General Catalyst

Founded in 2000, General Catalyst is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth equity investments. It focuses on accelerating ideas, careers, and companies towards success by providing ongoing momentum and mentorship based on deep experience.

Adrian Abeijon

Investor

Mark Allen

CFO

Samuel Beyer

Investor

Marc Bhargava

Managing Director

Chris Bischoff

Managing Director

Past deals in Media

Future trash

Seed Round in 2024
Future Trash is an interdisciplinary game development company that is currently operating in stealth mode. The firm is focused on creating innovative gaming experiences, leveraging a blend of artistic design and technical expertise to push the boundaries of traditional game development. By maintaining a low profile, Future Trash is likely concentrating on research and development to bring fresh ideas to the gaming industry.

Ozone

Seed Round in 2023
Ozone is an innovative company that has developed an AI-powered video editing platform designed to enhance the creative process for users. By enabling remote collaboration, Ozone allows creative producers to edit high-definition footage seamlessly without the need for bulky hardware or slow processing times. The platform supports features such as instant video mockup creation, effortless color correction, and real-time previews of edits, making it a valuable tool for those in the creative industry. Ozone's focus is on providing a user-friendly experience that empowers creatives to extend their capabilities and streamline their workflows, all within a cloud-based environment that prioritizes speed and accessibility.

Ozone

Seed Round in 2023
Ozone is an innovative company that has developed an AI-powered video editing platform designed to enhance the creative process for users. By enabling remote collaboration, Ozone allows creative producers to edit high-definition footage seamlessly without the need for bulky hardware or slow processing times. The platform supports features such as instant video mockup creation, effortless color correction, and real-time previews of edits, making it a valuable tool for those in the creative industry. Ozone's focus is on providing a user-friendly experience that empowers creatives to extend their capabilities and streamline their workflows, all within a cloud-based environment that prioritizes speed and accessibility.

Macro

Seed Round in 2020
Macro is a media company that creates and finances film, television, and digital content aimed at multicultural audiences, particularly Black people and people of color. It partners with storytellers and provides capital to bring diverse narratives to life across traditional and unconventional platforms. The company also offers a Zoom SDK-powered application that enhances meetings by adding collaborative overlays, real‑time time‑use analytics, and a text‑input system for questions, takeaways, action items, and insights, which can be exported to Google Docs for sharing.

Supermedium

Seed Round in 2018
Supermedium is a company focused on creating immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences, initially launching a VR browser application that allows users to access various web-based content. The application supports standard web technologies, enabling users to explore a diverse range of experiences, including mini-games, art installations, journalistic pieces, and social environments. With a particular emphasis on delivering a comic book reader, Supermedium aims to enhance the way users engage with digital content in VR without the need for installations or app store dependencies. The company is rooted in the foundational work of pioneers in WebVR and the creators of A-Frame, contributing to the evolution of accessible VR utilities.

TuneIn

Series G in 2017
TuneIn is a global audio streaming platform that provides live sports, music, news, podcasts, and internet radio. It offers premium services with commercial-free music and access to live sports and news content, and TuneIn Live enables Alexa and other voice-enabled devices to access premium audio content. The company operates its own radio stations and partners with others, delivering live and on-demand programming across home, car, and mobile devices on a wide range of platforms and devices worldwide. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Francisco, TuneIn serves tens of millions of monthly active users and hosts a catalog of more than 100,000 radio stations and millions of podcasts, accessible in many countries and on popular smart speakers and connected devices.

Bustle Digital Group

Series D in 2017
Bustle Digital Group is a media company based in New York, founded in 2013, that focuses on shaping culture through a diverse portfolio of digital and experiential brands. The company operates Bustle, a platform dedicated to providing news, entertainment, lifestyle, and fashion content tailored for young readers. Bustle aims to redefine women's interests by offering a wide array of topics that resonate with its audience, including news, celebrity culture, politics, and beauty. Through its engaging and accessible content, Bustle Digital Group ensures that readers can find everything they want to know in one place, keeping them informed and entertained.

Bustle Digital Group

Series C in 2016
Bustle Digital Group is a media company based in New York, founded in 2013, that focuses on shaping culture through a diverse portfolio of digital and experiential brands. The company operates Bustle, a platform dedicated to providing news, entertainment, lifestyle, and fashion content tailored for young readers. Bustle aims to redefine women's interests by offering a wide array of topics that resonate with its audience, including news, celebrity culture, politics, and beauty. Through its engaging and accessible content, Bustle Digital Group ensures that readers can find everything they want to know in one place, keeping them informed and entertained.

