Paige Doherty authored a children's book about venture capital called Seed to Harvest and built her initial investing track record through small SPVs, including syndicating a $60K allocation into Pallet from 17 investors using personalized outreach and her Twitter following. She focuses on technical storyteller founders and clipboard companies—vertical AI and software modernizing overlooked, operationally heavy industries where work still runs on clipboards—while building Behind Genius as a lean, remote-first firm and documenting her tech stack as an ops product for other solo GPs.
What they've been talking about across their social media accounts

- Deep analysis of venture capital data and exit benchmarks. Frequently examines the changing math of the industry to set expectations for founders, such as her study on recent billion-dollar tech exits which noted that the valuation bar for the top 1% of companies has risen significantly over the last two decades.
- Strong appreciation for intricate design, craftsmanship, and nature-inspired aesthetics. Often draws parallels between high-effort artistic endeavors and brand building, such as admiring a Schiaparelli fashion collection inspired by sea creatures that required thousands of hours of hand embroidery.
- Focus on B2B SaaS and technical nuances within Artificial Intelligence. Shows enthusiasm for companies taking novel architectural approaches, like a recent investment in a startup chosen specifically for their unique sandwich-style structure for managing large language models.
- Advocacy for multidisciplinary reading and continuous learning. Promotes the idea that reading fiction or studying unrelated fields like manufacturing and spirituality can enhance emotional intelligence and provide better business insights than standard business literature alone.
Video Interview
On AI in cold outreach
"I would almost say AI, even in the initial outreach, is kind of a beige flag for me. Communications is one of the most important elements of a business, whether that's investor communications, customer communications... so I don't really like to see super obvious AI."
On the timing of a raise
"If you think about a race and the starting gun goes off, all of your conversations are starting at the same time, then there's just more concentration... I think when you choose to have the starting gun go off really matters."
On the detail you can't fake
"What's really interesting is the specificity of detail, because that's something you can never AI away... We have a founder, and in our first call he was like, 'Yeah, me and my co-founder slept on factory floors and toured factories for six months.' That's just a sentence that is from direct life experience that is very difficult to replicate."
On building a network from scratch
"The more ambitious your goal or project, the more interesting people you will meet... The first step to building an incredible network is having a very ambitious goal that you are uniquely suited to see out, and then telling everyone you know about it."
About their Fund
Sectors
Future of Work, Media, AI, SaaS, Consumer
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Pre-Seed - Seed
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$250K - $500K
Notable Investments
Behind Genius Ventures is founded and led by Gen Z investors who position themselves as "firm builders" rather than just "fund managers," giving founders true age peers on the cap table instead of the typical generational gap in VC. The fund originated from an unusual path where founder Paige wrote a children's book about venture capital (Seed to Harvest) to explain VC to her family, which became the cornerstone of her personal brand and helped source LPs, partners, and deal flow through content creation.
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