General Catalyst
generalcatalyst.com Direct investor
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
- 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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 316 co-investors found.
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 10 shared companies: anthropic.com, stripe.com, cartesia.ai, almanac.chat…
- SV Angel 8 shared companies: anthropic.com, stripe.com, anduril.com, airbnb.com…
- Axevil Capital, LLC 7 shared companies: anthropic.com, notion.site, stripe.com, legora.com…
- G Squared Equity Management LP 6 shared companies: anthropic.com, notion.site, stripe.com, airbnb.com…
- Iconiq Capital 6 shared companies: anthropic.com, anduril.com, helsing.ai, airbnb.com…
- Alkeon Capital Management, LLC 5 shared companies: anthropic.com, stripe.com, helsing.ai, legora.com…
- Avenir Management Company, LLC 5 shared companies: anthropic.com, ramp.com, hippocraticai.com, bustle.com…
- EQUIAM 5 shared companies: anthropic.com, stripe.com, anduril.com, airbnb.com…
- Index Ventures 5 shared companies: anthropic.com, notion.site, arcawealth.com, beautypie.com…
- Menlo Ventures 5 shared companies: anthropic.com, legora.com, mercor.com, accordance.com…
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.
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → General Catalyst Group XI - Health Assurance, L.P. · vintage 2023 · $200,000,000 committed · source
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → General Catalyst Group XII - Creation, L.P. · vintage 2024 · $200,000,000 committed · source
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → General Catalyst Group XII - Endurance, L.P. · vintage 2024 · $293,500,000 committed · source
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → General Catalyst Group XII - Health Assurance, L.P. · vintage 2024 · $100,000,000 committed · source
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → General Catalyst Group XII - Ignition, L.P. · vintage 2024 · $200,000,000 committed · source
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.
- https://www.generalcatalyst.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, description, aum, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.generalcatalyst.com/teamhq_country, hq_city, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, people
- https://www.generalcatalyst.com/portfolioinvests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors
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Record 782 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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