TuneIn

Series F in 2015
TuneIn is a global audio streaming platform that provides live sports, music, news, podcasts, and internet radio. It offers premium services with commercial-free music and access to live sports and news content, and TuneIn Live enables Alexa and other voice-enabled devices to access premium audio content. The company operates its own radio stations and partners with others, delivering live and on-demand programming across home, car, and mobile devices on a wide range of platforms and devices worldwide. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Francisco, TuneIn serves tens of millions of monthly active users and hosts a catalog of more than 100,000 radio stations and millions of podcasts, accessible in many countries and on popular smart speakers and connected devices.

AWS Elemental

Series D in 2014
AWS Elemental, founded in 2006 and based in Portland, Oregon, is a leading provider of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. The company specializes in software-based video processing that allows for the distribution and monetization of video over IP networks. AWS Elemental's solutions are designed to offer flexibility, scalability, and performance, enabling high-quality video to be transformed into new revenue streams through cloud-based and virtualized deployment models. Serving over 600 prominent media franchises globally, the company assists pay TV operators, content programmers, broadcasters, and enterprise clients in delivering video content seamlessly across various devices. AWS Elemental maintains a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Russia, India, and Brazil.

Bustle Digital Group

Series B in 2014
Bustle Digital Group is a media company based in New York, founded in 2013, that focuses on shaping culture through a diverse portfolio of digital and experiential brands. The company operates Bustle, a platform dedicated to providing news, entertainment, lifestyle, and fashion content tailored for young readers. Bustle aims to redefine women's interests by offering a wide array of topics that resonate with its audience, including news, celebrity culture, politics, and beauty. Through its engaging and accessible content, Bustle Digital Group ensures that readers can find everything they want to know in one place, keeping them informed and entertained.

Kin Community

Series C in 2014
Kin is a lifestyle entertainment company that develops, creates and distributes lifestyle entertainment in all forms and across all platforms for women in the “Builder” stage of their lives.

TuneIn

Venture Round in 2013
TuneIn is a global audio streaming platform that provides live sports, music, news, podcasts, and internet radio. It offers premium services with commercial-free music and access to live sports and news content, and TuneIn Live enables Alexa and other voice-enabled devices to access premium audio content. The company operates its own radio stations and partners with others, delivering live and on-demand programming across home, car, and mobile devices on a wide range of platforms and devices worldwide. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Francisco, TuneIn serves tens of millions of monthly active users and hosts a catalog of more than 100,000 radio stations and millions of podcasts, accessible in many countries and on popular smart speakers and connected devices.

TuneIn

Series D in 2012
TuneIn is a global audio streaming platform that provides live sports, music, news, podcasts, and internet radio. It offers premium services with commercial-free music and access to live sports and news content, and TuneIn Live enables Alexa and other voice-enabled devices to access premium audio content. The company operates its own radio stations and partners with others, delivering live and on-demand programming across home, car, and mobile devices on a wide range of platforms and devices worldwide. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Francisco, TuneIn serves tens of millions of monthly active users and hosts a catalog of more than 100,000 radio stations and millions of podcasts, accessible in many countries and on popular smart speakers and connected devices.

OmniVirt

Seed Round in 2012
OmniVirt is a technology company based in Millbrae, California, founded in 2012. It specializes in creating an advertising platform that enables the creation and distribution of immersive ads using virtual reality (VR), 360° video, 3D rendering, and augmented reality (AR). The platform allows brands to upload, promote, and analyze their content across a network of publishers and platforms, delivering significantly higher performance than traditional advertising. OmniVirt's technology is compatible with most browsers and trusted by major publishers such as The New York Times, WSJ, Washington Post, and Forbes.

AWS Elemental

Series C in 2012
AWS Elemental, founded in 2006 and based in Portland, Oregon, is a leading provider of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. The company specializes in software-based video processing that allows for the distribution and monetization of video over IP networks. AWS Elemental's solutions are designed to offer flexibility, scalability, and performance, enabling high-quality video to be transformed into new revenue streams through cloud-based and virtualized deployment models. Serving over 600 prominent media franchises globally, the company assists pay TV operators, content programmers, broadcasters, and enterprise clients in delivering video content seamlessly across various devices. AWS Elemental maintains a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Russia, India, and Brazil.

