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 Recruiting

Ethos

Seed Round in 2025
Ethos is an AI-driven platform designed to connect individuals with relevant expertise through a streamlined process. By scanning and analyzing hundreds of millions of profiles, Ethos effectively matches clients with experts for insight-driven calls, enhancing the communication experience while ensuring fair compensation for the experts involved. Currently, the platform specializes in facilitating expert calls, but it is also expanding its services to include matching advisors with startups, speakers with events, and talent with employers. This innovation simplifies the booking process and fosters equitable interactions between clients and experts.

Mercor

Series B in 2025
Mercor is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven job placement. It offers a platform that connects job seekers with potential employers, using AI to analyze skills and experiences for a more efficient match. Users complete a brief interview, then can apply to multiple companies simultaneously, simplifying the recruitment process for both candidates and businesses.

Mercor

Series A in 2024
Mercor is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven job placement. It offers a platform that connects job seekers with potential employers, using AI to analyze skills and experiences for a more efficient match. Users complete a brief interview, then can apply to multiple companies simultaneously, simplifying the recruitment process for both candidates and businesses.

Smalt

Seed Round in 2024
Smalt is a company focused on addressing the talent supply shortage in the trades by recruiting and training young tradespeople through innovative hybrid academies. It offers comprehensive training programs that equip future climate workers with essential skills and access to advanced technology and tools. Smalt's services are tailored for B2B customers, providing high-quality, digitized installation solutions delivered by highly skilled staff. By emphasizing the importance of upskilling and tech enablement, Smalt aims to support the green energy transition while ensuring that its partners receive top-notch installation services.

Re:Build

Venture Round in 2024
Re:Build is an industrial manufacturing company that integrates advanced technologies with traditional manufacturing processes, delivering operations management, product manufacturing, and engineering solutions across sectors such as aerospace, defense, healthcare, and cleantech. The company offers technical research, product design, advanced material part manufacturing, production optimization, supply chain management, and industrial automation. It also operates an engineer referral platform that assesses engineers' skills to match suitable projects, helping businesses find qualified talent for assignments.

Bandana

Seed Round in 2024
Bandana is an online job platform that prioritizes the needs of its users. It connects hourly wage workers with job opportunities that offer fair pay above minimum wage, benefits such as health insurance and paid time off, and specify job locations. This approach aims to enhance the human resource management process and help workers find better job prospects.

Electry

Series B in 2023
Electry is a career advisory service dedicated to supporting technical specialists throughout their careers and job transitions.

Bandana

Seed Round in 2023
Bandana is an online job platform that prioritizes the needs of its users. It connects hourly wage workers with job opportunities that offer fair pay above minimum wage, benefits such as health insurance and paid time off, and specify job locations. This approach aims to enhance the human resource management process and help workers find better job prospects.

Traba

Series A in 2022
Traba operates a human resource marketplace that connects industrial workers with businesses. It facilitates the filling of open shifts at warehouses, distribution centers, and event venues, empowering both parties to optimize productivity and earning potential.

Electry

Seed Round in 2022
Electry is a career advisory service dedicated to supporting technical specialists throughout their careers and job transitions.

Pintarnya

Seed Round in 2022
Pintarnya operates a mobile application designed to connect blue-collar workers in Indonesia with employment and financial opportunities. The platform enables users to create resumes, apply for curated job roles based on their skills and location, streamlining the hiring process for both job seekers and employers.

Enigma

Seed Round in 2022
We believe what you can do is more important than your background, so we created Enigma -- a screening platform created for the cybersecurity industry. Enigma's unique puzzle-based scenarios help companies screen high volumes of candidates efficiently, with challenges tailored to the real-world skills required for the job.

Seafair

Venture Round in 2021
Seafair provides an integrated platform for maritime staffing, combining manning services and crewing software to connect seafarers with opportunities at sea and to match shipping companies with qualified personnel. The company develops maritime crewing management software that enhances traditional shipping crewing through a proprietary vetting process, data-driven technology, and operations tooling. Its platform uses ranking algorithms to streamline seafarer qualification and placement, enabling seamless connections between seafarers and shipping companies.

Traba

Seed Round in 2021
Traba operates a human resource marketplace that connects industrial workers with businesses. It facilitates the filling of open shifts at warehouses, distribution centers, and event venues, empowering both parties to optimize productivity and earning potential.

Skillhood

Series B in 2021
Skillhood is a company dedicated to improving the working conditions of frontline employees by providing them with a skill progression platform. This platform enables workers to log, verify, and showcase their skills, facilitating career advancement and increased earning potential. By offering a verified skill passport, Skillhood recognizes the capabilities of frontline workers and provides them with a portable record of their work experiences. The platform also includes job alert features that enhance visibility for businesses regarding potential hiring needs. Through its innovative approach, Skillhood aims to create a safe, dignified, and prosperous environment for frontline work, ultimately helping recruiters to hire, retain, and train their workforce more effectively.

