Stage
Pre-Seed
Check Size
$100K – $500K
Portfolio
2+ companies
Team
5 partners
Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0Investment Thesis
Dedicated to funding pre-seed AI-driven enterprise startups with innovative human-in-the-loop systems.
How Initiate Ventures invests
Initiate Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on AI / ML, Other, SaaS. It does not invest in Consumer Tech, Fintech.
Initiate Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$500K per investment.
Initiate Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including EvalBase, AutoLoop AI.
Meet the Team
AK
Amanda Kelly
General Partner
AI/ML
Enterprise Tools
Data Labeling
Industry Focus
Invests In
AI / ML
Other
SaaS
Does Not Invest In
Consumer Tech
Fintech
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
EV
EvalBase
Model Performance Evaluation
AU
AutoLoop AI
Human Feedback Systems
How to pitch Initiate Ventures
- •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, Other, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $500K check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Alex Trombetta, Principal.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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