Initialized Capital

Seed

A seed-stage firm founded by Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian with an engineering-first culture. It favors modern sourcing data and enrichment tooling over legacy enterprise systems.

$3B+ AUM San Francisco, CA Founded 2012

Website

The stack

7 tools

Deal Flow & Sourcing

Harmonic

Editor's pick

4.6

Startup discovery engine for venture investors

Enterprise / CustomView

CRM & Pipeline

Affinity

Editor's pick

4.5

Relationship intelligence CRM for dealmakers

Enterprise / CustomView

Contact & People Data

Clay

Editor's pick

4.5

Data enrichment and automation workbench

FreemiumView

Data Rooms & Deal Docs

DocSend

Editor's pick

4.7

The pitch-deck link that tells you who read slide 14

From $10/user/mo (annual)View

Cap Table & Equity

Carta

Editor's pick

4.5

The system of record for startup equity — and your fund

Custom / TieredView

Portfolio Monitoring & Metrics

Visible

4.5

Founders-first portfolio monitoring and LP reporting for venture funds

From $449/moView

Productivity & Collaboration

Notion

Editor's pick

4.7

The connected workspace VCs run their firms on — docs, wikis, and databases

Free; from $10/seat/moView

Illustrative stack reconstructed from public job postings, vendor case studies and investor interviews.

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