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 InsurTech

Nirvana Insurance

Series C in 2025
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

Nirvana Insurance

Series B in 2023
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

Certify

Series A in 2022
CertifyOS is a data intelligence platform focused on streamlining provider data management within the U.S. healthcare system. It provides an API-first and user interface agnostic solution that automates the entire provider network management lifecycle, including licensing, credentialing, and health plan enrollment. By integrating with numerous primary sources, CertifyOS offers near real-time verification and monitoring, facilitating efficient management of provider networks for insurance companies and virtual care providers. The platform aims to simplify and enhance the scalability of provider networking, positioning itself as a comprehensive resource for these critical operational needs.

Capital Rx

Series C in 2022
Capital Rx, Inc. is a pharmacy benefit manager that specializes in managing self-insured prescription benefit plans for employers, unions, and government entities. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, the company aims to transform the pricing and administration of prescriptions in the U.S. through its innovative Clearinghouse Model, which enhances transparency in the pharmacy supply chain and reduces costs for employer groups. By integrating various components of the pharmacy ecosystem into a single platform, Capital Rx improves administrative workflows, clinical oversight, and patient-provider coordination. This approach not only increases drug price visibility but also focuses on enhancing patient outcomes and healthcare efficiency, ultimately fostering better engagement between healthcare providers and patients.

Alinea Health

Venture Round in 2022
Alinea Health is a health-tech startup that provides solutions for corporate health. It utilizes large amounts of data and proprietary algorithms to assist the client company's beneficiaries in navigating their health plans, providing personalized and unbiased guidance, recommendations from the most effective doctors in the accredited network, and conveniences such as scheduling consultations and exams. In addition to continuous monitoring, its doctors use the Lifestyle Medicine methodology to promote a healthy lifestyle and lower the risk of developing chronic diseases.

Nirvana Insurance

Series A in 2022
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

Zego

Series C in 2021
Zego is a motor insurance provider that aims to offer competitive pricing for responsible drivers. The company operates an on-demand insurance platform designed to deliver flexible professional and commercial insurance options for vehicle owners. Zego's services include pay-as-you-go insurance tailored for drivers and riders who work with their own vehicles, catering particularly to those engaged in flexible work. The platform allows mobility service providers to access various policies, ranging from minute-by-minute coverage to annual plans. By utilizing usage data from vehicles, Zego provides customers with greater flexibility compared to traditional insurance offerings.

Shift Technology

Series D in 2021
Shift Technology provides AI-driven decision automation and optimization solutions tailored for the global insurance industry. The company specializes in fraud detection and has developed a cloud-based platform that enhances the insurance claims process. By analyzing hundreds of millions of transactions, Shift's technology identifies potential fraud, allowing insurers to process claims more efficiently and effectively. The solutions offered by Shift aim to improve accuracy and speed in claims and policy resolutions, contributing to the overall enhancement of the insurance policy lifecycle. Shift Technology's innovations have been recognized in the industry, evidenced by receiving Frost & Sullivan’s Global Claims Solutions for Insurance Market Leadership Award in 2020.

Zego

Series C in 2021
Zego is a motor insurance provider that aims to offer competitive pricing for responsible drivers. The company operates an on-demand insurance platform designed to deliver flexible professional and commercial insurance options for vehicle owners. Zego's services include pay-as-you-go insurance tailored for drivers and riders who work with their own vehicles, catering particularly to those engaged in flexible work. The platform allows mobility service providers to access various policies, ranging from minute-by-minute coverage to annual plans. By utilizing usage data from vehicles, Zego provides customers with greater flexibility compared to traditional insurance offerings.

Circulo

Series A in 2021
Circulo Health is a Medicaid insurance company of the future, providing tech-enabled care to the sickest and poorest populations. Circulo is based in Columbus, Ohio, the emerging insurtech capital of the U.S.

Capital Rx

Series B in 2021
Capital Rx, Inc. is a pharmacy benefit manager that specializes in managing self-insured prescription benefit plans for employers, unions, and government entities. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, the company aims to transform the pricing and administration of prescriptions in the U.S. through its innovative Clearinghouse Model, which enhances transparency in the pharmacy supply chain and reduces costs for employer groups. By integrating various components of the pharmacy ecosystem into a single platform, Capital Rx improves administrative workflows, clinical oversight, and patient-provider coordination. This approach not only increases drug price visibility but also focuses on enhancing patient outcomes and healthcare efficiency, ultimately fostering better engagement between healthcare providers and patients.

Nirvana Insurance

Seed Round in 2021
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

Oscar Health

Venture Round in 2020
Oscar Health is a health insurance company that offers a range of plans for individuals, families, and small groups, as well as Medicare Advantage options for adults aged 65 and older. Founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner, Kevin Nazemi, and Mario Schlosser, the company is headquartered in New York City. Oscar Health employs technology and data-driven solutions to enhance the healthcare experience, providing virtual care, doctor support, and appointment scheduling services. Its plans are available in select regions of New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas, catering to those who do not receive employer-sponsored health insurance.

