General Catalyst

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm founded in 2000, specializing in early-stage and growth equity investments. With a total of approximately $3.75 billion in capital commitments across eight managed funds, it supports entrepreneurs by providing mentorship and creating optimal conditions for growth. The firm emphasizes building strong, trusting relationships with founders, working collaboratively to drive success and leadership. General Catalyst's investment strategy includes a diverse range of sectors such as technology, healthcare, and clean energy, and it often seeks to engage with companies showing promising growth potential. The firm also operates initiatives like Rough Draft Ventures, aimed at supporting student founders, and the Velocity Network, which connects enterprise companies with customers. With offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and additional locations in North America and Europe, General Catalyst invests both domestically and internationally, focusing on companies that demonstrate strong revenue and profitability metrics.

Mark Allen

CFO

Natalie Bartlett

Associate

Christopher Bischoff

Managing Director

Larry Bohn

Managing Director

Niko Bonatsos

Managing Director

Kenneth Chenault

Partner

Quentin J. Clark

Managing Director

Clayton Cole

Principal

Mark Crane

Partner

Joel Cutler

Managing Director

Christopher Davis

Partner

Nick van Eck

Partner

Mary Gao

Investor

Molly Blaauw Gillis

Partner

Jeremy Goldstein

Partner

Philipp Handel

Partner

Stephen Herrod

Managing Director

Diana Hong

Investor

John Kim

Managing Director

Kevin King

Partner

Genevieve Kinney

Principal

Paul Kwan

Managing Director

Spencer Lazar

Partner

Olivia Lew

Senior Associate

Megan Maloney

Principal

Holly Maloney McConnell

Managing Director

Jeremy Navarro

Investor

Deep Nishar

Managing Director

Reva Nohria

Principal

Trevor Oelschig

Managing Director

David Orfao

Partner

Jon Rehagen

Vice President of Technology

Candace Richardson

Principal

Max Rimpel

Partner

Sam Rosen

Investor

Brian Ru

Principal

Paul Sagan

Investor

Ronda Scott

VP of Public Relations

James Swingos

Partner

Hemant Taneja

Managing Director

Alex Tran

Partner

Adam Valkin

Managing Director

Alexis Weiss

Associate General Counsel

Johnson Yang

Principal

Past deals in Virtual Workforce

Traba

Series A in 2022
Traba is a marketplace that connects light industrial workers with businesses to fill open shifts. Their focus is on opportunities in warehousing, distribution, and event staffing.

Electry

Seed Round in 2022
PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.

Remote

Series C in 2022
Remote Technology, Inc. provides payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax related services through its human resource technology platform. The company offers services in the areas of onboarding, automatic payments, and centralized management of various documents; and statutory payments, social and pension contributions, and income tax retention. It also connects candidates with companies for remote job opportunities. Remote Technology, Inc. was formerly known as Outsource.com, LLC. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Traba

Seed Round in 2021
Traba is a marketplace that connects light industrial workers with businesses to fill open shifts. Their focus is on opportunities in warehousing, distribution, and event staffing.

Remote

Series B in 2021
Remote Technology, Inc. provides payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax related services through its human resource technology platform. The company offers services in the areas of onboarding, automatic payments, and centralized management of various documents; and statutory payments, social and pension contributions, and income tax retention. It also connects candidates with companies for remote job opportunities. Remote Technology, Inc. was formerly known as Outsource.com, LLC. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Microverse

Series A in 2021
Microverse is an online school for remote software developers. Our mission is to educate and connect 1 million people with remote opportunities by 2030. At Microverse, students from all around the world work in small distributed teams while doing remote pair programming. They hold each other accountable and learn together while working on open source and freelance projects.

Remote

Series A in 2020
Remote Technology, Inc. provides payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax related services through its human resource technology platform. The company offers services in the areas of onboarding, automatic payments, and centralized management of various documents; and statutory payments, social and pension contributions, and income tax retention. It also connects candidates with companies for remote job opportunities. Remote Technology, Inc. was formerly known as Outsource.com, LLC. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Remote

Series A in 2020
Remote Technology, Inc. provides payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax related services through its human resource technology platform. The company offers services in the areas of onboarding, automatic payments, and centralized management of various documents; and statutory payments, social and pension contributions, and income tax retention. It also connects candidates with companies for remote job opportunities. Remote Technology, Inc. was formerly known as Outsource.com, LLC. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Microverse

Seed Round in 2020
Microverse is an online school for remote software developers. Our mission is to educate and connect 1 million people with remote opportunities by 2030. At Microverse, students from all around the world work in small distributed teams while doing remote pair programming. They hold each other accountable and learn together while working on open source and freelance projects.

Virtual Instruments

Series D in 2012
Virtual Instruments is the leader in IT Infrastructure Performance Management for the physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Virtual Instruments is a dynamic, fast-growing technology company with a performance driven culture. Founded in June 2008 we are headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley, led by an industry-proven executive team, and backed by a group of highly experienced and successful investors. As a company, we are focused on delivering unparalleled value to our customers through a truly innovative combination of disruptive technology and revolutionary services. Our customers represent industry leading brands in every major vertical market, all of whom have some of the most performance sensitive and complex IT environments in the world. Our unwavering commitment to our customers' success, ensuring the performance and availability of their mission critical application workload as they migrate from physical to virtual and cloud computing environments, is what has fueled our record growth and is driving the ongoing development of our award winning Infrastructure Performance Management platform, VirtualWisdom.

OnForce

Series A in 2006
OnForce, Inc. provides online work portal sites for connecting talented professionals directly to the companies that need them. It provides search for, negotiate with, and engage directly with solutions for preferred talent pool and other professionals from the OnForce platform. OnForce, Inc. was formerly known as ComputerRepair.com LLC and changed its name to OnForce, Inc. in December 2005. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts. As of August 7, 2017, OnForce, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Work Market Inc.

Taleo

Seed Round in 2001
Taleo provides on demand unified talent management solutions for organizations around the world to assess, acquire, develop and align their workforce.