General Catalyst is a venture capital firm founded in 2000. It was established by Bill Fitzgerald, David Fialkow, David Orfao, and Joel Cutler. General Catalyst is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with additional offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Palo Alto. As of October 2019, the firm has sold off its shares in 193 companies and is currently managing a portfolio of 226 companies.
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General Catalyst announces that it has secured $2.3 billion in capital commitments across three funds: a $600 million early-stage fund, a $1 billion growth fund for companies with $10 million-plus in annual revenue, and a $700 million "endurance fund" to back large companies doing more than $100 million in sales.
Funded Companies
A microventure capital firm and syndicate in California that focuses on seed and early stage investments.
Payroll and benefits company. It participated in the W12 cohort of Y Combinator.
Stripe is a financial technology company providing software that allows businesses and individuals to make and receive online payments.
Canva is a company operating as an online graphic design platform. It provides users with a drag-and-drop design tool and a library of stock photographs, graphic elements and fonts.
Circle is a peer-to-peer payments technology company that is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville.
An insurance technology company utilizing technology, design and data to humanize health care. and offer health insurance.
Snapchat, a product of Snap Inc., is a free image messaging application and augmented reality platform.
An insurance technology company using artificial intelligence and behavioural economics to offer home and renters insurance.
An artificial intelligence software company specializing in deep learning and computer vision.
Monzo is a software development company developing mobile banking applications.
A software company offering application programming interfaces (APIs) for managing, integrating, and delivering content to any device or service.
Artificial Intelligence company using Augmented Reality for collaborative professional services
Universe is a mobile website builder offering no code development founded in 2014 by Joseph Cohen.
A web application for checking spelling, grammar, and plagiarism.
Kernel is a neuroscience and engineering company founded in 2016, based in Los Angeles. Kernel is developing neuroprosthetics that mimic or assist brain functions for patients with neurological and degenerative brain diseases. In the long term Kernel plans to develop less invasive brain implants that can augment human intelligence.
B2B company providing legal services for startups through tech-based platform.
A company offering business lines of credit.
An internet company building a different way to get home broadband internet. It is located in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2016.
Samsara is a company developing and building sensor systems that utilizes wireless sensors with remote networking and cloud-based analytics, founded by John Bicket and Sanjit Biswas
A software company that develops products for global security purposes. It is located in Waltham, Massachusetts and was founded in 2013.
Cozy is a Portland, Oregon-based company founded in 2012 by Gino Zahnd.
ThoughtSpot is a Palo Alto, California-based company.
Butter.ai is an artificial Intelligence company founded by Juan Carlos Perez, Danial Jaffry, Jordan Knox and Adam Walz.
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People
Andrew Knez
Employee
Andrew Vassallo
Employee
Barron Caster
Employee
Bilal Zuberi
Employee
Bill Fitzgerald
Founder
Brian Shin
Investor
Chris Farmer
Employee
Clay Cole
Employee
Clayton Gran
Employee
Dan Giovacchini
Investor
Danny Crichton
Employee
David Fialkow
Founder
David Orfao
Employee
Deepak Jeevankumar
Employee
Donald Fischer
Employee
George Bell
Employee
Hemant Taneja
Employee
Hugh Crean
Employee
Joel Cutler
Founder
John Monagle
Employee
John Simon
Employee
Jonathan Teo
Employee
Juan Luis Leung Li
Employee
Kevin Colleran
Employee
Matthew Tara
Employee
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