General Catalyst

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm established in 2000 and based in San Francisco, California. The firm specializes in early-stage and growth equity investments across various sectors, including consumer, enterprise, fintech, cryptocurrency, and health assurance. By fostering an environment conducive to growth, General Catalyst aims to accelerate the development of innovative ideas and companies. The firm provides mentorship and connects clients with experienced professionals to enhance their potential for success. As a Registered Investment Adviser, General Catalyst has managed a total of eight venture capital funds, accumulating approximately $3.75 billion in capital commitments.

Adrian Abeijon

Investor

Mark Allen

CFO

Neeraj Arora

Managing Director, Investment Team

Juliet Bailin

Principal

Marc Bhargava

Managing Director

Larry Bohn

Managing Director

Niko Bonatsos

Managing Director

Teresa Carlson

President, General Catalyst Institute

Kenneth Chenault

Chairman and Managing Director

Mark Crane

Partner

Joel Cutler

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Christopher Davis

Partner

Kyle Doherty

Managing Director

Nick van Eck

Partner

David Fialkow

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Bill Fitzgerald

Managing Director and COO

Diana Hong

Investor

Mina Hsiang

Associate

Nmachi Jidenma

Partner

Christopher Kauffman

Principal

Zak Kukoff

Principal

Paul Kwan

Managing Director

Karanveer Mohan

Managing Director, Investment Team

Priya Mohan

Partner, Investment Team

Deep Nishar

Managing Director

Dipchand Nishar

Managing Director

Reva Nohria

Investor

Trevor Oelschig

Managing Director

Tyler Olkowski

Investor

David Orfao

Managing Director and Co-Founder

Pranay Orugunta

Healthcare Investor

Mo Punjwani

Associate, Investments

Candace Richardson

Principal

Max Rimpel

Partner

Sam Rosen

Growth Investor

Pranav Singhvi

Partner

Bill Skarinka

Associate

Hemant Taneja

CEO and Managing Director

Alex Tran

Managing Director

Catherine Tu

Partner, Investment Team

Adam Valkin

Managing Director

Elena Viboch

Partner

Andrea Wang

Principal, Early Stage Investment

Nathaniel Levy-Westhead

Partner, Investment Team

Deep Nishar

Managing Director and Member of the Management Committee

Roy Mabrey

Partner, Investment Team

Past deals in Big Data

Clara

Debt Financing in 2025
Clara is a spending management platform focused on serving companies in Latin America. It offers an end-to-end solution that includes locally-issued corporate cards, bill payment services, financing options, and a software platform that streamlines corporate expense management. The platform is designed to simplify and automate financial processes, allowing businesses to gain real-time insights into spending and manage budgets more effectively. Clara is backed by a diverse group of global and regional investors, aiming to empower companies with greater financial agility and clarity. By enhancing the way company finances are managed, Clara contributes to increasing the economic competitiveness of the region.

Glean

Series E in 2024
Glean develops AI-based search engine software that facilitates access to enterprise data, enabling employees to efficiently find information and generate answers. Its primary product, Workplace Search, serves as an enterprise search platform that integrates with various internal data sources, allowing users to obtain relevant search results from multiple applications based on specific keywords. By employing advanced search techniques, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models, Glean's platform delivers personalized answers that are contextually grounded, enhancing productivity and information retrieval within organizations.

Clara

Venture Round in 2024
Clara is a spending management platform focused on serving companies in Latin America. It offers an end-to-end solution that includes locally-issued corporate cards, bill payment services, financing options, and a software platform that streamlines corporate expense management. The platform is designed to simplify and automate financial processes, allowing businesses to gain real-time insights into spending and manage budgets more effectively. Clara is backed by a diverse group of global and regional investors, aiming to empower companies with greater financial agility and clarity. By enhancing the way company finances are managed, Clara contributes to increasing the economic competitiveness of the region.

Symbolica AI

Series A in 2024
Symbolica AI operates as a research-focused company.

Datavolo

Series A in 2024
Datavolo is a SaaS company that allows organizations to harness the power of their unstructured data.

Glean

Series D in 2024
Glean develops AI-based search engine software that facilitates access to enterprise data, enabling employees to efficiently find information and generate answers. Its primary product, Workplace Search, serves as an enterprise search platform that integrates with various internal data sources, allowing users to obtain relevant search results from multiple applications based on specific keywords. By employing advanced search techniques, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models, Glean's platform delivers personalized answers that are contextually grounded, enhancing productivity and information retrieval within organizations.

