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

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Metronome

Series C in 2025
Metronome is a billing infrastructure company focused on supporting software companies in launching, iterating, and scaling their usage-based business models. The company offers metering and data mediation software that enhances billing capabilities, ensuring a robust data infrastructure and real-time architecture tailored for usage-based billing. Metronome emphasizes rapid deployment, flexibility, and user-friendliness, reducing the engineering demands typically associated with billing systems. This enables business and product teams to manage revenue and pricing effectively. Following initial platform integration, teams can quickly introduce new products and pricing options, streamline revenue workflows, and grant customers immediate access to their spending insights.

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.

Cartesia

Series A in 2024
Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.

Tractian

Series C in 2024
Tractian specializes in providing asset management and monitoring solutions designed to enhance the efficiency and reliability of industrial operations. The company offers tools for data collection and analysis that enable businesses to track the performance and condition of their assets effectively. Tractian's system integrates with various sensors and devices, facilitating predictive maintenance by offering real-time monitoring capabilities. This makes it easier for maintenance teams and decision-makers in sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, and energy to gain comprehensive oversight of their operations.

Metronome

Series B in 2024
Metronome is a billing infrastructure company focused on supporting software companies in launching, iterating, and scaling their usage-based business models. The company offers metering and data mediation software that enhances billing capabilities, ensuring a robust data infrastructure and real-time architecture tailored for usage-based billing. Metronome emphasizes rapid deployment, flexibility, and user-friendliness, reducing the engineering demands typically associated with billing systems. This enables business and product teams to manage revenue and pricing effectively. Following initial platform integration, teams can quickly introduce new products and pricing options, streamline revenue workflows, and grant customers immediate access to their spending insights.

Ozone

Seed Round in 2023
Ozone is an innovative company that has developed an AI-powered video editing platform designed to enhance the creative process for users. By enabling remote collaboration, Ozone allows creative producers to edit high-definition footage seamlessly without the need for bulky hardware or slow processing times. The platform supports features such as instant video mockup creation, effortless color correction, and real-time previews of edits, making it a valuable tool for those in the creative industry. Ozone's focus is on providing a user-friendly experience that empowers creatives to extend their capabilities and streamline their workflows, all within a cloud-based environment that prioritizes speed and accessibility.

Tractian

Series B in 2023
Tractian specializes in providing asset management and monitoring solutions designed to enhance the efficiency and reliability of industrial operations. The company offers tools for data collection and analysis that enable businesses to track the performance and condition of their assets effectively. Tractian's system integrates with various sensors and devices, facilitating predictive maintenance by offering real-time monitoring capabilities. This makes it easier for maintenance teams and decision-makers in sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, and energy to gain comprehensive oversight of their operations.

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.

Luma AI

Series A in 2023
Luma AI is a generative AI startup focused on transforming text descriptions into 3D models, enabling users to create realistic representations of their ideas and experiences. The company utilizes a neural capture and rendering system that converts casually captured smartphone photos into photorealistic 3D imagery. This innovation serves multiple industries, including e-commerce, real estate, and gaming, enhancing the way users interact with visual content. By integrating mixed-reality elements, Luma AI aims to revolutionize the sharing of memories, exploration of products, and navigation of online spaces, ultimately shaping a future where photos and videos are experienced in an immersive three-dimensional environment.

Viva Translate

Seed Round in 2022
Viva Translate is a developer of an advanced web-based translation platform that facilitates real-time communication in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The company's innovative multilingual audio transcription and translation technology enables users to engage in live video calls while breaking down language barriers. By providing real-time translation, transcriptions, and summaries of meeting notes, Viva Translate enhances collaboration among stakeholders from diverse linguistic backgrounds, making effective communication more accessible globally.

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.

Convex

Seed Round in 2021
Convex makes it dead-simple to store your app's shared state and sync it everywhere. As a developer, you interact with your shared state using JavaScript or TypeScript functions and bind that state to your reactive app.

