Initialized Capital ✓

@Initialized · San Francisco + NYC · joined 03 Jun 2016

We set the standard in seed. Early investors in @Coinbase, @Instacart, @Rippling, @Flexport, @Flock_Safety + more — $3B+ AUM, $200B+ in company valuations.

66 826Followers

1 163Following

5 576Posts total

11.1KViews on collected posts

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Initialized Capital ✓@Initialized20 Sep

@Initialized @EliSchleifer @trunkio At 700 people, constant rebase collisions make landing a single commit practically impossible 3 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Initialized Capital ✓@Initialized18 Sep

.@EliSchleifer saw two very different versions of engineering at scale. At Google, internal tooling helped teams land code quickly. At Uber ATG, 700 engineers could spend days just getting a pull request merged. That gap helped lead him to start @trunkio. More on CI, merge http

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Initialized Capital ✓@Initialized17 Sep

Congrats to @medivis_ai on being named to @FastCompany’s Innovation by Design Awards! Medivis was recognized in the Small and Mighty category for Cranial Navigation, its AR platform for 3D visualization during cranial procedures. More about Medivis: 1.4K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Initialized Capital ✓@Initialized15 Sep

Set up a tripod with a camera and run away. It finds the sun and calibrates itself. On High Bit, @Picogrid's @zanemountcastle explains how the team is building systems that can calibrate and connect quickly in GPS-denied environments. Full episode with @brettdg : https://t.c

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Initialized Capital ✓@Initialized14 Sep

@Initialized @robocurve Excited to have you on our journey to benchmark the physical world! 72 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Initialized Capital ✓@Initialized14 Sep

And they're hiring! https://t.co/7lDBF9WwuK 224 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Initialized Capital ✓@Initialized14 Sep

If you're building robots or frontier AI, get in touch with @robocurve: https://t.co/FUAR1cOHLt 132 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Initialized Capital ✓@Initialized14 Sep

Academics can also apply for funding and free robot arms to help build open benchmarks: https://t.co/SB786zEUEf 227 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Initialized Capital ✓@Initialized14 Sep

Congrats to @chooi_jeq and the @robocurve team! We’re so excited to work with you! https://t.co/GNbXjUUZnS 814 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Initialized Capital ✓@Initialized14 Sep

We're thrilled to lead the $10M seed round for @robocurve, a Public Benefit Corporation independently evaluating and benchmarking how frontier AI models perform in the physical world. Frontier models are becoming increasingly capable of controlling robots, and understanding what

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Initialized Capital ✓@Initialized10 Sep

Great conversation between Maggie Baird and SXD founder @ShellyXuDesign on zero waste design and rethinking how fashion gets made, including concert merch. Fabric is usually a garment's biggest cost, up to 70% of the total, so less waste also means real savings for brands. And

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Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views814this account948median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.22%this account3.71%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.98%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	814	948	0.86×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.22%	3.71%	0.33×
Engagement rate	0.98%	1.52%	0.65×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.3K10 Sep

3.3K14 Sep

814

227

132

224

1.6K15 Sep

1.4K17 Sep

1.9K18 Sep

320 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.15%10 Sep

1.46%14 Sep

0.98%

1.32%

2.27%

1.34%

1.39%

0.25%15 Sep

0.14%17 Sep

0.47%18 Sep

0.00%20 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes55.3%52 in total

Reposts8.5%8 in total

Replies24.5%23 in total

Quotes1.1%1 in total

Bookmarks10.6%10 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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