General Catalyst

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm established in 2000, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional offices in North America and Europe. The company specializes in early-stage and growth equity investments, focusing on technology-driven businesses. It invests across various sectors, including consumer internet, enterprise software, fintech, health assurance, and crypto. General Catalyst provides not only capital but also mentorship and resources to accelerate the growth of its portfolio companies. To date, it has managed eight venture capital funds, totaling approximately $3.75 billion in capital commitments.

Adrian Abeijon

Investor

Mark Allen

CFO

Neeraj Arora

Managing Director, Investment Team

Juliet Bailin

Partner

Marc Bhargava

Managing Director

Chris Bischoff

Managing Director

Larry Bohn

Managing Director

Teresa Carlson

President, General Catalyst Institute

Kenneth Chenault

Managing Director and Chairman

Quentin Clark

Managing Director

Mark Crane

Partner, Investment Team

Christopher Davis

Partner, Investments

Kyle Doherty

Managing Director, Investments

Molly Blaauw Gillis

Partner and Chief of Staff

Mina Hsiang

Associate

Nmachi Jidenma

Partner

Christopher Kauffman

Principal and Member of the Investment Team

Genevieve Kinney

Principal

Zak Kukoff

Principal

Paul Kwan

Managing Director

Roy Mabrey

Partner, Investment Team

Holly Maloney McConnell

Managing Director

Karanveer Mohan

Managing Director, Investment Team

Deep Nishar

Managing Director

Dipchand Nishar

Managing Director

Reva Nohria

Principal

Trevor Oelschig

Managing Director

Tyler Olkowski

Investor

Pranay Orugunta

Healthcare Investor

Mo Punjwani

Associate, Investments

Candace Richardson

Principal

Brian Ru

Principal

Pranav Singhvi

Managing Director

Bill Skarinka

Associate

Hemant Taneja

CEO and Managing Director

Alex Tran

Managing Director, Investments

Catherine Tu

Partner, Investment Team

Elena Viboch

Partner

Andrea Wang

Principal, Early Stage Investment

Nathaniel Levy-Westhead

Partner, Investment Team

Past deals in Developer Tools

Momentic

Seed Round in 2025
Momentic enables developers to deploy AI agents to test web apps end-to-end. Just describe user flows using natural language.

Render

Series C in 2025
Render is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that provides a unified cloud platform designed to enhance the developer experience. The platform enables developers and teams to build, run, and host applications and websites with features such as free secure sockets layer (SSL), a global content delivery network (CDN), and automatic deployments from GitHub. Render's goal is to eliminate the need for server management by offering a flexible and powerful cloud solution that supports various types of applications, including web apps, static sites, background workers, APIs, cron jobs, Docker files, and PostgreSQL databases. This approach aims to reduce complexity and cost, allowing software teams to deliver products quickly and at any scale.

Argmax

Seed Round in 2024
Argmax is a Software Development firm offering developers platform for compression techniques and inference software.

Codeium

Series C in 2024
Codeium is an innovative company that specializes in enhancing developer productivity through its advanced AI coding assistant platform. The platform features an integrated development environment that simplifies coding tasks and streamlines workflows for software developers across multiple operating systems, including Mac, Windows, and Linux. Codeium offers a free version for individual developers, while providing an enterprise option with additional features for teams. This approach allows users to select the most suitable option for their specific needs. Additionally, the company develops a deep learning acceleration platform designed to facilitate complex artificial intelligence workloads. By supporting various deep learning frameworks and optimizing model inferences along with essential computations such as video decoding and image preprocessing, Codeium enables clients to seamlessly integrate accelerated deep learning capabilities into their applications. Through its focus on usability and advanced technology, Codeium aims to significantly improve the overall coding experience for its users.

Haize Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Haize Labs specializes in AI-driven development tools that automate large-scale stress testing of language models. The company helps clients identify potential failures in their large language models and pinpoint vulnerabilities through rigorous testing, enabling the creation of more reliable models and applications.

