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 Hotel

TravelPerk

Series E in 2025
TravelPerk is a comprehensive platform that streamlines business travel management by integrating booking, reporting, and support into a single tool. It enables users to easily book flights, hotels, and car rentals while ensuring adherence to company policies. The platform offers a wide range of travel options and features, including automated policies, expense integrations, and customer service support. With its user-friendly interface and advanced technology, TravelPerk helps organizations manage their travel needs efficiently, control costs, and simplify the overall booking process for employees. By combining various travel services into one solution, it aims to enhance the travel experience for businesses and reduce the complexities associated with managing business trips.

TravelPerk

Series D in 2022
TravelPerk is a comprehensive platform that streamlines business travel management by integrating booking, reporting, and support into a single tool. It enables users to easily book flights, hotels, and car rentals while ensuring adherence to company policies. The platform offers a wide range of travel options and features, including automated policies, expense integrations, and customer service support. With its user-friendly interface and advanced technology, TravelPerk helps organizations manage their travel needs efficiently, control costs, and simplify the overall booking process for employees. By combining various travel services into one solution, it aims to enhance the travel experience for businesses and reduce the complexities associated with managing business trips.

Room 77

Series C in 2013
Room 77, Inc. is a hotel metasearch platform based in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2009. The company offers travelers an advanced hotel shopping experience by allowing them to compare prices across major online travel agencies and book from over 200,000 hotel rooms worldwide. Users can explore various room types, preview views from each room, and utilize interactive floor plans to assess room locations. Additionally, Room 77 provides access to a complimentary Room Concierge for guests booking 4- or 5-star hotels or stays exceeding $400, leveraging its proprietary RoomMatch technology to identify optimal room selections tailored to individual preferences. As of March 2019, Room 77 operates as a subsidiary of HotelPlanner.com.

Ostrovok.ru

Venture Round in 2011
Founded in 2011, today Ostrovok.ru is ranked by Similarweb as Russia’s leading domestic online hotel booking site offering over 2,200,000 different types of accommodation in hotels, hostels, and apartments. This inventory is sourced directly from accommodation providers or via world’s leading third-party suppliers. This combination of direct and third-party supply helps us deliver on the brand’s main strengths: excellent availability, competitive prices, transparent pricing policy, and a constantly growing number of unique customer reviews. Ostrovok.ru runs its own customer service center working 24/7. Ostrovok.ru is an official partner of both Aeroflot and Pobeda airlines. Ostrovok.ru is recognized as an advertising platform by leading brands and advertising agencies in Russia and abroad. Its head office is in Moscow.

Room 77

Series B in 2011
Room 77, Inc. is a hotel metasearch platform based in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2009. The company offers travelers an advanced hotel shopping experience by allowing them to compare prices across major online travel agencies and book from over 200,000 hotel rooms worldwide. Users can explore various room types, preview views from each room, and utilize interactive floor plans to assess room locations. Additionally, Room 77 provides access to a complimentary Room Concierge for guests booking 4- or 5-star hotels or stays exceeding $400, leveraging its proprietary RoomMatch technology to identify optimal room selections tailored to individual preferences. As of March 2019, Room 77 operates as a subsidiary of HotelPlanner.com.

KAYAK

Series D in 2007
KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.

KAYAK

Series B in 2004
KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.

KAYAK

Series A in 2004
KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.
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