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GENIUS NY
Accelerator · Syracuse, NY, United States · North America
GENIUS NY is a startup accelerator operated by CenterState and funded by Empire State Development that invests $3M annually into seed-stage startups. Each year it selects five finalists for a one-year in-residence program in Syracuse, New York, awarding one $1 million grand prize and four $500,000 investments at Pitch Finals.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsdronesroboticsuncrewed systemsadvanced air mobilityautomationaccelerator
Your fit with GENIUS NY
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Or find every investor that fitsGENIUS NY lists 35 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (82%), Consumer (3%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (3%). 65% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Techstars, Kluz Ventures and AI Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name GENIUS NY, 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 GENIUS NY's whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 35. 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 73th | 35 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 57th | 3% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 94th | 82% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 82% | 18% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 3% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 3% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 2% | 1% |
| Education | 2% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 2% | 15% |
| Gaming | 2% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Techstars | 3 |
| Kluz Ventures | 2 |
| AI Fund | 1 |
| Acorn Pacific Ventures | 1 |
| AlleyCorp | 1 |
| Almi | 1 |
| BDev Ventures | 1 |
| Beyond | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3497%
- 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 togetherCompare GENIUS NY head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with GENIUS NY| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Feb 2026 | Seed |
Round details for GENIUS NY
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in GENIUS NY's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
35 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerialoop provides drone services and solutions, including rentals and delivery systems, for various industries and applications. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aloft provides drone fleet management software and UTM services | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Archangel Autonomy builds and fields AI systems for human-machine teaming. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| The company does drone delivery | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Blueflite offers a drone-based logistics platform for faster and more cost-effective deliveries. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Circle Optics engineers panoramic imaging solutions for advanced applications | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces robotic surveying equipment and construction layout robots for infrastructure projects. | Robotics & HardwareConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Crover develops and provides a robotic system for monitoring stored grains beneath the surface | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Dexory provides a platform that connects every warehouse shift and site in a supply chain to a continuous view of physical reality and intelligent support to make informed decisions. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds and licenses autonomous drone-in-a-box technology | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Dropcopter provides services to growers using multi-rotor drones that dispense material over orchards. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| EagleHawk provides a facilities intelligence platform combining aerial imaging with expert analysis and data management tools to help customers manage their assets. | Real Estate & ConstructionEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Eget Liber treats harmful algal blooms where they form using a patented flow-through reactor | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company uses AI, bioacoustics, and behavioral science to develop products that help deter wildlife from human infrastructure and private land. | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Flyhound turns the signal from a phone into a direction that can be searched from the air, beyond the line of sight | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Fotokite produces drones for emergency response and public safety teams | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Geopipe creates interactive 3D models of the real world using AI and machine learning | AI & Machine LearningGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Vermeer builds tools that allow unmanned platforms to navigate environments without relying on GPS or communication systems | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- geniusny.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 25 Feb 2026
- Companies checked
- 35
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