Alexis Ohanian – Startup Investor Profile

General Info

Alexis Ohanian, as a Co-Founder and General Partner at Initialized Capital, is focused on early-stage venture capital investments, particularly in software engineers and designers with their first seed checks. Initialized Capital has a strong track record of backing successful startups, including Coinbase, Ro, Cruise Automation, Instacart, Flexport, Opendoor, Algolia, Goat Group, Rippling, Truepill, and CoinTracker. The fund has raised over $3.2 billion in assets across multiple rounds. Alexis Ohanian’s professional career includes co-founding Reddit and subsequently founding Initialized Capital in 2010 with Garry Tan. Despite not having a computer science background, he played a key role in the early development of Reddit. Initialized Capital’s investment check size averages around $4.5 million, and the firm has a collaborative partnership style aiming to support founders in their entrepreneurial journey.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: United States of America
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Investment Regions: EU, NA
Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed

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Status: very-active

AI Reasoning: Tracxn and PitchBook show Alexis Ohanian’s most recent investment was in gammatime.ai on Oct 23, 2025, which is less than 6 months before the reference date. Example startup invested: gammatime.ai. Time since last investment is under 6 months, so tag assigned accordingly.

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Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.
Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.

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