Paul Sagan
Executive in Residence (XIR) @ General Catalyst
Boston, United States
Paul Sagan is a Series A investor at General Catalyst in Boston focused on Software and Cyber Security. Paul Sagan is based out of Toronto, Ontario and is the Board of Directors of Thomson Reuters and Okta and also Catalyst Advisor of General Catalyst. Paul previously worked as Chief Executive Officer of Akamai Technologies. Paul Sagan attended Northwestern University.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
Last updated:
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Industries Paul Sagan invests in
Stages Paul Sagan invests in
Countries Paul Sagan invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (38%)
- Cyber Security 6 (29%)
- Security 5 (24%)
- Information Technology 5 (24%)
- SaaS 4 (19%)
Stage
- Series A 9 (43%)
- Series B 6 (29%)
- Seed 3 (14%)
- Angel 1 (5%)
- Series E 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 17 (81%)
- France 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Lanai provides an AI-driven empowerment platform to help enterprises discover, protect, and accelerate human-AI collaboration. It offers a suite of tools designed to enhance developer productivity, focusing on improving the workflow for software teams. Its platform provides features that enable better project management, task coordination, andreal-time collaboration. | $10M / Seed / Jan 23, 2025 | ||
| Bugcrowd connects companies and their applications to a crowd of tens of thousands of security researchers to identify critical software vulnerabilities. Powered by Bugcrowd’s platform, companies of all sizes can run both private and public bounty programs to efficiently test their applications and reward valid vulnerabilities.Based in SanFrancisco, Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. | $102M / Series E / Feb 12, 2024 | ||
| Casana is unlocking a new category in healthcare technologies that enable effortless, integrated and consistent in-home heart health monitoring. Casana’s first product, The Heart Seat™ is an IoT heart health toilet seat that captures clinically relevant measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, and cardiac output.Casana’s mission is to assist medical teams in their care management of patients with chronic conditions beyond the four walls of the hospital, starting with the 6M+ people in the US living with Heart Failure. | $40M / Series B / Jan 21, 2022 | ||
| Zorus is the movement of cyber security from on-premise to the Cloud. Cloud based cyber security as a service has several advantages. | $9M / Series A / Dec 09, 2021 | ||
| Section4 is democratizing business education through innovative and engaging 2-3 week sprints. | $30M / Series A / Mar 11, 2021 | ||
| Casana is unlocking a new category in healthcare technologies that enable effortless, integrated and consistent in-home heart health monitoring. Casana’s first product, The Heart Seat™ is an IoT heart health toilet seat that captures clinically relevant measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, and cardiac output.Casana’s mission is to assist medical teams in their care management of patients with chronic conditions beyond the four walls of the hospital, starting with the 6M+ people in the US living with Heart Failure. | $14M / Series A / Feb 03, 2021 | ||
| airSlate is a global SaaS technology company that provides no-code business process automation and document management solutions. The company's PDF editing, e-signature workflow, and business process automation solutions empower users to digitally transform their businesses to run faster and easier. airSlate, pdfFiller, signNow, and USLegalmake up the company's portfolio of award-winning products. | $40M / Series B / Jan 12, 2021 | ||
| Vade Secure is the global leader on anti-phishing, spear phishing, malware and ransomware with heuristic filtering. Language independent, the filter analyzes globally all incoming emails (links, attached files, content…) to detect all threats in zero-day, even the most targeted attacks. After elimination all threats, we eliminate the nuisance oflow priority emails with the Graymail Management. Ads, social networks notifications, and newsletters are automatically sent to the graymail folder while the Safe Unsubscribe button eliminate them forever.Protecting more than 500 million of mailboxes in 76 countries, our solutions are used by major ISPs, OEMs, and Enterprises worldwide. Vade Secure is implanted in 5 countries (USA, Canada, France, Hong Kong, and Japan) to offer a 24/7 support.For more information, please visit www.vadesecure.com/en. | $76.8M / Series A / Jun 12, 2019 | ||
| RiskRecon is a leading third-party/vendor cyber risk solutions provider | $25M / Series B / Aug 07, 2018 | ||
| RiskRecon is a leading third-party/vendor cyber risk solutions provider | $12M / Series A / Jun 01, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About General Catalyst
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.
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What does Paul Sagan invest in?
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