# Tadas Jucikas

> Tadas Jucikas is the founder and CEO of Genus AI, a generative AI platform that produces tens of millions of product images, videos, audiences and ad copy each month for direct-to-consumer and e-commerce brands. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience from the University of Cambridge, where he decoded the behavior of microscopic worms and published in Nature Methods and PNAS, then spent years applying AI to human behavior for UK government departments and companies like Uber, EDF Energy and Tesco. He co-founded Genus AI with his brother Viktoras, raised $11M in seed capital, and also serves as founding dean at Turing College.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Genus AI
- **Organizations:** Genus AI, Turing College, University of Cambridge (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
- **Nationality:** Lithuanian
- **Education:** PhD in Computational Neuroscience (genetic and molecular mechanisms of behavior), University of Cambridge, MPhil in Computational Biology, University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
- **Known for:** Published peer-reviewed research in Nature Methods and PNAS during his Cambridge PhD, Built and raised $11M for Genus AI, a generative AI platform for D2C and e-commerce brands, Platform generates 40M+ product images and videos monthly across Meta, TikTok, Google and Pinterest

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Co-authored PNAS paper on a dictionary of behavioral motifs in C. elegans locomotion
- **2013** — Co-authored Nature Methods paper presenting a database of C. elegans behavioral phenotypes
- **2013-2017** — Applied AI to human behavior for UK government departments and companies including Uber, EDF Energy and Tesco
- **2017** — Co-founded Genus AI with brother Viktoras Jucikas; raised initial seed funding
- **2023** — Closed $6M seed extension, bringing total seed funding to $11M; relocated HQ from San Francisco to Nashville
- **2024** — Platform scaled to generating over 40 million product images and videos per month
- **2025** — Serving as Founding Dean and Advisor at Turing College

## Achievements

- Published peer-reviewed research in Nature Methods and PNAS during his Cambridge PhD
- Built and raised $11M for Genus AI, a generative AI platform for D2C and e-commerce brands
- Platform generates 40M+ product images and videos monthly across Meta, TikTok, Google and Pinterest
- Selected for Stanford's StartX accelerator and named among top startups for the SXSW Pitch competition
- Founding Dean of Turing College, an online machine learning and data science school

## Latest updates

- **2023-09** — Genus AI closed a $6M seed extension, reaching $11M in total seed funding
- **2024** — Genus AI platform reached 40M+ product images and videos generated per month

## Links

- Website: https://genus.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjucikas/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/genus_ai
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/genusai

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Last updated: 2026-06-21