General Catalyst

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm established in 2000, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional offices in North America and Europe. The company specializes in early-stage and growth equity investments, focusing on technology-driven businesses. It invests across various sectors, including consumer internet, enterprise software, fintech, health assurance, and crypto. General Catalyst provides not only capital but also mentorship and resources to accelerate the growth of its portfolio companies. To date, it has managed eight venture capital funds, totaling approximately $3.75 billion in capital commitments.

Adrian Abeijon

Investor

Mark Allen

CFO

Neeraj Arora

Managing Director, Investment Team

Juliet Bailin

Principal

Marc Bhargava

Managing Director

Chris Bischoff

Managing Director

Larry Bohn

Managing Director

Teresa Carlson

President, General Catalyst Institute

Kenneth Chenault

Chairman and Managing Director

Quentin Clark

Managing Director

Mark Crane

Partner

Christopher Davis

Partner

Kyle Doherty

Managing Director

Nick van Eck

Partner

David Fialkow

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Mina Hsiang

Associate

Nmachi Jidenma

Partner

Christopher Kauffman

Principal

Genevieve Kinney

Principal

Zak Kukoff

Principal

Paul Kwan

Managing Director

Viet Le

Partner

Roy Mabrey

Partner, Investment Team

Holly Maloney McConnell

Managing Director

Karanveer Mohan

Managing Director, Investment Team

Deep Nishar

Managing Director and Member of the Management Committee

Dipchand Nishar

Managing Director

Reva Nohria

Investor

Trevor Oelschig

Managing Director

Tyler Olkowski

Investor

Pranay Orugunta

Healthcare Investor

Mo Punjwani

Associate, Investments

Candace Richardson

Principal

Paul Sagan

Investor

Pranav Singhvi

Partner

Bill Skarinka

Associate

Alex Tran

Managing Director

Catherine Tu

Partner, Investment Team

Elena Viboch

Partner

Andrea Wang

Principal, Early Stage Investment

Nathaniel Levy-Westhead

Partner, Investment Team

Past deals in Storage Services

Bounce

Series B in 2024
Bounce, Inc., operating as Get Bounce, offers a luggage storage platform that allows users to securely store their belongings at local businesses, such as cafes and shops, while they explore the city. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, the company provides both hourly and daily storage options, partnering with local establishments to designate specific areas for secure luggage storage. Bounce caters primarily to travelers and tourists, facilitating convenience and peace of mind during their urban excursions.

Neon

Venture Round in 2024
Neon is a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres as a service. By separating storage from computing, Neon offers autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. Neon aims to provide a highly performant and cost-effective database infrastructure by leveraging cloud-native technologies and innovative architectural features.

Neon

Series B in 2023
Neon is a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres as a service. By separating storage from computing, Neon offers autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. Neon aims to provide a highly performant and cost-effective database infrastructure by leveraging cloud-native technologies and innovative architectural features.

Neon

Series A in 2022
Neon is a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres as a service. By separating storage from computing, Neon offers autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. Neon aims to provide a highly performant and cost-effective database infrastructure by leveraging cloud-native technologies and innovative architectural features.

Bounce

Series A in 2022
Bounce, Inc., operating as Get Bounce, offers a luggage storage platform that allows users to securely store their belongings at local businesses, such as cafes and shops, while they explore the city. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, the company provides both hourly and daily storage options, partnering with local establishments to designate specific areas for secure luggage storage. Bounce caters primarily to travelers and tourists, facilitating convenience and peace of mind during their urban excursions.

MinIO

Series B in 2022
MinIO, Inc. is a developer of a high-performance, open-source object storage server that is compatible with Amazon S3 APIs. Founded in 2014 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company specializes in providing a Kubernetes-native object store optimized for cloud-native workloads. MinIO's platform is designed to support the growing demands of unstructured data, allowing enterprises to manage various workloads such as machine learning, analytics, and data backup from a single solution. It enables application developers to create their own cloud storage systems for diverse data types, including images, videos, and log files, while ensuring portability across both public and private cloud environments. Additionally, MinIO offers a public play server that allows developers and system administrators to familiarize themselves with S3-compatible object storage.

Bounce

Seed Round in 2021
Bounce, Inc., operating as Get Bounce, offers a luggage storage platform that allows users to securely store their belongings at local businesses, such as cafes and shops, while they explore the city. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, the company provides both hourly and daily storage options, partnering with local establishments to designate specific areas for secure luggage storage. Bounce caters primarily to travelers and tourists, facilitating convenience and peace of mind during their urban excursions.

Tigris Data

Seed Round in 2021
Tigris Data provides a globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage service that facilitates low-latency access to data from anywhere in the world. The company enables users to efficiently store and retrieve vast amounts of data tailored to various applications while simplifying data management. Tigris automatically distributes data closer to users, alleviating the challenges associated with data replication and caching. Additionally, the service is designed for ease of use and cost efficiency, allowing developers to utilize standard S3 tools, libraries, and extensions for streamlined data structuring and access across multiple regions.

Convex

Seed Round in 2021
Convex makes it dead-simple to store your app's shared state and sync it everywhere. As a developer, you interact with your shared state using JavaScript or TypeScript functions and bind that state to your reactive app.

