With collective expertise in the areas of talent & culture, brand & design, engineering, crypto, and entrepreneurship, we’re growing our team to…
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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…
Meet Jen Wolf, Initialized’s Newly Appointed President
Initialized partner and COO Jen Wolf has been promoted to President, making her one of few women to hold such a position…
Working at Initialized
What it’s like to work at Initialized For the first time in its history, Initialized is doing an open search for new…
Fundraising Fallacies
I conducted an informal survey with about 40 investors and asked for the advice they would give others.
Solving the $160 billion food waste problem
How Shelf Engine got 4 of the top 10 grocers and reached product market fit through a perfect go-to-market pivot Stefan Kalb…
5 Steps to Winning Career Tournaments
There are tournaments everywhere–jobs, admissions, promotions, startup funding.
Better, Faster, Cheaper
Being First Doesn’t Matter— But You Do Need To Be Better, Faster, Or Cheaper.
The future of practical robotaxis is here
Autonomous car with no safety driver for $50M, not $10B You’ve heard of Waymo and Cruise (Initialized was actually an early seed…
Should you be the CEO?
Just because co-CEO worked for Google doesn’t mean it will for your startup Picture this… it’s 2010, and me and my co-founder…