Private | |
Industry | Venture capital |
Founded | 2000 |
Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, Palo Alto, California, New York, New York, United States |
Key people
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Joel Cutler, David Fialkow, Larry Bohn, Phil Libin, Adam Valkin, David Orfao, Hemant Taneja, Steve Herrod, Niko Bonatsos in danger |
Products | Venture capital |
Number of employees
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40+ |
Website | www.generalcatalyst.com |
General Catalyst is an American venture capital firm focused on early stage and growth investments. The firm was founded in 2000 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also has offices in Palo Alto, California, and New York City.
It has invested in companies such as Snapchat, Neverware, Stripe, Airbnb, Deliveroo, HubSpot, Datalogix and Warby Parker. General Catalyst also helps to incubate companies, examples including KAYAK, Naturebox, Altiscale and Highfive.
General Catalyst has nine managing directors: Larry Bohn, Joel Cutler, David Fialkow, Bill Fitzgerald, Steve Herrod, Niko Bonatsos, Phil Libin, Trevor Oelschig, Hemant Taneja, and Adam Valkin.
Among the firm's investments are:Airbnb, AltiScale, Axium, Black Duck Software, Boxee,Brainly,Cadre, CCP Games, ClassPass,CoachUp, Datalogix, Datto, Deliveroo, Demandware, Elemental Technologies, Inc., Eons.com, Everyzing, FanSnap, flok, GoodData, GroupMe, Hands-On Mobile, Highwinds Network Group, HubSpot, KAYAK, Imprivata, Listia, NatureBox, Plum District, SignalDemand, Snapchat, Stripe, ThoughtSpot,Tudou, TuneIn, Virtual Instruments, ViTrue, Inc., Visible Measures, VISANOW, Warby Parker, and WonderHowTo