ClearSky Data

Venture Round in 2018
ClearSky Data is a provider of a cloud-based enterprise storage network that simplifies the entire data lifecycle by offering enterprise storage as a fully managed service. The company focuses on business agility, allowing customers to scale their storage needs effortlessly through a user-friendly dashboard. Utilizing its patent-pending Smart Tiered Caching technology, ClearSky continuously categorizes data and places it in appropriate cache layers—hot, warm, or cold—based on real-time usage and customer policies. This enables efficient data handling for various scenarios, including data center migration and disaster recovery. By partnering with major public cloud providers, ClearSky ensures low-latency access to critical workloads while significantly reducing the total cost of ownership compared to traditional data center management. The service architecture incorporates redundancy and high availability, ensuring robust performance and security. ClearSky emphasizes strong data protection measures, guaranteeing that customer information remains isolated and secure throughout its lifecycle.

MinIO

Series A in 2017
MinIO, Inc. is a developer of a high-performance, open-source object storage server that is compatible with Amazon S3 APIs. Founded in 2014 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company specializes in providing a Kubernetes-native object store optimized for cloud-native workloads. MinIO's platform is designed to support the growing demands of unstructured data, allowing enterprises to manage various workloads such as machine learning, analytics, and data backup from a single solution. It enables application developers to create their own cloud storage systems for diverse data types, including images, videos, and log files, while ensuring portability across both public and private cloud environments. Additionally, MinIO offers a public play server that allows developers and system administrators to familiarize themselves with S3-compatible object storage.

ClearSky Data

Series B in 2015
ClearSky Data is a provider of a cloud-based enterprise storage network that simplifies the entire data lifecycle by offering enterprise storage as a fully managed service. The company focuses on business agility, allowing customers to scale their storage needs effortlessly through a user-friendly dashboard. Utilizing its patent-pending Smart Tiered Caching technology, ClearSky continuously categorizes data and places it in appropriate cache layers—hot, warm, or cold—based on real-time usage and customer policies. This enables efficient data handling for various scenarios, including data center migration and disaster recovery. By partnering with major public cloud providers, ClearSky ensures low-latency access to critical workloads while significantly reducing the total cost of ownership compared to traditional data center management. The service architecture incorporates redundancy and high availability, ensuring robust performance and security. ClearSky emphasizes strong data protection measures, guaranteeing that customer information remains isolated and secure throughout its lifecycle.

MinIO

Seed Round in 2015
MinIO, Inc. is a developer of a high-performance, open-source object storage server that is compatible with Amazon S3 APIs. Founded in 2014 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company specializes in providing a Kubernetes-native object store optimized for cloud-native workloads. MinIO's platform is designed to support the growing demands of unstructured data, allowing enterprises to manage various workloads such as machine learning, analytics, and data backup from a single solution. It enables application developers to create their own cloud storage systems for diverse data types, including images, videos, and log files, while ensuring portability across both public and private cloud environments. Additionally, MinIO offers a public play server that allows developers and system administrators to familiarize themselves with S3-compatible object storage.

ownCloud

Series A in 2014
ownCloud, Inc. develops a universal file access platform that allows organizations to host their own file sync and share solutions in their data centers or on cloud storage, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The company's flagship product, ownCloud, is an open-source software solution that facilitates data access, management, and sharing across various devices, including desktop and mobile platforms. This self-hosted server enables users to collaborate securely with internal and external parties without relying on public cloud storage. ownCloud serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, government, and education, providing solutions for file synchronization, federated cloud sharing, and integration with SharePoint. Founded in 2011, ownCloud, Inc. is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, with an international presence in Germany.

ClearSky Data

Series A in 2014
ClearSky Data is a provider of a cloud-based enterprise storage network that simplifies the entire data lifecycle by offering enterprise storage as a fully managed service. The company focuses on business agility, allowing customers to scale their storage needs effortlessly through a user-friendly dashboard. Utilizing its patent-pending Smart Tiered Caching technology, ClearSky continuously categorizes data and places it in appropriate cache layers—hot, warm, or cold—based on real-time usage and customer policies. This enables efficient data handling for various scenarios, including data center migration and disaster recovery. By partnering with major public cloud providers, ClearSky ensures low-latency access to critical workloads while significantly reducing the total cost of ownership compared to traditional data center management. The service architecture incorporates redundancy and high availability, ensuring robust performance and security. ClearSky emphasizes strong data protection measures, guaranteeing that customer information remains isolated and secure throughout its lifecycle.

Datto

Series A in 2013
Datto is a provider of backup, recovery, and business continuity solutions tailored for managed service providers globally. Founded in 2007 by Austin McChord, the company offers a range of products, including ALTO for small businesses and SIRIS for enterprise-level continuity, available on both physical and virtual platforms. Datto also provides Datto NAS for cloud storage and Backupify, which offers cloud-to-cloud backup solutions for various Software-as-a-Service applications like Google Apps and Salesforce. The company serves a diverse clientele, from small businesses to large enterprises, primarily in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, while also having operations in Australia and New Zealand. Datto is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, with additional offices in Germany and the Netherlands, and operates as a subsidiary of Autotask Corporation since December 2017.

ownCloud

Venture Round in 2012
ownCloud, Inc. develops a universal file access platform that allows organizations to host their own file sync and share solutions in their data centers or on cloud storage, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The company's flagship product, ownCloud, is an open-source software solution that facilitates data access, management, and sharing across various devices, including desktop and mobile platforms. This self-hosted server enables users to collaborate securely with internal and external parties without relying on public cloud storage. ownCloud serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, government, and education, providing solutions for file synchronization, federated cloud sharing, and integration with SharePoint. Founded in 2011, ownCloud, Inc. is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, with an international presence in Germany.
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