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General Catalyst

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General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in companies across various sectors and geographies. It also engages in company building and has a focus on healthcare transformation.

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, United States. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in artificial Intelligence, consumer, defense & Government and energy & Infrastructure. $43B+ under management and 900 portfolio companies, as it reports.

“We operate as a true partnership. That means bringing diverse excellence to every problem, fostering a genuinely collaborative culture, and actively engaging in company building with the goal of accelerating the trajectory of every business we back.”

— General Catalyst, own website
Layer
Direct investor
Type
Venture capital
Stage
Seed – Growth
Headquarters
Cambridge, United States
Invests in
North America, Europe, Asia, MENA, South America
Sectors
Artificial Intelligence, Consumer, Defense & Government, Energy & Infrastructure, Enterprise, Fintech, Healthcare, Industrials & Manufacturing
Assets under management
$43B+
Portfolio
900 companies

Team, as General Catalyst publishes it

  • Hemant Taneja CEO
  • Jeannette zu Fürstenberg President & Managing Director
  • Neeraj Arora CEO India, MENA & Managing Director
  • Alex Tran Managing Director
  • Chris Bischoff COO GC Capital & Managing Director
  • David Fialkow Co-Founder & Managing Director
  • Elena Viboch Managing Director
  • Holly Maloney Head of Health Assurance & Managing Director
  • Joel Cutler Co-Founder & Managing Director
  • Ken Chenault Chairman & Managing Director

Names and roles exactly as listed on generalcatalyst.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.

Most shared portfolio companies with

Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 316 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.

and 306 more — the graph.

Limited partners that disclose a commitment

From the LP's own published fund list — the LP is the source, not the manager.

Where this comes from

Every fact above was read from a page General Catalyst publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.

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Record 782 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high

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