General Catalyst

General Catalyst Group Management, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2000 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional offices in North America and Europe. The firm specializes in early-stage and growth equity investments, focusing on a wide range of technology sectors, including advanced materials, clean energy, disruptive technology, healthcare IT, and consumer services, among others. General Catalyst typically invests between $0.05 million and $0.25 million in seed-stage companies and between $10 million and $50 million in growth equity, seeking profitable firms with substantial revenue and EBITDA. Their approach emphasizes mentorship and collaboration, fostering strong relationships with entrepreneurs who share their vision and values. They have managed eight venture capital funds, accumulating around $3.75 billion in capital commitments, reflecting their commitment to supporting innovative companies throughout their growth journey.

Adrian Abeijon

Investor

Mark Allen

CFO

Juliet Bailin

Principal

Brian Bedol

Managing Director

Marc Bhargava

Managing Director

Chris Bischoff

Managing Director

Larry Bohn

Managing Director

Kristen Camarota

Investor

Kenneth Chenault

Chairman and Managing Director

Quentin Clark

Managing Director

Mark Crane

Partner, Investment Team

Joel Cutler

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Christopher Davis

Partner, Investments

Kyle Doherty

Managing Director, Investments

Bill Fitzgerald

Co-Founder and Special Advisors

Molly Blaauw Gillis

Partner and Chief of Staff

Jeremy Goldstein

Partner

Julia Goodman

Investor

Drew Gordon

Investor

Steve Herrod

Managing Director

Tony Ho

Investor

Diana Hong

Investor

Mina Hsiang

Associate

Paula Hübner

Partner

Nmachi Jidenma

Partner

Christopher Kauffman

Principal and Member of the Investment Team

Zak Kukoff

Principal

Bill Kung

Principal

Paul Kwan

Managing Director

Alexandre Momeni

Executive, Investments and Partner

Deep Nishar

Managing Director

Dipchand ("Deep") Nishar

Managing Director

Reva Nohria

Principal

Trevor Oelschig

Managing Director

Pranay Orugunta

Healthcare Investor

Mo Punjwani

Associate, Investments

Candace Richardson

Principal

Max Rimpel

Partner

Paul Sagan

Investor

Pranav Singhvi

Managing Director

Vedant Suri

Investor

Alex Tran

Managing Director

Catherine Tu

Partner

Elena Viboch

Partner

Andrea Wang

Principal, Early Stage Investment

Vincent Zhu

Investor

Past deals in Infrastructure

Arrcus

Series D in 2023
Arrcus, Inc. develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers, focusing on creating scalable infrastructure for physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, the company offers a range of products, including ArcOS, a hardware-agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; and ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides real-time network insights for incident management and troubleshooting. Additional offerings include the Arrcus VDR routing platform and solutions for IP/EVPN Clos and multi-cloud networking. Arrcus aims to facilitate network transformation by interconnecting people, machines, and data, enabling businesses to streamline operations and enhance manageability across their entire infrastructure.

Magma

Seed Round in 2023
Magma is a building materials B2B manufacturing platform and supply chain enablement platform. Its product stack includes factory and supplier-specific applications that help partner factories obtain raw materials, locate global buyers, and gain access to energy and resources. It enables factories to improve their output, practices, and global demand.

Render

Series A in 2021
Render is a cloud hosting platform designed to simplify the development and deployment of applications and websites. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company provides a unified solution that includes features such as free secure sockets layer (SSL), a global content delivery network (CDN), and automated deployments from GitHub. Render enables developers to host a variety of services, including web apps, static sites, APIs, background workers, cron jobs, and PostgreSQL databases, all without the need to manage servers. By reducing complexity and costs, Render aims to enhance the developer experience and facilitate the rapid delivery of software products at any scale.

