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.
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Adrian Abeijon
Investor
Mark Allen
CFO
Neeraj Arora
Managing Director, Investment Team
Juliet Bailin
Principal
Marc Bhargava
Managing Director
Chris Bischoff
Managing Director
Larry Bohn
Managing Director
Teresa Carlson
President, General Catalyst Institute
Kenneth Chenault
Chairman and Managing Director
Quentin Clark
Managing Director
Mark Crane
Partner, Investment Team
Christopher Davis
Partner, Investments
Kyle Doherty
Managing Director, Investments
Nick van Eck
Partner
Molly Blaauw Gillis
Partner and Chief of Staff
Mina Hsiang
Associate
Nmachi Jidenma
Partner
Christopher Kauffman
Principal
Genevieve Kinney
Principal
Zak Kukoff
Principal
Paul Kwan
Managing Director
Viet Le
Partner
Roy Mabrey
Partner, Investment Team
Holly Maloney McConnell
Managing Director
Karanveer Mohan
Managing Director, Investment Team
Deep Nishar
Managing Director and Member of the Management Committee
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
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
Past deals in Risk Management
axiTrust
Seed Round in 2025
AxiTrust is a FinTech company specializing in digital surety and risk management solutions for secure financial transactions. Its platform offers advanced tools for secure documentation, digital signatures, and real-time verification, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing risk. The company also provides micro surety bonds and real-time insights to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), enabling them to streamline business operations, unlock capital, and drive growth while mitigating risks.
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.
Bitwise
Venture Round in 2025
Bitwise is a specialized asset manager focused on cryptocurrency investments for individuals, investment managers, and institutions. The company provides a diverse range of investment solutions, including index funds, yield and alpha strategies, multi-strategy offerings, and separately managed accounts. Bitwise emphasizes the importance of security and liquidity, implementing modern protective measures for assets. Its platform is designed to facilitate rules-based exposure to the cryptocurrency market, helping clients navigate the complexities of digital assets while aligning with their investment objectives.
Repello AI
Seed Round in 2025
Repello AI specializes in AI-specific cybersecurity, offering a platform called ARTEMIS. This service simulates real-world attacks to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in AI applications throughout their development and deployment. Powered by extensive threat intelligence, ARTEMIS maps risks, provides remediation recommendations, and adapts to evolving threats, ensuring AI systems' security and safety.
Armis Security
Series D in 2024
Armis offers an asset intelligence platform, designed to address the new threat landscape that connected devices create. It provides a cyber exposure management and security platform that protects the attack surface and manages the organization’s cyber risk exposure in real-time.
Chaos Labs
Series A in 2024
Chaos Labs is a cloud-based platform that provides an automated on-chain economic security system for cryptocurrency protocols, focusing on risk management and capital efficiency. By leveraging advanced technology and risk management expertise, it enables protocols to better navigate the volatile crypto markets and protect user funds. The platform creates simulations of user interactions, protocol dynamics, and potential malicious activities, allowing clients to analyze and enhance their systems through scenario-based testing. Currently, Chaos Labs supports protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans for future expansion to additional blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon. This approach fosters a more secure and efficient operating environment for crypto protocols, enhancing their resilience against risks.
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.
Resilience
Series D in 2023
Resilience is a cyber risk company focused on aiding middle to large market enterprises in achieving cyber resilience. Established by experts from the U.S. military and intelligence sectors, the company integrates cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and cyber risk management into one cohesive solution. It provides comprehensive cyber insurance tailored to meet the specific needs of organizations, leveraging advanced risk quantification models to ensure contract certainty. In addition to insurance, Resilience offers proactive and vigilant analysis of threats and vulnerabilities in real-time, allowing businesses to prioritize relevant risks and reduce false positives. The company further empowers organizations with action plans based on their unique risk profiles, covering areas such as governance, user education, compliance, and security posture review. Through these integrated approaches, Resilience strives to help organizations navigate the complexities of cyber threats and manage their risk exposure effectively.
