Genacast Ventures

Genacast Ventures, LLC is a venture capital firm that focuses on providing growth capital to B2B technology startups primarily located in the northeastern United States. Established in 2008, the firm specializes in seed and startup investments across various sectors, including SaaS, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, big data, e-commerce, and mobile technologies. With a typical investment size of up to $1 million, Genacast Ventures targets companies with sales exceeding $100 million, aiming to support their expansion and innovation. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and maintains an additional office in New York, New York.

Gil Beyda

Founder & Managing Partner

37 past transactions

DrayNow

Series A in 2020
DrayNow, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, operates as a technology company specializing in the intermodal freight sector. It offers a real-time online marketplace that connects intermediaries with carriers, facilitating the efficient management of intermodal freight transportation. By leveraging advanced technology, DrayNow enables users to maintain constant visibility of shipments, compare rates, view load details, and select available loads in real-time. This innovative platform optimizes the first and last mile of intermodal logistics, enhancing operational efficiency and helping companies achieve higher levels of capacity, service, and profitability.

Confetti

Seed Round in 2019
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BigID

Series C in 2019
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

DrayNow

Series A in 2019
DrayNow, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, operates as a technology company specializing in the intermodal freight sector. It offers a real-time online marketplace that connects intermediaries with carriers, facilitating the efficient management of intermodal freight transportation. By leveraging advanced technology, DrayNow enables users to maintain constant visibility of shipments, compare rates, view load details, and select available loads in real-time. This innovative platform optimizes the first and last mile of intermodal logistics, enhancing operational efficiency and helping companies achieve higher levels of capacity, service, and profitability.

DrayNow

Series A in 2018
DrayNow, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, operates as a technology company specializing in the intermodal freight sector. It offers a real-time online marketplace that connects intermediaries with carriers, facilitating the efficient management of intermodal freight transportation. By leveraging advanced technology, DrayNow enables users to maintain constant visibility of shipments, compare rates, view load details, and select available loads in real-time. This innovative platform optimizes the first and last mile of intermodal logistics, enhancing operational efficiency and helping companies achieve higher levels of capacity, service, and profitability.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2018
Blockdaemon Inc. is a blockchain node management platform that enables businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. The company provides tools for exchanges, custodians, financial institutions, and developers to operate nodes across more than 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Blockdaemon's solution is designed for easy portability, allowing users to switch between networks seamlessly without the need for complex configurations. Founded in 2013 and originally known as Trak Inc., Blockdaemon has its headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, with additional offices in Los Angeles, California, and Ireland. The company supports the blockchain developer ecosystem by offering expert advice in development operations.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2018
Blockdaemon Inc. is a blockchain node management platform that enables businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. The company provides tools for exchanges, custodians, financial institutions, and developers to operate nodes across more than 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Blockdaemon's solution is designed for easy portability, allowing users to switch between networks seamlessly without the need for complex configurations. Founded in 2013 and originally known as Trak Inc., Blockdaemon has its headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, with additional offices in Los Angeles, California, and Ireland. The company supports the blockchain developer ecosystem by offering expert advice in development operations.

STAQ

Venture Round in 2018
Staq is a reporting and integrations system for ad technology. The company unifies the ad tech stack through connections, for both end customers that are using a best of breed approach as well as the ad tech providers themselves. Through these connections, it helps ad platforms build more into their valuable products so their clients can use them more effectively. Staq is founded by industry veterans from Advertising.com, The Rubicon Project, Lotame, and Collective.

DrayNow

Seed Round in 2017
DrayNow, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, operates as a technology company specializing in the intermodal freight sector. It offers a real-time online marketplace that connects intermediaries with carriers, facilitating the efficient management of intermodal freight transportation. By leveraging advanced technology, DrayNow enables users to maintain constant visibility of shipments, compare rates, view load details, and select available loads in real-time. This innovative platform optimizes the first and last mile of intermodal logistics, enhancing operational efficiency and helping companies achieve higher levels of capacity, service, and profitability.

