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Genius Funding & Investors

San Mateo, CA

Genius is an American digital media company founded on August 27, 2009, by Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam. Its website serves as an online music encyclopedia allowing users to provide annotations and interpretation to song lyrics, news stories, sources, poetry, and documents.

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Total Amount Raised: $77,740,000

Genius' Investors

Genius Funding Rounds

  • Series Unknown

    $5,839,998

  • Series Unknown

    $15,000,000

    Series Unknown Investors

    Everblue Management

  • Series B

    $40,000,000

    Series B Investors

    Dan Gilbert
    Andreessen Horowitz
    Queensbridge Venture Partners

  • Series A

    $15,000,000

    Series A Investors

    Andreessen Horowitz
    Alexis Ohanian
    AFSquare
    Nas
    Emagen Entertainment Group

  • Seed

    $1,900,000

    Seed Investors

    Transmedia Capital
    Betaworks
    Y Combinator
    Pegasus Tech Ventures
    Initialized Capital
    SV Angel
    Audrey Capital
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