Tempo

Series C in 2021
Tempo designs and develops a home fitness platform with personal guidance to help users in their training sessions. It features live elite trainers who can help users when they make mistakes. It has built-in three-dimensional sensors that track form, counts reps, and recommend weights. It helps users to improve in real-time. Powered by 3D motion sensors and AI, it analyzes 25 of the body’s essential joints as users work out and gives understood form feedback. Moawia Eldeeb and Joshua Augustin founded it as Pivot in 2015, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Metronome

Series A in 2021
Metronome is a billing infrastructure company focused on supporting software companies in launching, iterating, and scaling their usage-based business models. The company offers metering and data mediation software that enhances billing capabilities, ensuring a robust data infrastructure and real-time architecture tailored for usage-based billing. Metronome emphasizes rapid deployment, flexibility, and user-friendliness, reducing the engineering demands typically associated with billing systems. This enables business and product teams to manage revenue and pricing effectively. Following initial platform integration, teams can quickly introduce new products and pricing options, streamline revenue workflows, and grant customers immediate access to their spending insights.

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.

Tempo

Series B in 2020
Tempo designs and develops a home fitness platform with personal guidance to help users in their training sessions. It features live elite trainers who can help users when they make mistakes. It has built-in three-dimensional sensors that track form, counts reps, and recommend weights. It helps users to improve in real-time. Powered by 3D motion sensors and AI, it analyzes 25 of the body’s essential joints as users work out and gives understood form feedback. Moawia Eldeeb and Joshua Augustin founded it as Pivot in 2015, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Remesh

Series A in 2020
Remesh Inc. is a U.S.-based company that specializes in an AI-powered platform designed for real-time audience engagement and insights. Founded in 2013, Remesh enables users to conduct live conversations with up to 1,000 participants simultaneously, allowing for the collective expression of thoughts and opinions within a group. The platform integrates artificial intelligence with market research, facilitating the rapid collection, analysis, and presentation of feedback from customers or employees. This technology empowers businesses to understand their audiences better and make informed decisions based on real-time data, enhancing their ability to gather valuable insights from their clients.

Metronome

Seed Round in 2020
Metronome is a billing infrastructure company focused on supporting software companies in launching, iterating, and scaling their usage-based business models. The company offers metering and data mediation software that enhances billing capabilities, ensuring a robust data infrastructure and real-time architecture tailored for usage-based billing. Metronome emphasizes rapid deployment, flexibility, and user-friendliness, reducing the engineering demands typically associated with billing systems. This enables business and product teams to manage revenue and pricing effectively. Following initial platform integration, teams can quickly introduce new products and pricing options, streamline revenue workflows, and grant customers immediate access to their spending insights.

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.

Preempt Security

Series B in 2018
Preempt Security, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that focuses on protecting organizations from insider threats and security breaches through its advanced software platform. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional operations in Ramat Gan, Israel, Preempt Security employs conditional access technology to monitor and manage identities, behaviors, and risks in real-time. The platform is designed to unify security visibility and control for both on-premises and cloud identities, addressing the significant threat posed by compromised credentials, which account for 80% of all breaches. With a client base of over 400 enterprises and protection for more than 4 million workforce identities, Preempt's solutions enable organizations to respond automatically to anomalous behavior, implement secure access controls, and effectively accelerate their Zero Trust and Conditional Access initiatives.

Drift

Series C in 2018
Drift is a revenue acceleration platform that leverages conversational marketing and sales techniques to enhance business growth and customer lifetime value. The platform is utilized by over 50,000 companies to synchronize sales and marketing efforts, providing a cohesive customer experience. Drift enables businesses to engage website visitors in real-time through the use of bots and artificial intelligence, facilitating live chat sessions that gather immediate customer feedback. This functionality allows clients to convert website traffic into qualified sales meetings, streamline the sales cycle, and create a contemporary buying experience for potential customers.

