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 diverse range of sectors including technology, advanced materials, clean energy, cybersecurity, healthcare, and consumer services. General Catalyst seeks to invest in companies that demonstrate strong growth potential, typically targeting those with an EBITDA between $3 million and $30 million and minimum revenues of $10 million. The firm has managed eight venture capital funds with approximately $3.75 billion in capital commitments. It emphasizes building lasting relationships with entrepreneurs and provides mentorship to foster success, enabling companies to scale effectively. General Catalyst primarily invests in North America and Australia, with a preference for seed investments in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston.

Mark Allen

CFO

Natalie Bartlett

Associate

Christopher Bischoff

Managing Director

Larry Bohn

Managing Director

Quentin J. Clark

Managing Director

Clayton Cole

Principal

Mark Crane

Partner

Joel Cutler

Managing Director

Christopher Davis

Partner

Kyle Doherty

Managing Director

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

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

Alex Tran

Partner

Adam Valkin

Managing Director

Alexis Weiss

Associate General Counsel

Johnson Yang

Principal

Past deals in Developer Tools

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.

Gitpod

Venture Round in 2021
Gitpod is a developer platform that automates the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments, designed to enhance productivity for software engineering teams. By eliminating the need for manual setup of local environments, Gitpod allows teams to save significant time and streamline their workflows. The platform is natively integrated with popular version control systems such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, facilitating the automatic and continuous prebuilding of development environments for various branches. This feature enables team members to instantly access fresh environments for new tasks, whether they are developing new features, fixing bugs, or conducting code reviews. Gitpod's open-source solution also supports language engineering and automated provisioning, further simplifying the development process and fostering collaboration among team members.

GitDuck

Seed Round in 2020
Screen and code sharing platform for developers.

Buildkite

Series A in 2020
Buildkite helps you ship your software faster and more reliably, with testing and deployment tools that work for all of your software projects – whether you build mobile apps, backend applications, or custom hardware.

Game Closure

Series A in 2012
The Game Closure SDK is an HTML-based multiplayer game development environment. Its customers can use familiar Web APIs to create production quality games.The company's mobile application helps game studios to develop and publish games across the iOS and Android ecosystems, enabling users to play games on various devices.

Game Closure

Seed Round in 2011
The Game Closure SDK is an HTML-based multiplayer game development environment. Its customers can use familiar Web APIs to create production quality games.The company's mobile application helps game studios to develop and publish games across the iOS and Android ecosystems, enabling users to play games on various devices.