruben Harris of Career Karma, and Jesse Chor of Tanda, covered startup readiness, ideal traits for early stage candidates, creating company culture in new startups, and how working at startups compares to big tech.
How to Land a Tech Job with Tanda's CEO Jesse Chor
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How to Land a Tech Job with Tanda's CEO Jesse Chor
Startup Talent Summit 2024: Connecting SF Talent with Top Early Stage Startups
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Startup Talent Summit 2024: Connecting SF Talent with Top Early Stage Startups
Integrating LLMs in Robotic Process Automation With Automat’s Gautam Bose
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Integrating LLMs in Robotic Process Automation With Automat’s Gautam Bose
Making Blockchain Technology Accessible With Horizon’s Peter Kieltyka
มุมมอง 1404 หลายเดือนก่อน
Making Blockchain Technology Accessible With Horizon’s Peter Kieltyka
Slush 2023 Recap: Fostering a Healthy Remote Company Culture
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Slush 2023 Recap: Fostering a Healthy Remote Company Culture
Scaling AI Agents for Real-World Tasks with Parcha CEO AJ Asver
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Scaling AI Agents for Real-World Tasks with Parcha CEO AJ Asver
Navigating the Frontier of Safer Financial Systems with TRM's Rahul Raina
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Navigating the Frontier of Safer Financial Systems with TRM's Rahul Raina
Building a Developer-Focused Public Cloud with Fly.io CEO
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Building a Developer-Focused Public Cloud with Fly.io CEO
Inside AstroForge's HQ in Huntington Beach, Calif.
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Inside AstroForge's HQ in Huntington Beach, Calif.
Event: Building the Future of Space Tech
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Event: Building the Future of Space Tech
Talos Co-Founder Ethan Feldman on High Bit
มุมมอง 52ปีที่แล้ว
Talos Co-Founder Ethan Feldman on High Bit
Where AI & Blockchain Infrastructure Intersect
มุมมอง 29ปีที่แล้ว
Where AI & Blockchain Infrastructure Intersect
A Breakthrough Moment in Robotic Nail Polish Methodology
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A Breakthrough Moment in Robotic Nail Polish Methodology
The Complex Coordination of Building Blockchain Infrastructure
มุมมอง 15ปีที่แล้ว
The Complex Coordination of Building Blockchain Infrastructure
Balancing Speed and Safety in Crypto Trading Platform Development
มุมมอง 28ปีที่แล้ว
Balancing Speed and Safety in Crypto Trading Platform Development
How Pano AI Can Help Stop The Spread of Megafires
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How Pano AI Can Help Stop The Spread of Megafires
Am a programmer with no AI background, but i feel very encouraged to immerse myself into it as I had thought it to be too complex to learn and would rather hire.
Great insights from Brett and Suhail! As the founder of BlepCo, I'm focused on transforming utility management and promoting sustainable practices for consumers. I appreciate Initialized Capital's commitment to supporting innovative startups. I’d love to connect and explore potential synergies! Keep up the great work!"
First in the room
Great work.
A startup for "meeting up with friends" has always been a meme, a tarpit idea... but here comes such a nice surprise with great execution, an amazing product, and story! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Initialized Capital, you're a rising star on TH-cam
Its only meant for the rich to get richer
Great video!
Super Dope.
Wow, the comments here are so negative. No one is forcing anyone to live there. It's for those who WANT to live car-free. There are thousands and thousands of developments where you can have your vehicle. There is precisely one of these types of development. If there is a demand for it, it will succeed. If it is a success, they will build more and more of these. Let the market decide. I wish them great success.
How we can Join Initialized as an early stage Startup founder
How we can Join Initialized as an early stage Startup founder
One Small step for American Suburbia and One Giant Leap for The United States of America 🇺🇸
I am into his shoes now and already overwhelmed with what all needs to be done!
all i heard was companies are bought not sold, an old saying....and hormones
Once this operates at economies of scale, we’ll surely make deep-space travel more feasible and affordable for people placed differently on the totem pole. With the amount of material we can extract from an asteroid, that’ll address the bottleneck of scarce resources.
very nice👌🏼👏🏼👍🏼 clap👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Ay that’s my dads company!!
@@KORYRIOS-offical don't tell lies 🤥
My dream company
Thank you for an interesting and frank video! Especially about the first demo and the first reaction of users! We at JetSoftPro, a software service, also work a lot with AI and understand that the success of artificial intelligence lies in constant training.
Congratulations
Cant wait to work foe these guys soon!
Hopefully, these guys do better than deep space industries and planetary resources. The launch prices are dropping to a point to make it worth doing.
I think these guys are the real deal they'll do better than Deep Space Industries.
He sounds 💯 like a woman!
I am the principal engineer in charge of our AI development efforts. We have built our own custom agentic framework to run through processes with tools and communicate with our research teams using conversational agents. It is fascinating to see the parallels between the problems you have solved. The lessons you have learned match very closely to our experience.
Fantastic
High bit for the win
Hello. Are you funding startups that are buying majority stakes in undervalued energy businesses?
Sidewalk Labs would have been the best thing to happen to Toronto. Good to see someone is bringing this neighborhood model to cities.
We should start mining this guy, hes shaped like an asteroid
This video pulled me out of depression, and activated sage mode. God bless 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Me too!
I love this, its inspiring.
I love this idea and would love it more if the residents could own the units. That way the people who live there could benefit from the wealth they are creating rather than exporting it to some capital group on wall street, where it wont do them any good. Americans will keep getting poorer if there are fewer and fewer pathways to property ownership.
They are working on that with subsequent neighborhoods, but that proved too complicated for their first neighborhood, which they needed to finish by a certain time.
What an inspiring woman! thank you Tracy!
I was today years old when I found out a car free city called cul de sac existed. I am planning my visit right now!
This is sooo exciting in so many ways! We need that in most American cities!
Didn't you go to college? Who wants to be a grown adult paying through the nose in rent and living like a college student?
Very instructive thanks to both! 🤝💯
Loved our visit (and riding ebikes!) with Ryan. So fun to watch it progress.
Thanks for watching!
Why did you not show the actual town????
Watch our second video: th-cam.com/video/3r7n-BXSa4U/w-d-xo.html
@@initializedcapital I completely understand why this video did not show the town but-as a supporter of your future success-you gotta shoot an outro telling viewers what to watch next if they want to learn more :)
Because it looks like a can of sardines! It’s terrible! The guy is just a paid propaganda pusher! Look how he articulates with his hands… People do that when they are not saying the truth!!!
Awesome work, Ryan. Very exciting.
possibly the most exciting startup around.
Let's go!
I am two videos into HighBit and enjoying every bit of it.
Thanks for watching!
I'm excited to hear how the guests balance technology and market risks, and how they optimize for iteration time and learning
I think given the current hype in LLMs and AI (which of course can be valuable as an aid and tool for many companies), people have completely forgotten about how blockchain can completely transform industries , and how much of a powerful transformative technology it is.
chapters would be really cool, I am just interested on the vision forward and had trouble to skimm to that...
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Excellent episode!!
Thanks for your support Garry!
Excited to know how did they cooperated with the spaceX and solved the problem of purchasing a satellite.