6D.ai

Seed Round in 2018
6D.ai is a technology company specializing in the development of application programming interfaces for the augmented reality (AR) industry. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company focuses on creating a robust AR cloud platform that enables real-time, three-dimensional mapping of the environment using data sourced from standard smartphone cameras and mobile sensors. Its technology facilitates the construction of dense, interactive 3D meshes, allowing for multi-user AR experiences and enhancing spatial computing capabilities. By leveraging crowdsourced data, 6D.ai's solutions empower developers to create applications that seamlessly integrate with the physical world, thereby enriching user engagement and interaction. As of March 2020, 6D.ai operates as a subsidiary of Niantic, Inc.

Remesh

Series A in 2018
Remesh Inc. is a U.S.-based company that specializes in an AI-powered platform designed for real-time audience engagement and insights. Founded in 2013, Remesh enables users to conduct live conversations with up to 1,000 participants simultaneously, allowing for the collective expression of thoughts and opinions within a group. The platform integrates artificial intelligence with market research, facilitating the rapid collection, analysis, and presentation of feedback from customers or employees. This technology empowers businesses to understand their audiences better and make informed decisions based on real-time data, enhancing their ability to gather valuable insights from their clients.

Anomali

Series D in 2018
Anomali, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in threat intelligence solutions that help organizations detect and respond to cyber threats more effectively. Its platform enhances the identification of adversaries within a client's network by correlating threat indicators with real-time activity logs and historical forensic data. Anomali offers various products, including Anomali Reports for data breach detection, Anomali Enterprise Breach Analytics for personalized threat intelligence, and ThreatStream 6.0, which provides machine-readable intelligence to enhance existing security solutions. Additionally, ThreatStream Integrator connects to various threat intelligence sources, facilitating the sharing of information across organizations. The company serves a diverse clientele, including IT personnel, threat analysts, and executives across sectors such as healthcare and government. Founded in 2013 and based in Redwood City, California, Anomali was previously known as Threatstream, Inc. before rebranding in 2016.

Streem

Seed Round in 2017
Streem is an innovative technology company that specializes in enhancing real-time communication and collaboration through its intelligent camera platform. The company integrates augmented reality, computer vision, and machine learning to facilitate remote assistance, allowing users to capture vital information such as brand models, serial numbers, and measurements. Streem’s tools enable users to generate notes and images through a digital toolbox, streamlining the process of diagnosing customer inquiries and delivering prompt support. In addition to its collaboration capabilities, Streem offers unlimited cloud storage for media files, allowing users to store, stream, and share content without using device storage space. This seamless integration ensures instant access to files from any device, enhancing both individual and organizational workflows.

Drift

Series B in 2017
Drift is a revenue acceleration platform that leverages conversational marketing and sales techniques to enhance business growth and customer lifetime value. The platform is utilized by over 50,000 companies to synchronize sales and marketing efforts, providing a cohesive customer experience. Drift enables businesses to engage website visitors in real-time through the use of bots and artificial intelligence, facilitating live chat sessions that gather immediate customer feedback. This functionality allows clients to convert website traffic into qualified sales meetings, streamline the sales cycle, and create a contemporary buying experience for potential customers.

Preempt Security

Series A in 2016
Preempt Security, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that focuses on protecting organizations from insider threats and security breaches through its advanced software platform. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional operations in Ramat Gan, Israel, Preempt Security employs conditional access technology to monitor and manage identities, behaviors, and risks in real-time. The platform is designed to unify security visibility and control for both on-premises and cloud identities, addressing the significant threat posed by compromised credentials, which account for 80% of all breaches. With a client base of over 400 enterprises and protection for more than 4 million workforce identities, Preempt's solutions enable organizations to respond automatically to anomalous behavior, implement secure access controls, and effectively accelerate their Zero Trust and Conditional Access initiatives.