Expanso

Seed Round in 2023
Expanso, building upon their open-source Bacalhau Project, offers a platform for efficient and secure computation. It helps customers orchestrate jobs to run directly where data is generated and stored, thereby eliminating costly data transfers. Only the results are moved, not the data itself. The unique Compute Over Data approach simplifies data management, ensures privacy and boosts big data processing. This is particularly beneficial in an increasingly distributed world, where data is generated and stored in various locations.

Tractian

Series B in 2023
Tractian is a company that specializes in asset management and monitoring solutions aimed at enhancing industrial operations. It provides a range of tools for data collection and analysis to track the performance and condition of assets. By integrating with various sensors and devices, Tractian facilitates predictive maintenance, allowing companies to anticipate and address potential issues before they arise. Its offerings are particularly valuable in sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, and energy, where effective monitoring and maintenance are crucial for operational efficiency. The company combines streamlined hardware and software to deliver sophisticated real-time monitoring capabilities, empowering maintenance teams and industrial decision-makers with comprehensive oversight of their operations.

Refuel.AI

Seed Round in 2023
Refuel.AI focuses on infrastructure and tooling for teams building ML applications on top of unstructured data.

Mosaic.tech

Series C in 2023
Mosaic.tech is a strategic finance platform that leverages big data and machine learning to offer predictive reporting capabilities. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company provides startups with tools and insights typically available to large enterprises. Its software platform features one-click integrations, real-time analytics, dashboards, and data visualization tools that enable users to connect with data swiftly, automate financial forecasts, and report seamlessly. By delivering clear insights and straightforward recommendations, Mosaic enhances visibility into critical business dynamics, empowering clients to make informed decisions and effectively execute their plans.

Clara

Series B in 2023
Clara is a spending management platform focused on serving companies in Latin America. It offers an end-to-end solution that includes locally-issued corporate cards, bill payment services, financing options, and a software platform that streamlines corporate expense management. The platform is designed to simplify and automate financial processes, allowing businesses to gain real-time insights into spending and manage budgets more effectively. Clara is backed by a diverse group of global and regional investors, aiming to empower companies with greater financial agility and clarity. By enhancing the way company finances are managed, Clara contributes to increasing the economic competitiveness of the region.

Glean

Series C in 2022
Glean develops AI-based search engine software that facilitates access to enterprise data, enabling employees to efficiently find information and generate answers. Its primary product, Workplace Search, serves as an enterprise search platform that integrates with various internal data sources, allowing users to obtain relevant search results from multiple applications based on specific keywords. By employing advanced search techniques, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models, Glean's platform delivers personalized answers that are contextually grounded, enhancing productivity and information retrieval within organizations.

Tigris Data

Seed Round in 2021
Tigris Data provides a globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage service that facilitates low-latency access to data from anywhere in the world. The company enables users to efficiently store and retrieve vast amounts of data tailored to various applications while simplifying data management. Tigris automatically distributes data closer to users, alleviating the challenges associated with data replication and caching. Additionally, the service is designed for ease of use and cost efficiency, allowing developers to utilize standard S3 tools, libraries, and extensions for streamlined data structuring and access across multiple regions.

Clara

Series B in 2021
Clara is a spending management platform focused on serving companies in Latin America. It offers an end-to-end solution that includes locally-issued corporate cards, bill payment services, financing options, and a software platform that streamlines corporate expense management. The platform is designed to simplify and automate financial processes, allowing businesses to gain real-time insights into spending and manage budgets more effectively. Clara is backed by a diverse group of global and regional investors, aiming to empower companies with greater financial agility and clarity. By enhancing the way company finances are managed, Clara contributes to increasing the economic competitiveness of the region.

Sword Health

Series D in 2021
Sword Health is a digital health company focused on revolutionizing physical rehabilitation through its advanced artificial intelligence care platform. The company aims to alleviate pain for billions of people by providing a unique solution that combines the expertise of physical therapy professionals with an interactive AI experience. This platform enables patients to access customized rehabilitation exercises from their homes, allowing them to receive supervised care anytime and anywhere. Sword Health's approach not only enhances patient independence but also offers valuable data to clinical teams and decision-makers, ultimately improving clinical and cost-saving outcomes in the field of physical therapy.

