Paige Finn Doherty | Behind Genius Ventures

About this episode

Paige Doherty is a former engineer (Northrop Grumman, working on unmanned autonomous systems) who got into venture after writing a children's book about VC, and that background shapes a thesis most generalist seed investors don't share. She backs what she calls "technical storytellers," founders with deep domain expertise who can also communicate, and she writes $250K to $500K checks into overlooked markets with a path to billion-dollar scale. Notably, she co-invests rather than leading, but says she takes pride in having independent conviction, meaning she won't sit in a holding pattern waiting for a lead to validate a deal. For founders, that's a reminder that "we'll do it once you have a…