Venture Capital

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

We're hyper-focused on seed, investing before your success strikes other investors as inevitable. We’ve spent the last 17 years growing our team of experts to support you in the beginning stages of your journey... while also adding value over the long term.

2 WE HELP YOU REACH PRODUCT-MARKET FIT

We’re not here to do your job for you or to be overly prescriptive. We promote "learning by doing" and provide you with tools and guidance to grow with your business. We advise on everything from product design and technical decisions to growth tactics and storytelling.

3 WE PREPARE YOU FOR FUNDRAISING

We’ve helped hundreds of companies raise their next round and built a team and processes to guide you through your series of fundraisers. We'll outline the metrics necessary to raise your next round, help design your operating model and deck, practice your pitch, and introduce you to the best growth-stage investors.

Resource We Provide

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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