Lacework

Series D in 2021
Lacework, Inc. is a cloud security company based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2015. The company provides a comprehensive security platform that automates threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads. Its flagship solution, Polygraph, secures customer accounts, workloads, and data by integrating with cloud providers' security measures. Lacework's platform continuously monitors all cloud components, including workloads, applications, processes, containers, and user accounts, offering features such as configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly detection, and incident investigation. This enables security teams to effectively protect data and maintain compliance while allowing businesses to innovate rapidly and safely in the cloud.

SupportLogic

Series B in 2021
SupportLogic, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform aimed at enhancing customer success through machine learning and big data analytics. Founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, the platform integrates seamlessly with existing systems, utilizing natural language processing to interpret customer signals and maintain contextual understanding across support tickets. This innovative solution empowers organizations to proactively manage customer relationships, leveraging predictive and generative AI to analyze sentiment from both structured and unstructured data. By providing real-time insights and collaborative workflows, SupportLogic assists leading enterprises in preventing customer escalations, reducing churn, and ultimately improving the overall support experience.

Sword Health

Series C in 2021
Sword Health is a digital health company focused on revolutionizing physical rehabilitation through its advanced artificial intelligence care platform. The company aims to alleviate pain for billions of people by providing a unique solution that combines the expertise of physical therapy professionals with an interactive AI experience. This platform enables patients to access customized rehabilitation exercises from their homes, allowing them to receive supervised care anytime and anywhere. Sword Health's approach not only enhances patient independence but also offers valuable data to clinical teams and decision-makers, ultimately improving clinical and cost-saving outcomes in the field of physical therapy.

Clara

Series A in 2021
Clara is a spending management platform focused on serving companies in Latin America. It offers an end-to-end solution that includes locally-issued corporate cards, bill payment services, financing options, and a software platform that streamlines corporate expense management. The platform is designed to simplify and automate financial processes, allowing businesses to gain real-time insights into spending and manage budgets more effectively. Clara is backed by a diverse group of global and regional investors, aiming to empower companies with greater financial agility and clarity. By enhancing the way company finances are managed, Clara contributes to increasing the economic competitiveness of the region.

Glean

Series B in 2021
Glean develops AI-based search engine software that facilitates access to enterprise data, enabling employees to efficiently find information and generate answers. Its primary product, Workplace Search, serves as an enterprise search platform that integrates with various internal data sources, allowing users to obtain relevant search results from multiple applications based on specific keywords. By employing advanced search techniques, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models, Glean's platform delivers personalized answers that are contextually grounded, enhancing productivity and information retrieval within organizations.

Clara

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Clara is a spending management platform focused on serving companies in Latin America. It offers an end-to-end solution that includes locally-issued corporate cards, bill payment services, financing options, and a software platform that streamlines corporate expense management. The platform is designed to simplify and automate financial processes, allowing businesses to gain real-time insights into spending and manage budgets more effectively. Clara is backed by a diverse group of global and regional investors, aiming to empower companies with greater financial agility and clarity. By enhancing the way company finances are managed, Clara contributes to increasing the economic competitiveness of the region.

Mosaic.tech

Series A in 2021
Mosaic.tech is a strategic finance platform that leverages big data and machine learning to offer predictive reporting capabilities. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company provides startups with tools and insights typically available to large enterprises. Its software platform features one-click integrations, real-time analytics, dashboards, and data visualization tools that enable users to connect with data swiftly, automate financial forecasts, and report seamlessly. By delivering clear insights and straightforward recommendations, Mosaic enhances visibility into critical business dynamics, empowering clients to make informed decisions and effectively execute their plans.

Logz.io

Series E in 2020
Logz.io offers a machine data analytics platform that leverages open-source technologies, specifically ELK and Grafana, to facilitate the monitoring and analysis of modern applications. The platform is designed to be user-friendly and highly scalable, catering to organizations of all sizes. By integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning, Logz.io assists DevOps engineers, system administrators, and developers in identifying critical events within vast amounts of generated data. This enables users to monitor, troubleshoot, and secure their mission-critical applications effectively, allowing for proactive issue resolution and enhanced operational efficiency.