Aviatrix

Series E in 2021
Aviatrix Systems, Inc. is a cloud networking company that specializes in developing cloud-native networking software to facilitate the deployment of hybrid and multi-cloud environments for enterprises. Its flagship product, Aviatrix AVX, provides a unified platform for advanced multi-cloud networking, enhancing security and operational visibility while ensuring a consistent architecture across various public clouds. Aviatrix also offers solutions such as secure transit networking, firewall services, and smart VPN access, which collectively enable businesses to manage their cloud connectivity efficiently. The company aims to simplify and secure cloud networking for enterprises, allowing them to accelerate their digital transformation while controlling IT costs. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Aviatrix has formed strategic partnerships with major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.

Arrcus

Venture Round in 2021
Arrcus, Inc. develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers, focusing on creating scalable infrastructure for physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, the company offers a range of products, including ArcOS, a hardware-agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; and ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides real-time network insights for incident management and troubleshooting. Additional offerings include the Arrcus VDR routing platform and solutions for IP/EVPN Clos and multi-cloud networking. Arrcus aims to facilitate network transformation by interconnecting people, machines, and data, enabling businesses to streamline operations and enhance manageability across their entire infrastructure.

Prosimo

Series A in 2021
Operator of an application experience infrastructure platform intended to offer a multi-cloud infrastructure strategy to deliver a secure and cost-optimized application. The company's platform handles both user-to-app and app-to-app requirements, preventing multiple fragmented initiatives in the cloud and provides secure access, app experience, real-time insights and quantified recommendations for multi-cloud, enabling clients to have an advantage of working from anywhere for the workforce and business partners.

ixLayer

Series A in 2021
ixlayer enables leading health systems, clinical labs, biopharma, and consumer companies to offer precision health testing, by remove all the technical, security, and regulatory complexity involved in launching a clinical health test.

Aviatrix

Series D in 2021
Aviatrix Systems, Inc. is a cloud networking company that specializes in developing cloud-native networking software to facilitate the deployment of hybrid and multi-cloud environments for enterprises. Its flagship product, Aviatrix AVX, provides a unified platform for advanced multi-cloud networking, enhancing security and operational visibility while ensuring a consistent architecture across various public clouds. Aviatrix also offers solutions such as secure transit networking, firewall services, and smart VPN access, which collectively enable businesses to manage their cloud connectivity efficiently. The company aims to simplify and secure cloud networking for enterprises, allowing them to accelerate their digital transformation while controlling IT costs. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Aviatrix has formed strategic partnerships with major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.

Render

Seed Round in 2020
Render is a cloud hosting platform designed to simplify the development and deployment of applications and websites. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company provides a unified solution that includes features such as free secure sockets layer (SSL), a global content delivery network (CDN), and automated deployments from GitHub. Render enables developers to host a variety of services, including web apps, static sites, APIs, background workers, cron jobs, and PostgreSQL databases, all without the need to manage servers. By reducing complexity and costs, Render aims to enhance the developer experience and facilitate the rapid delivery of software products at any scale.

Buildkite

Series A in 2020
Buildkite helps you ship your software faster and more reliably, with testing and deployment tools that work for all of your software projects – whether you build mobile apps, backend applications, or custom hardware.

Verne Global

Venture Round in 2020
Verne Global, Inc. specializes in delivering computing solutions within an optimized environment, focusing on colocation and HPC-as-a-Service offerings, along with DGX-Ready Hosting for data centers. Founded in 2006 and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company operates a 45-acre data center campus in Keflavik, Iceland, which began operations in 2012. This facility was designed to address the rising costs and availability challenges of power in the data center industry while prioritizing environmental sustainability. The campus exclusively utilizes renewable energy sources and is strategically located between Europe and North America, enabling it to provide global customers with affordable, carbon-neutral power. Verne Global serves various industries, including artificial intelligence, earth sciences, engineering, financial services, life sciences, and scientific research, making it a key player in the energy-efficient data solutions market.

Mercor

Pre Seed Round in 2020
We build GUIs and management software to enable small businesses to better deploy cloud resources.

