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 Social Media

Hank

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a virtual connection platform designed to create connections and a community for retired adults. The company's platform is made up of active older adults looking to meet people, learn new things, and pursue old passions, enabling older people to meet new individuals with similar interests, host events, and get together.

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.

Clay

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a customer relationship management platform designed to help individuals be more thoughtful with the people and relationships in their personal and professional lives. The company's platform scans the calendar to collect information about people and then populates all the relevant social information including bio and users' meeting history, enabling clients to gather information about people whom they have met in no time.

Saturn

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a calendar-based social software designed to connect communities around the calendar. The company's real-time calendar platform gives users an up-to-the-minute view of where they are in their day and their outstanding to-do's and helps them stay connected with their friends, classes, and groups and is currently rolling out in United States high schools, enabling users to be more engaged in their communities and spend more time with the people around them.

Remesh

Series A in 2020
Remesh Inc. operates an AI-powered platform that facilitates live conversations with customers or employees, allowing users to engage with up to 1,000 participants simultaneously. Founded in 2013 and based in the United States, the company focuses on gathering and analyzing audience responses in real-time. This technology enables organizations to quickly collect valuable insights and opinions, empowering them to make more informed business decisions. By integrating artificial intelligence with market research, Remesh provides a unique solution for advertisers and brands to understand the collective thinking of their target audiences, thus enhancing their ability to communicate effectively and respond to consumer needs.

FastForward.ai

Seed Round in 2020
FastForward.ai is a social media engagement and commerce platform that empowers enterprises to connect with customers and facilitate transactions within social media and messaging applications. Founded in Mountain View, California, the company offers a software-as-a-service platform that modernizes digital marketing, commerce, and payment processes. Its patented technology enables businesses to engage users effectively with one-click digital commerce options, allowing customers to access personalized offers, make purchases, and review their transaction history seamlessly. By integrating with popular messaging apps, FastForward.ai aims to enhance user experiences and drive brand awareness, catering to the increasing time consumers spend online. The company was established in 2016 and continues to innovate in the realm of social retail marketing.

Collective Intelligence

Seed Round in 2019
SaaS app focused on crowd sourcing marketing content while empowering employees

Supermedium

Seed Round in 2018
Supermedium is building a space of immersive VR utilities starting with a comic book reader. From the pioneers of WebVR and creators of A-Frame (https://aframe.io).

Capture Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Capture Technologies is a technology and social media company. Our mission is to bring an absolutely new and unique experience to how people interact with each other. We are closely working with AI, thereby using the most advanced technology to help us bring our mission to life. Capture app will erase the boundary between real-time communication and artificial intelligence.

Remesh

Series A in 2018
Remesh Inc. operates an AI-powered platform that facilitates live conversations with customers or employees, allowing users to engage with up to 1,000 participants simultaneously. Founded in 2013 and based in the United States, the company focuses on gathering and analyzing audience responses in real-time. This technology enables organizations to quickly collect valuable insights and opinions, empowering them to make more informed business decisions. By integrating artificial intelligence with market research, Remesh provides a unique solution for advertisers and brands to understand the collective thinking of their target audiences, thus enhancing their ability to communicate effectively and respond to consumer needs.

Alter

Venture Round in 2018
We're committed to making the internet more expressive, and to build a digital identity layer that is accessible to all.

Bustle Digital Group

Series D in 2017
Bustle Digital Group operates a digital media platform targeting young readers, offering a broad spectrum of content that includes news, entertainment, lifestyle, fashion, and beauty. The platform aims to redefine women's interests by providing diverse and engaging material that resonates with its audience. Through a collection of energetic contributors, Bustle delivers smart and accessible content designed to keep readers informed and entertained, whether they are looking for the latest news updates or recommendations for leisure activities. The company seeks to create a comprehensive resource for readers and social fans, ensuring they can stay connected to the topics they care about in one convenient location.

Bustle Digital Group

Series C in 2016
Bustle Digital Group operates a digital media platform targeting young readers, offering a broad spectrum of content that includes news, entertainment, lifestyle, fashion, and beauty. The platform aims to redefine women's interests by providing diverse and engaging material that resonates with its audience. Through a collection of energetic contributors, Bustle delivers smart and accessible content designed to keep readers informed and entertained, whether they are looking for the latest news updates or recommendations for leisure activities. The company seeks to create a comprehensive resource for readers and social fans, ensuring they can stay connected to the topics they care about in one convenient location.

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.

Ourglass

Seed Round in 2015
Ourglass ensures privacy by only sharing a users’ posts with their approved inner-circle. By limiting users to 12 trusted friends, the app provides a uniquely intimate space that quells patterns of social land-grab prevalent on other social platforms. The app also saves stories so users can go back in time and relive memories. “Ephemeral content is great if you want to send funny pictures that you want to disappear, but there are a lot of memories that we want to save and relive with friends,” explains Krueger.

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.

