Genius Ventures

Genius Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund, founded in 2023 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, focused on being the first check into founders and their closest partner from 0 to 1. It earns the right to partner with founders early by playing an extraordinarily active role in hiring, selling, fundraising, and strategizing. It invests at pre-seed and seed across enterprise software, healthcare and legal AI, robotics, climate tech, and consumer platforms, with checks of $250,000 to $5 million historically. Investments include Factory, Base Power Company, Natural, Huxe, Oratomic, Orchard, and Trajectory. Genius backs founders building close to the source rather than following trends, often leading rounds early, and helps them unlock the genius within.