Anomali

Series C in 2016
Anomali, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in threat intelligence solutions that help organizations detect and respond to cyber threats more effectively. Its platform enhances the identification of adversaries within a client's network by correlating threat indicators with real-time activity logs and historical forensic data. Anomali offers various products, including Anomali Reports for data breach detection, Anomali Enterprise Breach Analytics for personalized threat intelligence, and ThreatStream 6.0, which provides machine-readable intelligence to enhance existing security solutions. Additionally, ThreatStream Integrator connects to various threat intelligence sources, facilitating the sharing of information across organizations. The company serves a diverse clientele, including IT personnel, threat analysts, and executives across sectors such as healthcare and government. Founded in 2013 and based in Redwood City, California, Anomali was previously known as Threatstream, Inc. before rebranding in 2016.

Drift

Series A in 2015
Drift is a revenue acceleration platform that leverages conversational marketing and sales techniques to enhance business growth and customer lifetime value. The platform is utilized by over 50,000 companies to synchronize sales and marketing efforts, providing a cohesive customer experience. Drift enables businesses to engage website visitors in real-time through the use of bots and artificial intelligence, facilitating live chat sessions that gather immediate customer feedback. This functionality allows clients to convert website traffic into qualified sales meetings, streamline the sales cycle, and create a contemporary buying experience for potential customers.

Anomali

Series B in 2014
Anomali, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in threat intelligence solutions that help organizations detect and respond to cyber threats more effectively. Its platform enhances the identification of adversaries within a client's network by correlating threat indicators with real-time activity logs and historical forensic data. Anomali offers various products, including Anomali Reports for data breach detection, Anomali Enterprise Breach Analytics for personalized threat intelligence, and ThreatStream 6.0, which provides machine-readable intelligence to enhance existing security solutions. Additionally, ThreatStream Integrator connects to various threat intelligence sources, facilitating the sharing of information across organizations. The company serves a diverse clientele, including IT personnel, threat analysts, and executives across sectors such as healthcare and government. Founded in 2013 and based in Redwood City, California, Anomali was previously known as Threatstream, Inc. before rebranding in 2016.

THIS TECHNOLOGY

Series A in 2012
THIS TECHNOLOGY, Inc. specializes in dynamic ad insertion and alternate content delivery solutions designed for multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) and programming networks. Its innovative platforms facilitate the seamless integration of video operations and advertising systems, enabling real-time communication regarding content and advertising availability. This technology streamlines the delivery of both local and national content and advertisements across various platforms, including video on demand (VOD), network DVR, IPTV, TV Everywhere, and mobile devices. Based in Denver, with additional offices in New York City and Beijing, the company serves prominent clients such as Comcast, Verizon, NBCUniversal, and ABC, positioning itself as a key player in the evolving landscape of video advertising.

OmniVirt

Seed Round in 2012
OmniVirt is a technology company based in Millbrae, California, founded in 2012. It specializes in creating an advertising platform that enables the creation and distribution of immersive ads using virtual reality (VR), 360° video, 3D rendering, and augmented reality (AR). The platform allows brands to upload, promote, and analyze their content across a network of publishers and platforms, delivering significantly higher performance than traditional advertising. OmniVirt's technology is compatible with most browsers and trusted by major publishers such as The New York Times, WSJ, Washington Post, and Forbes.

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.

Hot Potato

Series A in 2009
Hot Potato is a technology company that specializes in enhancing the experience of live events through real-time social collaboration. It provides a platform where friends and fans can connect, share their perspectives, and enjoy each other's contributions during events. The company focuses on creating tools that make participating in events more engaging and fun by facilitating interactions among groups who share an interest in the same experiences as they unfold.

Prepared

Prepared is a technology company dedicated to enhancing public safety through innovative software solutions. Its primary focus is on developing a safety application that improves communication during emergencies, particularly in educational settings. The application enables teachers and staff to swiftly connect with first responders, facilitating timely reporting of both critical emergencies and non-critical events. By providing real-time access to features such as video, GPS location, and text messaging for mobile 911 callers, Prepared aims to streamline the workflow of dispatchers and first responders, allowing them to concentrate on their essential role of saving lives. The company prioritizes its mission and values, striving to maximize its impact on community safety across various environments.
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