Bustle Digital Group

Series B in 2014
Bustle Digital Group operates a digital media platform targeting young readers, offering a broad spectrum of content that includes news, entertainment, lifestyle, fashion, and beauty. The platform aims to redefine women's interests by providing diverse and engaging material that resonates with its audience. Through a collection of energetic contributors, Bustle delivers smart and accessible content designed to keep readers informed and entertained, whether they are looking for the latest news updates or recommendations for leisure activities. The company seeks to create a comprehensive resource for readers and social fans, ensuring they can stay connected to the topics they care about in one convenient location.

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.

Dubsmash

Seed Round in 2014
Dubsmash, Inc. operates a web-based platform and mobile application focused on content creation and sharing, primarily through micro-videos. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company allows users to create and share dubbed videos by lip-syncing to audio clips from movies, speeches, and music. This innovative application has gained significant popularity, securing the number one spot in the App Store across 29 countries in Europe. Dubsmash serves as a vital tool for content creators and artists, providing an effective means for promoting music and engaging audiences through entertaining video content.

Yik Yak

Series A in 2014
Yik Yak is a location-based social networking platform that facilitates connections within local communities. The application allows users to share news, ask questions, post pictures, and engage in discussions, fostering an environment for casual and relatable interactions. By focusing on community engagement, Yik Yak enables individuals to connect with like-minded peers, creating a space for both support and humor. The platform is designed to enhance users' experiences by promoting local engagement and interaction, making it a unique tool for discovering and participating in community life.

Flite

Venture Round in 2014
Flite, Inc. is a creative management platform based in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York and Chicago. Founded in 2006, Flite empowers advertisers by enabling them to design and deliver engaging advertising campaigns in real-time. The platform integrates web applications into online advertising units, facilitating the creation of interactive mobile, native, and rich media ads. It allows marketers to respond to performance metrics and current events by updating their ad creatives dynamically. Flite offers a range of advertising solutions, including a Programmatic Creative platform that merges data and creativity, a Design Studio for building content-driven ads, and tools for creating responsive ads across various devices. The company's innovative technology supports brands, agencies, and publishers in managing and optimizing their digital advertising efforts effectively. Flite operates as a subsidiary of Snap Inc. since late 2016.

L2

Venture Round in 2014
L2 was founded in 2010 on the belief that a brand's digital competency is inextricably linked to shareholder value. L2 uses proprietary research and tools, combined with academic rigor and progressive design, to provide managers with visibility into a brand's digital performance. L2 is tracking over 5,000 global brands and works with the prestige and consumer sectors' largest and most iconic enterprises and brands.

Snap

Series B in 2013
Snap Inc. is a multinational camera company that operates the popular photo messaging application, Snapchat. This platform enables users to communicate through short videos and images, known as Snaps, while offering various features such as personalized camera tools, group chats, and the ability to create and view stories. Snapchat's Discover section curates content from publishers and creators based on user interests. The Snap Map feature provides a live map displaying user locations, nearby friends, and popular stories. Additionally, the Memories function allows users to save and organize their Snaps in a searchable collection. In 2016, Snap launched Spectacles, video-sharing sunglasses that facilitate capturing content from a first-person perspective. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Snap Inc. was previously known as Snapchat, Inc.

Toro

Seed Round in 2013
Toro, founded in March 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, is a company that specializes in providing marketing services for app developers. Established by former developers and product managers from popular social games, Toro focuses on equipping app companies with essential tools for mobile marketing. The company's mission is to democratize access to effective marketing strategies, thereby enabling developers to optimize their campaign setups. Toro's marketing plans are primarily executed through the Facebook advertising platform, ensuring that clients can leverage one of the largest social media networks to reach their target audience effectively.

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.

SumAll

Venture Round in 2012
SumAll Inc. operates a data analytics platform designed to empower businesses by enabling them to manage and leverage their own data effectively. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers a comprehensive service at sumall.com that consolidates information from various sources, including social media, email, and web traffic. This platform serves over 350,000 users, automating social media marketing by connecting data from more than 40 platforms to generate optimal content for engagement. In addition to its marketing tools, SumAll has developed new products that automate inventory purchasing and staff scheduling for physical businesses, such as cafes. By integrating with mobile point of sale systems, SumAll analyzes historical sales data to forecast inventory needs and manage orders efficiently, ultimately saving time and resources for business owners.

Brit +

Seed Round in 2012
Brit Media, Inc. operates Brit + Co, an online media and e-commerce platform designed to inspire and educate women and girls in creative pursuits. Founded in 2011 and based in Mill Valley, California, the company connects users with makers, designers, chefs, and inventors, fostering a community centered around creativity. The platform offers a diverse range of content categories, including DIY projects, recipes, and skill-building e-classes. Users can explore ideas, engage in do-it-yourself activities, and shop for creative products through the website and mobile applications. With a significant online presence, Brit + Co reaches over 125 million individuals and produces a substantial volume of content daily, making it one of the largest digital media companies focused on women.

