Genacast Ventures

About The Fund

Genacast Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology investments, focusing particularly on startups operating in the Northeast United States. With a headquarters in New York, New York, since its inception in 2008, Genacast Ventures has honed its expertise in the digital media, online advertising, SaaS, e-commerce, security, and mobile sectors. They channel their passion for technology into founding and operating ventures that drive industry innovation and progress. As a leading entity in their space, they contribute not just with capital, but with hands-on involvement, leveraging their own experiences as technology founders and operators to shear through startup challenges. Their investment approach is characterized by leading seed-stage funding rounds, where they can actively set terms and play a substantial role on the boards of their portfolio companies. They provide extensive coaching to management teams, aiming to transform validated product concepts into viable, operational businesses. Genacast Ventures leverages deep industry networks to foster connections that benefit their portfolio companies, availing them of potential customers, investors, and additional resources necessary for scaling operations and team-building. They also have a vested interest in technology at its core, seeking out companies that employ profound technical innovation to address substantial challenges. Their investment criteria place a heavy emphasis on strong, capable teams that can execute with brilliance and efficiency, stressing that a mere idea is insufficient for success without excellent execution. They are keen on capital efficiency and deep technology, preferring startups that are structured to achieve success even with sub-hundred million dollar exits and possess strong technical barriers to entry. Their portfolio reflects a variety of sectors such as Security, Blockchain, B2B, DevOps, Marketing, Transportation, Advertising, and Mobile, including companies like BigID, Blockdaemon, and ZeroFox. Genacast Ventures aims to back startups using machine learning to optimize enterprise operations, adaptive cybersecurity solutions to counter sophisticated threats, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tailored for niche markets, and technologies supporting the 'edge' computing and industrial IoT infrastructure. They are also interested in B2B marketplaces that revolutionize traditional business sectors through efficient transactions and dynamic pricing, as well as software that enhances the capabilities of neural networks and quantum computing.