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Initiate Ventures

Geography: United States
Stage: Seed
Fund size: $45M
Focus: SaaS
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About Initiate Ventures

Initiate Ventures is a venture capital firm based in United States, focusing on Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in SaaS, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States

Funding StageSeed

Industry Focus

SaaS

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Clinical biotech founders solving heart failure, COPD, SUD screening/management

biotech

diagnostics

liquid biopsy

cancer early detection

AI healthcare

computational biology

AI-native bio infrastructure

R&D tooling

screening access

fragmentomics

healthcare data

evidence generation

chronic disease management

CMS ACCESS model

value-based care

Bullish Signals

Portfolio co at AACR 2026 mainstageexternal

DELFI: multicenter prospective cancer studyexternal

Johns Hopkins & NCI as collaboratorsexternal

Tracking AI-native bio infra categorylinkedin

Biotech M&A signals strategic buyer interestlinkedin

Early capital flowing to Dx/Tools layerlinkedin

DELFI FIRSTLUNG: 2.73x screening rate liftexternal

3,000 patient trial across 28 clinicsexternal

3,000+ lung cancer deaths avoided modeledexternal

Healio + CHEST physician network validationexternal

Selected 1 of 101 firms from 900+ for RAISE 2026linkedin

Cornerstone AI: 99.9% accuracy lab data cleaninglinkedin

20% more MASH records surfaced vs manuallinkedin

Gilead Sciences partnership validates healthcare data approachlinkedin

ICPE Milan presentation: scalable evidence generationlinkedin

CMS ACCESS: 17 health plans, 165M people committedlinkedin

3 in 4 Medicare eligible for ACCESS by spring 2027linkedin

Heart failure, COPD, SUD expansion spring 2027linkedin

VALUE-BASED CARE TAILWIND: Payment model shifts expandinglinkedin

Contrarian Signals

Heavy science focus — long to exitexternal

Founder Do's

Show clinical evidence & real-world data

Have deep science / biology background

Target large unmet medical need

Partner with leading academic institutions

Demonstrate platform breadth

Build AI-native biology infrastructure

Focus on access/screening rate multipliers

Achieve 99%+ data accuracy benchmarks

Build for CMS ACCESS eligible conditions

Design for value-based care payment models

Founder Don'ts

No pre-clinical stage only companies

Avoid pure software without bio moat

Don't pitch without validation data

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size$45M

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Jessica Owens, Ana Dimkova

Jessica OwensPartner

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