# Initialized Capital

> Initialized Capital is a VC fund backing Software. See 415 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 415
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last fund: Dec 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/6355249
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Initialized
- Website: http://www.initialized.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InitializedCapital/

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Initialized Capital. Shizune tracks 12 team members at Initialized Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/initialized-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$9.3M |
| Series A | $6M–$42M |
| Series B | $16M–$67M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 69 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 36 | 9% |
| SaaS | 32 | 8% |
| Internet | 22 | 5% |
| Health Care | 21 | 5% |

284 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 162 | 39% |
| Series A | 99 | 24% |
| Series B | 39 | 9% |
| Series C | 16 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 3% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 207 | 50% |
| Canada | 9 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 1% |
| Sweden | 2 | 0% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anson MacKinney | Venture Capital Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anson-mackinney |
| Zoe Perret | Head of Strategic Operations | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zoe-perret |
| Abdul Ly | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abdul-ly |
| Alda Dennis | General Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alda-leu-dennis |
| Andrew Sather | Principal | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-sather |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ellis | Ellis is an AI-native operations platform for private credit. | $10M | Seed | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Picogrid | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Seamflow | 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 | 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 | Feanix Biotechnologies is a genetic laboratory for testing samples. | $5.3M | Seed | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| Crewline AI | Crewline AI appears to be a startup focused on retrofitting heavy construction equipment for supervised autonomy. Its website says it upgrades existing machines like drum rollers, dozers, rock trucks, and excavators to make them self-driving. | $7.1M | Seed | Dec 14, 2025 |  |
| Guide Labs | Guide Labs is a software development company that builds interpretable models to explain reasoning that are easy to steer, debug, and align. | $9.3M | Seed | Dec 04, 2025 |  |
| PermitFlow | PermitFlow is the first construction permit application and management platform for builders and owners. The company aims to streamline and simplify construction permitting. The company's software reduces the time to allow while standardizing municipalities’ building permit submittal process in a single platform. PermitFlow supports permittingend-to-end, including permit research, application preparation, submission, and monitoring. With our nationwide coverage and deep, local municipal expertise, PermitFlow helps builders obtain permits whether in a single municipality or across multiple states. PermitFlow is a Y Combinator graduate from the YC W22 program. | $54M | Series B | Dec 02, 2025 |  |

10 of 415 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 100 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 34 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 28 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 26 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 22 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 20 deals together

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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 415 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Initialized Capital's check size?

Initialized Capital typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$9.3M at Seed, $6M–$42M at Series A and $16M–$67M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Initialized Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Initialized Capital?

Public channels for Initialized Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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