Apiiro
Series B in 2022
Apiiro LLC is a code security startup based in New York that specializes in identifying security vulnerabilities within applications. The company has developed a Code Risk Platform that utilizes code behavior analysis to help organizations detect issues such as weak encryption and vulnerabilities to malware injection, as well as to ensure compliance with regulatory standards. By providing security and development teams with comprehensive visibility and actionable insights, Apiiro enables them to proactively address risks before deployment. The platform is particularly valuable to large enterprises in sectors such as gaming, healthcare, software development, and banking, allowing them to accelerate their delivery processes while effectively managing product risk. Founded in 2019, Apiiro aims to enhance the security of the software supply chain through its innovative approach to risk remediation.
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.
Resilience
Series C in 2021
Resilience is a cyber risk company focused on aiding middle to large market enterprises in achieving cyber resilience. Established by experts from the U.S. military and intelligence sectors, the company integrates cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and cyber risk management into one cohesive solution. It provides comprehensive cyber insurance tailored to meet the specific needs of organizations, leveraging advanced risk quantification models to ensure contract certainty. In addition to insurance, Resilience offers proactive and vigilant analysis of threats and vulnerabilities in real-time, allowing businesses to prioritize relevant risks and reduce false positives. The company further empowers organizations with action plans based on their unique risk profiles, covering areas such as governance, user education, compliance, and security posture review. Through these integrated approaches, Resilience strives to help organizations navigate the complexities of cyber threats and manage their risk exposure effectively.
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.
RiskRecon
Series B in 2018
RiskRecon Inc. is a software company that specializes in third-party risk management by offering vendor security assessments. Founded in 2011 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, RiskRecon provides a cloud-based platform that delivers continuous monitoring and on-demand assessments of organizations' security practices. The platform analyzes third-party internet infrastructure and application presence, enabling users to objectively measure the quality of their security programs. By offering risk-prioritized action plans tailored to individual risk priorities, RiskRecon helps organizations effectively control third-party risks and improve accountability among stakeholders, ultimately leading to better risk management outcomes.
Preempt Security
Series B in 2018
Preempt Security, Inc. is a developer of enterprise security software that aims to protect organizations from insider threats and security breaches. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional research and development in Israel, Preempt's platform utilizes conditional access technology to enhance security visibility and control for both on-premises and cloud identities. By analyzing identity, behavior, and risk, the software allows for real-time threat detection and response, effectively addressing the challenge posed by compromised credentials, which account for a significant portion of security breaches. With a customer base of over 400 enterprises and more than 4 million workforce identities secured, Preempt facilitates the acceleration of digital transformation and supports initiatives such as Zero Trust and Conditional Access.
Bitwise
Seed Round in 2017
Bitwise is a specialized asset manager focused on cryptocurrency investments for individuals, investment managers, and institutions. The company provides a diverse range of investment solutions, including index funds, yield and alpha strategies, multi-strategy offerings, and separately managed accounts. Bitwise emphasizes the importance of security and liquidity, implementing modern protective measures for assets. Its platform is designed to facilitate rules-based exposure to the cryptocurrency market, helping clients navigate the complexities of digital assets while aligning with their investment objectives.
RiskRecon
Series A in 2017
RiskRecon Inc. is a software company that specializes in third-party risk management by offering vendor security assessments. Founded in 2011 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, RiskRecon provides a cloud-based platform that delivers continuous monitoring and on-demand assessments of organizations' security practices. The platform analyzes third-party internet infrastructure and application presence, enabling users to objectively measure the quality of their security programs. By offering risk-prioritized action plans tailored to individual risk priorities, RiskRecon helps organizations effectively control third-party risks and improve accountability among stakeholders, ultimately leading to better risk management outcomes.
Preempt Security
Series A in 2016
Preempt Security, Inc. is a developer of enterprise security software that aims to protect organizations from insider threats and security breaches. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional research and development in Israel, Preempt's platform utilizes conditional access technology to enhance security visibility and control for both on-premises and cloud identities. By analyzing identity, behavior, and risk, the software allows for real-time threat detection and response, effectively addressing the challenge posed by compromised credentials, which account for a significant portion of security breaches. With a customer base of over 400 enterprises and more than 4 million workforce identities secured, Preempt facilitates the acceleration of digital transformation and supports initiatives such as Zero Trust and Conditional Access.
