Initialized Capital
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.
- Total investments:
- 532
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 34%
- Fund size:
- $170M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Initialized Capital invests in
Stages Initialized Capital invests in
Countries Initialized Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 12 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$8.8M
- Series A
- $6M–$40M
- Series B
- $10M–$67M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 89 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 43 (8%)
- SaaS 35 (7%)
- Information Technology 29 (5%)
- FinTech 25 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 212 (40%)
- Series A 113 (21%)
- Series B 53 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 25 (5%)
- Series C 23 (4%)
Country
- United States 261 (49%)
- Canada 12 (2%)
- United Kingdom 6 (1%)
- Sweden 2 (0%)
- China 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anson MacKinney
Venture Capital Associate
|
Venture Capital Associate | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Zoe Perret
Head of Strategic Operations
|
Head of Strategic Operations | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Abdul Ly
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Alda Dennis
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
Andrew Sather
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sabi is a neurotechnology startup developing a wearable, non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to translate internal human speech directly into digital text. | $50M / Seed / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Hop Aero develops hypersonic rocket cargo systems that provide rapid point-to-point delivery across long distances. The company focuses on rocket cargo vehicles designed to transport supplies to austere and contested locations within minutes. Its systems aim to support logistics operations that require fast response times and resilient supply chains. Hop Aero positions its technology as part of a broader physical internet concept, enabling high-speed movement of physical goods similar to data on the internet. The company targets users that need time-critical delivery capabilities in challenging operational environments. | $11M / Seed / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| Robocurve is an artificial intelligence and robotics infrastructure company that develops open-source evaluation frameworks and independent benchmarking platforms for robots and the AI models that control them. Organized as a public benefit corporation, the company focuses on measuring real-world robotic capabilities through standardized, reproducible evaluations that enable transparent comparisons across robotics systems and foundation models. Its mission is to provide objective benchmarks that help researchers, developers, and the public understand the progress of physical AI. Its product portfolio includes Inspect Robots, an open-source evaluation framework for running AI models on robotic platforms, and World Evals, a catalog of real-world robotics benchmarks. Robocurve also develops domain-specific benchmarks such as KitchenBench for bimanual household manipulation and DataCenterBench for data center construction tasks. The company's tools support integrations with robotics ecosystems including ROS, Isaac Lab, and vision-language-action models, enabling developers to evaluate robot performance across diverse embodiments and real-world tasks. | $10M / Seed / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Ellis is an AI-native operations platform for private credit. | $10M / Seed / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Picogrid is a technology company that develops hardware and software systems for integrating mission-critical assets across defense, public safety, and industrial environments. Its platform connects sensors, unmanned systems, command-and-control tools, and other digital infrastructure to support coordinated operations across land, sea, air, andspace. The company provides products such as data integration platforms, edge computing nodes, and interoperability tools that enable information sharing and operational control across systems from different vendors. Picogrid supports use cases including base security, air defense, satellite operations, signals intelligence, wildfire monitoring, and human-machine teaming. Its technology is designed to help organizations manage and coordinate distributed systems through a unified operational framework. | $45M / Series A / May 29, 2026 | ||
| 10x Science offers an AI software that analyzes protein data to characterize molecular structures and support biopharmaceutical research. | $4.8M / Seed / Apr 22, 2026 | ||
| Alien develops decentralized digital identity infrastructure focused on privacy-preserving proof of humanity and trust online. It builds a blockchain-based human network that uses biometric verification, cryptographic proofs, and decentralized protocols to authenticate unique humans and AI agents. The platform enables human verification, access tohuman-only spaces, and accountable AI systems. | $7.1M / Pre-Seed / Apr 01, 2026 | ||
| The Seamflow team comprises some of the top engineers in the world with a wealth of experience creating systems of production quality. Seamflow operates in the Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) sector, where certification bodies handle audits, reviews, and complex documentation before products reach the market or infrastructure goeslive. | $4.5M / Seed / Feb 11, 2026 | ||
| The Bland Company is a biotechnology and food startup headquartered in London, focused on developing simple, transformative ingredients. The company operates within the biotechnology research industry and has a small team, with a company size estimated between 2–10 employees. Its official website, theblandcompany.co, indicates it is preparing tolaunch products or services, as the site currently features a "Coming Soon" message along with a newsletter subscription option. | $2.7M / Pre-Seed / Feb 10, 2026 | ||
| Feanix Biotechnologies is a genetic laboratory for testing samples. | $5.3M / Seed / Dec 18, 2025 | ||
| See all 532 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Initialized Capital invest in?
Initialized Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 532 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Initialized Capital invest in?
Initialized Capital typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$8.8M at Seed, $6M–$40M at Series A and $10M–$67M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Initialized Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Initialized Capital took part in.
How do I contact Initialized Capital?
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Who are the partners at Initialized Capital?
The team at Initialized Capital includes Anson MacKinney (Venture Capital Associate), Zoe Perret (Head of Strategic Operations) and Abdul Ly (Principal), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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