Early-stage venture capital · New York · London · Singapore
Fund IV — now investing
We invest at the beginning.
Initium Fund partners with founders at the earliest, least obvious moment — when a company is still an argument about the future. We write the first institutional check and stay for the whole arc.
- Founded
- 2016
- Assets under management
- $840M
- Companies backed
- 112
- First check
- $500K – $6M
Backed at the first round
- Northvector
- Halyard
- Meridian Labs
- Arcadia Health
- Ledgerly
- Quarrystone
- Tessellate
The firm
Everything a founder might want to know before writing to us.
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About & thesis
Why we exist, how we are structured, and what we believe about the earliest stage.
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Industries
The seven sectors where we have operators, data, and an earned opinion.
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Portfolio
Companies we backed early, and what their founders say about working with us.
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Operating platform
Talent, go-to-market, technical advisory — and Initium Start, our twelve-week programme.
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Investment process
First email to wired funds in fourteen days, plus answers to the questions founders ask.
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Team & careers
The partnership, the platform team, and the roles we are hiring for now.
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Research & insights
Essays, field notes, and annual letters written by the partnership.
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Contact
No warm introduction required. Every message is read by a partner.
Start a conversation
The best companies look like bad ideas held by unreasonable people — right up until the moment they look inevitable.
Elena Marsh, Founding Partner
Founder stories
In their words.
Unedited, unapproved, and collected from founders across
all three funds.
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They committed on a Thursday after seeing a prototype that barely ran. Four years later they are still the first call before every hard decision.
Priya Raman Co-founder & CEO, Northvector -
Initium gave us a clear no in the first meeting and told us exactly why. We came back nine months later with the answer and they led the round.
Tom Beauchamp Founder, Halyard -
No theatre, no forced introductions, no dashboards to fill in. Just partners who read the memo properly and pushed on the thing that mattered.
Ana Sørensen CEO, Meridian Labs
