# Genacast Ventures

> Genacast Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Software and Analytics. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Oct 2020
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/genacast-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/genacast
- Website: http://www.genacast.com?cb

Genacast Ventures is a seed fund that invests up to $1 million in B2B startups in the northeastern US. Genacast was formed as a partnership between Comcast Interactive Capital and Gil Beyda.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 16% |
| Analytics | 6 | 16% |
| SaaS | 5 | 13% |
| Advertising | 4 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 11% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 42% |
| Series A | 8 | 21% |
| Series B | 4 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gil Beyda | Founder & Managing Partner | 25 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gil-beyda |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DrayNow | DrayNow is the first real-time marketplace for matching intermodal trucking freight and carriers. The company's intermodal marketplace uses technology to connect intermediaries to more carriers, maintain visibility of the shipment's location and status at all times, and helps truckers to compare rates, view load details, and selectavailable loads in their area in real-time. DrayNow enables companies in the intermodal industry to operate with increased efficiency in order to maintain optimal levels of capacity, service, visibility, and profitability. |  | Series A | Oct 14, 2020 |  |
| Confetti | Find & book corporate events and activities that match you company's culture, goals and budget. Simple Booking. Fun Guaranteed. | $2.1M | Seed | Oct 23, 2019 |  |
| BigID | BigID develops software that helps companies have secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations. It uses advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help enterprises better protect their customer and employee data at a petabyte-scale. The company helps organizations manage and protect their customer data, meet data privacy andprotection regulations like the CCPA and GDPR, and leverage unmatched coverage for all data across all data stores.BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward the customer data, by bringing data science to data privacy.BigID has offices in the US and Israel and is founded in 2016 by security industry veterans spanning the identity, data security, big data, and governance markets. |  | Series C | Sep 05, 2019 |  |
| DrayNow | DrayNow is the first real-time marketplace for matching intermodal trucking freight and carriers. The company's intermodal marketplace uses technology to connect intermediaries to more carriers, maintain visibility of the shipment's location and status at all times, and helps truckers to compare rates, view load details, and selectavailable loads in their area in real-time. DrayNow enables companies in the intermodal industry to operate with increased efficiency in order to maintain optimal levels of capacity, service, visibility, and profitability. |  | Series A | May 13, 2019 |  |
| DrayNow | DrayNow is the first real-time marketplace for matching intermodal trucking freight and carriers. The company's intermodal marketplace uses technology to connect intermediaries to more carriers, maintain visibility of the shipment's location and status at all times, and helps truckers to compare rates, view load details, and selectavailable loads in their area in real-time. DrayNow enables companies in the intermodal industry to operate with increased efficiency in order to maintain optimal levels of capacity, service, visibility, and profitability. |  | Series A | Aug 28, 2018 |  |
| Blockdaemon | Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. Their solution is fully portable, it allows its user to switch networks and chains with the click of a button, so they don't have to worry about picking the perfect network configuration from day one. They support the blockchaindeveloper ecosystem with best-of-breed dev-ops advice. Blockdaemon was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $380K | Seed | Apr 11, 2018 |  |
| Blockdaemon | Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. Their solution is fully portable, it allows its user to switch networks and chains with the click of a button, so they don't have to worry about picking the perfect network configuration from day one. They support the blockchaindeveloper ecosystem with best-of-breed dev-ops advice. Blockdaemon was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. |  | Seed | Mar 06, 2018 |  |
| STAQ | 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 themmore effectively.Staq is founded by industry veterans from Advertising.com, The Rubicon Project, Lotame, and Collective. |  |  | Jan 15, 2018 |  |
| DrayNow | DrayNow is the first real-time marketplace for matching intermodal trucking freight and carriers. The company's intermodal marketplace uses technology to connect intermediaries to more carriers, maintain visibility of the shipment's location and status at all times, and helps truckers to compare rates, view load details, and selectavailable loads in their area in real-time. DrayNow enables companies in the intermodal industry to operate with increased efficiency in order to maintain optimal levels of capacity, service, visibility, and profitability. |  | Seed | Sep 11, 2017 |  |
| DrayNow | DrayNow is the first real-time marketplace for matching intermodal trucking freight and carriers. The company's intermodal marketplace uses technology to connect intermediaries to more carriers, maintain visibility of the shipment's location and status at all times, and helps truckers to compare rates, view load details, and selectavailable loads in their area in real-time. DrayNow enables companies in the intermodal industry to operate with increased efficiency in order to maintain optimal levels of capacity, service, visibility, and profitability. |  | Seed | Feb 24, 2017 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [boldstart ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Comcast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comcast-interactive-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Core Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/core-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kinetic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kinetic-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Genacast Ventures invest in?

Genacast Ventures invests primarily in Software, Analytics and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Genacast Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Genacast Ventures?

The team at Genacast Ventures includes Gil Beyda (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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