Arrcus

Series B in 2019
Arrcus, Inc. develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers, focusing on creating scalable infrastructure for physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, the company offers a range of products, including ArcOS, a hardware-agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; and ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides real-time network insights for incident management and troubleshooting. Additional offerings include the Arrcus VDR routing platform and solutions for IP/EVPN Clos and multi-cloud networking. Arrcus aims to facilitate network transformation by interconnecting people, machines, and data, enabling businesses to streamline operations and enhance manageability across their entire infrastructure.

Render

Seed Round in 2019
Render is a cloud hosting platform designed to simplify the development and deployment of applications and websites. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company provides a unified solution that includes features such as free secure sockets layer (SSL), a global content delivery network (CDN), and automated deployments from GitHub. Render enables developers to host a variety of services, including web apps, static sites, APIs, background workers, cron jobs, and PostgreSQL databases, all without the need to manage servers. By reducing complexity and costs, Render aims to enhance the developer experience and facilitate the rapid delivery of software products at any scale.

Impira

Series B in 2019
Impira, Inc. is a company that offers an artificial intelligence platform designed to manage and streamline unstructured data, including images, videos, PDFs, and scanned documents. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the platform integrates with existing systems to consolidate various data sources, providing users with a comprehensive view of their information. Impira's solutions enhance workflows by automating the management of data and eliminating manual tasks. Additionally, the company offers Mango, an AI-powered tool that facilitates the search and extraction of key information from contracts and other documents. By employing machine learning and computer vision algorithms, Impira enables organizations to effectively categorize and analyze visual content, improving the way businesses interact with their data and enhancing overall productivity.

ClearSky Data

Venture Round in 2018
ClearSky Data operates a global storage network that provides enterprise storage as a fully managed service, simplifying the entire data lifecycle for businesses. Its innovative Smart Tiered Caching technology categorizes data into hot, warm, and cold tiers based on usage, allowing customers to efficiently manage and scale their storage needs through an intuitive dashboard. The service enables seamless data movement across the network for various applications, including data center migration and disaster recovery, while ensuring low-latency access to cloud instances through partnerships with major public cloud providers. ClearSky's model significantly reduces the total cost of ownership compared to traditional physical storage arrays, offering a cost-effective solution for demanding workloads. The company emphasizes high availability, security, and resilience, employing industry-leading technologies to protect customer data from the moment it enters the network, allowing enterprises to focus on their core operations without worrying about data management.

Arrcus

Series A in 2018
Arrcus, Inc. develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers, focusing on creating scalable infrastructure for physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, the company offers a range of products, including ArcOS, a hardware-agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; and ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides real-time network insights for incident management and troubleshooting. Additional offerings include the Arrcus VDR routing platform and solutions for IP/EVPN Clos and multi-cloud networking. Arrcus aims to facilitate network transformation by interconnecting people, machines, and data, enabling businesses to streamline operations and enhance manageability across their entire infrastructure.

Commure

Seed Round in 2017
Commure, Inc. is a developer of an open platform designed to facilitate the creation and deployment of next-generation healthcare applications. The platform enables healthcare software developers to build FHIR-native applications, providing a secure, reliable, and interoperable foundation. Key features include an FHIR API server, security framework, event service bus, EHR integration, API gateway, and flexible data storage options. This comprehensive infrastructure supports healthcare professionals, including doctors and nurses, in addressing daily challenges and enhancing patient care through innovative solutions. Founded in 2017, Commure is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Montreal, Canada; and Bogota, Colombia.

Impira

Series A in 2017
Impira, Inc. is a company that offers an artificial intelligence platform designed to manage and streamline unstructured data, including images, videos, PDFs, and scanned documents. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the platform integrates with existing systems to consolidate various data sources, providing users with a comprehensive view of their information. Impira's solutions enhance workflows by automating the management of data and eliminating manual tasks. Additionally, the company offers Mango, an AI-powered tool that facilitates the search and extraction of key information from contracts and other documents. By employing machine learning and computer vision algorithms, Impira enables organizations to effectively categorize and analyze visual content, improving the way businesses interact with their data and enhancing overall productivity.

