Operating platform
Capital is the easy part. The rest is the work.
A small in-house team that founders can use like an extension of their own — on demand, never mandatory, and never billed back to the company.
- Platform team
- 16
- Founder intros made in 2024
- 1,400+
- Hires placed
- 260+
- Cost to founders
- $0
What the platform team does
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Talent
Executive search for your first ten hires, plus a standing bench of engineers and operators who have shipped at scale.
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Go-to-market
Warm paths into 900+ enterprise buyers, pricing teardowns, and design partner introductions before you have a sales team.
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Technical advisory
Architecture reviews, security readiness, and model evaluation from practitioners currently doing the job.
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Capital strategy
Round construction, investor targeting, and honest guidance on when not to raise. We help you build the next round from day one.
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Brand & narrative
Positioning, identity, and launch support so your story is as well engineered as your product.
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Founder support
Peer groups, coaching, and a confidential line for the decisions that do not belong in a board deck.
Accelerator programme
Initium Start — twelve weeks, no cohort theatre.
A small programme for pre-product teams. Six companies at a time, twice a year. $250K on standard terms for 7%, and no demo day you have to perform at.
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Weeks 1–3
Sharpen the problem
Customer discovery with a partner in the room. We help you kill the wrong version of the idea quickly and cheaply.
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Weeks 4–8
Build with users
Weekly build reviews, design partners from our network, and engineering support when you are still a team of two.
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Weeks 9–12
Prove and raise
Metrics that actually persuade, a narrative you own, and warm introductions to the seed funds most likely to say yes.