Investing Profile

Garry Tan(3)

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Board Partner & Advisor at Initialized Capital
blog.garrytan.comSan Francisco, California
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NewCo Network
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Top-Patents Network
1029 CONNECTIONS
Stanford University Network
701 CONNECTIONS
Center for Rural Health Leadership Network
432 CONNECTIONS
Self-Employed Network
425 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Initialized Capital Investor
Investment Range
$500K - $500K
Sweet Spot
$500K
Investments On Record
290
Current Fund Size
$1M

Garry Tan is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Garry Tan's Investments On Record (221)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Totalis
SeedApr 2026$500K
$500K
Modus
Series AApr 2026$85M
$98M
Co-investors: Dave Garland (Second Century Ventures), Niki Pezeshki (Felicis Ventures), Justin Overdorff (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor)
Deeptrace
SeedMar 2026$5M
Pre SeedDec 2025$500K
$5.5M
Co-investors: Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Aaron Levie
Monaco
Series AFeb 2026$25M
$35M
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Neil Mehta (Greenoaks Capital), John Collison, Patrick Collison
Entire
SeedFeb 2026$60M
$60M
Co-investors: Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Harry Stebbings (Stride.VC), Michelle Gonzalez (Cineverse), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club)
Autonomous Technologies Group
Pre SeedJan 2026$15M
$15M
Outset
Series BDec 2025$30M
Series AJun 2025$17M
SeedOct 2023$4M
Pre SeedJun 2023$450K
$51M
Co-investors: Jack Moshkovich (8VC), April Underwood (Obvious Ventures), Ben Taft (Sequoia Capital), Jack Altman (Benchmark), Liz Wessel (First Round Capital), Jake Jolis (Zeno Partners), James Wu (M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund), Lachy Groom (Stripe), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Harj Taggar (Y Combinator), Chris Howard (Fuel Capital), Nate Matherson, Guillaume Luccisano, Daniel Kan
Oboe
Series ADec 2025$16M
$20M
Co-investors: Bryan Kim (Andreessen Horowitz), Jared Hecht (Union Square Ventures), MG Siegler (GV (Google Ventures)), M.G. Siegler (GV (Google Ventures)), Scott Belsky (A24), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Nikita Bier, Adam D'Angelo

Garry Tan's Experience

President & CEO Y Combinator2023 - Present
Board Partner & Advisor Initialized Capital2023 - Present
Cofounder Posthaven2013 - Present
President, CEO, and Group Partner Y CombinatorPresent
Cofounder PosterousPresent
Software Engineer Intern Top-PatentsPresent
Program Manager Microsoft CorporationPresent
Founder Garry's ListPresent
Software Engineer Intern NewCoPresent
Software Engineer Intern Self-EmployedPresent
Software Engineer Intern Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Software Engineer Intern BHP DevelopmentPresent
Founder & Managing Partner Initialized Capital2012 - 2022
Partner Y Combinator2010 - 2015
Cofounder Posterous.com2008 - 2011
Lead Engineer, Designer Palantir Technologies2005 - 2007
Program Manager Microsoft2003 - 2005
Software Engineer Intern Sun Microsystems2002 - 2003
Software Engineer Intern TheMan.com2000 - 2000
Software Engineer Intern Sapient1998 - 2000

Garry Tan's Education

Stanford University BS Computer Systems Engineering