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San Francisco, United States
Focus on seed-stage investments in high-potential technology startups, backing founders with grit, intellectual honesty, and a rebellious spirit.
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38+
Employees
25+
Founded
2016
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United States
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Initialized
Focus on seed-stage investments in high-potential technology startups, backing founders with grit, intellectual honesty, and a rebellious spirit.
Portfolio
38+
Employees
25+
Founded
2016
AUM
N/A
Stages
No stages listed
Industries
No industries listedGeographic scope
United States
Sources
Showing 24 of 38 matched portfolio companies
Arena develops AI-native products that enable businesses to automate high-frequency decision-making processes, enhancing operational efficiency across various industries. By embedding engineers and machine learning scientists within client teams, Arena delivers measurable improvements in field sales and industrial engineering within months.
100+
7K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $30.0M
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Goldcrest CapitalInitialized Capital
Goldcrest CapitalInitialized Capital
Funding: $30.0M
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Around provides a video conferencing platform that utilizes unique audio technology to ensure all participants, regardless of location, can communicate clearly without echo or audio distortion. This approach addresses the common issue of remote team members feeling disengaged and excluded during traditional video calls, fostering a more inclusive and collaborative environment.
Funding: $15.2M
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Funding: $15.2M
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Salesfloor provides an AI-driven ecommerce platform that utilizes a large language model and machine learning algorithms to facilitate personalized, autonomous conversations between shoppers and virtual sales associates. This technology enhances product discovery and recommendation accuracy, addressing the challenge of delivering tailored shopping experiences that meet individual customer needs.
10+
1K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $3.8M
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Initialized Capital
Initialized Capital
Funding: $3.8M
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Automat provides robotic process automation (RPA) for Chrome, utilizing GPT-4 and computer vision to automate repetitive tasks across various industries. The platform enhances operational efficiency by streamlining processes such as claims processing, data entry, and account management, significantly reducing manual workload and errors.
Funding: $4.3M
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Funding: $4.3M
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Azura is a cross‑chain trading platform that lets users buy and sell any blockchain asset directly with USD, aggregating liquidity from multiple networks to provide deep order books and zero‑fee execution. It consolidates bridging, wrapped tokens and gas costs into a single transaction, while real‑time market data and algorithmic smart‑contract audits ensure efficient and secure trades for professional and institutional crypto traders.
Funding: $6.9M
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+ 18 Other investorsInitialized Capital
+ 18 Other investorsInitialized Capital
Funding: $6.9M
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Basalt Tech develops the LodeStone operating system, which integrates machine learning and physics simulations to enable real-time control of heterogeneous satellite fleets. This technology addresses the inefficiencies of traditional spacecraft operations, allowing operators to manage multiple missions and enhance orbital security with a unified, intelligent system.
Funding: $4.0M
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Initialized Capital
Funding: $4.0M
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Clairity Technology develops Direct Air Capture and Ex-Situ Mineralization technologies to remove atmospheric CO2. The system utilizes inexpensive chemicals and standard construction materials to create enriched CO2 streams for large-scale carbon removal. This process supports global decarbonization efforts by addressing legacy and ongoing anthropogenic CO2 emissions.
Funding: $6.8M
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Initialized CapitalLowercarbon Capital
Initialized CapitalLowercarbon Capital
Funding: $6.8M
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This company offers fertility solutions through an egg-sharing model, allowing women to freeze eggs for free by donating half the retrieved supply to intended parents. It provides accessible pathways for both egg preservation and third-party reproduction via fresh and frozen egg donation programs. The platform focuses on a human-centered approach to family building, supporting individuals across various stages of their reproductive journey.
Funding: $5.0M
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Initialized CapitalOffline Ventures
Initialized CapitalOffline Ventures
Funding: $5.0M
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Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange and wallet platform that enables users to buy, sell, and securely store digital currencies using blockchain technology. It provides a user-friendly interface for both merchants and consumers, facilitating seamless transactions in the growing digital currency market.
Funding: $563.1M
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Funding: $563.1M
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CoordinateHQ is a collaborative project management platform that automates project intake and streamlines communication between teams and clients, reducing reliance on email. By providing a centralized dashboard for task management and client interactions, it enables teams to complete projects faster and improve client satisfaction.
Funding: $5.5M
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Initialized Capital
Funding: $5.5M
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The startup offers a decentralized platform that provides creators with access to capital, mentorship, and professional tools necessary for brand growth. By addressing the funding gap in the creator economy, the platform enables creators to scale their operations and enhance their market presence.