Logz.io

Series D in 2019
Logz.io offers a machine data analytics platform that leverages open-source technologies, specifically ELK and Grafana, to facilitate the monitoring and analysis of modern applications. The platform is designed to be user-friendly and highly scalable, catering to organizations of all sizes. By integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning, Logz.io assists DevOps engineers, system administrators, and developers in identifying critical events within vast amounts of generated data. This enables users to monitor, troubleshoot, and secure their mission-critical applications effectively, allowing for proactive issue resolution and enhanced operational efficiency.

Anaconda

Series A in 2017
Anaconda, Inc. is a developer of a Python-based data science platform that facilitates the adoption of open data science analytics for various industries. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company offers key products such as Anaconda Distribution, which provides data science packages, and Anaconda Enterprise, an open data science platform designed for corporate and research institutions. With over 45 million users worldwide, including 90% of Fortune 500 companies, Anaconda is recognized for its extensive support of open-source Python packages essential for AI, data science, and machine learning. The company also offers training programs to help professionals transition into data science careers, along with services focused on technical computing challenges, data management, optimization, and visualization. Anaconda’s mission is to empower organizations to leverage open-source technologies for innovative solutions and competitive advantages.

Anaconda

Series A in 2016
Anaconda, Inc. is a developer of a Python-based data science platform that facilitates the adoption of open data science analytics for various industries. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company offers key products such as Anaconda Distribution, which provides data science packages, and Anaconda Enterprise, an open data science platform designed for corporate and research institutions. With over 45 million users worldwide, including 90% of Fortune 500 companies, Anaconda is recognized for its extensive support of open-source Python packages essential for AI, data science, and machine learning. The company also offers training programs to help professionals transition into data science careers, along with services focused on technical computing challenges, data management, optimization, and visualization. Anaconda’s mission is to empower organizations to leverage open-source technologies for innovative solutions and competitive advantages.

Anaconda

Series A in 2015
Anaconda, Inc. is a developer of a Python-based data science platform that facilitates the adoption of open data science analytics for various industries. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company offers key products such as Anaconda Distribution, which provides data science packages, and Anaconda Enterprise, an open data science platform designed for corporate and research institutions. With over 45 million users worldwide, including 90% of Fortune 500 companies, Anaconda is recognized for its extensive support of open-source Python packages essential for AI, data science, and machine learning. The company also offers training programs to help professionals transition into data science careers, along with services focused on technical computing challenges, data management, optimization, and visualization. Anaconda’s mission is to empower organizations to leverage open-source technologies for innovative solutions and competitive advantages.

Mapsense

Seed Round in 2015
Mapsense, Inc. specializes in a mapping engine and developer tools designed to facilitate the creation of applications for streaming datasets. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a high-speed platform that allows users to upload location-tagged data, enabling segmentation, visualization, and sharing of information for improved location-driven decision-making. Mapsense serves a diverse clientele, including media companies, mobile app developers, advertisers, financial institutions, and wildlife research departments. The company aims to address the growing demand for efficient tools to manage the vast amounts of geospatial data generated by nearly 10 billion devices. As of September 2015, Mapsense operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc.

Rocana

Series B in 2015
Rocana specializes in IT Operations Analytics, offering advanced root cause analysis software that assists technology leaders in fostering digital transformation. Founded by experienced professionals from Cloudera, Vertica, and Experian, the company addresses the complexities of shared services infrastructure through innovative technology. Rocana's software captures and analyzes machine data from various sources, ensuring that this information remains accessible over time. This capability allows IT professionals to quickly identify emerging issues, enhance system performance, and promote innovation within their organizations. By leveraging the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, Rocana provides a scalable and open solution to modern IT challenges.

Alation

Series A in 2015
Alation, Inc. is a provider of data intelligence solutions based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2012. The company specializes in an AI-driven platform that encompasses data search and discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation's platform is recognized for its capabilities in the data catalog market, leveraging a Behavioral Analysis Engine and collaboration features to blend machine learning with human insight. This approach allows organizations to efficiently manage their data and metadata, facilitating self-service analytics and improving decision-making processes. By automating the capture of critical information regarding data usage and provenance, Alation supports businesses in navigating the complexities of data management and governance.

