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General Catalyst
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General Catalyst is a global investment company with early-stage venture capital at its core, partnering with the world's most ambitious entrepreneurs to drive transformation, resilience, and applied AI. The firm operates across its Ignition (seed), Endurance (growth equity), Health Assurance, and Creation strategies, deploying capital from pre-seed through growth equity across AI, Defense & Intelligence, Climate & Energy, Industrials, Healthcare, and Fintech. GC believes that 'to achieve outsize impact using applied AI and global resilience to address the world's great challenges, we must transcend the traditional definition of venture capital,' and has accordingly built the GC Transformation Flywheel, a Customer Value Strategy for non-dilutive growth capital, and the GC Institute to connect startups with global governments. With $43B+ in AUM across 900+ portfolio companies and 6 global offices, GC aims to be 'the company that drives transformations, global resilience and applied AI for the world.'
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“We are ready to be the company that drives transformations, global resilience and applied AI for the world. We are powered by early-stage venture capital at our core and excited to dream bigger and co-create with our GC Famiglia of founders, business leaders, and policymakers to expand what's possible.”
“AI is a transformative force and the value really accrues to companies that have existing customers and data, because they can actually be beneficiaries of applied AI. Organisations that have the culture and courage to transform themselves will be strengthened by AI; organisations that don't will be left behind.”
“The business of VC used to be all about serendipity. You make great founders, you give them capital, you help them build businesses, you be thought partners to them. The way these transformations of society need to happen — around defense, healthcare, energy transition, industrials — it's very important that we think deeply about how those systems really ought to be set up.”
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Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | Series E+ | — | 2024 |
| Anduril | Series F | — | 2024 |
| Zepto | Series E | $340m | 2024-08-29 |
| Lila Sciences | Seed | $200m | 2025-03-10 |
| Ramp | Series D | — | 2023 |
| Stripe | Series B+ | — | 2012 |
| Airbnb | Series A | — | 2011 |
| Mistral AI | Series A | — | 2023 |
| Applied Intuition | Series E | — | 2023 |
| Helsing | Series B | — | 2023 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 73 |
| Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) | 61 |
| Accel | 45 |
| Sequoia Capital | 36 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 30 |
| Founders Fund | 20 |
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