Genius Ventures

Permanent partners to inevitable founders.

[Adam Gefkovicz @gefkovicz]

When we first met the @UlyssesInc founders, I told them they reminded me of the beginning of an action heist movie where every character gets introduced with their special skill. This is a truly iconic and inevitable team building in an underserved and colossal market. @_geniusventures is grateful to be a seed investor and friend.

[Northstar @NorthstarRobots]

Most robotics data is slop. That's the real bottleneck for physical AI.

Bad angles. No diversity. No quality control. Impossible to train on.

We raised $500K from Genius Ventures to fix this.
Introducing Northstar.

[Ronak Malde @rronak_]

Today, @MichaelElabd, @QuantumArjun, and I are excited to announce Trajectory.

We are a research lab and product company building the platform for Continual Learning.

Our platform unlocks the signal already sitting in product usage, so companies can continuously post-train large-scale agentic models that outperform the frontier. @trajectorylabs

We’ve raised $15M from @Conviction, @BessemerVP, @radicalvcfund, @jeffdean, @drfeifei and more.

We’re partnering with some of the best AI-native companies: @ClayRunHQ @Harvey, @DecagonAI, @mercor_ai, @RogoAI to power their agentic systems, some of which we are already in production with.

We’ve brought together a world class research team from DeepMind, OpenAI, Apple, Meta Superintelligence, Amazon AGI, Scale AI, and an elite product team from Stripe and Figma.

AI will never again start on day one. Every correction, every retry, every edit will make products smarter. This is Continual Learning.

[Kahlil Lalji @bykahlil]

Excited to announce that @naturallycli is joining @naturalpay as Chief Compliance and Regulatory Officer.

She was the first regulatory hire at Square, Stripe, and Ramp, where she most recently served as Chief Compliance Officer of Ramp Payments Corporation.

She is one of the most important compliance operators in payments, full stop.

As we build Natural into the defining financial institution for agentic payments, legal and compliance are core strategic functions here—not support functions. They are now our second-largest function behind engineering, and will remain that way for the foreseeable future.

We are taking the hard path: building the financial systems of the future from the ground up, with as much ownership of the stack as possible across ledgering, risk, underwriting, money movement, and compliance.

It is the only way to build something durable enough to define the standards for agentic payments over the long run.

When I met CLI, it was immediately obvious she was built the same way we are: high standards, high conviction, and very serious about winning.

Today she becomes employee number 12 at Natural.

Time to win.

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[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

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[Melius @trymelius]

Your agent already has context. Now it has a canvas.

Melius is the first creative canvas for AI agents - a place for them to materialize your imagination with generative AI workflows.

Media creation has never been more accessible, but the process is still buried under esoteric prompts, point solutions, and hours spent manually building systems instead of expressing your creativity.

We democratize creation via an MCP for your agent or our own, so you can focus on being the tastemaker -

Exactly as you imagined.

If you're an AI creative director, filmmaker, marketer, designer, or just someone experimenting with AI-generated content, reply "IMAGINE" for beta access.

[Karina @karinanguyen]

Excited to release PostTrainBench v1.0!

This benchmark evaluates the ability of frontier AI agents to post-train language models in a simplified setting.

We believe this is a first step toward tracking progress in recursive self-improvement 🧵:

[Kahlil Lalji @bykahlil]

210 days ago, @naturalpay was just a one-pager and a memo.

Today, we’re coming out of stealth.

Natural is the agentic payments platform powering frictionless money movement between agents, businesses, and consumers.

Wallets. Payments. Ledgering. Routing. Identity. Compliance. Credit. Observability. Risk.

Everything needed to move money. Engineered for agents and designed for humans.

These primitives give you the ability to transact without becoming a payments expert or stitching together a dozen fragmented tools.

Huge thanks to our team of 10 (soon to be 25), our early investors, and the supporters who believed in this vision from the start.

If you want to help shape how money moves over the coming decades, we’re hiring.

And if you’re building agents you should probably be moving money too. Reach out.

Read more about Natural and the products we’re launching in the blog below.

https://t.co/XlELDfBl2J

[Connor Sweeney @_ConnorSweeney]

I’m thrilled to announce Baba, The American Healthcare Company.

Baba connects older adults and their families with dedicated advocates who can coordinate their care. Our advocates are nurses and social workers who have worked at the front lines of the healthcare system for decades, and who can get folks the resources they need.

This company was born of a family tragedy and has grown to support thousands of families across every corner of the country.

[Aaron Cannon @AaronLCannon]

Excited to share big news: we just raise our $30M series B at @OutsetAI — only six months after our Series A.

[Worktrace AI @worktrace_ai]

Today, we're launching @worktrace_ai to help businesses uncover their best automation opportunities and build those automations.

Our founders, Angela Jiang (product manager of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 at OpenAI) and Deepak Vasisht (UIUC CS professor, MIT researcher, IIT graduate of the last decade), are determined to eliminate the AI divide between frontier labs and the workforce.

Our $9M seed round is led by @8vc and @conviction with participation from @OpenAI, @svangel and @_geniusventures.

Join us!

[Kahlil Lalji @bykahlil]

I’m excited to finally announce Natural (@naturalpay), our $9.8m seed round, and commitment to building the best payments ecosystem for agents.