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Behind Genius Ventures

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Behind Genius Ventures is an investment firm whose team includes a founding partner, an investment associate and an investment analyst. It publishes writing on topics such as AI roll-ups versus AI-native services and portfolio company financings.

Invests inAI & Machine Learning Healthcare & Biotech

In its own wordsai services manufacturing software

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32portfolio companies

4funding rounds on record

2rounds, last 12 months

$5M to $20Mtypical round it comes in at

Seedmost frequent entry

Behind Genius Ventures lists 32 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (23%), Healthcare & Biotech (17%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (10%). 85% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Picks and Shovels and Cantos.

Counts come from funding rounds that name Behind Genius Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.

Round figures show recent activity, not Behind Genius Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 32. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.

Entry stage

share of companies by the stage of its first round

Behind Genius Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.

75%

25%

Pre-seed

Seed

Series A

Series B

Growth

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Share of companies by the stage of the firm's first round
	Value
Pre-seed	0%
Seed	75%
Series A	25%
Series B	0%
Growth	0%

Activity by year

rounds it joined, last 10 years

'17

'18

'19

'20

'21

'22

'23

'24

'25

'26

Rounds it ledRounds it joinedPartly covered: rounds are complete from mid-2025

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Funding rounds per year
	Total	Rounds it led
'17	0	0
'18	0	0
'19	0	0
'20	0	0
'21	0	0
'22	0	0
'23	0	0
'24	0	0
'25	2	0
'26	2	0

Investor profile

percentile among all firms

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Behind Genius Ventures compared with all firms
Measure	Percentile of all firms	Value
Portfolio size	70th	32 companies
Recent activity	69th	2 rounds in 12 months
Early stage	82th	75% of entries at pre-seed or seed
Evidence	83th	13% of companies confirmed by a round
Sector focus	27th	23% in its largest sector
Reach	58th	3 countries

Investment themes

share of its checked companies

AI & Machine Learning 23%Healthcare & Biotech 17%Industrial & Manufacturing 10%Education 8%Media & Entertainment 8%E-commerce & Marketplaces 8%Consumer 6%Food & Agriculture 4%

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Investment themes
	This firm	All checked companies
AI & Machine Learning	23%	18%
Healthcare & Biotech	17%	15%
Industrial & Manufacturing	10%	7%
Education	8%	7%
Media & Entertainment	8%	4%
E-commerce & Marketplaces	8%	6%
Consumer	6%	3%
Food & Agriculture	4%	3%

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies

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Co-investors
	Share
Y Combinator	4
Picks and Shovels	3
Cantos	2
Collide Capital	2
Founders, Inc.	2
Precursor Ventures	2
Scribble Ventures	2
The Pitch Fund	2

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

Site status

Site answers3197%
No longer answers00%
Points to another company13%
Parked or sold domain00%

A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.

Co-investor network

who it backs companies with, and who they back together

Shared portfolio companies with Behind Genius VenturesFirms that also back companies together

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Compare Behind Genius Ventures head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

vs Y Combinator4 shared companies

vs Picks and Shovels3 shared companies

vs Cantos2 shared companies

vs Collide Capital2 shared companies

vs Founders, Inc.2 shared companies

vs Precursor Ventures2 shared companies

Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with Behind Genius Ventures

Date	Company	Stage
10 Sept 2026	Intermezzointermezzo.ai	Seed
8 Jul 2026	Hostiehostie.ai	Series A
23 Sept 2025	Nectirnectir.io	Seed
23 Sept 2025	superpanel.iosuperpanel.io	Seed

Round details for Behind Genius Ventures

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Behind Genius Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

32 companies checked against their own sites

Company	What it does	Themes	First round with it	Evidence
Aidalyaidaly.com · United States	Aidaly employs family caregivers to provide home care services.	Healthcare & Biotech		Portfolio page
Avironavironactive.com · United States	Aviron Interactive produces and sells interactive fitness equipment such as rowing machines, treadmills, and exercise bikes with gaming features.	Healthcare & BiotechConsumer		Portfolio page
Beacons AIbeacons.ai				Portfolio page
Capsulecapsule.video · United States				Portfolio page
Coldcartcoldcart.co · United States	Coldcart improves delivery integrity, reduces waste and cost, and brings certainty to temperature-sensitive fulfillment using its technology platform.	Food & AgricultureE-commerce & Marketplaces		Portfolio page
Creatiumcreatium.com	Creatium provides an AI coaching platform for people and teams, offering interactive training and assessments	EducationAI & Machine Learning		Portfolio page
Decafdecaf.so	Decaf provides a platform for businesses to receive, hold, convert, pay, and automate money globally through one account.	FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces		Portfolio page
Drivlydriv.ly		Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing		Portfolio page
eSkuadeskuad.com · Canada	The company provides a field data platform for industrial field operations	Industrial & Manufacturing		Portfolio page
Fluxflux.ai · United States	Flux designs and manufactures hardware products, from idea to production, using AI and various design tools.	Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning		Portfolio page
FYPMfypm.vip	FYPM provides a database of influencer brand deals and offers research and consulting services to creators and brands.	Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces		Portfolio page
Biomgetbiom.co				Portfolio page
Lotus Labsgetlotus.com · United States	The company produces a wearable ring that controls objects at home by pointing	ConsumerHealthcare & Biotech		Portfolio page
Hearth Displayhearthdisplay.com · United States	Hearth Display provides a family organizer system with calendars, routines, and meal planning in one place	ConsumerEducation		Portfolio page
Hostiehostie.ai · United States	Hostie provides a virtual concierge service for restaurants using conversational AI, AI phone, and AI texting	Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning	Jul 2026Series A	Page + round
Intermezzointermezzo.ai · United Kingdom	Intermezzo provides a global payroll platform using AI to automate and validate payroll calculations and regulatory tracking in a single API.	FintechHuman Resources	Sept 2026Seed	Page + round
Intramotevintramotev.com · United States	Intramotev develops and retrofits autonomous freight railcars with its TugVolt technology	Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics		Portfolio page
Iveeiveeapp.com	Ivee provides at-home medical care services, including urgent care, diagnostic testing, and IV therapy	Healthcare & Biotech		Portfolio page
Candorjoincandor.com	Candor helps teams hire exceptional early engineers and operators with startup DNA	Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning		Portfolio page
Statuspherejoinstatus.com · United States	Statusphere connects brands with micro-influencers to create and manage sponsored content	Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces		Portfolio page

About this data

site last read 5 Nov 2026

The homepage of Behind Genius Ventures, as last read — behindgeniusventures.com as VCinfo last read it

Site: behindgeniusventures.com
Last read: 5 Nov 2026
Watching since: 6 Nov 2026
Rounds since: 23 Sept 2025
Companies checked: 32

Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.

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