Initialized Capital

Initialized Capital
IndustryVenture Capital
Founded2011
Founder
Headquarters,
Key people
  • Jen Wolf (Managing Partner)
  • Brett Gibson (Managing Partner)
Websiteinitialized.com

Initialized Capital is a venture capital fund founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco. It was founded by Alexis Ohanian, Harjeet Taggar, and Garry Tan.[1]

As of 2021, it has raised more than $3.2 billion in assets.[2][3] Initialized Capital has 23 portfolio companies it invested in at seed that have since become unicorns, including Coinbase, Ro, Cruise Automation, Instacart, Flexport, Opendoor, Algolia, Goat Group, Rippling, Truepill, and CoinTracker.[3][4][5][6][7]

  1. ^ "SEC FORM D/A". Sec.gov. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Geron, Tomio (October 2, 2018). "Initialized Capital Raises $225 Million for Fourth Fund". WSJ. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  3. ^ a b McBride, Sarah (December 14, 2021). "Initialized Capital Raises $700 Million, Launches 2 New Funds". Bloomberg. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  4. ^ O'Brien, Sara Ashley (October 2, 2018). "Alexis Ohanian's VC firm raises new $225M fund | CNN Business". CNN.
  5. ^ "VC Firm Initialized Raises $230 Million for Early-Stage Deals". Bloomberg.com. 14 August 2020.
  6. ^ Gené Teare (February 23, 2022). "Under The Hood: How Early-Stage Investor Initialized Spots Future Unicorns". Crunchbase News. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  7. ^ Russell, Jon (April 10, 2018). "CoinTracker Raises $1.5M to make tracking crypto investments easy for anyone". TechCrunch. Retrieved July 17, 2022.