Brit +

Seed Round in 2012
Brit + Co is a media company serving a large online audience of women with a creative spirit. It operates a digital platform and related experiences that combine editorial content, tutorials, and shopping, connecting users with makers, designers, chefs, and inventors to foster creativity. The company offers do-it-yourself project kits and a curated line of products, with content distributed via its app, website, and social channels to inspire, educate, and entertain a digitally connected community.

SnagFilms

Venture Round in 2012
SnagFilms Inc. is an online film distribution company that provides a platform for audiences to watch, share, and support a diverse array of films and documentaries. Established in 2007 and headquartered in New York, the company offers access to full-length movies, TV shows, and various genres including comedy, drama, documentaries, and horror, among others. Users can stream and download content on multiple devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, desktops, and televisions. SnagFilms aims to make film viewing accessible by offering thousands of films for free, including multi-lingual options to cater to a wider audience.

Kanvas Labs

Venture Round in 2011
Kanvas Labs, Inc. is a mobile social networking company based in New York, New York, that specializes in enabling users to create and share engaging visual content centered around real-world experiences. The company offers a platform that allows users to craft social photo stories by combining photos, videos, GIFs, and custom stop motion clips with text, stickers, and music. This content can be shared within the app and across various social media platforms. Originally known as Tracks Media, Inc., Kanvas Labs was incorporated in 2010 and operates as a subsidiary of AOL Inc. The platform emphasizes the creation of micro-social networks, facilitating interactive and collaborative storytelling among friends and followers.

Boxee

Series C in 2011
Boxee is a media player software platform that combines locally stored personal media with internet streaming content and social networking features. The platform allows users to share their viewing habits with friends and other Boxee users on various social networks. It is partially open-source, enabling users to develop their own applications, plug-ins, and skins. The foundation of Boxee is derived from the Xbox Media Center project, originally created by home theater PC enthusiasts. In addition to software, Boxee has also developed an electronic device that connects smartphones to televisions, allowing users to discover and watch shows and movies from the internet directly on their TVs. This integration of personal media, streaming services, and social interaction positions Boxee as a versatile solution for media consumption.

Hot Potato

Series A in 2009
Hot Potato is a technology company that specializes in enhancing the experience of live events through real-time social collaboration. It provides a platform where friends and fans can connect, share their perspectives, and enjoy each other's contributions during events. The company focuses on creating tools that make participating in events more engaging and fun by facilitating interactions among groups who share an interest in the same experiences as they unfold.

ScanScout

Series B in 2009
ScanScout is a leading online video advertising network that connects major advertisers with publishers to enhance video advertising opportunities. By partnering with publishers, ScanScout enables them to generate significant revenue from their video content while ensuring a user-friendly monetization process. For advertisers, the company offers capabilities to target, optimize, and deliver ad messages effectively, thereby maximizing user engagement. Serving hundreds of millions of ad impressions monthly, ScanScout ranks among the largest online video networks globally. The company is headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Boxee

Series B in 2009
Boxee is a media player software platform that combines locally stored personal media with internet streaming content and social networking features. The platform allows users to share their viewing habits with friends and other Boxee users on various social networks. It is partially open-source, enabling users to develop their own applications, plug-ins, and skins. The foundation of Boxee is derived from the Xbox Media Center project, originally created by home theater PC enthusiasts. In addition to software, Boxee has also developed an electronic device that connects smartphones to televisions, allowing users to discover and watch shows and movies from the internet directly on their TVs. This integration of personal media, streaming services, and social interaction positions Boxee as a versatile solution for media consumption.

ScanScout

Series B in 2009
ScanScout is a leading online video advertising network that connects major advertisers with publishers to enhance video advertising opportunities. By partnering with publishers, ScanScout enables them to generate significant revenue from their video content while ensuring a user-friendly monetization process. For advertisers, the company offers capabilities to target, optimize, and deliver ad messages effectively, thereby maximizing user engagement. Serving hundreds of millions of ad impressions monthly, ScanScout ranks among the largest online video networks globally. The company is headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in New York and Los Angeles.

DECA

Series B in 2009
Founded by Michael Wayne and Chris Kimbell, both formerly of Sony Pictures, DECA (Digital Entertainment Company of America) launches as a production house for mainstream digital entertainment. The company received $5 million from Mayfield, Atomico and General Catalyst Partners and will be putting the investment into finding and financing novel digital entertainment web properties. DECA, however, will not serve as a destination for these properties, but rather invest in them and distribute them through their partner's channels. There is little word on what properties they will focus their money on, but they will be announcing their first 3 projects in the fall of 2007. Web video shows are definitely in the cards, with non-video properties on the horizon as well.