Altiscale

Series B in 2014
Altiscale, Inc. is a cloud service provider specializing in Apache Hadoop operations, offering a platform designed specifically for Big Data applications. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company aims to make complex Hadoop projects more accessible to organizations by providing both the infrastructure and operational expertise needed for successful implementation. With a focus on monitoring infrastructure and job performance, Altiscale ensures high levels of service for its clients. The company's team has extensive experience with Apache Hadoop, having operated over 40,000 nodes and contributed to the technology's development from its early days at Yahoo. Altiscale operates as a subsidiary of SAP SE, reflecting its commitment to delivering reliable and scalable cloud solutions for Big Data.

Rocana

Series A in 2014
Rocana specializes in IT Operations Analytics, offering advanced root cause analysis software that assists technology leaders in fostering digital transformation. Founded by experienced professionals from Cloudera, Vertica, and Experian, the company addresses the complexities of shared services infrastructure through innovative technology. Rocana's software captures and analyzes machine data from various sources, ensuring that this information remains accessible over time. This capability allows IT professionals to quickly identify emerging issues, enhance system performance, and promote innovation within their organizations. By leveraging the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, Rocana provides a scalable and open solution to modern IT challenges.

Kensho Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
Kensho Technologies, Inc. specializes in analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data visualization systems tailored for global banks and investment institutions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional offices in New York, Virginia, and California, Kensho develops financial analytics software that enables scalable analytics solutions for commercial entities. Its offerings include Kensho Applied Mind, an AI software that enhances decision-making by addressing complex financial inquiries in natural language. The company also operates a national security division known as Koto. As of April 2018, Kensho operates as a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc.

Altiscale

Series A in 2013
Altiscale, Inc. is a cloud service provider specializing in Apache Hadoop operations, offering a platform designed specifically for Big Data applications. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company aims to make complex Hadoop projects more accessible to organizations by providing both the infrastructure and operational expertise needed for successful implementation. With a focus on monitoring infrastructure and job performance, Altiscale ensures high levels of service for its clients. The company's team has extensive experience with Apache Hadoop, having operated over 40,000 nodes and contributed to the technology's development from its early days at Yahoo. Altiscale operates as a subsidiary of SAP SE, reflecting its commitment to delivering reliable and scalable cloud solutions for Big Data.

Tesora

Series A in 2013
Formerly Known as ParElastic. Tesora was founded with the vision of radically simplifying how databases are provisioned and managed. We are partnering with the OpenStack Trove community to create an open database as service platform to deliver on this vision. With Tesora, OpenStack administrators can go beyond compute and storage to offer their users a self-service, managed database service for MySQL and other leading databases. The new open DBaaS platform on OpenStack will offer security, availability, performance and disaster-recovery capabilities that lets you deliver database as a service in the cloud or in a data center. The Tesora team has more than 200 years of experience building database technology for companies such as Progress Software, Netezza, Object Design and Dataupia. They are taking that background to the OpenStack Trove project. The team has already brought to market technology to scale out traditional relational databases on demand without having to change a single line of code. And it’s the only scale-out solution that supports multitenancy. These innovations were recognized with four patent grants and several more pending. The company sought out partnerships to deliver a complete DBaaS platform. Wanting an open, pluggable platform, the widely adopted OpenStack cloud platform was a natural choice. Tesora joined the OpenStack community as a corporate sponsor and made a commitment to collaborate with and contribute to the Trove project to deliver an enterprise-class DBaaS platform. We named our company Tesora (meaning treasure in Italian) because of our strong commitment to the OpenStack Trove project and to delivering the industry’s first enterprise-class open platform for DBaaS.

BeatDeck

Seed Round in 2013
BeatDeck is a big data music analytics platform founded in January 2013 by Josh Mangel and Avi Zolty at Y Combinator in Mountain View, California. The platform offers musicians tools to evaluate key performance metrics, analyze social signals, and track how their music is shared and received by audiences. Through an extensive and user-friendly dashboard, BeatDeck enables artists to gain insights into their overall influence in the music industry, facilitating better connections and understanding of their audience's engagement with their audio content.

