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Location:

75 Hawthorne St., 20th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
USA

434 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10010
USA

20 University Road, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA

42 Berners Street
London, W1T 3ND
United Kingdom

Schinkelplatz 4
Berlin, 10117
Germany

Investor Type:

Venture Capital

Sector Focus:

Fintech AI SaaS Tech Life Science

Round Preference:

Series A Round Series B Round Series C Round

Investment Region:

United States

Year Founded:

2000

About

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that makes early-stage and transformational investments. General Catalyst backs exceptional entrepreneurs who are building innovative technology companies and market leading businesses, including Stripe, Airbnb, HubSpot, Loom, BigCommerce, ClassPass, Datalogix, Datto, Demandware, Gusto, The Honest Company, KAYAK, Oscar, Snap, and Warby Parker. The General Catalyst team leverages its broad experience to help founders build extraordinary companies. General Catalyst has offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, NYC, London, Berlin, and Cambridge.

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Team I work here

Neeraj Arora, Managing Director

San Francisco, CA
USA

Sector Focus:

Consumer Fintech

Stage Focus:

Seed Round Series A Round Series B+ Round

Neeraj Arora is founder of Venture Highway, which he established before joining forces with General Catalyst as the Managing Director. Venture Highway has backed companies such as Meesho, Sharechat, Moglix and MPL at their earliest stages. Prior to his current role, Neeraj was the Global Head of Business at WhatsApp... more

Niko Bonatsos, Managing Director

San Francisco Bay Area, CA
USA

Sector Focus:

B2B Software Consumer Fintech

Stage Focus:

Seed Round Series A Round Series B+ Round

My passion is working with first-time technology founders with strong product instincts, who treat every decision as a learning moment. These are essential traits of entrepreneurs who build great companies. I began my career as an investor looking for very early-stage consumer products and services that most people might perceive as... more

Trevor Oelschig, Managing Director

San Francisco, CA
USA

Sector Focus:

B2B Software SaaS

Stage Focus:

Seed Round Series A Round Series B+ Round

My investment thesis is simple: look for opportunities in individuals. Specifically, I’m most interested in people who live — and have an intrinsic understanding of — the business they’re building. They’re not shy about it either. Their aim is to build companies that have the potential to move markets. I invest... more

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