5+
700+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $40.0M
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a16z cryptoInitialized Capital
a16z cryptoInitialized Capital
Funding: $40.0M
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Provides a collaborative calendar platform designed for professionals and teams, integrating task management and scheduling to streamline workflows. It addresses inefficiencies in traditional calendar tools by enabling real-time updates, shared availability, and seamless integration with productivity apps.
Funding: $3.4M
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Initialized Capital
Funding: $3.4M
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Datasaur provides a customized platform for data labeling, utilizing automation to enhance the efficiency of natural language processing (NLP) projects by up to 9.6 times. The company develops tailored large language models (LLMs) that address specific organizational data challenges, significantly reducing project costs by up to 70%.
Funding: $7.9M
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Funding: $7.9M
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eqtble is a self-service people analytics platform that consolidates employee data from various sources to provide real-time insights and predictive analytics for workforce management. By enabling organizations to quickly identify trends and make data-driven decisions, eqtble reduces the time to hire and enhances overall HR efficiency.
Funding: $2.8M
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Funding: $2.8M
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Glass Health provides an AI platform that assists clinicians in generating differential diagnoses and drafting clinical plans based on patient summaries. By utilizing a large language model alongside evidence-based clinical guidelines, the platform enhances diagnostic accuracy and streamlines the development of treatment strategies.
Funding: $7.0M
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Funding: $7.0M
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kapa.ai builds AI assistants grounded in a company's existing technical documentation and knowledge bases. These assistants provide trustworthy, source-backed answers across support, documentation, and product interfaces using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). The platform reduces support load and accelerates onboarding by offering pre-built integrations and analytics to identify content gaps.
Funding: $3.7M
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Funding: $3.7M
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The startup provides insured custody solutions for digital assets, ensuring that institutions can securely manage and protect their holdings while meeting fiduciary responsibilities. By implementing robust security protocols and insurance coverage, the company mitigates risks associated with asset loss and regulatory compliance.
Funding: $6.2M
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Initialized CapitalInovia Capital
Initialized CapitalInovia Capital
Funding: $6.2M
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The startup operates a crypto custody system that employs actuarial principles and correct-by-construction engineering to ensure the safekeeping of digital assets. Clients benefit from insurance coverage that protects the full value of their holdings, addressing the risk of loss in the volatile cryptocurrency market.
Funding: $6.3M
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Initialized CapitalInovia Capital
Initialized CapitalInovia Capital
Funding: $6.3M
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Lingo provides a multi‑tenant localization platform that lets SaaS products add translation capabilities via a single API call, with isolated glossaries, brand‑voice profiles, and model configurations per user or project. The service combines LLM‑based translation, optional human post‑editing, and automated quality scoring, delivering results through webhooks or streaming, while tracking token consumption for per‑user billing and usage‑based pricing.
Funding: $4.2M
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Initialized Capital
Funding: $4.2M
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Measured is a digital health platform that creates personalized weight loss plans combining GLP-1 medications, dietary guidance, and exercise regimens, all tailored to individual health profiles. The platform addresses obesity by providing ongoing, doctor-led support and treatment, enabling users to achieve and maintain significant weight loss.
Funding: $130.0K
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Funding: $130.0K
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Provides an end-to-end data platform that uses a proprietary Activity Schema™ to consolidate data into a single table, enabling data analysts to answer 80% of ad-hoc queries without requiring changes from data engineering. This approach reduces data model maintenance by 80%, cuts warehouse costs by up to 70%, and streamlines workflows by integrating frontend, backend, and third-party data for comprehensive analysis.
Funding: $13.6M
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Funding: $13.6M
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Orbio is a data fusion platform that utilizes satellite imagery to provide real-time methane emissions tracking for oil and gas infrastructure, enabling operators to identify super-emitter durations and prioritize reduction opportunities. The platform addresses the challenge of underreported methane emissions, which can be as high as 70%, by delivering precise, asset-level insights that help companies comply with emerging regulations and mitigate financial risks.
Funding: $4.6M
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Funding: $4.6M
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Paradime is a cloud‑based data platform that lets finance and operations teams connect, clean, and analyze their data without writing code. It provides a visual interface for building data pipelines, automating reporting, and delivering real‑time insights, helping businesses make faster, data‑driven decisions.
Funding: $630.0K
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+ 1 Other investorInitialized Capital
+ 1 Other investorInitialized Capital
Funding: $630.0K
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Parcha provides AI-powered compliance automation that enables businesses to conduct due diligence and verify ownership documentation in over 60 languages within minutes. This technology significantly reduces onboarding time and operational costs while enhancing risk management in compliance processes.
Funding: $3.3M
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Initialized Capital
Initialized Capital
Funding: $3.3M
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