Genki Ventures

Genki Ventures is a Seattle-based venture capital firm that invests at the pre-seed and seed stages in science-driven companies. Its focus areas are climate technology, the energy transition and life sciences, with a stated mission oriented around solutions that reduce the impacts of climate change or improve the health of living beings. The firm targets scientist-entrepreneurs holding commercialisable owned or licensed intellectual property, seeking products and services that are materially better, more efficient and cheaper to deploy.

Initial cheques typically run from $50,000 to $100,000. Beyond capital, the firm provides hands-on operational collaboration with founders, including executive coaching, industry access and follow-on network support - a value-add platform that is a stated pillar of the investment approach alongside the cheque itself.

The firm describes its approach as science-first and frames its investment criteria around founders with integrity. Stated values include inclusive innovation, intellectual humility, uncompromising integrity, existential impact and active collaboration, and it explicitly seeks commercialisable research emerging from the scientific community. Technical domains of interest include scientific research commercialisation and intellectual property commercialisation in addition to the core climate, energy and life sciences verticals.