TowerIQ

Series A in 2020
TowerIQ is a broker first platform that brings transparency to insurance markets. The company seamlessly brings clients from application to binding by augmenting broker expertise with a low touch technology platform that distributes ingestible data directly to any carrier. This frees brokers and agents to focus their efforts on solving the business challenges facing the clients that allow them to win more business and improve client retention. TowerIQ was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Truss

Series A in 2019
Truss is an online marketplace to help small and medium-sized business owners find, tour, and lease space. Its tech-enabled platform and its people help you find the right space for the best price in record time. Its technology enables business owners to find the right space confidently by comparing spaces in its marketplace. Truss also offers dedicated brokers who act as the point person throughout the seamless process. Plus, it is the only platform to offer price transparency for small business owners, which means that Truss is the only site to compare pricing on traditional office space and co-working space. Truss was established in 2016 and is based in Deerfield, Illinois.

Oscar Health

Venture Round in 2018
Oscar Health is a health insurance company that offers a range of plans for individuals, families, and small groups, as well as Medicare Advantage options for adults aged 65 and older. Founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner, Kevin Nazemi, and Mario Schlosser, the company is headquartered in New York City. Oscar Health employs technology and data-driven solutions to enhance the healthcare experience, providing virtual care, doctor support, and appointment scheduling services. Its plans are available in select regions of New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas, catering to those who do not receive employer-sponsored health insurance.

Shift Technology

Series B in 2017
Shift Technology provides AI-driven decision automation and optimization solutions tailored for the global insurance industry. The company specializes in fraud detection and has developed a cloud-based platform that enhances the insurance claims process. By analyzing hundreds of millions of transactions, Shift's technology identifies potential fraud, allowing insurers to process claims more efficiently and effectively. The solutions offered by Shift aim to improve accuracy and speed in claims and policy resolutions, contributing to the overall enhancement of the insurance policy lifecycle. Shift Technology's innovations have been recognized in the industry, evidenced by receiving Frost & Sullivan’s Global Claims Solutions for Insurance Market Leadership Award in 2020.

Oscar Health

Private Equity Round in 2016
Oscar Health is a health insurance company that offers a range of plans for individuals, families, and small groups, as well as Medicare Advantage options for adults aged 65 and older. Founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner, Kevin Nazemi, and Mario Schlosser, the company is headquartered in New York City. Oscar Health employs technology and data-driven solutions to enhance the healthcare experience, providing virtual care, doctor support, and appointment scheduling services. Its plans are available in select regions of New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas, catering to those who do not receive employer-sponsored health insurance.

Super

Seed Round in 2015
Super is an insurtech company that offers a subscription service for home care and repair.

Oscar Health

Series C in 2015
Oscar Health is a health insurance company that offers a range of plans for individuals, families, and small groups, as well as Medicare Advantage options for adults aged 65 and older. Founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner, Kevin Nazemi, and Mario Schlosser, the company is headquartered in New York City. Oscar Health employs technology and data-driven solutions to enhance the healthcare experience, providing virtual care, doctor support, and appointment scheduling services. Its plans are available in select regions of New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas, catering to those who do not receive employer-sponsored health insurance.

Oscar Health

Series B in 2014
Oscar Health is a health insurance company that offers a range of plans for individuals, families, and small groups, as well as Medicare Advantage options for adults aged 65 and older. Founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner, Kevin Nazemi, and Mario Schlosser, the company is headquartered in New York City. Oscar Health employs technology and data-driven solutions to enhance the healthcare experience, providing virtual care, doctor support, and appointment scheduling services. Its plans are available in select regions of New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas, catering to those who do not receive employer-sponsored health insurance.

Oscar Health

Series A in 2014
Oscar Health is a health insurance company that offers a range of plans for individuals, families, and small groups, as well as Medicare Advantage options for adults aged 65 and older. Founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner, Kevin Nazemi, and Mario Schlosser, the company is headquartered in New York City. Oscar Health employs technology and data-driven solutions to enhance the healthcare experience, providing virtual care, doctor support, and appointment scheduling services. Its plans are available in select regions of New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas, catering to those who do not receive employer-sponsored health insurance.

Oscar Health

Series A in 2013
Oscar Health is a health insurance company that offers a range of plans for individuals, families, and small groups, as well as Medicare Advantage options for adults aged 65 and older. Founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner, Kevin Nazemi, and Mario Schlosser, the company is headquartered in New York City. Oscar Health employs technology and data-driven solutions to enhance the healthcare experience, providing virtual care, doctor support, and appointment scheduling services. Its plans are available in select regions of New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas, catering to those who do not receive employer-sponsored health insurance.
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