AWS Elemental

Series A in 2008
AWS Elemental, founded in 2006 and based in Portland, Oregon, is a leading provider of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. The company specializes in software-based video processing that allows for the distribution and monetization of video over IP networks. AWS Elemental's solutions are designed to offer flexibility, scalability, and performance, enabling high-quality video to be transformed into new revenue streams through cloud-based and virtualized deployment models. Serving over 600 prominent media franchises globally, the company assists pay TV operators, content programmers, broadcasters, and enterprise clients in delivering video content seamlessly across various devices. AWS Elemental maintains a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Russia, India, and Brazil.

ScanScout

Series A in 2008
ScanScout is a leading online video advertising network that connects major advertisers with publishers to enhance video advertising opportunities. By partnering with publishers, ScanScout enables them to generate significant revenue from their video content while ensuring a user-friendly monetization process. For advertisers, the company offers capabilities to target, optimize, and deliver ad messages effectively, thereby maximizing user engagement. Serving hundreds of millions of ad impressions monthly, ScanScout ranks among the largest online video networks globally. The company is headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Tudou Holdings

Series C in 2008
Tudou Holdings is a prominent Chinese video sharing website that facilitates user engagement and creativity through its platform. Launched in 2005 by Wang Tei, Tudou allows users to watch, upload, rate, share, comment on, and recommend a variety of video content, including user-generated videos, licensed materials, and original programming. This interactive experience empowers young independent video producers to showcase their creativity. In 2012, Tudou merged with Youku, forming Youku Tudou, Inc., which became a leading entity in the online video sector in China. As of 2013, the platform attracted approximately 227 million unique monthly visitors, establishing a significant user base that outperformed major competitors in the industry.

WonderHowTo

Series A in 2008
WonderHowTo, Inc., founded in 2007 and based in Santa Monica, California, specializes in providing a comprehensive search engine and directory solutions for how-to videos across a wide range of categories. These categories include beauty, arts and crafts, fitness, cooking, education, and technology, among others. Initially launched in January 2008, the platform began by curating and indexing video tutorials from various sources on the internet, leveraging the backgrounds of its founders in television programming and software development. Over time, WonderHowTo evolved to enable users to contribute original articles, catering to topics better suited for written content. The company's innovative approach includes the creation of a community platform that allows energetic creators to showcase their work and engage with other members, further enriching the user experience and expanding the diversity of content available.

DECA

Series A in 2007
Founded by Michael Wayne and Chris Kimbell, both formerly of Sony Pictures, DECA (Digital Entertainment Company of America) launches as a production house for mainstream digital entertainment. The company received $5 million from Mayfield, Atomico and General Catalyst Partners and will be putting the investment into finding and financing novel digital entertainment web properties. DECA, however, will not serve as a destination for these properties, but rather invest in them and distribute them through their partner's channels. There is little word on what properties they will focus their money on, but they will be announcing their first 3 projects in the fall of 2007. Web video shows are definitely in the cards, with non-video properties on the horizon as well.

EveryZing

Series B in 2007
EveryZing is a media merchandising platform that helps content producers and web publishers dynamically increase the volume of consumable online multimedia content while simultaneously enhancing its monetary value. Unlike other general web search and aggregation services that work only on meta data and tags, EveryZing leverages its unique speech to text, search, and optimization technologies to unlock the content within multimedia and automatically process and organize it to power a compelling ecosystem which easily connects media companies with publishers, consumers, and advertisers.

ScanScout

Series A in 2007
ScanScout is a leading online video advertising network that connects major advertisers with publishers to enhance video advertising opportunities. By partnering with publishers, ScanScout enables them to generate significant revenue from their video content while ensuring a user-friendly monetization process. For advertisers, the company offers capabilities to target, optimize, and deliver ad messages effectively, thereby maximizing user engagement. Serving hundreds of millions of ad impressions monthly, ScanScout ranks among the largest online video networks globally. The company is headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Tudou Holdings

Series B in 2007
Tudou Holdings is a prominent Chinese video sharing website that facilitates user engagement and creativity through its platform. Launched in 2005 by Wang Tei, Tudou allows users to watch, upload, rate, share, comment on, and recommend a variety of video content, including user-generated videos, licensed materials, and original programming. This interactive experience empowers young independent video producers to showcase their creativity. In 2012, Tudou merged with Youku, forming Youku Tudou, Inc., which became a leading entity in the online video sector in China. As of 2013, the platform attracted approximately 227 million unique monthly visitors, establishing a significant user base that outperformed major competitors in the industry.

