Gil Beyda

Founder & Managing Partner at Genacast Ventures

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Investor/Board Observer
2019
goTenna is the worlds leading mobile mesh networking company and provider of off-grid connectivity solutions for smartphones and other devices. goTennas mesh networking protocol, Aspen Grove™, is embedded into lightweight, low-cost devices and paired with easy-to-use mobile apps enabling mobile, long-range connectivity even without cell, wifi, or satellite. goTenna’s mesh technology enables decentralized, programmable mobile infrastructure on a global scale in markets ranging from public sector to enterprise and IoT. The goTenna vision to create a resilient communications system was ignited during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when approximately a third of cell towers and power stations were knocked out. Based in Jersey City, New Jersey, goTenna is backed by investors including Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Bloomberg Beta. Learn more about our team and discover open positions at http://www.gotenna.com/jobs.
Investor/Board Member
2019
Confetti helps people browse and book unforgettable team building and corporate experiences in just a few clicks. Through its global virtual event booking platform, Confetti empowers companies like Shopify, Amazon, Google, and others to build happier, more holistic teams. Thousands of businesses around the world use Confetti to plan amazing social gatherings.
Investor/Board Member
2019
We build enterprise software to power the Industrial Generative AI revolution.
Investor/Board Member
2019
Together with our community, we engineer sparse LLM, CV, and NLP models that are more efficient and performant in production. Why does this matter? Sparse models are more flexible and can achieve unrivaled latency and throughput performance on your private CPU and GPU infrastructure. Check us out on GitHub and join the Neural Magic Slack Community to get started with software-delivered AI.
Investor/Board Member
2018
Blockdaemon powers the blockchain economy with its suite of industry-leading infrastructure solutions. Blockdaemon was founded in 2017 and has become a globally established, single integration partner for accessing premier blockchain networks. We provide integrated business solutions to exchanges, custodians, crypto platforms, financial institutions, and developers using our end-to-end suite of blockchain tools, including dedicated nodes, APIs, staking, liquid staking, MPC tech, and more. Blockdaemon provides its customers with the confidence to quickly and easily scale without compromising security or compliance.
Investor/Board Member
2017
DrayNow is the first real-time marketplace for seamlessly connecting intermodal freight and carriers. By eliminating barriers between Brokers and Truckers, DrayNow's technology harmonizes Intermodal and gives Control, Flexibility and Service. DrayNow Delivers Opportunity.
Investor/Board Member
Mar 2016
BigID Next connects the dots in Data & AI. Its the modern platform for data security, privacy, compliance, and governance: built cloud-native, AI-ready, and made for what’s next. With BigID, organizations can see and secure their entire data landscape across multicloud, hybrid, SaaS, and on-prem. Customers use BigID to reduce risk, automate security and privacy controls, stay ahead of compliance, and turn data into an advantage and AI risk into innovation - all in one platform.
Investor/Board Observer
2016
Uptycs is the leading cloud security platform for large hybrid cloud environments. We protect workloads wherever they run, while extending security visibility from development to runtime. That’s why enterprises like PayPal, Comcast, and Nutanix rely on Uptycs to secure their mission-critical workloads. First-generation CNAPP solutions don’t have all the data needed to manage and prioritize risk. With Uptycs, data is power! We have no trouble giving you deeper context so you can focus on what truly matters. Most CNAPPs can tell you if a vulnerable workload is exposed to the internet, but can they show you vulnerable packages running now, or three weeks ago, and if and how you were breached? Uptycs can. Uptycs brings teams together to optimize security operations, ensure compliance, and accelerate remediation across cloud workloads, containers, Kubernetes, and software pipelines – all from a single security console, policy framework, and data lake. Shift up your cybersecurity with Uptycs.
Investor/Board Member
Oct 2014
STAQ connects ad technology together for better operations through automated collection and transfer of reporting, analysis and data across the digital marketing stack. We integrate ad technology together, for both end customers and ad tech providers alike, to build more value from a best of breed ad tech stack. Through these connections, we help ad platforms build more into their valuable products so their clients can use them more effectively. We only do reporting and information transfer, never a piece of the stack. No bidding, no audience data, no media.
Investor/Board Member
2014
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.