RiskRecon
Seed Round in 2016
RiskRecon Inc. is a software company that specializes in third-party risk management by offering vendor security assessments. Founded in 2011 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, RiskRecon provides a cloud-based platform that delivers continuous monitoring and on-demand assessments of organizations' security practices. The platform analyzes third-party internet infrastructure and application presence, enabling users to objectively measure the quality of their security programs. By offering risk-prioritized action plans tailored to individual risk priorities, RiskRecon helps organizations effectively control third-party risks and improve accountability among stakeholders, ultimately leading to better risk management outcomes.
Ping Identity
Series G in 2014
Ping Identity is a provider of cloud-based identity management software, serving a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company focuses on delivering solutions that enable enterprises to achieve Zero Trust security and enhance user experiences. Its Ping Intelligent Identity Platform allows organizations to manage identity and profile data at scale while providing secure access to cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs. The software includes features such as orchestration, fraud detection, risk management, identity verification, and authentication, helping clients streamline their digital interactions and maintain robust security protocols.
Ping Identity
Series F in 2013
Ping Identity is a provider of cloud-based identity management software, serving a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company focuses on delivering solutions that enable enterprises to achieve Zero Trust security and enhance user experiences. Its Ping Intelligent Identity Platform allows organizations to manage identity and profile data at scale while providing secure access to cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs. The software includes features such as orchestration, fraud detection, risk management, identity verification, and authentication, helping clients streamline their digital interactions and maintain robust security protocols.
Ping Identity
Series D in 2011
Ping Identity is a provider of cloud-based identity management software, serving a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company focuses on delivering solutions that enable enterprises to achieve Zero Trust security and enhance user experiences. Its Ping Intelligent Identity Platform allows organizations to manage identity and profile data at scale while providing secure access to cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs. The software includes features such as orchestration, fraud detection, risk management, identity verification, and authentication, helping clients streamline their digital interactions and maintain robust security protocols.
Ping Identity
Series C in 2006
Ping Identity is a provider of cloud-based identity management software, serving a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company focuses on delivering solutions that enable enterprises to achieve Zero Trust security and enhance user experiences. Its Ping Intelligent Identity Platform allows organizations to manage identity and profile data at scale while providing secure access to cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs. The software includes features such as orchestration, fraud detection, risk management, identity verification, and authentication, helping clients streamline their digital interactions and maintain robust security protocols.
Qumas
Series B in 2005
QUMAS specializes in enterprise compliance management software, offering an integrated platform that standardizes and streamlines compliance tasks for organizations across various industries. The company focuses on delivering a closed-loop compliance model that allows enterprises to consolidate their compliance programs, significantly reducing costs and enhancing competitive advantage. With a strong track record in highly regulated sectors such as financial services and life sciences, QUMAS is well-equipped to support centralized compliance efforts for any organization. Its solutions help ensure adherence to a comprehensive range of global regulations, making it a valuable partner for businesses navigating complex compliance landscapes.
Ping Identity
Series B in 2005
Ping Identity is a provider of cloud-based identity management software, serving a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company focuses on delivering solutions that enable enterprises to achieve Zero Trust security and enhance user experiences. Its Ping Intelligent Identity Platform allows organizations to manage identity and profile data at scale while providing secure access to cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs. The software includes features such as orchestration, fraud detection, risk management, identity verification, and authentication, helping clients streamline their digital interactions and maintain robust security protocols.
Qumas
Series A in 2005
QUMAS specializes in enterprise compliance management software, offering an integrated platform that standardizes and streamlines compliance tasks for organizations across various industries. The company focuses on delivering a closed-loop compliance model that allows enterprises to consolidate their compliance programs, significantly reducing costs and enhancing competitive advantage. With a strong track record in highly regulated sectors such as financial services and life sciences, QUMAS is well-equipped to support centralized compliance efforts for any organization. Its solutions help ensure adherence to a comprehensive range of global regulations, making it a valuable partner for businesses navigating complex compliance landscapes.
Ping Identity
Series A in 2004
Ping Identity is a provider of cloud-based identity management software, serving a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company focuses on delivering solutions that enable enterprises to achieve Zero Trust security and enhance user experiences. Its Ping Intelligent Identity Platform allows organizations to manage identity and profile data at scale while providing secure access to cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs. The software includes features such as orchestration, fraud detection, risk management, identity verification, and authentication, helping clients streamline their digital interactions and maintain robust security protocols.
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