MForma Group

Series D in 2005
MFORMA is a leading global publisher and distributor of mobile entertainment. MFORMA provides wireless operators and their customers with the world's best content and brands, and provides developers and brand owners with the shortest route to market. MFORMA's customers include more than 100 of the world's leading wireless carriers. In addition to the industry's most comprehensive catalog of BREW, Java, SMS, MMS, and WAP games, MFORMA also provides sports, lifestyle, and information services subscription products. MFORMA's carrier-grade platform manages the delivery of downloadable games and applications for some of the world's largest carriers. MFORMA is a U.S. corporation with offices in San Francisco (headquarters), San Diego, and Los Angeles, California; Bellevue, Washington; London and Manchester, England; Shanghai and Beijing, China; and Seoul, Korea.

MForma Group

Series C in 2005
MFORMA is a leading global publisher and distributor of mobile entertainment. MFORMA provides wireless operators and their customers with the world's best content and brands, and provides developers and brand owners with the shortest route to market. MFORMA's customers include more than 100 of the world's leading wireless carriers. In addition to the industry's most comprehensive catalog of BREW, Java, SMS, MMS, and WAP games, MFORMA also provides sports, lifestyle, and information services subscription products. MFORMA's carrier-grade platform manages the delivery of downloadable games and applications for some of the world's largest carriers. MFORMA is a U.S. corporation with offices in San Francisco (headquarters), San Diego, and Los Angeles, California; Bellevue, Washington; London and Manchester, England; Shanghai and Beijing, China; and Seoul, Korea.

MForma Group

Series B in 2004
MFORMA is a leading global publisher and distributor of mobile entertainment. MFORMA provides wireless operators and their customers with the world's best content and brands, and provides developers and brand owners with the shortest route to market. MFORMA's customers include more than 100 of the world's leading wireless carriers. In addition to the industry's most comprehensive catalog of BREW, Java, SMS, MMS, and WAP games, MFORMA also provides sports, lifestyle, and information services subscription products. MFORMA's carrier-grade platform manages the delivery of downloadable games and applications for some of the world's largest carriers. MFORMA is a U.S. corporation with offices in San Francisco (headquarters), San Diego, and Los Angeles, California; Bellevue, Washington; London and Manchester, England; Shanghai and Beijing, China; and Seoul, Korea.

MForma Group

Series A in 2004
MFORMA is a leading global publisher and distributor of mobile entertainment. MFORMA provides wireless operators and their customers with the world's best content and brands, and provides developers and brand owners with the shortest route to market. MFORMA's customers include more than 100 of the world's leading wireless carriers. In addition to the industry's most comprehensive catalog of BREW, Java, SMS, MMS, and WAP games, MFORMA also provides sports, lifestyle, and information services subscription products. MFORMA's carrier-grade platform manages the delivery of downloadable games and applications for some of the world's largest carriers. MFORMA is a U.S. corporation with offices in San Francisco (headquarters), San Diego, and Los Angeles, California; Bellevue, Washington; London and Manchester, England; Shanghai and Beijing, China; and Seoul, Korea.

Maven Networks

Series B in 2004
Maven Networks is an online video platform provider with end-to-end video syndication, content management and advertising solution. Maven helps media companies create, distribute and profit from direct-to-consumer Internet TV channels and networks. The Maven Internet TV Platform(TM) is used by organizations such as CanWest, CBS Sports, CBC, CNET, Gannett, The Financial Times, Fox Business Network, Fox News, Hearst, MediaNews Group, Ogilvy, Scripps Networks, Sony BMG, Sony Pictures Television, and TV Guide.

Maven Networks

Series A in 2003
Maven Networks is an online video platform provider with end-to-end video syndication, content management and advertising solution. Maven helps media companies create, distribute and profit from direct-to-consumer Internet TV channels and networks. The Maven Internet TV Platform(TM) is used by organizations such as CanWest, CBS Sports, CBC, CNET, Gannett, The Financial Times, Fox Business Network, Fox News, Hearst, MediaNews Group, Ogilvy, Scripps Networks, Sony BMG, Sony Pictures Television, and TV Guide.

AudioAudit

Series A in 2003
AudioAudit is a business solutions provider specializing in the Advertising and Broadcast industries. The company offers patented digital technology designed for broadcast advertising, which enhances accountability and communication within these sectors. By delivering innovative broadcast verification technology, AudioAudit enables businesses to manage and execute advertising campaigns more effectively, ensuring a seamless broadcasting experience.
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