General Catalyst

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

Adrian Abeijon

Investor

Mark Allen

CFO

Juliet Bailin

Principal

Brian Bedol

Managing Director

Marc Bhargava

Managing Director

Chris Bischoff

Managing Director

Larry Bohn

Managing Director

Kristen Camarota

Investor

Kenneth Chenault

Chairman and Managing Director

Quentin Clark

Managing Director

Mark Crane

Partner, Investment Team

Joel Cutler

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Christopher Davis

Partner, Investments

Kyle Doherty

Managing Director, Investments

Bill Fitzgerald

Co-Founder and Special Advisors

Molly Blaauw Gillis

Partner and Chief of Staff

Jeremy Goldstein

Partner

Julia Goodman

Investor

Drew Gordon

Investor

Steve Herrod

Managing Director

Tony Ho

Investor

Diana Hong

Investor

Mina Hsiang

Associate

Paula Hübner

Partner

Nmachi Jidenma

Partner

Christopher Kauffman

Principal and Member of the Investment Team

Zak Kukoff

Principal

Bill Kung

Principal

Paul Kwan

Managing Director

Alexandre Momeni

Executive, Investments and Partner

Deep Nishar

Managing Director

Dipchand ("Deep") Nishar

Managing Director

Reva Nohria

Principal

Trevor Oelschig

Managing Director

Pranay Orugunta

Healthcare Investor

Mo Punjwani

Associate, Investments

Candace Richardson

Principal

Max Rimpel

Partner

Paul Sagan

Investor

Pranav Singhvi

Managing Director

Vedant Suri

Investor

Alex Tran

Managing Director

Catherine Tu

Partner

Elena Viboch

Partner

Andrea Wang

Principal, Early Stage Investment

Vincent Zhu

Investor

Past deals in Search Engine

Glean

Series C in 2022
Scio is a search engine that aims to help in the finding of any piece of data via any tool in any company. The company's software integrates with multiple platforms to find precise data points and provide relevant search results, allowing employees to find required data points based on keywords.

Audyo

Seed Round in 2022
Intelligent audio for the internet. In just one line of code, Audyo makes any publication listenable.

ChannelEngine

Series B in 2022
ChannelEngine.com B.V. is a cloud-based e-commerce and order management platform based in Leiden, the Netherlands. Founded in 2013, the company focuses on automating sales on online marketplaces by seamlessly integrating e-commerce systems with various marketplaces and comparison sites. Its platform, ChannelEngine, allows users to manage orders from multiple sources efficiently, connecting new orders directly to their e-commerce systems or ERPs. Additionally, ChannelEngine provides analytics on clicks and conversions generated through comparison sites, offering valuable insights into the effectiveness of marketing expenditures. This enables brands, distributors, and retailers to optimize their international sales potential and streamline their operations.

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.

Kavak

Series E in 2021
KAVAK is the online platform that offers an exceptional experience of buying and selling used cars in Mexico, with the best prices on the market and without leaving home.

Spinny

Series D in 2021
Spinny is a technology-driven platform that simplifies the buying and selling of used cars in India. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, Spinny aims to create a trustworthy and hassle-free experience for customers in the pre-owned car market. The company employs a full-stack business model, ensuring transparency and value in every transaction. Spinny offers a selection of handpicked cars, complete with detailed information, and provides potential buyers with the opportunity for a test drive and a five-day money-back guarantee. This approach enables car owners to list their vehicles easily while offering buyers a straightforward and reliable process for purchasing their desired cars.

Spinny

Series C in 2021
Spinny is a technology-driven platform that simplifies the buying and selling of used cars in India. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, Spinny aims to create a trustworthy and hassle-free experience for customers in the pre-owned car market. The company employs a full-stack business model, ensuring transparency and value in every transaction. Spinny offers a selection of handpicked cars, complete with detailed information, and provides potential buyers with the opportunity for a test drive and a five-day money-back guarantee. This approach enables car owners to list their vehicles easily while offering buyers a straightforward and reliable process for purchasing their desired cars.

