Is it possible to originate a contract with an initial balance?

Question

Instead of doing two operations:
1 - originate a contract
2 - transfer tez to the contract,

is it possible to do both in a single operation?

Answer 1

Yes, the origination operation allows you to provide the contract balance.

In smartpy origination page:

Answer 2

For sure! For instance, when originating with tezos-client, in this example I send 99 tez from the bootstrap1 account when originating the contract my_contract:

$ tezos-client originate contract my_contract transferring 99 \ 
               from bootstrap1 running my_contract.tz \
               --init Unit --burn-cap 10.0