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Initiate Ventures
Venture capital
Initiate Ventures is a venture firm that funds and co-founds AI-native healthcare and biology companies from inception. It works with founders from idea through early company building, and its team has experience building companies from idea to multibillion-dollar success.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsai-nativehealthcarebiotechdrug discoveryclinical trialshealth tech
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Or find every investor that fitsInitiate Ventures lists 6 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest theme is Healthcare & Biotech (100%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside 10x Group, AV8 Ventures and Acrew Capital.
No funding round on record names Initiate Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 8th | 6 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 100th | 100% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 100% | 15% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Initiate Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
6 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornerstone AI provides a platform for preparing and standardizing life sciences data for artificial intelligence analysis | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides blood-based lung cancer screening tests using AI and whole-genome sequencing technology. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Inflammatix develops tests to help physicians make confident and timely clinical decisions by interpreting the immune response | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company creates human cells and organoids using a precision engineering platform for in vitro modeling and cell therapies. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ixlayer connects a vast health ecosystem for a convenient and seamless virtual patient experience | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Tensor Bio applies cell-free DNA methylation profiling and AI to deliver accurate, non-invasive fibrosis staging from a single blood draw. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- initiate.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 6
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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