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. He has invested in Invite Media (acquired by Google), Demdex (acquired by Adobe), DoubleVerify, Packlate, Divide (acquired by Google), Mortar Data, LeadiD, YieldMo, Rocketrip, ZeroFox, RevMetrix, Overlap and STAQ.

Beyda is a seasoned entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He launched his first company, Mind Games, in 1982 to develop games for the original Apple II. Beyda then started a software consulting firm with Fortune 100 clients in the U.S., Asia and Europe. In 1995, Beyda helped pioneer Internet advertising by founding Real Media, the first online ad network and ad server company. After Real Media was acquired in 2001, he 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.

Beyda holds a BS in Computer Science, as well as an MBA, from California State University-Northridge.

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