General Catalyst

General Catalyst Group Management, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2000 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional offices in North America and Europe. The firm specializes in early-stage and growth equity investments, focusing on a wide range of technology sectors, including advanced materials, clean energy, disruptive technology, healthcare IT, and consumer services, among others. General Catalyst typically invests between $0.05 million and $0.25 million in seed-stage companies and between $10 million and $50 million in growth equity, seeking profitable firms with substantial revenue and EBITDA. Their approach emphasizes mentorship and collaboration, fostering strong relationships with entrepreneurs who share their vision and values. They have managed eight venture capital funds, accumulating around $3.75 billion in capital commitments, reflecting their commitment to supporting innovative companies throughout their growth journey.

Adrian Abeijon

Investor

Mark Allen

CFO

Juliet Bailin

Principal

Brian Bedol

Managing Director

Marc Bhargava

Managing Director

Chris Bischoff

Managing Director

Larry Bohn

Managing Director

Kristen Camarota

Investor

Kenneth Chenault

Chairman and Managing Director

Quentin Clark

Managing Director

Mark Crane

Partner, Investment Team

Joel Cutler

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Christopher Davis

Partner, Investments

Kyle Doherty

Managing Director, Investments

Bill Fitzgerald

Co-Founder and Special Advisors

Molly Blaauw Gillis

Partner and Chief of Staff

Jeremy Goldstein

Partner

Julia Goodman

Investor

Drew Gordon

Investor

Steve Herrod

Managing Director

Tony Ho

Investor

Diana Hong

Investor

Mina Hsiang

Associate

Paula Hübner

Partner

Nmachi Jidenma

Partner

Christopher Kauffman

Principal and Member of the Investment Team

Zak Kukoff

Principal

Bill Kung

Principal

Paul Kwan

Managing Director

Alexandre Momeni

Executive, Investments and Partner

Deep Nishar

Managing Director

Dipchand ("Deep") Nishar

Managing Director

Reva Nohria

Principal

Trevor Oelschig

Managing Director

Pranay Orugunta

Healthcare Investor

Mo Punjwani

Associate, Investments

Candace Richardson

Principal

Max Rimpel

Partner

Paul Sagan

Investor

Pranav Singhvi

Managing Director

Vedant Suri

Investor

Alex Tran

Managing Director

Catherine Tu

Partner

Elena Viboch

Partner

Andrea Wang

Principal, Early Stage Investment

Vincent Zhu

Investor

Past deals in macOS

Fig

Seed Round in 2021
Fig is a platform for developers that adds visual apps and shortcuts to the terminal. It makes it easy to build tools that make the team more productive. Fig's API allows to run shell commands from simple javascript. Build wrappers around CLIs, custom workflows, or configurations. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Quill

Seed Round in 2017
Quill is a computer software company that provides a messaging software built for productivity, not engagement. The company is a team of engineers and designers who previously helped build and launch Stripe, Square, and OpenAI. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MapSense

Seed Round in 2015
MapSense, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in mapping engines and developer tools for applications that utilize streaming datasets. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a high-speed mapping platform that allows users to upload location-tagged data, enabling them to segment, visualize, and share information for improved location-driven decision-making. Its services cater to a diverse clientele, including media companies, mobile app developers, advertisers, financial institutions, and wildlife research departments. MapSense addresses the growing need to manage vast amounts of geospatial data by providing efficient tools for filtering, searching, and visualizing location information, thereby facilitating critical insights into spatial phenomena. As of September 2015, MapSense operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc.

Magin

Seed Round in 2014
Magin is an iPhone email app that tries to improve where other similar apps fall short by providing unique user interface, combined with cool features. The app tries to focus on most of the key things in email and makes them better by providing user experience that will make your actions seem fast and fluid. The app also tries to incorporate gestures and hand movements to excel the user experience, and combine these with unique animations that makes the interface to look lively and attractive. Being in such a crowded space Magin tries to differentiate from it's competitors by combining unique user interface with great features and aims to boost your productivity, whereas other similar apps are trying to "just work", Magin make it all seem like magic.

Hey Inc.

Series A in 2014
Hey Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2012. It develops Heyday, an automatic journal application designed for mobile devices that helps users document their life experiences. The app allows individuals to effortlessly track the places they visit, the activities they engage in, and the people they interact with. Heyday automatically organizes photos into aesthetically pleasing collages, which can be customized with various layouts and filters. This functionality enables users to rediscover significant moments from their past by searching through their memories by time, place, and people. The primary mission of Heyday is to assist people in preserving the narrative of their lives in a private and visually appealing manner.

Neverware

Seed Round in 2013
Neverware develops desktop operating systems designed to optimize security and manageability. Neverware is a Google-funded company, is the developer of the CloudReady operating system, which enables schools and enterprise organizations to cost-effectively transform their existing computers into simple, secure, and fast machines that can be managed right alongside Chromebooks in the Google Admin console. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Workflow

Seed Round in 2013
Workflow connects your apps and services together to automate things you do every day. The company also builds DeskConnect: the missing link between your devices.

Avocado™

Seed Round in 2012
Avocado is an app for couples (available on iPhone, Android and the web) and is the best way to stay connected with your most important person. It’s a private space just for the two of you to collect and share a life.
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