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 HĂĽbner

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 Recruiting

Traba

Series A in 2022
Traba is a marketplace that connects light industrial workers with businesses to fill open shifts. Their focus is on opportunities in warehousing, distribution, and event staffing.

PowerUs

Seed Round in 2022
PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.

Remote

Series C in 2022
Remote Technology, Inc. provides a comprehensive human resource technology platform that specializes in payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax services for businesses employing distributed teams. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company simplifies international payroll and compliance processes for both employees and contractors. Remote's platform allows organizations to manage onboarding, automatic payments, and various statutory obligations, such as social and pension contributions and income tax retention, while connecting candidates with remote job opportunities. By addressing the complexities of global employment, Remote enables companies to focus on their workforce and enhance productivity without compliance risks.

Enigma

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a decoding platform designed to evaluate candidates based on real-world skills. The company's platform offers a puzzle-based alternative to engaging a community network with passion and expertise, enabling clients to find better cybersecurity talent by meeting needs.

Awardco

Series A in 2021
Awardco is a software that specializes in employee recognition and engagement, inspiring human connection through rewarding recognition. It has integrated with Amazon Business to make employee recognition more rewarding. Instead of being limited by a catalog of selected rewards, give your employees millions of options with Amazon Business. With features including peer to peer recognition, service awards, spot recognition, and powerful reporting capabilities, Awardco has made a simple and flexible platform to inspire better human connection at work. Eliminate unnecessary costs, redirect rewards budgets back to employees, and simplify the recognition process altogether with Awardco. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Orem, Utah.

Seafair

Venture Round in 2021
Seafair provides an integrated platform for maritime crewing services, facilitating connections between seafarers and shipping companies. The company has developed a specialized crewing management software that enhances the traditional methods of shipping crewing. Utilizing a proprietary vetting process, the platform employs advanced technology, data analytics, and ranking algorithms to ensure that seafarers can easily find suitable job opportunities while allowing shipping companies to identify the most qualified candidates. This innovation enables users to manage the recruitment process efficiently from their homes, streamlining operations in the maritime industry.

Envoy Global

Private Equity Round in 2021
Envoy Global Inc. specializes in immigration services, offering work-based visa and green card solutions for enterprise customers across various industries. The company provides application preparation for a range of work visa categories, including H, L-1, E, O, P, B-1, F-1, and TN, as well as major green card categories such as EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3. Envoy Global also features an Immigration Management Platform that facilitates attorney communication, document organization, form completion, and case tracking. Additional services include eligibility assessments, legal consultations, and support for Requests for Evidence (RFE) and Notices of Intent to Deny (NOID). By leveraging its technology and expertise, Envoy Global helps businesses navigate the complexities of hiring and managing a global workforce, from visa sponsorship to employee relocation and retention. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company was previously known as VISANOW.com, Inc.

Press Sports App

Seed Round in 2021
Press Sports App, Inc. is a mobile application designed for athletes, coaches, and sports enthusiasts to share and discover sports highlights while fostering local community engagement. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the platform provides a user-friendly experience akin to social media, allowing athletes to create profiles, showcase their achievements, and connect with coaches across various sports. Coaches can track the development of potential recruits and access important information such as transcripts and test scores. Additionally, the app facilitates interactions among fans, parents, and athletes, enabling them to follow and support athletes’ posts. Through its innovative approach, Press Sports App serves as a valuable tool for self-promotion and networking within the sports community.

Traba

Seed Round in 2021
Traba is a marketplace that connects light industrial workers with businesses to fill open shifts. Their focus is on opportunities in warehousing, distribution, and event staffing.

Remote

Series B in 2021
Remote Technology, Inc. provides a comprehensive human resource technology platform that specializes in payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax services for businesses employing distributed teams. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company simplifies international payroll and compliance processes for both employees and contractors. Remote's platform allows organizations to manage onboarding, automatic payments, and various statutory obligations, such as social and pension contributions and income tax retention, while connecting candidates with remote job opportunities. By addressing the complexities of global employment, Remote enables companies to focus on their workforce and enhance productivity without compliance risks.

Alariss

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Provider of employment services intended to help companies build their local sales and business development teams. The company leverages US networks and AI curation to match global companies' talent and provides the option for EOR services for taking care of payroll and legal compliance, enabling global technology companies to expand into the US and Americans to have global careers.

