Acquired
Genius Stock
Online knowledge base
Sign up today and learn more about Genius Stock
Invest in or value your shares in one or many pre-IPO companies through an EquityZen investment vehicle.
About Genius Stock
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
Andreessen Horowitz
Lyft, Robinhood, Databricks, Airbnb, Instacart, Stripe, Magic Leap, Rappi, CoinSwitch Kuber, Devoted Health
Funding History
| October 2012 | $16.9M |
|---|---|
| July 2014 | $40.0M |
Management
Cofounder
Tom Lehman
Cofounder
Ilan Zechory
Board Member (Andreessen Horowitz)
Ben Horowitz
Press
BuzzFeed - Apr, 14 2020
If You Can Match The U.S. Capital To Its State On A Map, Youâre A Geography GeniusBuzzFeed - Apr, 12 2020
27 Genius Trader Joe's Food Hacks You Basically Needed YesterdayBuzzFeed - Apr, 4 2020
17 Husbands Whose Hacks Made Their Spouses Go "I Married A Genius"New York Times - Feb, 20 2020
What Would a Fashion Music Festival Look Like?New York Times - Dec, 12 2019
âGenius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947,â by Norman Lebrecht: An ExcerptEquityZen Recognized As:
