Behind Genius Ventures
San Diego, California, United StatesFounded 2021
Behind Genius Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Paige Finn Doherty. It invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies at the intersection of the future of work and play, with a focus on AI-native and product-led growth companies across B2B and B2C software.
Their most common stage is seed (47% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $4.7M (across 17 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
17
Fund Size
$8.9M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
0
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
19 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Superpanel | Seed | $5.3M | Sep 2025 |
 Licensed to Glow | Pre-Seed | $1.7M | Jan 2025 |
 Bland | Series A | $16M | Aug 2024 |
 Hearth Display | Bridge | $4.6M | Sep 2023 |
 Hearth | Series A | $4.6M | Sep 2023 |
 Blockfenders | Pre-Seed | $1.5M | Feb 2023 |
 Capsule | Seed | $4.8M | Jan 2023 |
 Capsule | Seed | $4.8M | Jan 2023 |
| Hearth | Seed | $1.9M | Jan 2023 |
| Blockfenders | Pre-Seed | $1.5M | Jan 2023 |
 Bloom Community | Seed | $2.5M | Sep 2022 |
| PProf Jim | Seed | — | Jan 2022 |
 Intros AI | Pre-Seed | — | — |
 Hostie | Series A | $12M | — |
 Eskuad | Pre-Seed | $1.6M | — |
 Coldcart | Seed | $6.5M | — |
 The Bland Company | Pre-Seed | $2.7M | — |
 Nectir | Seed | $6.3M | — |
 Plura (formerly Bloom Community) | Seed | $2.5M | — |
Top Co-Investors
Female Founders Fund3 shared
Sweater Ventures3 shared
Founders Fund3 shared
Ingeborg Investments3 shared
Human Ventures3 shared
8VC3 shared
Precursor Ventures3 shared
Y Combinator3 shared
Alumni Ventures3 shared
Swift Ventures2 shared
Tiferes Ventures2 shared
Bloomberg Beta2 shared
Outlander VC2 shared
Tuesday Capital2 shared
Transpose Platform2 shared
Vento2 shared
Initialized Capital2 shared
private angel investors2 shared
Plug and Play Tech Center2 shared
Upsparks2 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026