Garry Tan
Initialized Capital
About
Role
Managing Director
Type
Seed fund
Bio
Garry is a designer, engineer, and founder turned early stage investor, co-founding Initialized Capital in 2013. The firm has invested at the earliest stages of companies like Coinbase, Flexport, Instacart, Rippling, and Cruise. Prior to Initialized, Garry spent nearly 5 years as a partner at Y Combinator, advising and funding more than 1,000 companies and founders. He was co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous (acquired by Twitter in 2012) and previously worked at Palantir as a founding member of the engineering team. He also designed Palantir’s logo. Garry holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University.
About Investments
Garry invests across most industries. Garry often invests in:
Investments
Stages
Seed
Check Range
$1M-$5M
Geography
US/Canada
Leads Rounds
Yes
Investment Highlights
Coinbase, Cruise, Flexport, Instacart, Opendoor, Rippling, Standard Cognition, Truepill
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