Glean

Series B in 2021
Scio is a search engine that aims to help in the finding of any piece of data via any tool in any company. The company's software integrates with multiple platforms to find precise data points and provide relevant search results, allowing employees to find required data points based on keywords.

Shelf Engine

Series B in 2021
Shelf Engine is a provider of an automated prediction engine that recommends what to order everyday. The company uses machine learning in order to help grocery stores dial in their orders to minimize waste and maximize profits. Shelf Engine is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Audyo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Intelligent audio for the internet. In just one line of code, Audyo makes any publication listenable.

Spinny

Series B in 2019
Spinny is a technology-driven platform that simplifies the buying and selling of used cars in India. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, Spinny aims to create a trustworthy and hassle-free experience for customers in the pre-owned car market. The company employs a full-stack business model, ensuring transparency and value in every transaction. Spinny offers a selection of handpicked cars, complete with detailed information, and provides potential buyers with the opportunity for a test drive and a five-day money-back guarantee. This approach enables car owners to list their vehicles easily while offering buyers a straightforward and reliable process for purchasing their desired cars.

Giphy

Series C in 2016
Giphy, Inc. is an online platform that operates a search engine for users to search, share, and discover animated GIFs across various categories, including emotions, food, animals, and entertainment. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, Giphy organizes GIFs to enhance user experience and facilitates sharing through social media channels. The platform not only allows users to upload their own GIFs but also collaborates with brands and artists to create original content. Giphy aims to evolve beyond a simple search engine into a community that caters to GIF enthusiasts and creators, fostering engagement and creativity within the realm of animated visual communication. As of May 2020, Giphy operates as a subsidiary of Instagram, LLC.

Semantic Machines

Series B in 2015
Semantic Machines is developing fundamental, next generation Conversational AI technology. We provide novel models for dialogue and NLP; as well as new approaches for automatically generating limitless AI Assistant system capacity. The mission of Semantic Machines is to revolutionize human-to-computer interaction, by creating the first viable, scalable, conversational computing paradigm. This new paradigm will enable dramatic improvements - in terms both customer experience and costs - in the areas of customer service and home automation.

Giphy

Series B in 2015
Giphy, Inc. is an online platform that operates a search engine for users to search, share, and discover animated GIFs across various categories, including emotions, food, animals, and entertainment. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, Giphy organizes GIFs to enhance user experience and facilitates sharing through social media channels. The platform not only allows users to upload their own GIFs but also collaborates with brands and artists to create original content. Giphy aims to evolve beyond a simple search engine into a community that caters to GIF enthusiasts and creators, fostering engagement and creativity within the realm of animated visual communication. As of May 2020, Giphy operates as a subsidiary of Instagram, LLC.

Shareaholic

Series A in 2014
Shareaholic, Inc. offers a content amplification platform designed to enhance the discovery, engagement, and sharing of relevant content for marketers, publishers, and site owners. By enabling website owners to showcase pertinent content, the platform helps increase pageviews, user engagement, and time spent on their sites. Shareaholic also facilitates the sharing of various activities, such as articles and purchases, across multiple social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In addition to these features, the platform provides actionable metrics that offer insights into content performance and audience interactions. With a user base exceeding 300,000 websites, Shareaholic serves customers globally and was founded in 2008, with its headquarters located in Boston, Massachusetts.

Shareaholic

Series A in 2012
Shareaholic, Inc. offers a content amplification platform designed to enhance the discovery, engagement, and sharing of relevant content for marketers, publishers, and site owners. By enabling website owners to showcase pertinent content, the platform helps increase pageviews, user engagement, and time spent on their sites. Shareaholic also facilitates the sharing of various activities, such as articles and purchases, across multiple social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In addition to these features, the platform provides actionable metrics that offer insights into content performance and audience interactions. With a user base exceeding 300,000 websites, Shareaholic serves customers globally and was founded in 2008, with its headquarters located in Boston, Massachusetts.

