DATA: Post-Pandemic Silicon Valley Isn’t A Place – View from Initialized
Talks about Post-pandemic tech company locations, Remote work trends and Silicon Valley decline
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Kim-mai Cutler
Partner at Initialized Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Kim-Mai Cutler is a Partner at Initialized Capital in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in technology journalism and a strong focus on investing in early-stage companies. She has served as a board member or observer for various startups, including PermitFlow, Pano AI, and Career Karma, and has made successful investments in companies like Landed and Abodu.
Cutler's career highlights include her role as a Technology Reporter at TechCrunch and her current position at Initialized Capital, where she invests in companies in sectors like Web3/Crypto and Enterprise, contributing to the growth and success of emerging startups in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Work Experience
Board Observer
2022 - Current
PermitFlow is a construction permit application and management platform for developers and general contractors.
Raised $36,500,000.00 from Initialized Capital, Felicis, Bradley Horowitz, Altos Ventures, Y Combinator and Kleiner Perkins.
Board Member
2022
Pano uses deep learning AI and computer vision to automatically detect, verify and classify wildfire events in real time.
Raised $45,000,000.00 from January Ventures, 5G Open Innovation Lab, Convective Capital, T-Mobile Ventures, Jade Van Doren, Congruent Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Initialized Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Kevin Mahaffey.
Board Observer
2020
Career Karma helps people find career advice and job training to navigate their careers.
Raised $51,937,500.00 from Katrina Lake, John Henry, Backstage Capital, Anthony Pompliano, 4S Bay Partners, Emerson Collective, Y Combinator, Gaingels, Cap Table Coalition and Baron Davis.
Board Observer
2020
Abodu builds no-compromise backyard homes that expand a property's livable space.
Raised $23,500,000.00 from Kyle Tibbitts, Michael Tubbs, Glenn Kelman, Initialized Capital, Xffirmers, Norwest Venture Partners and Hans Tung.
Board Member
2018
California YIMBY is a community of neighbors who welcome more neighbors.
Board Observer
2018
Curri is a construction materials provider that develops a last-mile delivery app that connects supply stores to customers.
Raised $48,150,000.00 from Applico Capital, Santa Barbara Venture Partners, Brick & Mortar Ventures, Rainfall Ventures, Initialized Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Partner
2016
We're an early-stage venture fund with $3.2 billion under management and more than 20 unicorns including Coinbase, Cruise, Patreon, Flexport, Ro, Truepill and more. We help companies with their very first steps just as they are at or around product-market fit. I'm especially excited about companies that impact the way we live and commute in cities and have led investments in companies like Abodu, which is quickly building and delivering secondary units in West Coast housing markets, Culdesac, which is re-imagining car-free neighborhoods, and Landed, which helps essential professionals like teachers, first responders and nurses achieve homeownership.
Technology Reporter
2012 - 2016
I've been reporting on complex public policy issues that intersect with the technology industry regionally in the San Francisco Bay Area, in addition to other medium to long-form work on Bitcoin, mobile applications and gaming.