Investor
Jun 2013
ZeroFox is the solution to discover, validate, and disrupt external cyber threats before they harm revenue or reputation. Our unified platform fuses Threat Intelligence, Brand and Domain Protection, Attack Surface Intelligence, Executive Protection and Physical Security Intelligence. Trusted globally, ZeroFox delivers actionable intelligence to stay ahead of what’s next and reclaim what’s right.
Investor/Board Observer
Jun 2013
Rocketrip cuts a company’s travel costs by incentivizing employees to spend less on their trips. When employees get to keep a portion of the savings they generate, they start to treat the company’s money like it’s their own. Rocketrip’s software combines real-time travel prices, company policy, and a suite of patented algorithms to set a customized Price to Beat, predicting what a trip should cost. Business travelers beat these thresholds by making cost-conscious choices like booking in advance, selecting a cheaper hotel, or staying with friends. The company saves money, and the employee earns actual rewards. Rocketrip provides comprehensive reporting and seamlessly integrates into any existing corporate and expense technology stack. If you want to rein in business travel costs while improving corporate culture, visit rocketrip.com
Investor/Board Member
2012
Mortar seamlessly unites the best technologies for working with data in one simple, solid, scalable platform. With Mortar, engineers and data scientists can focus on solving business-critical problems instead of fiddling with infrastructure and wrangling distributed technologies into complex pipelines. Mortar also provides tutorials and an open-source code base to jumpstart common applications such as recommendation engines. So stop wrangling, and start building.
Investor/Board Observer
2012
Yieldmo is an advertising technology company that operates a smart exchange that differentiates and enhances the value of ad inventory for buyers and sellers. As a leader in contextual analytics, real time technology, and digital formats, we create, measure, model, and optimize campaigns for superior scale and performance. By understanding how each unique impression behaves and looking for patterns and performance in real time, we can drive real performance gains without relying on audience data. Visit www.yieldmo.com to learn more.
Investor/Board Member
2012
Jornaya is a data-as-a-service (DaaS) company working in markets where customers invest significant time researching, analyzing, and comparing options on major-life purchases, such as cars, loans, insurance, or degrees. We organize and provide access to these behaviors enabling marketers and their partners to have the smartest and safest interactions with customers. By working with lead generation companies, comparison shopping services, and other partner-contributed data sources, we have a first-hand view of 200+ million purchase decisions every month. The insights we provide help marketers drive better outcomes and revenue performance in all key areas: acquisition, growth and retention. For more information visit www.jornaya.com
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2019
Investor/Board Observer
2019
goTenna is the worlds leading mobile mesh networking company and provider of off-grid connectivity solutions for smartphones and other devices. goTennas mesh networking protocol, Aspen Grove™, is embedded into lightweight, low-cost devices and paired with easy-to-use mobile apps enabling mobile, long-range connectivity even without cell, wifi, or satellite. goTenna’s mesh technology enables decentralized, programmable mobile infrastructure on a global scale in markets ranging from public sector to enterprise and IoT. The goTenna vision to create a resilient communications system was ignited during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when approximately a third of cell towers and power stations were knocked out. Based in Jersey City, New Jersey, goTenna is backed by investors including Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Bloomberg Beta. Learn more about our team and discover open positions at http://www.gotenna.com/jobs.
Investor/Board Member
2019
Confetti helps people browse and book unforgettable team building and corporate experiences in just a few clicks. Through its global virtual event booking platform, Confetti empowers companies like Shopify, Amazon, Google, and others to build happier, more holistic teams. Thousands of businesses around the world use Confetti to plan amazing social gatherings.
Investor/Board Member
2019
We build enterprise software to power the Industrial Generative AI revolution.
Investor/Board Member
2019
Together with our community, we engineer sparse LLM, CV, and NLP models that are more efficient and performant in production. Why does this matter? Sparse models are more flexible and can achieve unrivaled latency and throughput performance on your private CPU and GPU infrastructure. Check us out on GitHub and join the Neural Magic Slack Community to get started with software-delivered AI.
2018
Investor/Board Member
2018
Blockdaemon powers the blockchain economy with its suite of industry-leading infrastructure solutions. Blockdaemon was founded in 2017 and has become a globally established, single integration partner for accessing premier blockchain networks. We provide integrated business solutions to exchanges, custodians, crypto platforms, financial institutions, and developers using our end-to-end suite of blockchain tools, including dedicated nodes, APIs, staking, liquid staking, MPC tech, and more. Blockdaemon provides its customers with the confidence to quickly and easily scale without compromising security or compliance.
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