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We set the standard in seed. Early investors in @Coinbase, @Instacart, @Rippling, @Flexport, @Flock_Safety + more — $3B+ AUM, $200B+ in company valuations.
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Joined June 2016
Start with the hardest constraint. In this clip, Dhanush from @clonerobotics explains why Clone spent its first two years focused almost entirely on the hand…
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In 2025, we took Trilobio from stealth to the lab bench. This year was about building real #labautomation, sharing it publicly, and getting our platform into the hands of biologists. Thread 🧵
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Feanix is hiring! Get in touch! founders@feanixbio.com
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We’re excited to welcome Feanix to the Initialized portfolio and proud to have led their seed. Founder & CEO Mitchell Angove is building the intelligence layer for modern farming, combining whole-genome sequencing, production data, and AI-powered prediction models to turn
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Today we're releasing the first annual "State of AI Coding" report. At @greptile we review a billion lines of code a month written by every coding agent imaginable. This means we have a lot of data. In this report, we compiled some of the most interesting trends we observed
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Distributed energy isn’t a hardware story. It’s coordination: crews, permitting, OEMs, interconnection, and decades of maintenance.
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“We’re building the invisible workflow glue behind the second wave of electrification.” — @mxkazakov, cofounder & CTO of @Coperniq_AI
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Thank you Josh for coming in to share the data and trends!
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10 quick takeaways: • Hiring is flat • Seed teams are leaner • Benchmark comp to valuation + capital raised, not stage • Eng + sales lead. ops/HR/marketing stays lean • AI talent = separate market • Pay is still local • New-hire equity has reset lower •
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We invited Josh to walk our founders through the latest trends in hiring, equity, and compensation, using data from Carta’s H1 2025 State of Startup Compensation report.
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In the first half of 2025, startup salaries have risen—especially for legal, product, and AI roles— while equity packages remain static. Hiring has slowed in most sectors except hardware, as compan...
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“Right now it’s a tale of two markets - AI, and everything else.” — Josh Steinfeld, @cartainc
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He shares the engineering choices that let them move faster, their data strategy (MOCAP, teleop, egocentric video), and his excitement about a future untethered biped. Hosted by @brettdg, managing partner at Initialized.
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Robots built like humans. Straight out of sci-fi. On High Bit, @clonerobotics cofounder & CEO @dhanushisrad explains how biology is the blueprint for their musculoskeletal androids — synthetic humans powered by artificial muscles, not motors.
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Most AI tries to make an image look real. Deepnight’s model shows what’s actually there in the dark. As cofounder & CEO Lucas Young explains, a generative model can fill in a license plate that never existed, but reconstruction — what Deepnight optimizes for — can be
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