Codeium

Series B in 2024
Codeium is an innovative company that specializes in enhancing developer productivity through its advanced AI coding assistant platform. The platform features an integrated development environment that simplifies coding tasks and streamlines workflows for software developers across multiple operating systems, including Mac, Windows, and Linux. Codeium offers a free version for individual developers, while providing an enterprise option with additional features for teams. This approach allows users to select the most suitable option for their specific needs. Additionally, the company develops a deep learning acceleration platform designed to facilitate complex artificial intelligence workloads. By supporting various deep learning frameworks and optimizing model inferences along with essential computations such as video decoding and image preprocessing, Codeium enables clients to seamlessly integrate accelerated deep learning capabilities into their applications. Through its focus on usability and advanced technology, Codeium aims to significantly improve the overall coding experience for its users.

Chalk

Seed Round in 2023
Chalk is a data platform designed to enhance machine learning and generative AI capabilities. It provides a superior developer experience that allows data teams to define features and their dependencies using Python across various environments, including online, streaming, and batch contexts. The platform compiles these definitions into parallel pipelines powered by a Rust-based engine, ensuring that feature values remain consistent between training and live model deployments. This capability significantly reduces development time by allowing the same source code to be used for both offline training sets and real-time feature values. By managing data infrastructure, Chalk enables engineers, data scientists, and analysts to concentrate on their specific products without the burden of underlying data management complexities.

Render

Series B in 2023
Render is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that provides a unified cloud platform designed to enhance the developer experience. The platform enables developers and teams to build, run, and host applications and websites with features such as free secure sockets layer (SSL), a global content delivery network (CDN), and automatic deployments from GitHub. Render's goal is to eliminate the need for server management by offering a flexible and powerful cloud solution that supports various types of applications, including web apps, static sites, background workers, APIs, cron jobs, Docker files, and PostgreSQL databases. This approach aims to reduce complexity and cost, allowing software teams to deliver products quickly and at any scale.

Buildkite

Series B in 2022
Buildkite is a company that provides an integration and delivery platform designed to enhance the efficiency and reliability of software development. Its tools facilitate the automation of processes from testing to deployment, supporting a wide range of software projects, including mobile applications, backend systems, and custom hardware. Buildkite's platform is characterized by its scalability and the absence of concurrency limits, allowing developers to maintain a continuous flow of software updates regardless of the programming language, environment, or toolchain used. This versatility positions Buildkite as a valuable resource for software teams aiming to streamline their development workflows and deliver high-quality software more rapidly.

Gitpod

Series A in 2022
Gitpod is an open-source platform that automates the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments, streamlining the workflow for engineering teams. By alleviating the burdens of manual setup, Gitpod saves developers significant time and enhances collaboration, allowing them to focus on coding rather than environment configuration. The platform is natively integrated with popular version control systems such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, enabling automatic and continuous prebuilding of development environments for all branches. This empowers team members to begin coding immediately with fresh environments tailored for various tasks, whether they are developing new features, resolving bugs, or conducting code reviews. Overall, Gitpod transforms the development process by providing prebuilt workspaces that facilitate efficiency and productivity.

Dynaboard

Seed Round in 2022
Dynaboard is a developer of a collaborative prototyping platform aimed at enhancing web application development for teams across various skill levels. The platform offers features such as real-time code collaboration, query APIs, database integrations, and a suite of customizable UI/UX components. By providing built-in performance and security best practices, Dynaboard allows engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to collaboratively create and deploy custom software efficiently. This innovative approach enables organizations of all sizes to develop web applications that enhance their operational capabilities without straining limited resources.

Tidelift

Series C in 2022
Tidelift is a company that enhances the use of open source software by providing a subscription service that offers proactively managed components and professional assurances. By partnering directly with open source maintainers, Tidelift ensures that these components are secure, well-maintained, and compliant with licensing requirements. This approach allows businesses to leverage high-quality open source projects while minimizing risks associated with security and maintenance. Ultimately, Tidelift aims to foster a thriving ecosystem for open source development, enabling organizations to create software more efficiently and effectively.

