Initialized Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm co-founded by Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, and Harj Taggar, with a portfolio spanning crypto, fintech, and other sectors. Initialized Capital's Twitter Score is 175 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #2,886 (top 1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Initialized Capital describes itself as setting the standard in seed-stage venture capital. The firm was formerly affiliated with Y Combinator. Per its own disclosures, Initialized Capital manages more than $3 billion in assets under management, and according to Wikipedia, the firm had raised more than $3.2 billion in assets as of 2021, completing a $700 million sixth funding round in December 2021. Brett Gibson serves as Managing Partner. Alexis Ohanian, per Axios reporting from June 2020, departed from the firm he co-founded.
Initialized Capital has been an early backer of notable companies including Coinbase, Instacart, Rippling, Flexport, and Flock Safety, with the firm citing more than $200 billion in combined company valuations across its portfolio. Initialized Capital's fund portfolio includes Avalanche, Coinbase, Lolli, Hummingbot, DDEX, Bison Trails, manifold.xyz and General Assembly. Initialized Capital has published 5,544 posts on the platform. Initialized Capital has been mentioned by 247 accounts, totaling 1,058 mentions.
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The accounts that follow Initialized Capital include 893 founders, 296 angel investors, 162 influencers and 72 VCs. Among them are Solana, Stani, Anthony Pompliano, David Sacks, Garry Tan and Luca Netz.