Investors / Genius Ventures
Genius Ventures
Venture capital
Genius Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund. It focuses on being the first check into founders and acting as an active partner in hiring, selling, fundraising and strategy.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsearly stagefirst checkfounder supporthiringfundraising
Your fit with Genius Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsGenius Ventures lists 17 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 12 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (47%), Industrial & Manufacturing (13%) and Media & Entertainment (9%). 88% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside General Catalyst, Lowercarbon Capital and SV Angel.
Counts come from funding rounds that name 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.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundGenius Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 60% |
| Series A | 40% |
| 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 | 4 | 2 |
| '26 | 8 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 44th | 17 companies |
| Recent activity | 94th | 9 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 76th | 60% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 89th | 18% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 81th | 47% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 47% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 9% | 4% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
| Human Resources | 3% | 1% |
| Legal & Compliance | 3% | 2% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| General Catalyst | 3 |
| Lowercarbon Capital | 3 |
| SV Angel | 3 |
| Abstract | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| Anti Fund | 2 |
| CRV | 2 |
| Equal Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers17100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with General Catalyst
Compare Genius Ventures 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 Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 Jul 2026 | Series A | |
| 11 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 15 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 25 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Series A |
Round details for Genius Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Genius Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
17 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base Power provides home energy solutions, including backup power and energy savings, to homeowners in Texas and Illinois. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Baba helps individuals manage their healthcare by working with doctors, insurance companies, and suppliers to assist with appointments, prescriptions, insurance paperwork, and other healthcare-related tasks. | Healthcare & Biotech | Feb 2026Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Equal Parts provides insurance solutions to various industries, including small businesses and commercial real estate, using a combination of AI and human relationships. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Equal Parts helps companies and brands build strategy, branding, web, and content in cohesion | Media & EntertainmentConsumer | Feb 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| The company develops software for autonomous coding agents for enterprises. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Huxe developed a personalized intelligence app that provided users with hyper-personalized modules and audio explanations | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Jooba is a recruiting firm that uses AI to find and send top talent to clients | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Melius provides an AI-native operating system for creatives to collaborate with AI agents and bring their vision to life | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Oct 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Natural powers agentic payments, providing wallets, payments, cards, processing, billing, and voice services | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Omen provides continuous coolant analysis for liquid-cooled data centers | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Oratomic builds fault-tolerant quantum computers | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Orchard provides AI-powered technology and software for farming operations to measure and manage crops | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Poetic develops an AI system that learns and automates business processes | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Jun 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Ruli AI runs everything in-house legal handles, from contract review to regulatory monitoring. | Legal & ComplianceAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Ulysses builds autonomous vehicles that keep the oceans safe, healthy and prosperous. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Ulysses builds autonomous vehicles that keep the oceans safe, healthy and prosperous. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| The company provides a platform for continual learning and training of AI models | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- geniusventures.com
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 17
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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