General Catalyst
VC Fund
Cambridge, United States
General Catalyst is an investment firm that supports businesses at every stage, from seed to growth. It focuses on fostering resilience and advancing applied AI through its investments. The firm collaborates with entrepreneurs to provide capital and strategic guidance, enabling innovation across industries such as healthcare, fintech, and consumer technology.
- Total investments:
- 2306
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 46%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries General Catalyst invests in
Stages General Catalyst invests in
Countries General Catalyst invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 60 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$18M
- Series A
- $6.7M–$75M
- Series B
- $14M–$123M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 277 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 223 (10%)
- Health Care 153 (7%)
- Information Technology 121 (5%)
- SaaS 80 (3%)
Stage
- Seed 412 (18%)
- Series A 382 (17%)
- Series B 280 (12%)
- Series C 170 (7%)
- Series D 99 (4%)
Country
- United States 757 (33%)
- India 39 (2%)
- United Kingdom 39 (2%)
- Germany 17 (1%)
- Canada 11 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Christopher Kauffman
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
Erin Schaefer
COO
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COO | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Genevieve Kinney
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Jeremy Goldstein
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Jim Baum
General Catalyst
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General Catalyst | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
| See all 60 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modal develops machine learning software to help run code in the cloud. The software enables users to run or deploy machine learning models, massively parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It also writes the code to launch hundreds of custom containers and runs scripts in the cloud faster than on the local machine. | $750M / Series D / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $1.9B / Series G / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Atlas Atomics is a high-profile, stealth-mode deep-tech nuclear energy startup. | $400M / Series A / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Oratomic develops neutral-atom quantum hardware and architectures for fault-tolerant quantum computing. The company focuses on utility-scale quantum computers that use light and atoms to implement ultra-efficient quantum error correction. Its work targets applications ranging from scientific discovery to new approaches in artificial intelligenceand complex simulation. Oratomic combines expertise in quantum error correction, neutral-atom platforms, optical engineering, and machine learning. The organization aims to make fully fault-tolerant quantum computing practical for real-world use cases. | $475M / Series B / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Melius is a software platform that provides creating and managing images, video, audio, and other creative content services. | $5M / Seed / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Minerva Humanoids designs and develops humanoid telepresence robotic systems to execute high-risk tasks requiring human involvement. | $10M / Pre-Seed / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Axiom Solutions International develops and delivers digital and electrical infrastructure for cloud and power infrastructure applications. Its activities cover infrastructure used in cloud environments and electrical power systems. The company is being formed from Flex’s Cloud and Power Infrastructure segment. | $2B / Series A / Oct 05, 2026 | ||
| General Intuition is a frontier research lab focused on teaching machines to learn and adapt through play, aiming to build artificial intelligence that can perceive, anticipate, and improvise in real-world dynamics, with gaming as a central domain for testing and innovation. | $220M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Proximal builds AI training data and environments to improve software engineering agents and autonomous coding systems. | $15M / Seed / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Sol Foundry is an early-stage, agentic AI and business productivity software company that specializes in team collaboration tools. The company operates with a remote-friendly footprint spanning corporate hubs. | $4M / Seed / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| See all 2306 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does General Catalyst invest in?
General Catalyst invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2,306 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does General Catalyst invest in?
General Catalyst typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$18M at Seed, $6.7M–$75M at Series A and $14M–$123M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not General Catalyst's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds General Catalyst took part in.
How do I contact General Catalyst?
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Who are the partners at General Catalyst?
The team at General Catalyst includes Christopher Kauffman (Principal), Erin Schaefer (COO) and Genevieve Kinney (Principal), among 60 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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