Locu

Series A in 2012
Locu helps local businesses be found. When businesses add their street address, phone number, hours of operation, and menus / service lists to Locu, Locu gets them on the map in front of over 200 million potential customers online. Instead of having to use multiple sites to manage their business listings and showcase their products and services, businesses can update just once with Locu, and Locu will publish changes in real-time to their web and mobile sites as well as to partner sites including Yelp, Foursquare, OpenTable, YP, TripAdvisor and Facebook.

Shareaholic

Seed Round in 2011
Shareaholic, Inc. offers a content amplification platform designed to enhance the discovery, engagement, and sharing of relevant content for marketers, publishers, and site owners. By enabling website owners to showcase pertinent content, the platform helps increase pageviews, user engagement, and time spent on their sites. Shareaholic also facilitates the sharing of various activities, such as articles and purchases, across multiple social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In addition to these features, the platform provides actionable metrics that offer insights into content performance and audience interactions. With a user base exceeding 300,000 websites, Shareaholic serves customers globally and was founded in 2008, with its headquarters located in Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

FanSnap

Series B in 2009
FanSnap is an online ticket comparison-shopping platform that enables users to find and compare over 19 million tickets for more than 70,000 events, including sports, theater, and concerts. By aggregating ticket listings from over 50 trusted marketplaces and brokers, FanSnap helps consumers identify the best ticket values available. The platform utilizes advanced search capabilities and strategic partnerships with major ticket providers, allowing users to access detailed search results and make informed purchasing decisions. Additionally, FanSnap operates co-branded ticket comparison services for prominent platforms such as Bing and Time Warner's RoadRunner.com. Owned by Nextag, which specializes in online product comparison, FanSnap benefits from robust technology and extensive market reach.

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.

FanSnap

Series A in 2009
FanSnap is an online ticket comparison-shopping platform that enables users to find and compare over 19 million tickets for more than 70,000 events, including sports, theater, and concerts. By aggregating ticket listings from over 50 trusted marketplaces and brokers, FanSnap helps consumers identify the best ticket values available. The platform utilizes advanced search capabilities and strategic partnerships with major ticket providers, allowing users to access detailed search results and make informed purchasing decisions. Additionally, FanSnap operates co-branded ticket comparison services for prominent platforms such as Bing and Time Warner's RoadRunner.com. Owned by Nextag, which specializes in online product comparison, FanSnap benefits from robust technology and extensive market reach.

FanSnap

Series A in 2008
FanSnap is an online ticket comparison-shopping platform that enables users to find and compare over 19 million tickets for more than 70,000 events, including sports, theater, and concerts. By aggregating ticket listings from over 50 trusted marketplaces and brokers, FanSnap helps consumers identify the best ticket values available. The platform utilizes advanced search capabilities and strategic partnerships with major ticket providers, allowing users to access detailed search results and make informed purchasing decisions. Additionally, FanSnap operates co-branded ticket comparison services for prominent platforms such as Bing and Time Warner's RoadRunner.com. Owned by Nextag, which specializes in online product comparison, FanSnap benefits from robust technology and extensive market reach.

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.

KAYAK

Series D in 2007
KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.

EveryZing

Series B in 2007
EveryZing is a media merchandising platform that helps content producers and web publishers dynamically increase the volume of consumable online multimedia content while simultaneously enhancing its monetary value. Unlike other general web search and aggregation services that work only on meta data and tags, EveryZing leverages its unique speech to text, search, and optimization technologies to unlock the content within multimedia and automatically process and organize it to power a compelling ecosystem which easily connects media companies with publishers, consumers, and advertisers.

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.

SiteAdvisor

Series A in 2006
SiteAdvisor. The Boston, Mass. based company maintains a database of Web sites that it tests for spyware, adware, spam, browser attacks, and online scams.

KAYAK

Series B in 2004
KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.

KAYAK

Series A in 2004
KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.

edu.com

Series B in 2000
edu.com is a web-based platform that allows students to find colleges and universities.
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