DrayNow

Seed Round in 2017
DrayNow, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, operates as a technology company specializing in the intermodal freight sector. It offers a real-time online marketplace that connects intermediaries with carriers, facilitating the efficient management of intermodal freight transportation. By leveraging advanced technology, DrayNow enables users to maintain constant visibility of shipments, compare rates, view load details, and select available loads in real-time. This innovative platform optimizes the first and last mile of intermodal logistics, enhancing operational efficiency and helping companies achieve higher levels of capacity, service, and profitability.

Jornaya

Series B in 2016
Jornaya is a consumer journey insight platform that offers marketers, data analysts, and compliance professionals a comprehensive view of the consumer buying journey. It uniquely captures both first- and third-party consumer interactions in real time across multiple devices. By understanding consumer intent at critical moments, Jornaya helps businesses streamline their decision-making processes. The platform can easily integrate with various buyer journey decisioning tools, allowing organizations to effectively respond to consumer behavior and enhance their marketing strategies.

Rocketrip

Series B in 2016
Rocketrip rewards employees for making flexible, cost-saving decisions when they travel for business while providing real-time insights into travel expenses — all with no disruption to your online booking process. A custom-calibrated Price to Beat and fully managed rewards store incentivize employees to choose lower-cost travel options. Rocketrip is trusted by enterprise brands like iHeartMedia, Feld Entertainment, and Twitter. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Uptycs

Seed Round in 2016
Uptycs, Inc. develops a security analytics platform designed to monitor and diagnose infrastructure issues for various customers, including those in software as a service, enterprise, and data center sectors. The Uptycs platform integrates osquery, an open-source universal agent, with advanced security analytics to provide comprehensive solutions for fleet visibility, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, and compliance. It offers key functionalities such as endpoint detection and response, file integrity management, incident investigation, and user-driven security, targeting IT administrators, compliance officers, and incident response teams. Founded in 2016 and based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Uptycs supports a wide range of environments, including Linux, macOS, Windows, containers, and cloud workloads.

STAQ

Venture Round in 2016
Staq is a reporting and integrations system for ad technology. The company unifies the ad tech stack through connections, for both end customers that are using a best of breed approach as well as the ad tech providers themselves. Through these connections, it helps ad platforms build more into their valuable products so their clients can use them more effectively. Staq is founded by industry veterans from Advertising.com, The Rubicon Project, Lotame, and Collective.

BigID

Seed Round in 2016
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

ZeroFox

Series B in 2015
ZeroFox is a cybersecurity company based in Baltimore, Maryland, that specializes in protecting organizations from threats arising from social networking and digital communication platforms. The company offers a range of solutions, including real-time social threat analytics, intelligence, and advanced security protection through its cloud-based platform. Its products, such as the ZeroFOX intelligence Livefeed and Protection Cloud, help organizations proactively defend against malware, targeted attacks, and various forms of social engineering, including impersonation and fraud. Additionally, ZeroFox provides services aimed at safeguarding high-value employees and political candidates from targeted threats. The company serves diverse industries, including financial services, healthcare, and technology, by continuously monitoring social media for cyber attacks and information loss. Founded in 2013, ZeroFox has received multiple industry accolades for its innovative approach to cybersecurity.

Revmetrix

Seed Round in 2015
Revmetrix offers a data platform reinvented for the age of cross-device. Using patent-pending, machine learning processing, we develop a cross-device customer view that is based on first-party data and tailored to each partner’s needs. At Revmetrix, our mission is to help companies maximize the value of their own data in order to better understand customers using advanced data analysis.

Yieldmo

Series C in 2014
Yieldmo is one of the fastest-growing digital advertising and attention analytics companies. Our premium marketplace allows advertisers to create, measure, model, and optimize campaigns for unmatched scale and performance. We ultimately deliver better results by harnessing the power of attention data to drive superior audience engagement and retargeting.

STAQ

Series A in 2014
Staq is a reporting and integrations system for ad technology. The company unifies the ad tech stack through connections, for both end customers that are using a best of breed approach as well as the ad tech providers themselves. Through these connections, it helps ad platforms build more into their valuable products so their clients can use them more effectively. Staq is founded by industry veterans from Advertising.com, The Rubicon Project, Lotame, and Collective.

