General Catalyst
Type | Private |
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Industry | Private equity |
Founded | 2000 (2000) |
Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, Palo Alto, California, New York, New York, San Francisco, California United States |
Key people | Joel Cutler, David Fialkow, Larry Bohn, Phil Libin, Adam Valkin, David Orfao, Hemant Taneja, Steve Herrod, Niko Bonatsos |
Products | Venture capital |
Number of employees | 40+ |
Website | www.generalcatalyst.com |
General Catalyst is an American venture capital firm focused on early stage and growth investments.[1] The firm was founded in 2000[2] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also has offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto and New York City.[3][4]
It has invested in companies such as The Honest Company, Outdoor Voices, Grammarly, Snapchat, Neverware, Stripe, Airbnb, Deliveroo, HubSpot, Datalogix, and Warby Parker. General Catalyst also helps to incubate companies,[5] examples including KAYAK, Naturebox, Altiscale and Highfive. General Catalyst sponsors a student-led fund called Rough Draft Ventures for students to invest in their peers on college campuses throughout the United States.[6]
Contents
1 History
2 Management
3 Investments
4 References
5 External links
History
General Catalyst was founded by John Simon, Joel Cutler, David Fialkow and David Orfao in 2000.[7][8] In 2011, the firm opened its Palo Alto office and shortly after raised a $500 million fund. In 2013, it announced a $675 million fund followed by a $845 million fund in 2016. In 2018, the company raised $1.4 billion for its ninth fund.[9]
Management
General Catalyst has ten managing directors:[10]
Larry Bohn,
Joel Cutler,
David Fialkow,
Bill Fitzgerald,
Steve Herrod,[11]
Niko Bonatsos,[12] Trevor Oelschig,
Hemant Taneja,[13] Adam Valkin, and Holly Maloney McConnell.[14]
Investments
Among the firm's investments are:
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- Airbnb
- AltiScale
- Axium
- Black Duck Software
Boxee[16]
Brainly[17]
- Cadre
- CCP Games
ClassPass,[18]
- CoachUp
- Datalogix
- Datto
- Deliveroo
- Demandware
- Elemental Technologies, Inc.
- Eons.com
- Everyzing,
- FanSnap
- flok
- GoodData
- GroupMe
- Grammarly
Gusto [19]
- Hands-On Mobile
- Highwinds Network Group
- The Honest Company
- HubSpot
- KAYAK
- Imprivata
- Julia Computing
- Listia
- NatureBox
- Neverware
NewStore[20]
Outdoor Voices[21]
- Plum District
- SignalDemand
- Snapchat
- Stripe
ThoughtSpot,[22]
- Tudou
- TuneIn
- Virtual Instruments
ViTrue, Inc.[23]
- Visible Measures
- VISANOW
- Warby Parker
WonderHowTo[24]
References
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^ "About". Retrieved July 9, 2014.
^ "Contact Us". Retrieved July 9, 2014.
^ "General Catalyst leads Series B round for Elysium Health - PE Hub". PE Hub. 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
^ "General Catalyst Raises $675M Seventh Fund". All Things D. December 23, 2013. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
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^ "Venture firm General Catalyst loses co-founder". Fortune. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
^ "Xconomy: General Catalyst Bags $1.4B for Ninth Fund as Tech Investors Go Big". Xconomy. 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
^ "General Catalyst raises $1.4B for new fund". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
^ "Our Team". Retrieved July 9, 2014.
^ "Steve Herrod Joins General Catalyst", TechCrunch, January 16, 2013
^ "[1]", TechCrunch, April 7, 2016,
^ Hemant Taneja: It’s About Building Relationships, The Wall Street Journal, September 4, 2013
^ "General Catalyst hires its first female managing partner - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
^ "General Catalyst Partners CrunchBase Profile". CrunchBase. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
^ Boxee Adds $6 Million Second Round; Aims To Take On Microsoft, Apple In Living Room. Reuters, Aug 12, 2009 cached
^ Steve O'Hear (15 October 2015). "Schoolwork Q&A Site Brainly Scores $9M Series A To Answer The U.S. Expansion Question". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
^ Jordan Crook (15 January 2015). "Classpass Is In Session With $40 Million In Series B". TechCrunch. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
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^ "demandware founder stephan schambachs newstore". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
^ "This 27-year-old CEO is taking on Lululemon and Nike". www.cnbc.com. 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
^ Clancy, Heather (May 19, 2016). "Can This Startup Become the Corporate Version of Google?". Fortune. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
^ Former President of Tandberg Television, Reggie Bradford, Together with General Catalyst Partners, Launches ViTrue, Inc.: World’s First User Created Advertising Platform May 8, 2006
^ WonderHowTo.com Soars Past 100,000 How-To Video Mark. Reuters
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External links
General Catalyst (company website)
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