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About Genius Stock
Founded
2005
Total Funding
56.9M
Industries
Media and Entertainment, Other, Video
Genius is an online knowledge base that allows users to find and submit annotations and interpretations of song lyrics, news stories, primary source documents, poetry, and other forms of text. Genius was founded by Tom Lehman and Ilan Zechory in 2009 and is based in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Investors in Genius
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Genius Management
Leadership team at Genius
Cofounder
Tom Lehman
Cofounder
Ilan Zechory
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