Sonar

Venture Round in 2022
SonarSource provides world-class solutions for continuous code quality management. Its open source and commercial products help customers of all size to manage the code quality of their applications, reduce risk and ultimately deliver better software. SonarSource solutions support development in 20+ programming languages such as Java, C#, Javascript, C/C++, COBOL and more. With 700+ customers around the world including Cisco Systems, Deutsche Bank, Samsung and used by more than 80'000 organizations SonarSource's products are the de facto standard solutions on the market.

Render

Series A in 2021
Render is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that provides a unified cloud platform designed to enhance the developer experience. The platform enables developers and teams to build, run, and host applications and websites with features such as free secure sockets layer (SSL), a global content delivery network (CDN), and automatic deployments from GitHub. Render's goal is to eliminate the need for server management by offering a flexible and powerful cloud solution that supports various types of applications, including web apps, static sites, background workers, APIs, cron jobs, Docker files, and PostgreSQL databases. This approach aims to reduce complexity and cost, allowing software teams to deliver products quickly and at any scale.

Visor

Seed Round in 2021
Visor is a New York-based company that provides a comprehensive platform designed for engineering and product managers to streamline project management. Founded in 2016, Visor offers a spreadsheet-like tool that integrates seamlessly with Jira, enabling organizations of all sizes to effectively plan and track their work. The platform stands out by unifying essential capabilities, allowing for real-time collaboration and flexible adaptations to meet evolving needs. By consolidating data and facilitating communication, Visor aims to enhance productivity and teamwork across projects.

Fig

Seed Round in 2021
Fig is a software development platform designed to enhance the productivity of developers by integrating visual applications and shortcuts into the terminal. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Fig provides an API that allows users to execute shell commands using simple JavaScript. This functionality enables developers to create wrappers around command-line interfaces, build custom workflows, and customize configurations. By offering features such as autocompletion for terminal commands, Fig aims to streamline the coding process, allowing teams to complete projects more efficiently.

Gitpod

Venture Round in 2021
Gitpod is an open-source platform that automates the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments, streamlining the workflow for engineering teams. By alleviating the burdens of manual setup, Gitpod saves developers significant time and enhances collaboration, allowing them to focus on coding rather than environment configuration. The platform is natively integrated with popular version control systems such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, enabling automatic and continuous prebuilding of development environments for all branches. This empowers team members to begin coding immediately with fresh environments tailored for various tasks, whether they are developing new features, resolving bugs, or conducting code reviews. Overall, Gitpod transforms the development process by providing prebuilt workspaces that facilitate efficiency and productivity.

Duckly

Seed Round in 2020
Duckly is a software company that specializes in video chat and collaboration tools tailored specifically for developers. Its platform facilitates real-time communication and code sharing, enabling programmers to engage in pair programming and collaborate effectively, regardless of their physical locations. The software integrates various tools to streamline the development process, allowing users to share their code, servers, and terminal seamlessly. By optimizing the collaboration experience for developers, Duckly enhances knowledge sharing and team productivity, making it an essential resource for distributed teams.

Render

Seed Round in 2020
Render is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that provides a unified cloud platform designed to enhance the developer experience. The platform enables developers and teams to build, run, and host applications and websites with features such as free secure sockets layer (SSL), a global content delivery network (CDN), and automatic deployments from GitHub. Render's goal is to eliminate the need for server management by offering a flexible and powerful cloud solution that supports various types of applications, including web apps, static sites, background workers, APIs, cron jobs, Docker files, and PostgreSQL databases. This approach aims to reduce complexity and cost, allowing software teams to deliver products quickly and at any scale.

Buildkite

Series A in 2020
Buildkite is a company that provides an integration and delivery platform designed to enhance the efficiency and reliability of software development. Its tools facilitate the automation of processes from testing to deployment, supporting a wide range of software projects, including mobile applications, backend systems, and custom hardware. Buildkite's platform is characterized by its scalability and the absence of concurrency limits, allowing developers to maintain a continuous flow of software updates regardless of the programming language, environment, or toolchain used. This versatility positions Buildkite as a valuable resource for software teams aiming to streamline their development workflows and deliver high-quality software more rapidly.

