# Genus AI

> Genus AI is a generative-AI marketing platform for direct-to-consumer and e-commerce brands. It turns a product catalog into thousands of on-brand ad creatives, videos, seed audiences and copy, then distributes and optimizes them across Meta, TikTok, Google, Pinterest and other channels. Founded in 2017 by brothers Tadas and Viktoras Jucikas, the company pairs a Nashville headquarters with a machine-learning hub in Vilnius, Lithuania, and generates tens of millions of catalog images and videos each month.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- **Founders:** Tadas Jucikas (Co-Founder & CEO), Viktoras Jucikas (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~24 employees
- **Products:** Creative Hub, Audience Hub, Reporting Hub, Product Video Generation, Custom AI Image Tagging
- **Notable:** Raised $11M in total seed funding (2023), Reports generating 40M+ product catalog images and videos per month, Says it processed $2B+ in e-commerce revenue to train its models and drove $250M+ in client revenue on Meta in 2024

## Products & services

- **Creative Hub** — Catalog creative automation: design branded templates once and generate dynamic ad creatives, personalized elements (logos, background removal, seasonal overlays) and product videos across an entire catalog in minutes.
- **Audience Hub** — AI audience modeling and lifecycle segmentation that maps customers to lifecycle stages using live order data and builds high-value seed audiences based on business goals.
- **Reporting Hub** — Creative performance insights and campaign analytics that reveal which creative elements drive conversions and how DPA campaigns are performing.
- **Product Video Generation** — Auto-generates hundreds of product videos within minutes from a brand's catalog.
- **Custom AI Image Tagging** — Trains AI to detect brand-specific visual features across product imagery for smarter, more relevant creative.
- **Sage AI Assistant** — Conversational marketing assistant, connectable to OpenAI via MCP, that lets marketers interact with campaigns in natural language.

## Achievements

- Raised $11M in total seed funding (2023)
- Reports generating 40M+ product catalog images and videos per month
- Says it processed $2B+ in e-commerce revenue to train its models and drove $250M+ in client revenue on Meta in 2024
- Stanford StartX accelerator participant
- Finalist / named top startup at SXSW Pitch competition
- Relocated HQ from San Francisco to Nashville while retaining a Vilnius AI hub

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Connected the Sage AI assistant to OpenAI via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling natural-language, agent-driven growth marketing.
- **2025-04** — Published research on AI predicting ad performance as part of an ongoing 'future of marketing' series.
- **2023-09** — Closed a $6M seed extension, bringing total seed funding to $11M, with new investors including Aleph Group and Tomas Slimas.

## Links

- Website: https://genus.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/genus-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/genus_ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@genusai5696
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/genus_ai
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/genusai

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Last updated: 2026-08-05