ClearSky Data

Series B in 2015
ClearSky Data operates a global storage network that provides enterprise storage as a fully managed service, simplifying the entire data lifecycle for businesses. Its innovative Smart Tiered Caching technology categorizes data into hot, warm, and cold tiers based on usage, allowing customers to efficiently manage and scale their storage needs through an intuitive dashboard. The service enables seamless data movement across the network for various applications, including data center migration and disaster recovery, while ensuring low-latency access to cloud instances through partnerships with major public cloud providers. ClearSky's model significantly reduces the total cost of ownership compared to traditional physical storage arrays, offering a cost-effective solution for demanding workloads. The company emphasizes high availability, security, and resilience, employing industry-leading technologies to protect customer data from the moment it enters the network, allowing enterprises to focus on their core operations without worrying about data management.

Verne Global

Series D in 2015
Verne Global, Inc. specializes in delivering computing solutions within an optimized environment, focusing on colocation and HPC-as-a-Service offerings, along with DGX-Ready Hosting for data centers. Founded in 2006 and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company operates a 45-acre data center campus in Keflavik, Iceland, which began operations in 2012. This facility was designed to address the rising costs and availability challenges of power in the data center industry while prioritizing environmental sustainability. The campus exclusively utilizes renewable energy sources and is strategically located between Europe and North America, enabling it to provide global customers with affordable, carbon-neutral power. Verne Global serves various industries, including artificial intelligence, earth sciences, engineering, financial services, life sciences, and scientific research, making it a key player in the energy-efficient data solutions market.

ClearSky Technologies

Venture Round in 2014
ClearSky Technologies has established itself as a prominent provider of hosted infrastructure for mobile operators over the past decade. Headquartered in Orlando, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes hosted LTE and 5G solutions, traffic and policy management, and small cell as a service. Additionally, ClearSky specializes in enhancing mobile data services, providing multi-generation messaging capabilities, and improving in-building coverage for over 50 wireless operators across the Americas. By focusing on the needs of regional mobile network operators, ClearSky enables these companies to maximize their investments and enhance their service offerings.

ClearSky Data

Series A in 2014
ClearSky Data operates a global storage network that provides enterprise storage as a fully managed service, simplifying the entire data lifecycle for businesses. Its innovative Smart Tiered Caching technology categorizes data into hot, warm, and cold tiers based on usage, allowing customers to efficiently manage and scale their storage needs through an intuitive dashboard. The service enables seamless data movement across the network for various applications, including data center migration and disaster recovery, while ensuring low-latency access to cloud instances through partnerships with major public cloud providers. ClearSky's model significantly reduces the total cost of ownership compared to traditional physical storage arrays, offering a cost-effective solution for demanding workloads. The company emphasizes high availability, security, and resilience, employing industry-leading technologies to protect customer data from the moment it enters the network, allowing enterprises to focus on their core operations without worrying about data management.

Highwinds

Debt Financing in 2013
Highwinds Network Group, Inc. is a prominent provider of content delivery network (CDN), storage, analytics, and cloud-based IP services. Founded in 2002 and based in Winter Park, Florida, the company offers a variety of solutions to enhance content delivery, including HTTP caching, secure delivery of digital assets, and a programmable CDN with custom logic. Highwinds also features specialized platforms such as a Game Delivery Network for online games and EveryStream for over-the-top video delivery. Their Highwinds Cloud Storage supports online storage needs, while Full Site Acceleration optimizes the delivery of multimedia content. The company serves diverse sectors, including media, gaming, advertising, and software, catering to both domestic and international clients. As of 2017, Highwinds operates as a subsidiary of StackPath, LLC.