Ionic

Venture Round in 2020
Ionic is a prominent company specializing in enterprise app development, responsible for powering 15% of all apps in app stores and numerous critical enterprise applications. The company offers a platform that allows teams to create high-quality mobile, desktop, and web applications using standard web technologies and a single codebase. Ionic's platform includes an open-source mobile UI toolkit designed for cross-platform app development on iOS, Android, and the web, along with cloud-based services that facilitate app building, publishing, and updating. Additionally, Ionic provides pre-built solutions for essential mobile features such as authentication and payments, as well as premium support and consulting services to assist teams throughout the app development lifecycle. The company is also recognized for developing other popular open-source tools, including Capacitor, a native runtime, and Stencil, a Web Component compiler. Ionic collaborates with thousands of enterprise teams and has a vast developer community, making it one of the most productive and enterprise-friendly app platforms globally.

Range

Seed Round in 2020
Range Labs Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company offers a suite of tools designed to enhance team collaboration and synchronization. Its primary product, Range, integrates various platforms such as GitHub, Jira, Asana, Google Docs, and Calendar, allowing users to manage schedules, track personal accomplishments, and view tasks in a centralized location. Range also facilitates communication through features like check-ins, objectives, and notifications, helping teams stay aligned and informed. The company's solutions cater to a diverse clientele, including individuals, managers, organizations, and both engineering and design teams, with a focus on fostering healthy, inclusive, and creative work environments.

Render

Seed Round in 2019
Render is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that provides a unified cloud platform designed to enhance the developer experience. The platform enables developers and teams to build, run, and host applications and websites with features such as free secure sockets layer (SSL), a global content delivery network (CDN), and automatic deployments from GitHub. Render's goal is to eliminate the need for server management by offering a flexible and powerful cloud solution that supports various types of applications, including web apps, static sites, background workers, APIs, cron jobs, Docker files, and PostgreSQL databases. This approach aims to reduce complexity and cost, allowing software teams to deliver products quickly and at any scale.

Ionic

Venture Round in 2019
Ionic is a prominent company specializing in enterprise app development, responsible for powering 15% of all apps in app stores and numerous critical enterprise applications. The company offers a platform that allows teams to create high-quality mobile, desktop, and web applications using standard web technologies and a single codebase. Ionic's platform includes an open-source mobile UI toolkit designed for cross-platform app development on iOS, Android, and the web, along with cloud-based services that facilitate app building, publishing, and updating. Additionally, Ionic provides pre-built solutions for essential mobile features such as authentication and payments, as well as premium support and consulting services to assist teams throughout the app development lifecycle. The company is also recognized for developing other popular open-source tools, including Capacitor, a native runtime, and Stencil, a Web Component compiler. Ionic collaborates with thousands of enterprise teams and has a vast developer community, making it one of the most productive and enterprise-friendly app platforms globally.

Tidelift

Series B in 2019
Tidelift is a company that enhances the use of open source software by providing a subscription service that offers proactively managed components and professional assurances. By partnering directly with open source maintainers, Tidelift ensures that these components are secure, well-maintained, and compliant with licensing requirements. This approach allows businesses to leverage high-quality open source projects while minimizing risks associated with security and maintenance. Ultimately, Tidelift aims to foster a thriving ecosystem for open source development, enabling organizations to create software more efficiently and effectively.

Supermedium

Seed Round in 2018
Supermedium is a company focused on creating immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences, initially launching a VR browser application that allows users to access various web-based content. The application supports standard web technologies, enabling users to explore a diverse range of experiences, including mini-games, art installations, journalistic pieces, and social environments. With a particular emphasis on delivering a comic book reader, Supermedium aims to enhance the way users engage with digital content in VR without the need for installations or app store dependencies. The company is rooted in the foundational work of pioneers in WebVR and the creators of A-Frame, contributing to the evolution of accessible VR utilities.

