Investing Profile

Garry Tan(3)

VCFounderInvestor

Managing Partner at Initialized Capital

blog.garrytan.comSan Francisco, California

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Stanford University Network

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Y Combinator Network

28 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Initialized Capital Managing Partner

Investment Range

$1M - $4.0M

Sweet Spot

$2.5M

Investments On Record

123

Current Fund Size

$1M

Garry Tan is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Garry Tan's Investments On Record (86)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Stacker	Series AAug 2021$20M Seed RoundJan 2021$1.7M	$22M
Phantom	Series AJul 2021$9M	$120M
Co-investors: Arianna Simpson (Andreessen Horowitz), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures)
Shelf Engine	Series BMar 2021$41M	$53M
Co-investors: Hans Tung (GGV Capital), Kyle Doherty (General Catalyst)
Cohere	Seed RoundMar 2021$3.1M	CA$160M $43M
Co-investors: Jennifer Wolf (Initialized Capital), Mike Volpi (Index Ventures), Pieter Abbeel (Covariant), Fei-Fei Li (AI4ALL), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Vivek Sodera (Vivek Sodera Ventures)
Rescale	Series CFeb 2021$50M Series BJul 2018$32M Seed RoundApr 2012	$160M
Co-investors: Ronald Conway Sr. (SV Angel), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Chris Dixon (Andreessen Horowitz), Sam Altman (Apollo Projects), Shankar Chandran (Walden Catalyst Ventures), Nagraj Kashyap (Softbank Group), Carl Choi (Solasta Ventures), Ashley Flucas (Flucas Ventures), Saurabh Sharma (Jump Crypto), Jonno Elliott (Virgin Group), Ullas Naik (Streamlined Ventures), Raj Sandhu (Great Oaks Venture Capital), Michael Jeon (Solasta Ventures), Karl Jacob, Ratan Singh, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos
Career Karma	Series ADec 2020$10M	$92M
Co-investors: James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures), Brian Dixon (Kapor Capital), Kim-Mai Cutler (Initialized Capital), Ashley Flucas (Flucas Ventures), Nitin Pachisia (Unshackled Ventures), Manan Mehta (Unshackled Ventures), Jewel Burks (Collab Capital), Maria Salamanca (Unshackled Ventures), Erik Torenberg (Village Global), Michael Seibel (Y Combinator), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Caterina Fake (Yes VC), Fern Mandelbaum (Vista Venture Partners), Baron Davis, Anthony Pompliano, David J. Phillips, Justin Rosenstein, Kevin Lee, Iman Abuzeid
Berbix	Series AAug 2020$9M Seed RoundJul 2019$2.5M	$12M
Co-investors: Patrick Salyer (Mayfield), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Tx Zhuo (Fika Ventures), Alexia Bonatsos (Dream Machine)
Bodyport	Series AAug 2020$11M	$11M
Co-investors: Bruce Leak (Playground Global)