Virtual Instruments

Series D in 2012
Virtual Instruments is the leader in IT Infrastructure Performance Management for the physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Virtual Instruments is a dynamic, fast-growing technology company with a performance driven culture. Founded in June 2008 we are headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley, led by an industry-proven executive team, and backed by a group of highly experienced and successful investors. As a company, we are focused on delivering unparalleled value to our customers through a truly innovative combination of disruptive technology and revolutionary services. Our customers represent industry leading brands in every major vertical market, all of whom have some of the most performance sensitive and complex IT environments in the world. Our unwavering commitment to our customers' success, ensuring the performance and availability of their mission critical application workload as they migrate from physical to virtual and cloud computing environments, is what has fueled our record growth and is driving the ongoing development of our award winning Infrastructure Performance Management platform, VirtualWisdom.

SustainX

Venture Round in 2011
SustainX Inc. specializes in grid-scale energy storage solutions aimed at enhancing electric grid reliability and supporting renewable energy integration. Founded in 2007 and based in New Hampshire, the company develops innovative energy storage technologies that optimize energy management for renewable, commercial, and industrial applications. SustainX's primary offering is a unique energy storage system that converts and stores electrical energy as compressed air, facilitating peak power capacity, transmission asset utilization, and ancillary services. As a subsidiary of General Compression, Inc., SustainX is committed to advancing sustainable energy solutions and improving the efficiency of electric grids.

rPath

Series D in 2010
rPath helps automate application deployment and maintenance across physical, virtual and cloud environments. rPath's release automation platform is based on a unique version control repository for managing deployed software systems. The result is a complete automation solution for low-overhead and compliant application deployment and maintenance. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

rPath

Series C in 2008
rPath helps automate application deployment and maintenance across physical, virtual and cloud environments. rPath's release automation platform is based on a unique version control repository for managing deployed software systems. The result is a complete automation solution for low-overhead and compliant application deployment and maintenance. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Highwinds

Venture Round in 2008
Highwinds Network Group, Inc. is a prominent provider of content delivery network (CDN), storage, analytics, and cloud-based IP services. Founded in 2002 and based in Winter Park, Florida, the company offers a variety of solutions to enhance content delivery, including HTTP caching, secure delivery of digital assets, and a programmable CDN with custom logic. Highwinds also features specialized platforms such as a Game Delivery Network for online games and EveryStream for over-the-top video delivery. Their Highwinds Cloud Storage supports online storage needs, while Full Site Acceleration optimizes the delivery of multimedia content. The company serves diverse sectors, including media, gaming, advertising, and software, catering to both domestic and international clients. As of 2017, Highwinds operates as a subsidiary of StackPath, LLC.

rPath

Series B in 2007
rPath helps automate application deployment and maintenance across physical, virtual and cloud environments. rPath's release automation platform is based on a unique version control repository for managing deployed software systems. The result is a complete automation solution for low-overhead and compliant application deployment and maintenance. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

rPath

Series A in 2006
rPath helps automate application deployment and maintenance across physical, virtual and cloud environments. rPath's release automation platform is based on a unique version control repository for managing deployed software systems. The result is a complete automation solution for low-overhead and compliant application deployment and maintenance. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Avaki

Series A in 2003
AVAKI provides grid solutions which enable organizations not only to manage but to leverage the explosion in data and applications, within and across enterprises. A grid is a heterogeneous network which appears and functions as one large operating environment. AVAKI grid solutions can be broken down conceptually into two major categories: compute grids and data grids. AVAKI 2.0 delivers the functionality of each, as well as integrated solutions. Any or all aspects of the software can be implemented, depending on an organization's needs.

Avaki

Series A in 2001
AVAKI provides grid solutions which enable organizations not only to manage but to leverage the explosion in data and applications, within and across enterprises. A grid is a heterogeneous network which appears and functions as one large operating environment. AVAKI grid solutions can be broken down conceptually into two major categories: compute grids and data grids. AVAKI 2.0 delivers the functionality of each, as well as integrated solutions. Any or all aspects of the software can be implemented, depending on an organization's needs.
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