Garry Tan Email Address

Founder and Managing Partner

We fund tech companies before product market fit. Early investors in @Coinbase, @Instacart, @Cruise, @Flexport, @Rippling + more — $200B+ in market value.

I'm a designer, engineer, and investor in early stage startups. Cofounder and managing partner of Initialized Capital, an early stage seed fund with over $160M in assets under management. Previously a partner at Y Combinator. Invested in and directly worked with over 700 companies in 5 years from the earliest possible stage, often just an idea. Seed investor in successful startups including Zenefits, Instacart, Coinbase, Teespring, Genius, Envoy, Color Genomics, Patreon, LendUp, Flexport, Clever, Airware, Eero, Comprehend, Tilt, Lever, Sift Science, Lob, OpenDoor, Blend Labs, Meteor, Digit, Boosted Boards, Panorama Education, Eero, Lead Genius, Bloom That, Cruise Automation, Ridecell, Heap, Gobble, AeroFS, OrderAhead, HelloSign, and many more. Before that, I cofounded Posterous and helped build it to a world-class website used by millions. (Acquired by Twitter) I also cofounded the engineering team for Palantir Technology's quant finance analysis platform. I love building things. Specialties: user-centered design, project management, software engineering, interaction design, visual design, entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, branding, design, technical architecture, scaling