Gil Beyda

Founder/Managing Partner @Genacast Ventures, technology seed fund w/exits to @Google & Adobe. Founder/CTO @RealMedia (acq by 24/7 & WPP). CTO @Tacoda (acq by AOL).

Website: www.genacast.com
New York, New York, United States
Accredited investor
Member since November 14, 2011

About

Investor interests

Type of investor	Angel Seed Fund
Typical investment size	$500k - $1M
Typical investments in a year	5
Categories of interest	Advertising Business to Business (B2B) Digital media E-commerce Information technology Mobile Software as a service (SaaS) Big data
Credentials	Accredited Investor

I am a(n):

Investor

Companies I've founded or co-founded:

Genacast Ventures, Real Media

Companies I work or worked for:

Tacoda

Full bio

Gil Beyda is the Founder & Managing Partner of Genacast Ventures, a seed fund formed in partnership with Comcast Ventures to invest in technology-centric, Internet start-ups. Gil has invested in Invite Media (acquired by Google), Demdex (acquired by Adobe), DoubleVerify, Packlate, Enterproid, Mortar Data, LeadiD and YieldMo.

Gil is a seasoned entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. Gil launched his first company Mind Games in 1982 to develop games for the original Apple II. Gil then started a software consulting firm with Fortune 100 clients in the U.S., Asia and Europe.

In 1995, Gil helped pioneer Internet advertising by founding Real Media, the first online ad network and ad server company. After Real Media was acquired in 2001, Gil pioneered the next wave of online advertising as CTO of TACODA, the first behavioral targeting, ad network. Following AOL’s acquisition of TACODA in 2007, Gil founded Genacast Ventures.