This is part of a new series featuring our in-house experts offering early-stage founders advice for our new community hub, the Honeybadger Den.
Jennifer Wolf

Leading with empathy during a market downturn
How founders should think about conserving capital, layoffs, and leading with compassion amid the chaos of a market downturn.

Announcing Abdul Ly as our fourth principal
Abdul Ly is the fourth principal to join Initialized and the third member of our investment team to join through our open search recruitment process in just ten months.

Our commitment to storytelling for the next generation of founders
We’re growing our marketing team to support our portfolio with expertise in content, community building, and communications. Initialized is about to turn…

CapWay Is Filling The Gaps Left By Traditional Banking With Its Own Neobank For Everyone
Founder Sheena Allen is building more than just another digital bank.

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…

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.

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…

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…

4 Reasons Why Co-Founders Leave — and How Unresolved Conflict Fuels Them
Our ‘startup whisperer’ Jen Wolf embarks on a blog series to help founders cope with and embrace conflict (Editor’s note: This is…