Eightfold

Series E in 2021
Eightfold develops an AI-driven talent intelligence platform that helps businesses find, recruit, and retain employees effectively. Founded in 2016, it's headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Skillhood

Series A in 2021
Skillhood is a company dedicated to improving the working conditions of frontline employees by providing them with a skill progression platform. This platform enables workers to log, verify, and showcase their skills, facilitating career advancement and increased earning potential. By offering a verified skill passport, Skillhood recognizes the capabilities of frontline workers and provides them with a portable record of their work experiences. The platform also includes job alert features that enhance visibility for businesses regarding potential hiring needs. Through its innovative approach, Skillhood aims to create a safe, dignified, and prosperous environment for frontline work, ultimately helping recruiters to hire, retain, and train their workforce more effectively.

Eightfold

Series D in 2020
Eightfold develops an AI-driven talent intelligence platform that helps businesses find, recruit, and retain employees effectively. Founded in 2016, it's headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Mercor

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Mercor is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven job placement. It offers a platform that connects job seekers with potential employers, using AI to analyze skills and experiences for a more efficient match. Users complete a brief interview, then can apply to multiple companies simultaneously, simplifying the recruitment process for both candidates and businesses.

WayUp

Series B in 2017
WayUp is an online job marketplace that connects students and recent graduates with various job and internship opportunities. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the platform allows businesses to post job listings targeted specifically at students from colleges across the United States. Users can create personalized profiles to receive tailored job recommendations and access career advice from industry experts. This service not only helps students find part-time, summer, and full-time job opportunities but also enables employers to effectively reach and recruit the millennial workforce. Through its curated approach, WayUp simplifies the job search process for students while enhancing recruitment efforts for businesses.

Major League Hacking

Seed Round in 2016
Major League Hacking is a mission-driven organization that operates the largest community of early-career developers worldwide, with more than 500,000 members. It runs hackathons, internships, and workshops to provide practical hands-on experience, help members build professional networks, and launch technology careers. The organization partners with employers to identify, train, and hire diverse technical talent directly from the community. It also hosts weekend-long invention competitions that teach computer science skills and foster innovation among students, hackers, technology leaders, and entrepreneurs worldwide. In 2016 it became a Certified B Corporation.

Drafted

Seed Round in 2015
Drafted Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, operates a network recruiting platform designed to streamline the hiring process for companies. The platform, Drafted, allows businesses to source, qualify, and hire candidates efficiently by leveraging their employee networks for referrals and sourcing. It also offers Layoff Network, which helps laid-off individuals connect with hiring companies through nominations from friends and colleagues. The company's solutions are utilized by recruiters, managers, and employees to track candidates and measure performance, ultimately aiming to enhance the quality of hires and support both companies and job seekers in their networking efforts.

WayUp

Series A in 2015
WayUp is an online job marketplace that connects students and recent graduates with various job and internship opportunities. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the platform allows businesses to post job listings targeted specifically at students from colleges across the United States. Users can create personalized profiles to receive tailored job recommendations and access career advice from industry experts. This service not only helps students find part-time, summer, and full-time job opportunities but also enables employers to effectively reach and recruit the millennial workforce. Through its curated approach, WayUp simplifies the job search process for students while enhancing recruitment efforts for businesses.

Bullhorn

Series D in 2008
Bullhorn, Inc. is a leading provider of staffing and recruiting software designed for startups, small to medium-sized businesses, and large enterprises. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products, including applicant tracking systems, business intelligence tools, customer relationship management software, and onboarding solutions. These products facilitate the automation of the recruitment lifecycle, aiding in candidate sourcing, placement, and time and expense management, while also streamlining payment and billing processes. Bullhorn serves a diverse range of sectors, including professional staffing, healthcare, executive search, commercial, and nonprofit organizations. The company has expanded its presence internationally, with offices in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, and various locations in the United States and beyond, reflecting its commitment to delivering innovative solutions tailored to the needs of the staffing industry.

OnForce

Series A in 2006
OnForce, Inc. is a company that operates an online platform designed to connect skilled professionals with companies seeking their services. Established in 2003 and based in Lexington, Massachusetts, OnForce specializes in freelancer management, allowing businesses to effectively engage with, manage, and compensate independent workers and freelancers. The platform, known as Converge, offers a cloud-based solution that helps companies control labor costs, expand their workforce capabilities, and create new revenue opportunities. By streamlining the process of searching for and engaging talent, OnForce also addresses challenges related to worker classification and compliance, providing a comprehensive service to both businesses and their independent contractors. OnForce operates as a subsidiary of Work Market Inc. as of August 2017.

Taleo

Seed Round in 2001
Taleo is a provider of on-demand unified talent management solutions, aimed at helping organizations worldwide manage their workforce effectively. The company offers a comprehensive suite of software services that includes recruiting, performance management, compensation management, internal mobility, onboarding, and analytics. Tailored for smaller and less complex organizations, as well as divisions within larger companies and staffing firms, Taleo's solutions facilitate the assessment, acquisition, development, and alignment of talent within organizations.
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