DIRT Protocol

Seed Round in 2018
DIRT Protocol, founded in 2017 and based in the United States, is a platform designed for decentralized curation of trusted data sets. It facilitates the organization and accessibility of information by allowing users to contribute information similarly to Wikipedia. However, DIRT Protocol employs a unique mechanism of token staking to incentivize honesty among contributors. Each participant must deposit tokens to submit data, ensuring that only accurate information is shared. If inaccuracies are identified, other users can challenge the data and earn tokens for correcting it. This economic model promotes the integrity of the data set, making it less likely for misinformation to persist. DIRT Protocol thus serves as a foundational tool for building Token Curated Registries, helping communities maintain high-quality information standards.

Tidelift

Series A in 2018
Tidelift is a company that enhances the use of open source software by providing a subscription service that offers proactively managed components and professional assurances. By partnering directly with open source maintainers, Tidelift ensures that these components are secure, well-maintained, and compliant with licensing requirements. This approach allows businesses to leverage high-quality open source projects while minimizing risks associated with security and maintenance. Ultimately, Tidelift aims to foster a thriving ecosystem for open source development, enabling organizations to create software more efficiently and effectively.

Alter

Venture Round in 2018
Alter is a platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse. Developers can pipe avatars into their apps, games, and websites. They offer computer vision, 3d technology, web3, machine learning, avatars, rendering engines, blockchain, and NFTs.

Ionic

Series A in 2016
Ionic is a prominent company specializing in enterprise app development, responsible for powering 15% of all apps in app stores and numerous critical enterprise applications. The company offers a platform that allows teams to create high-quality mobile, desktop, and web applications using standard web technologies and a single codebase. Ionic's platform includes an open-source mobile UI toolkit designed for cross-platform app development on iOS, Android, and the web, along with cloud-based services that facilitate app building, publishing, and updating. Additionally, Ionic provides pre-built solutions for essential mobile features such as authentication and payments, as well as premium support and consulting services to assist teams throughout the app development lifecycle. The company is also recognized for developing other popular open-source tools, including Capacitor, a native runtime, and Stencil, a Web Component compiler. Ionic collaborates with thousands of enterprise teams and has a vast developer community, making it one of the most productive and enterprise-friendly app platforms globally.

Major League Hacking

Seed Round in 2016
Major League Hacking (MLH) is a mission-driven organization dedicated to empowering emerging technologists through a global community of over 500,000 early-career developers. MLH organizes hackathons, internships, and workshops that provide members with hands-on experience and opportunities to build professional networks, facilitating their career launches in technology. The organization collaborates with prominent employers to identify and train diverse technical talent from within its community. By fostering innovation and teaching computer science skills through its weekend-long invention competitions, MLH cultivates collaboration among hackers, technology leaders, and entrepreneurs. Recognizing its commitment to community impact, MLH became a Certified B Corporation in 2016, underscoring its focus on empowering hackers and measuring success by the number of individuals it supports.

Outlearn

Seed Round in 2015
Outlearn Inc. is a Boston-based company that operates a cloud-based platform designed for creating, sharing, and delivering custom online learning content specifically for professional software developers. Founded in 2014 and originally named Hatchlearn Inc., the company rebranded in 2015 to reflect its focus on enhancing the learning experience for developers. Outlearn's platform allows individual developers and teams to curate modular learning content from various sources, enabling them to assemble personalized learning paths that facilitate trackable team development in enterprise settings. By providing a comprehensive catalog of curated content and tools for publishing original material, Outlearn aims to streamline the learning process for software professionals, paralleling the transformative impacts of platforms like GitHub and Wikipedia in their respective fields.

Radiant Entertainment

Seed Round in 2015
Radiant Entertainment, Inc. is a video game developer based in Los Altos, California, specializing in the creation of town-building simulation games and other interactive entertainment. Founded in 2011, the company gained recognition for its debut title, Stonehearth, which was developed with the support of a successful Kickstarter campaign. Radiant Entertainment also focuses on developing networking code software solutions to enhance gaming experiences. In 2016, the company became a subsidiary of Riot Games, Inc., further expanding its capabilities within the gaming industry.