Eightfold.ai

Series E in 2021
Eightfold.ai develops a talent intelligence platform designed to enhance talent acquisition and management for organizations. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, the platform aggregates comprehensive people data from applicants to alumni. It utilizes artificial intelligence to assess individuals' capabilities, enabling enterprises to match candidates with suitable opportunities and predict future roles and performance. The platform also helps organizations retain top talent by facilitating upskilling and reskilling, promoting diversity, and creating a talent network that identifies top performers and performance trends. Additionally, it provides tools for building job descriptions and generating a pipeline of qualified candidates for open roles, while assisting employees in understanding potential growth opportunities within the organization.

Remote

Series A in 2020
Remote Technology, Inc. provides a comprehensive human resource technology platform that specializes in payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax services for businesses employing distributed teams. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company simplifies international payroll and compliance processes for both employees and contractors. Remote's platform allows organizations to manage onboarding, automatic payments, and various statutory obligations, such as social and pension contributions and income tax retention, while connecting candidates with remote job opportunities. By addressing the complexities of global employment, Remote enables companies to focus on their workforce and enhance productivity without compliance risks.

Eightfold.ai

Series D in 2020
Eightfold.ai develops a talent intelligence platform designed to enhance talent acquisition and management for organizations. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, the platform aggregates comprehensive people data from applicants to alumni. It utilizes artificial intelligence to assess individuals' capabilities, enabling enterprises to match candidates with suitable opportunities and predict future roles and performance. The platform also helps organizations retain top talent by facilitating upskilling and reskilling, promoting diversity, and creating a talent network that identifies top performers and performance trends. Additionally, it provides tools for building job descriptions and generating a pipeline of qualified candidates for open roles, while assisting employees in understanding potential growth opportunities within the organization.

Remote

Series A in 2020
Remote Technology, Inc. provides a comprehensive human resource technology platform that specializes in payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax services for businesses employing distributed teams. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company simplifies international payroll and compliance processes for both employees and contractors. Remote's platform allows organizations to manage onboarding, automatic payments, and various statutory obligations, such as social and pension contributions and income tax retention, while connecting candidates with remote job opportunities. By addressing the complexities of global employment, Remote enables companies to focus on their workforce and enhance productivity without compliance risks.

Prelay

Seed Round in 2020
Prelay is a team selling platform designed to enhance collaboration among revenue teams and internal stakeholders involved in large deal and account processes. By facilitating coordination and communication, Prelay enables account executives, deal support teams, and implementation units, along with finance and legal departments, to work together effectively. The platform streamlines processes and fosters team alignment, allowing companies to close deals more efficiently and expedite user deployment. Ultimately, Prelay aims to simplify complex sales processes, helping organizations drive revenue collectively.

Remote

Seed Round in 2020
Remote Technology, Inc. provides a comprehensive human resource technology platform that specializes in payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax services for businesses employing distributed teams. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company simplifies international payroll and compliance processes for both employees and contractors. Remote's platform allows organizations to manage onboarding, automatic payments, and various statutory obligations, such as social and pension contributions and income tax retention, while connecting candidates with remote job opportunities. By addressing the complexities of global employment, Remote enables companies to focus on their workforce and enhance productivity without compliance risks.

Remote

Seed Round in 2020
Remote Technology, Inc. provides a comprehensive human resource technology platform that specializes in payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax services for businesses employing distributed teams. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company simplifies international payroll and compliance processes for both employees and contractors. Remote's platform allows organizations to manage onboarding, automatic payments, and various statutory obligations, such as social and pension contributions and income tax retention, while connecting candidates with remote job opportunities. By addressing the complexities of global employment, Remote enables companies to focus on their workforce and enhance productivity without compliance risks.

Envoy Global

Series C in 2017
Envoy Global Inc. specializes in immigration services, offering work-based visa and green card solutions for enterprise customers across various industries. The company provides application preparation for a range of work visa categories, including H, L-1, E, O, P, B-1, F-1, and TN, as well as major green card categories such as EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3. Envoy Global also features an Immigration Management Platform that facilitates attorney communication, document organization, form completion, and case tracking. Additional services include eligibility assessments, legal consultations, and support for Requests for Evidence (RFE) and Notices of Intent to Deny (NOID). By leveraging its technology and expertise, Envoy Global helps businesses navigate the complexities of hiring and managing a global workforce, from visa sponsorship to employee relocation and retention. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company was previously known as VISANOW.com, Inc.

