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How To Build and Run A Geographically Distributed Engineering Team
At Initialized Capital, our share of investments outside the Bay Area has ticked up to about one-quarter of our most recent fund…

Alexis, Fully Initialized. Today, I’m very excited to return to…
Today, I’m very excited to return to Initialized Capital as a full-time General Partner alongside my longtime friend and collaborator Garry Tan.…

Benchmarking Tensorflow Performance on Next Generation GPUs
As machine learning (ML) researchers and practitioners continue to explore the bounds of deep learning, the need for powerful GPUs to both…

Taking Care of Your Health While Running A Startup
The first time Zachariah Reitano founded a startup, he went through the Y Combinator program and found himself rushing back and forth…

How charging for our product originally hurt — but ultimately saved — our startup
Five years ago, my co-founder Claire McDonnell and I founded True Link Financial, and did two things that that were totally unorthodox…

Investing in the future of retail with Standard Cognition
When realtime computer vision meets brick-and-mortars, magic will happen Standard Cognition is building the retail experience of the future, where you just…

Instacart’s Lead Product Designer on Creating A Design System
Jordan Staniscia tried — and claims he failed — multiple times to create a single, re-usable design system for all of Instacart’s…

Why We’re Backing IUNU in Creating The Next Generation of Greenhouse Systems
At Initialized Capital, we will get on a plane if we hear of company that we think can return our entire fund.…

Why Initialized Capital Invested in Open Listings
Buying a home has gotten easier, faster & more attainable with software In 2015, I needed help buying a home in San…