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.

Plyfe

Seed Round in 2012
As of March 7, 2018, Plyfe, Inc. was acquired by Tatango, Inc.. Plyfe, Inc. operates a platform that allows brands, agencies, and publishers to engage, understand, and convert audiences with their advertisings, campaigns, and content. Its platform allows users to select an interactive card from Plyfe catalogues, as well as upload images, gifs, or videos; publish on mobile and desktop, ad server, social media, and email; and get audience data. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Kanvas Labs

Venture Round in 2011
Kanvas Labs, Inc. is a mobile social networking platform that enables users to create and share social photo stories based on real-world experiences. Its primary product, Kanvas, allows users to develop engaging content by combining photos, text, stickers, and sound. Users can also create videos using photos, GIFs, and a custom stop motion camera, which can be edited with various overlays, drawings, and music. Once created, this multimedia content can be shared with friends and followers across multiple social networks. Founded in 2010 and based in New York, Kanvas Labs was previously known as Tracks Media, Inc. As of August 2015, it operates as a subsidiary of AOL Inc.

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.

Thumb

Series A in 2011
Thumb is the easiest way for people to express themselves and to discover people like them. The simple act of ‘thumbing’ brings people together in a purpose-driven community that allows people to express what matters most to them, generates instant feedback, and helps people make meaningful connections. Thumb is available on iOS, Android, and via Website at www.thumb.it.

One Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
One Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops a mobile application designed to facilitate social networking by connecting users with shared interests. The app notifies individuals when others nearby, who have also downloaded the application, share similar interests. By leveraging information from users' social media profiles, the app enhances the interaction experience by helping users discover and engage with like-minded individuals in their vicinity.

Sosh

Seed Round in 2011
Sosh is a members-only platform designed to help individuals discover activities, events, and locations within their local areas. The service integrates a social networking component, allowing users to connect and share experiences with others. Founded by former employees of Google and Slide, Sosh is developed by Offline Labs, a startup operating in stealth mode. The platform emphasizes a community-driven approach to exploring local entertainment and leisure opportunities.

Flite

Series C in 2011
Flite, Inc. is a creative management platform based in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York and Chicago. Founded in 2006, Flite empowers advertisers by enabling them to design and deliver engaging advertising campaigns in real-time. The platform integrates web applications into online advertising units, facilitating the creation of interactive mobile, native, and rich media ads. It allows marketers to respond to performance metrics and current events by updating their ad creatives dynamically. Flite offers a range of advertising solutions, including a Programmatic Creative platform that merges data and creativity, a Design Studio for building content-driven ads, and tools for creating responsive ads across various devices. The company's innovative technology supports brands, agencies, and publishers in managing and optimizing their digital advertising efforts effectively. Flite operates as a subsidiary of Snap Inc. since late 2016.

Thumb

Angel Round in 2011
Thumb is the easiest way for people to express themselves and to discover people like them. The simple act of ‘thumbing’ brings people together in a purpose-driven community that allows people to express what matters most to them, generates instant feedback, and helps people make meaningful connections. Thumb is available on iOS, Android, and via Website at www.thumb.it.

Vitrue

Series C in 2011
Vitrue offers the industry’s most scalable and secure cloud-based social marketing solution, enabling brands to harness the full marketing potential of social on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and emerging platforms. The award-winning Vitrue SRM platform collectively manages more than one billion social relationships in over 100 countries across more than 4,500 social accounts for its clients. For more information, visit www.vitrue.com.

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.

Hot Potato

Series A in 2009
Hot Potato is a company focused on enhancing social interactions around live events. It provides tools that enable friends and fans to connect and collaborate in real-time during various experiences. Users can check in, share their perspectives, and engage with contributions from others, making participation in events more enjoyable and interactive. The platform aims to foster a sense of community among individuals who share common interests in live occurrences, enhancing the overall experience of attending events.

Vitrue

Series B in 2007
Vitrue offers the industry’s most scalable and secure cloud-based social marketing solution, enabling brands to harness the full marketing potential of social on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and emerging platforms. The award-winning Vitrue SRM platform collectively manages more than one billion social relationships in over 100 countries across more than 4,500 social accounts for its clients. For more information, visit www.vitrue.com.

Vitrue

Series A in 2006
Vitrue offers the industry’s most scalable and secure cloud-based social marketing solution, enabling brands to harness the full marketing potential of social on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and emerging platforms. The award-winning Vitrue SRM platform collectively manages more than one billion social relationships in over 100 countries across more than 4,500 social accounts for its clients. For more information, visit www.vitrue.com.

Vitrue

Seed Round in 2006
Vitrue offers the industry’s most scalable and secure cloud-based social marketing solution, enabling brands to harness the full marketing potential of social on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and emerging platforms. The award-winning Vitrue SRM platform collectively manages more than one billion social relationships in over 100 countries across more than 4,500 social accounts for its clients. For more information, visit www.vitrue.com.
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