WayUp

Series B in 2017
WayUp connects students with jobs during and after college -- from summer internships to part-time gigs to full-time jobs after graduation. Businesses post a job to a targeted audience of students at any US college, and students can browse through jobs and apply for free. It was created in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Envoy Global

Venture Round in 2016
Envoy Global Inc. specializes in immigration services, offering work-based visa and green card solutions for enterprise customers across various industries. The company provides application preparation for a range of work visa categories, including H, L-1, E, O, P, B-1, F-1, and TN, as well as major green card categories such as EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3. Envoy Global also features an Immigration Management Platform that facilitates attorney communication, document organization, form completion, and case tracking. Additional services include eligibility assessments, legal consultations, and support for Requests for Evidence (RFE) and Notices of Intent to Deny (NOID). By leveraging its technology and expertise, Envoy Global helps businesses navigate the complexities of hiring and managing a global workforce, from visa sponsorship to employee relocation and retention. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company was previously known as VISANOW.com, Inc.

Disco

Seed Round in 2016
Disco is an HR recognition tool that offers products to recognize, reward, promote, socialize, and analyze a company culture. The tool helps the team recognize one another's contributions, big and small, and quantifies that feedback to keep culture on track. Through recognition, employees adapt company values while strengthening peer relationships, measure the pulse of the company with culture surveys in Slack, reward employees that go above-and-beyond, and publicize company values to every employee through fun and habit-forming social experiences. The San Francisco, California-based company was founded by Jeremy Vandehey, Joseph Estrada, and Justin Vandehey in 2014.

Major League Hacking

Seed Round in 2016
Major League Hacking (MLH) is a prominent global community focused on empowering student developers, designers, and engineers through a variety of events, including over 1,000 hackathons and technical workshops each year. By engaging more than 125,000 participants annually, MLH fosters innovation, builds strong communities, and enhances computer science education among students worldwide. The organization serves as a platform for the next generation of technology leaders and entrepreneurs, providing access to cutting-edge technology and resources. Committed to its mission of community engagement, MLH has established itself as a Certified B Corporation, underscoring its dedication to measuring success by the impact it has on the hackers it supports.

Hello Scout

Seed Round in 2015
Hello Scout on a mission to make your travels relaxing, spontaneous and unique. They provide a text message and app-based concierge to hotels looking to enhance their guest experience. Hello Scout uses a combination of city experts and bots to reply to guest requests.

Drafted

Seed Round in 2015
Drafted is a company that helps laid-off people connect to hiring companies. Its mission is to connect people through their networks which is an asset to a company or to an individual. Its network recruiting platform is used by companies that are hiring to aggregate their employee networks for referrals and sourcing. By creating a graph database of the entire company network, the platform goes beyond just 1st-degree employee connections to increase quality referrals and help companies make better hires. Drafted was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

WayUp

Series A in 2015
WayUp connects students with jobs during and after college -- from summer internships to part-time gigs to full-time jobs after graduation. Businesses post a job to a targeted audience of students at any US college, and students can browse through jobs and apply for free. It was created in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Envoy Global

Series A in 2014
Envoy Global Inc. specializes in immigration services, offering work-based visa and green card solutions for enterprise customers across various industries. The company provides application preparation for a range of work visa categories, including H, L-1, E, O, P, B-1, F-1, and TN, as well as major green card categories such as EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3. Envoy Global also features an Immigration Management Platform that facilitates attorney communication, document organization, form completion, and case tracking. Additional services include eligibility assessments, legal consultations, and support for Requests for Evidence (RFE) and Notices of Intent to Deny (NOID). By leveraging its technology and expertise, Envoy Global helps businesses navigate the complexities of hiring and managing a global workforce, from visa sponsorship to employee relocation and retention. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company was previously known as VISANOW.com, Inc.

CoachUp

Series A in 2013
CoachUp is a website that connects athletes with private coaches. It provides thousands of vetted private coaches across the country, in everything from basketball, soccer, and football, to fitness, yoga, and dance. The website allows users to search by city and sport to easily find nearby coaches, it offers knowledgeable athlete advisors help, and coaches provide personalized feedback after every session. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts.

CoachUp

Seed Round in 2012
CoachUp is a website that connects athletes with private coaches. It provides thousands of vetted private coaches across the country, in everything from basketball, soccer, and football, to fitness, yoga, and dance. The website allows users to search by city and sport to easily find nearby coaches, it offers knowledgeable athlete advisors help, and coaches provide personalized feedback after every session. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts.