Rocketrip

Series A in 2014
Rocketrip rewards employees for making flexible, cost-saving decisions when they travel for business while providing real-time insights into travel expenses — all with no disruption to your online booking process. A custom-calibrated Price to Beat and fully managed rewards store incentivize employees to choose lower-cost travel options. Rocketrip is trusted by enterprise brands like iHeartMedia, Feld Entertainment, and Twitter. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Jornaya

Series A in 2014
Jornaya is a consumer journey insight platform that offers marketers, data analysts, and compliance professionals a comprehensive view of the consumer buying journey. It uniquely captures both first- and third-party consumer interactions in real time across multiple devices. By understanding consumer intent at critical moments, Jornaya helps businesses streamline their decision-making processes. The platform can easily integrate with various buyer journey decisioning tools, allowing organizations to effectively respond to consumer behavior and enhance their marketing strategies.

ZeroFox

Series A in 2014
ZeroFox is a cybersecurity company based in Baltimore, Maryland, that specializes in protecting organizations from threats arising from social networking and digital communication platforms. The company offers a range of solutions, including real-time social threat analytics, intelligence, and advanced security protection through its cloud-based platform. Its products, such as the ZeroFOX intelligence Livefeed and Protection Cloud, help organizations proactively defend against malware, targeted attacks, and various forms of social engineering, including impersonation and fraud. Additionally, ZeroFox provides services aimed at safeguarding high-value employees and political candidates from targeted threats. The company serves diverse industries, including financial services, healthcare, and technology, by continuously monitoring social media for cyber attacks and information loss. Founded in 2013, ZeroFox has received multiple industry accolades for its innovative approach to cybersecurity.

Rocketrip

Series A in 2014
Rocketrip rewards employees for making flexible, cost-saving decisions when they travel for business while providing real-time insights into travel expenses — all with no disruption to your online booking process. A custom-calibrated Price to Beat and fully managed rewards store incentivize employees to choose lower-cost travel options. Rocketrip is trusted by enterprise brands like iHeartMedia, Feld Entertainment, and Twitter. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Yieldmo

Series B in 2013
Yieldmo is one of the fastest-growing digital advertising and attention analytics companies. Our premium marketplace allows advertisers to create, measure, model, and optimize campaigns for unmatched scale and performance. We ultimately deliver better results by harnessing the power of attention data to drive superior audience engagement and retargeting.

Jornaya

Seed Round in 2013
Jornaya is a consumer journey insight platform that offers marketers, data analysts, and compliance professionals a comprehensive view of the consumer buying journey. It uniquely captures both first- and third-party consumer interactions in real time across multiple devices. By understanding consumer intent at critical moments, Jornaya helps businesses streamline their decision-making processes. The platform can easily integrate with various buyer journey decisioning tools, allowing organizations to effectively respond to consumer behavior and enhance their marketing strategies.

ZeroFox

Seed Round in 2013
ZeroFox is a cybersecurity company based in Baltimore, Maryland, that specializes in protecting organizations from threats arising from social networking and digital communication platforms. The company offers a range of solutions, including real-time social threat analytics, intelligence, and advanced security protection through its cloud-based platform. Its products, such as the ZeroFOX intelligence Livefeed and Protection Cloud, help organizations proactively defend against malware, targeted attacks, and various forms of social engineering, including impersonation and fraud. Additionally, ZeroFox provides services aimed at safeguarding high-value employees and political candidates from targeted threats. The company serves diverse industries, including financial services, healthcare, and technology, by continuously monitoring social media for cyber attacks and information loss. Founded in 2013, ZeroFox has received multiple industry accolades for its innovative approach to cybersecurity.

Rocketrip

Seed Round in 2013
Rocketrip rewards employees for making flexible, cost-saving decisions when they travel for business while providing real-time insights into travel expenses — all with no disruption to your online booking process. A custom-calibrated Price to Beat and fully managed rewards store incentivize employees to choose lower-cost travel options. Rocketrip is trusted by enterprise brands like iHeartMedia, Feld Entertainment, and Twitter. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Yieldmo

Series A in 2012
Yieldmo is one of the fastest-growing digital advertising and attention analytics companies. Our premium marketplace allows advertisers to create, measure, model, and optimize campaigns for unmatched scale and performance. We ultimately deliver better results by harnessing the power of attention data to drive superior audience engagement and retargeting.

