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    Genius Ventures

    Woodside, California, United StatesFounded 2023
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    Genius Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded by Ben Taft and Adam Gefkovicz, based in Woodside, California. It invests pre-seed and seed checks in execution-capable founders building differentiated solutions across enterprise software, fintech, AI, healthcare, and other sectors.

    They made 3 investments in the last 12 months. Their most common stage is seed (53% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $30.1M (across 14 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    14

    Fund Size

    $10M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    3

    Team

    AG

    Adam Gefkovicz

    Co-Founder & General Partner

    BT

    Ben Taft

    Cofounder & General Partner

    PF

    Paige Finn Doherty

    Founding Partner

    MG

    Mariano González Vasconcelos

    General Partner

    CE

    Chinwuba E.

    Investor

    GN

    George Northup

    Investor

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    15 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Baba logoBabaSeed$6.5MFeb 2026
    EEqual PartsSeries A$23MFeb 2026
    Ulysses logoUlyssesSeries A$38MJan 2026
    BBabaSeed$6.5MJan 2026
    Ruli AI logoRuli AISeed$6MNov 2025
    Worktrace AI logoWorktrace AISeed$9.3MJan 2025
    Huxe logoHuxeUnknown$4.6MJan 2025
    Orchard Robotics logoOrchard RoboticsSeed$3.8MMar 2024
    Orchard Robotics logoOrchard RoboticsPre-Seed$3.8MMar 2024
    Offsite logoOffsiteSeed$3MJul 2023
    KINO logoKINOPre-Seed$2MJan 2023
    Ulysses logoUlyssesSeed$8M—
    Oratomic logoOratomicSeries A$300M—
    Baba logoBabaSeed$6.5M—
    Outset logoOutsetSeries A——

    Top Co-Investors

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    Soma Capital5 shared
    Ground Up Ventures3 shared
    Lowercarbon Capital3 shared
    Contrary2 shared
    VU Venture Partners2 shared
    Correlation Ventures2 shared
    Superorganism2 shared
    ReGen Ventures2 shared
    European Innovation Council (EIC)2 shared
    8VC2 shared
    Conviction Partners2 shared
    Form Ventures1 shared
    Automattic1 shared
    Silas Capital1 shared
    Right Side Capital Management1 shared
    Human Ventures1 shared
    PJC1 shared
    Magna Investment1 shared
    Album VC1 shared

    Last updated: 27 September 2026