VENTURE CAPITAL
How We Help?
We teach founders how to take their businesses from 0 to 1, and beyond. Our team is specifically designed to guide you and help develop your skills in every facet of your business, but most crucially what you need now: product, go-to-market, recruiting, and PR and marketing.
1 WE INVEST EARLY
2 WE HELP YOU REACH PRODUCT-MARKET FIT
3 WE PREPARE YOU FOR FUNDRAISING
Resource We Provide
OFFICE HOURS
We meet regularly with each of our portfolio companies to work on recruiting, roadmapping, prioritization, product, design, brand, engineering, marketing, earned media, growth, and enterprise sales.
CONTENT & PR
We provide resources and content on the topics most relevant to our founders, publishing to our blog, TV channels, and more Our PR and content leads work directly with founders to support company launches and product announcements.
EVENTS
We host founder basecamps, investor-led cohorts, specialized dinners, happy hours, virtual workshops, and other community events throughout the year. They offer founders the opportunity to interact with one another, the Initialized team, and industry experts.
RECRUITING
We don't just send you candidates, we teach you how to recruit. With experts in HR, talent, and culture, we help you build your org chart and find the best candidates to scale your business. Our operational expertise in product, engineering, and design helps you tailor your search to find and recruit the best available talent.
GO TO MARKET
We have experts across the team who will help you build each piece of your go to market strategy: identifying target customers, messaging and positioning, web design, product and sales strategy, and more.
Feedback
Questions We Ask
- Is this 10x better, faster, and/or cheaper?
- Is there a demo or early version?
- Is this well-built?
- What's it solving?
- Is this market large enough?
- Who's it for?
- What’s the business model?
- What does this compete with?
- Are these founders builders?
- Are they experts in the space?
- Would we want to work for them?
- Would we want to work with them for 10+ years?
The Details
FRESH IDEAS FROM GREAT PEOPLE
If you have an idea that is not reflected in our current portfolio, or don’t have a background in the field of your startup idea, don’t be dissuaded from pitching us.
We believe the best founders fit themselves into a market.
NUTS & BOLTS
We invest before product market fit.
Therefore, it’s never too early to start a conversation. Email is the best way to reach us.
After a meeting between the founder(s) and partners, we discuss and vote as a team. We move through our process as quickly as possible. Whenever we pass on an investment, we always explain why.
Privacy Policy
We DO NOT share or sale your information.