The pandemic has highlighted the problem of income inequality and how much our current financial system capitalizes on those with less means.
CapWay Is Filling The Gaps Left By Traditional Banking With Its Own Neobank For Everyone
Metawork Is Taking The Guesswork Out Of Programming
Often the hardest part of programming, even when you are just programming along on your own computer, is understanding what your program…
Welcoming Our First Principals – Kat Steinmetz, Scott Moss, and Andrew Sather
With collective expertise in the areas of talent & culture, brand & design, engineering, crypto, and entrepreneurship, we’re growing our team to…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Cryptocurrency and the Future of Decentralization
In May, I sat down with the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong.
How To Negotiate A Term Sheet Against A VC
Startup founders have to be great at many things — building, recruiting, managing people, raising capital — negotiating isn’t always at the…
Investing In KINLÒ, A Skincare Line For Melanated Skin By Naomi Osaka
While the increased efforts for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the last year are a good thing, they are frankly also long…
6 Ways to Use Co-founder Conflict To Your Startup’s Advantage
You know how to build a product — but it’s different from building a company.
Formic: Building robots that solve problems and creating outcomes as a service for US manufacturers
Formic is where fintech meets robotics.
What is a Virtual Data Room and Why You Should Have One During Fundraising
Written by Alejandra Calvo and Daniel Tovbin, Associates at Initialized Capital You’re raising a new round and starting conversations with investors.
Meet Clockwork, The Company Making Robots that Can Paint Your Nails in 10 Minutes for less than $10
Using new computer vision technology, this startup is bringing the world its first quick serve beauty service Straight from the future, meet…
Helm: Protecting privacy and preventing corporations from having access to everything you do, say, and think
Online privacy and security is becoming an important part of our decentralized future, and with Helm’s $200 computer software, everyone can have…
The Future of Care: How Papa Cures Loneliness Through Connection And On-Demand Assistance
Papa is making a positive impact on the world and achieving product-market fit at the same time.
We Welcome Parul Singh as our newest Partner and Livingston Miller as our first General Counsel
We’re growing our team to support our founders with more expertise in healthtech, SaaS and analytics, and to foster more relationships across…
The Metrics You Need To Raise a Series A
With thanks to Alejandra Calvo and Daniel Tovbin While there is a wealth of information around both publicly-traded companies and what you…
How Real Movements Start, Then Change the World
Billion-dollar startups are ideas that are turned into movements with passion and hard work.