Seed-stage venture capital for the most promising B2B technology startups.
View PortfolioGenacast Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in the most promising B2B technology startups at the seed stage. Founded in 2008 by Gil Beyda — a serial entrepreneur with decades of experience launching companies across adtech, cybersecurity, and enterprise software.
Our DNA as technology founders and operators gives us unique insight into the challenges faced by new companies. We invest not just capital, but decades of hard-won pattern recognition.
We lead at the seed stage, helping founders set round terms and taking an active board role — coaching management to turn product ideas into real companies.
Our experience running and investing in startups gives us additional insight. Mistakes are unavoidable — we want you to make new mistakes, not the old ones.
Deep networks in the industries we invest in — we'll help build connections with potential customers, follow-on investors, and key hires.
We appreciate deep technology and look for companies using hard technology to solve hard problems — technical barriers to entry matter to us.
Edison said genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. We believe startup success is 1% idea and 99% execution. A great team with brilliant execution makes a startup successful.
Most startups exit below $100M, so they need to be capitalized such that all stakeholders win. Our incentives are aligned with yours — we celebrate all exits, not just unicorns.
We gravitate toward startups with innovative technology that provides competitive advantages. We want to hear about your technical barriers to entry and the engineering challenges you've overcome.
A seasoned entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, Gil launched his first company in 1982. As co-founder of Real Media in the mid-1990s, he helped shepherd early internet advertising technology. He then became CTO of TACODA, the first behavioral targeting ad network, before its AOL acquisition in 2007 — at which point he founded Genacast Ventures.
Companies across security, crypto, adtech, devOps, and more — from seed to IPO.
Warm introductions are always welcomed. If you're building something ambitious in B2B technology, let's talk.