General Catalyst
Multi-stage venture firm founded in 2000, investing from seed through growth across AI, health, fintech, and enterprise software. Headquarters in Cambridge, MA with global offices including New York.
Typical check size
$1M-$10M (stage-based estimate)
Founded
2000
Headquarters
Cambridge, MA
AUM
N/A
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Startups in our directory that list General Catalyst as an investor (63 total).
- AgentMail API-first email inboxes built for autonomous AI agents.
- Airbnb Global marketplace connecting guests with short-term stays and experiences.
- Alpha-9 Oncology Clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company developing targeted cancer therapies.
- Anduril Software-defined defense systems — drones, counter-UAS, and autonomous military platforms.
- Applied Intuition Simulation and validation software for autonomous vehicles, defense, and robotics.
- Black Forest Labs Frontier open and commercial image-generation models (FLUX family).
- Black Ore Technologies AI platform automating tax prep and financial-services workflows (Tax Autopilot).
- Bounce Global luggage storage marketplace for travelers.
- Cadre Institutional real-estate investing marketplace (acquired by Yieldstreet).
- Castelion Hypersonic weapons and defense manufacturing startup in the American Dynamism set.
- Catena Labs AI-native financial infrastructure for autonomous agents — wallets, payments, and compliance rails.
- Cognition Autonomous AI software engineer Devin — agents that code, debug, and ship production software for enterprises.
- Convex Reactive TypeScript backend — database, serverless functions, and real-time sync in one platform.
- Current Consumer neobank for paycheck access, fee-free banking, and credit-building.
- Devoted Health Tech-enabled Medicare Advantage insurer integrating care navigation and clinical services.
- Dwelly AI-native operating system and roll-up for UK residential lettings agencies.
- Ethos AI expert-matching platform that verifies skills via voice interviews and work samples.
- Factorial AI workforce operations platform — HR, payroll, finance, and IT automation for European SMBs.
- Fivetran Automated data integration / ELT pipelines into cloud warehouses.
- Flowcarbon Blockchain infrastructure tokenizing voluntary carbon credits for transparent trading.
- GoodData Cloud analytics and business-intelligence platform for enterprise data products.
- Gusto Payroll, benefits, and HR platform for small businesses.
- Hippocratic AI Healthcare LLM company focused on safety-tuned models for patient-facing clinical workflows.
- Hopin Hopin became the pandemic-era virtual-events unicorn before demand collapsed and the assets were sold to RingCentral.
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