Mortar Data

Seed Round in 2012
Mortar Data Inc. provides a cloud-based service based on the Python programming language and Apache Pig for analyzing huge data sets, which makes Hadoop accessible to audience. It offers recommender systems that allow developers and data scientists to make personal recommendations ranging from digital content to art to friends to clothing for casual and power users. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, New York. As of February 11, 2015, Mortar Data Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Datadog, Inc.

Jornaya

Venture Round in 2012
Jornaya is a consumer journey insight platform that offers marketers, data analysts, and compliance professionals a comprehensive view of the consumer buying journey. It uniquely captures both first- and third-party consumer interactions in real time across multiple devices. By understanding consumer intent at critical moments, Jornaya helps businesses streamline their decision-making processes. The platform can easily integrate with various buyer journey decisioning tools, allowing organizations to effectively respond to consumer behavior and enhance their marketing strategies.

Divide

Seed Round in 2010
Divide (formerly known as Enterproid) helps organizations and individuals get the most out of mobile technology and corporate BYOD policies. Divide creates a secure work environment on theirr personal phone that features an array of business-class apps, including your work email, calendar, and contacts. Work data stays secure, while their personal data stays safe from the prying eyes of their company's IT department, or worse, their boss. Divide also gives access to their own web-based device management dashboard - MyDivide - where they can remotely monitor, locate, lock and wipe their device(s)

Datadog

Seed Round in 2010
Datadog, Inc. is a monitoring and analytics platform designed for developers, IT operations teams, and business users, catering to both North American and international markets. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, the company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that integrates and automates various functionalities, including infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, and log management. This platform delivers real-time observability of technology stacks by aggregating data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services. It also features user experience and network performance monitoring, along with advanced dashboards, analytics, collaboration tools, and alerting capabilities. By providing these comprehensive tools, Datadog helps DevOps teams prevent downtime, address performance challenges, and enhance user experience across cloud applications.

Demdex

Series A in 2010
Demdex provides Audience Management solutions for powering dynamic, multi-channel data strategies online. Having pioneered the SaaS Audience Management market since 2008, Demdex's services are continually being embraced by some of the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. As the best alternative to homegrown systems which are expensive to build, operate and maintain, Demdex's enterprise-level technology provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance necessary for businesses to succeed online.

PackLate.com

Seed Round in 2010
PackLate.com is a last minute vacation rental marketplace where consumers watch prices change as the check-in date nears. PackLate.com empowers consumers to save money, find and track great deals, and confidently book closer to their vacation date while realizing they are not alone in their quest to find what they want at a great price. The company launched its first geography, The US Rockies, in January 2010. PackLate.com is backed by Genacast Ventures, First Round Capital, ETF Venture Funds, and several angel investors.

DoubleVerify

Series A in 2009
DoubleVerify provides online media verification and campaign effectiveness solutions for brand marketers, agencies, advertising networks, demand side platforms, exchanges and digital publishers looking to ensure quality advertising environments, campaign transparency and performance. DoubleVerify validates over 60 billion advertising impressions per month for hundreds of Fortune 500 brands, advertising networks and media platforms. Headquartered in New York City, DoubleVerify’s investors include JMI Equity, Institutional Venture Partners, Blumberg Capital, First Round Capital and Genacast Ventures.

Demdex

Seed Round in 2008
Demdex provides Audience Management solutions for powering dynamic, multi-channel data strategies online. Having pioneered the SaaS Audience Management market since 2008, Demdex's services are continually being embraced by some of the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. As the best alternative to homegrown systems which are expensive to build, operate and maintain, Demdex's enterprise-level technology provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance necessary for businesses to succeed online.

Invite Media

Seed Round in 2008
Invite Media is a stealth mode company located in Philadelphia, PA. They are currently working with a team of Wharton statisticians to develop media buying optimization technology for the display advertising market.
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