Outlearn

Seed Round in 2014
Outlearn Inc. is a Boston-based company that operates a cloud-based platform designed for creating, sharing, and delivering custom online learning content specifically for professional software developers. Founded in 2014 and originally named Hatchlearn Inc., the company rebranded in 2015 to reflect its focus on enhancing the learning experience for developers. Outlearn's platform allows individual developers and teams to curate modular learning content from various sources, enabling them to assemble personalized learning paths that facilitate trackable team development in enterprise settings. By providing a comprehensive catalog of curated content and tools for publishing original material, Outlearn aims to streamline the learning process for software professionals, paralleling the transformative impacts of platforms like GitHub and Wikipedia in their respective fields.

Runscope

Series A in 2014
Runscope Inc. is a company focused on enhancing the application development lifecycle through its suite of API monitoring and testing tools. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Runscope offers solutions for developers to monitor and manage APIs used in mobile and web applications. Its platform enables businesses to monitor API traffic, debug issues, and conduct automated integration testing, thereby allowing organizations to anticipate potential API failures and ensure their APIs are operational, efficient, and accurate. As of September 2017, Runscope operates as a subsidiary of CA, Inc.

Game Closure

Series A in 2012
Game Closure is a company that offers an HTML-based multiplayer game development platform designed to simplify the creation and distribution of games for developers. Its software development kit (SDK) allows users to leverage familiar Web APIs to produce high-quality games that can be published across both iOS and Android ecosystems. By streamlining the processes of debugging, hosting, and development, Game Closure enables game studios to overcome traditional barriers associated with multiplayer game creation. Additionally, the platform compiles games into hardware-accelerated native applications, facilitating immediate distribution on various devices. This approach provides developers with a cost-effective means to enter the competitive multiplayer and multiplatform gaming markets.

Game Closure

Seed Round in 2011
Game Closure is a company that offers an HTML-based multiplayer game development platform designed to simplify the creation and distribution of games for developers. Its software development kit (SDK) allows users to leverage familiar Web APIs to produce high-quality games that can be published across both iOS and Android ecosystems. By streamlining the processes of debugging, hosting, and development, Game Closure enables game studios to overcome traditional barriers associated with multiplayer game creation. Additionally, the platform compiles games into hardware-accelerated native applications, facilitating immediate distribution on various devices. This approach provides developers with a cost-effective means to enter the competitive multiplayer and multiplatform gaming markets.

RStudio

Seed Round in 2005
RStudio, Inc. specializes in developing open source and enterprise-ready software solutions for the R community. The company is well-known for its integrated development environment, RStudio, which includes features such as a console, syntax-highlighting editor, and tools for plotting, debugging, and workspace management. RStudio offers both open source and commercial editions compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems, as well as via browsers through RStudio Server. Additionally, RStudio provides Shiny, a web framework that enables users to create interactive web applications using R without needing expertise in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. Other offerings include RStudio Server Pro, which enhances security and resource management for professional data science, and Shiny Server Pro, which supports interactive data applications. The company also contributes to the R ecosystem with tools like ggplot2 for data visualization, knitr for report generation, and various development tools. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, RStudio serves a diverse clientele across science, education, and industry sectors in the United States.

Chalk

Chalk is a data platform designed to enhance machine learning and generative AI capabilities. It provides a superior developer experience that allows data teams to define features and their dependencies using Python across various environments, including online, streaming, and batch contexts. The platform compiles these definitions into parallel pipelines powered by a Rust-based engine, ensuring that feature values remain consistent between training and live model deployments. This capability significantly reduces development time by allowing the same source code to be used for both offline training sets and real-time feature values. By managing data infrastructure, Chalk enables engineers, data scientists, and analysts to concentrate on their specific products without the burden of underlying data management complexities.
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