Tesora

Seed Round in 2012
Formerly Known as ParElastic. Tesora was founded with the vision of radically simplifying how databases are provisioned and managed. We are partnering with the OpenStack Trove community to create an open database as service platform to deliver on this vision. With Tesora, OpenStack administrators can go beyond compute and storage to offer their users a self-service, managed database service for MySQL and other leading databases. The new open DBaaS platform on OpenStack will offer security, availability, performance and disaster-recovery capabilities that lets you deliver database as a service in the cloud or in a data center. The Tesora team has more than 200 years of experience building database technology for companies such as Progress Software, Netezza, Object Design and Dataupia. They are taking that background to the OpenStack Trove project. The team has already brought to market technology to scale out traditional relational databases on demand without having to change a single line of code. And it’s the only scale-out solution that supports multitenancy. These innovations were recognized with four patent grants and several more pending. The company sought out partnerships to deliver a complete DBaaS platform. Wanting an open, pluggable platform, the widely adopted OpenStack cloud platform was a natural choice. Tesora joined the OpenStack community as a corporate sponsor and made a commitment to collaborate with and contribute to the Trove project to deliver an enterprise-class DBaaS platform. We named our company Tesora (meaning treasure in Italian) because of our strong commitment to the OpenStack Trove project and to delivering the industry’s first enterprise-class open platform for DBaaS.

Humedica

Venture Round in 2012
Humedica is a clinical intelligence company that specializes in health analytics, providing tools for hospitals, physicians, and life sciences organizations. The company's primary offering, Humedica MinedShare, is a platform designed to transform unconnected data from various sources into actionable insights, enabling clients to make better-informed decisions. By facilitating clinical, operational, and financial benchmarking across the continuum of care, Humedica supports healthcare providers in enhancing the quality and efficiency of their services.

Humedica

Venture Round in 2011
Humedica is a clinical intelligence company that specializes in health analytics, providing tools for hospitals, physicians, and life sciences organizations. The company's primary offering, Humedica MinedShare, is a platform designed to transform unconnected data from various sources into actionable insights, enabling clients to make better-informed decisions. By facilitating clinical, operational, and financial benchmarking across the continuum of care, Humedica supports healthcare providers in enhancing the quality and efficiency of their services.

Hunch

Series B in 2010
Hunch is a consumer web application that is building the "taste graph" of the internet, mapping every person on the internet to every entity on the internet and their affinity for that entity. An entity could be a web site, a cookbook, a hotel room, a celebrity, a restaurant, etc. Hunch creates a taste profile by asking them a series of questions which range from serious to profound and subsequently can make recommendations personalized to that user, which live in "topics". Topics vary widely, from entertaining subjects like 'Which superhero would you be' to more conventional questions like 'Should I Switch to A Mac?' The system then uses the answers to these questions to offer the user a suggested solution, a "hunch" of what the user would like.

Humedica

Series A in 2009
Humedica is a clinical intelligence company that specializes in health analytics, providing tools for hospitals, physicians, and life sciences organizations. The company's primary offering, Humedica MinedShare, is a platform designed to transform unconnected data from various sources into actionable insights, enabling clients to make better-informed decisions. By facilitating clinical, operational, and financial benchmarking across the continuum of care, Humedica supports healthcare providers in enhancing the quality and efficiency of their services.

Hunch

Series A in 2009
Hunch is a consumer web application that is building the "taste graph" of the internet, mapping every person on the internet to every entity on the internet and their affinity for that entity. An entity could be a web site, a cookbook, a hotel room, a celebrity, a restaurant, etc. Hunch creates a taste profile by asking them a series of questions which range from serious to profound and subsequently can make recommendations personalized to that user, which live in "topics". Topics vary widely, from entertaining subjects like 'Which superhero would you be' to more conventional questions like 'Should I Switch to A Mac?' The system then uses the answers to these questions to offer the user a suggested solution, a "hunch" of what the user would like.

RStudio

Seed Round in 2005
RStudio develops open source and enterprise-ready professional software for the R statistical computing environment. Its portfolio of products includes RStudio IDE: a free and open source user interface for R that works across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms; Shiny: a web framework for building interactive reports and visualizations using R; ggplot2: a data visualization package for R that creates multi-layered graphics; knitr: a report generation tool that combines R with TeX, Markdown, and HTML; R Markdown: a tool that enables users to insert R code into a markdown document and generate final documents by replacing the R code with its results; packrat: a dependency management tool for R; devtools: developer tools for building R packages; and more. RStudio was founded in 2009 by J.J. Allaire and is based in Massachusetts, United States.
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