Friendbuy

Seed Round in 2010
Friendbuy, Inc. operates an online platform that enables shoppers to share their product preferences and receive rewards for referrals. Founded in 2009 and based in Santa Monica, California, Friendbuy provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution focused on referral programs for a diverse range of clients, including well-known e-commerce brands and Fortune 100 companies. The platform offers features such as real-time analytics and customizable templates, allowing businesses to optimize their marketing campaigns and enhance customer acquisition and loyalty. By empowering growth marketers with innovative tools, Friendbuy aims to help brands increase their market presence and strengthen customer relationships.

ScanScout

Series B in 2009
ScanScout is a leading online video advertising network that connects brands with consumers through digital devices. The company collaborates with major advertisers and publishers to enhance video advertising opportunities, creating significant revenue streams for publishers by helping them monetize their video content effectively. For advertisers, ScanScout offers tools to target and optimize ad messages, ensuring they reach the appropriate content and audience to maximize engagement. Serving hundreds of millions of ad impressions monthly, ScanScout operates from its headquarters in Boston, with additional offices in New York and Los Angeles.

ScanScout

Series B in 2009
ScanScout is a leading online video advertising network that connects brands with consumers through digital devices. The company collaborates with major advertisers and publishers to enhance video advertising opportunities, creating significant revenue streams for publishers by helping them monetize their video content effectively. For advertisers, ScanScout offers tools to target and optimize ad messages, ensuring they reach the appropriate content and audience to maximize engagement. Serving hundreds of millions of ad impressions monthly, ScanScout operates from its headquarters in Boston, with additional offices in New York and Los Angeles.

ScanScout

Series A in 2008
ScanScout is a leading online video advertising network that connects brands with consumers through digital devices. The company collaborates with major advertisers and publishers to enhance video advertising opportunities, creating significant revenue streams for publishers by helping them monetize their video content effectively. For advertisers, ScanScout offers tools to target and optimize ad messages, ensuring they reach the appropriate content and audience to maximize engagement. Serving hundreds of millions of ad impressions monthly, ScanScout operates from its headquarters in Boston, with additional offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Bullhorn

Series D in 2008
Bullhorn, Inc. specializes in developing staffing and recruiting software tailored for startups, small to medium-sized businesses, and large enterprises. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers a comprehensive suite of cloud-based solutions, including applicant tracking systems, business intelligence, CRM, onboarding, and VMS integration. These tools are designed to automate the recruitment lifecycle, enhance candidate management, and streamline billing processes. Bullhorn serves a diverse range of sectors, such as professional staffing, healthcare, executive search, and nonprofit organizations, and boasts a client base of over 10,000 companies and 350,000 users globally. The company has established additional offices in key locations, including London, Sydney, and Frankfurt, and employs approximately 500 staff worldwide.

ScanScout

Series A in 2007
ScanScout is a leading online video advertising network that connects brands with consumers through digital devices. The company collaborates with major advertisers and publishers to enhance video advertising opportunities, creating significant revenue streams for publishers by helping them monetize their video content effectively. For advertisers, ScanScout offers tools to target and optimize ad messages, ensuring they reach the appropriate content and audience to maximize engagement. Serving hundreds of millions of ad impressions monthly, ScanScout operates from its headquarters in Boston, with additional offices in New York and Los Angeles.

OnForce

Series A in 2006
OnForce, Inc. operates an online platform designed to connect skilled professionals with companies seeking their services. Founded in 2003 and based in Lexington, Massachusetts, OnForce enables businesses to search for, negotiate with, and engage a preferred talent pool, facilitating the management of independent worker relationships. The company's Converge platform is a cloud-based solution that helps organizations efficiently engage, manage, and compensate their freelancers and independent contractors. By providing tools to mitigate risks related to worker misclassification, OnForce allows companies of varying sizes and industries to enhance their operational capabilities, reduce service costs, and tap into new revenue streams. As of 2017, OnForce operates as a subsidiary of Work Market Inc.

Taleo

Seed Round in 2001
Taleo is a provider of cloud-based talent management solutions that cater to organizations globally. The company offers a range of on-demand software services designed to assist in assessing, acquiring, developing, and aligning the workforce. Its offerings include recruiting, performance management, compensation management, internal mobility, onboarding, and analytics. Taleo's solutions are particularly suited for smaller organizations, less complex entities, and specific departments or divisions within larger companies, as well as staffing firms. The focus is on providing unified tools that streamline talent management processes for users.
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