Harj Taggar

Co-Founder at Initialized Capital

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Biography

Harj Taggar co-founded Initialized Capital and is now a Managing Partner at Y Combinator. He was previously founder and CEO of Triplebyte and of Auctomatic, which was acquired by Live Current Media in 2008, and he graduated from Oxford in 2006 where he studied Jurisprudence. He first joined Y Combinator as a partner in 2010, left in 2014 to start Triplebyte, and rejoined in 2020. His own site lists Coinbase, Instacart, Rippling, GOAT, Flexport and Opendoor among the companies he invested in through Initialized.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

Coinbase COINInstacart CARTOpendoor OPENRipplingGOATFlexport

Career Timeline

2006
Graduated from Oxford, where he studied Jurisprudence.
2008
Auctomatic, the company he founded and led, was acquired by Live Current Media.
2010
First joined Y Combinator as a partner.
2014
Left Y Combinator to start Triplebyte.
2020
Rejoined Y Combinator, where he is now a Managing Partner.

Sources & References

Harj Taggar - personal site ↗Y Combinator - Harj Taggar ↗TechCrunch - Initialized Capital restructures and lets multiple partners go ↗Initialized Capital - Team ↗