General Catalyst
With venture and operational excellence at our core, we take a long view to investing. Having lived through it ourselves, we understand that inflection points are a natural part of a company’s growth and that the best companies are built over time. Our investment goes beyond capital to active company building at every stage. We provide a steady hand along the journey, including through the inevitable bumps on the way.
Backing audacious founders and sharing in their creative vision for what the world can be both motivates and inspires us. We are player coaches who understand how to get companies off the ground from the earliest of stages and scale them into enduring companies.
We fundamentally believe that meeting the evolving needs of founders and their businesses from seed to growth stage and beyond is critical and will generate the best results for our founders and the limited partners who entrust us to invest on their behalf.
Seed-stage companies
We back first-time and experienced founders, as well as nascent teams, at the ideation phase of enterprise and consumer solutions with Seed stage investments from $500K to $2M.
Early-stage business (<$10M in revenue)
Through our early-stage practice, we support companies at the Series A and Series B stages that are focused on new themes and industries ripe for change through innovation and digital transformation.
Hatch and Catalyst Advisor Programs
Through our hatch and Catalyst Advisor programs, we collaborate with world-class executives to create a new business or identify an existing growth-stage business to transform with them. Through these partnerships and active company building, we can accelerate the trajectory and improve the eventual outcome of a business.
Growth-stage ($10M – 100M in revenue)
Through our growth-stage practice, we partner with founders whose businesses are at an inflection point and show strong potential for meaningful scale. We work with founders and management teams of later-stage companies to enhance and accelerate growth, manage through scaling their organizations, and to reach their companies’ full potential.
Endurance ($100M+ in revenue)
As a continuation of our venture expertise, through our endurance practice, we partner with once-in-a-generation companies. These companies have transformed industries and continue to demonstrate the ability to move beyond a first act to second or third iterations of their growth potential. We provide these founders the opportunity to keep their companies private longer, helping them take measured risks to continue their growth trajectory, maintain the agility of a startup while operating with the discipline of a public company, all while preparing for the future.
Our valuesDiversity of Thought: Our team is comprised of talented individuals from all walks of life and backgrounds. Where else could an author, Academy Award-winning filmmaker, a Fortune 100 CEO, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, experienced operators and founders, and decades-long professional investors not only co-exist, but collaborate and co-create on a daily basis? Diversity breeds creativity and leads to better decisions and outcomes. We believe our quirky diversity is our “eclectic genius.”
Creativity of Approach: Our creative approach to supporting founders and building businesses is born of the diversity of thought and experience among our team. Empathy for active company building is at the center of every interaction. We are player-coaches who are able and willing to go deep into a business, while remaining committed to unconventional thinking. Creativity leads to the less obvious answers and connections, enabling us to bring solutions into the world that wouldn’t exist otherwise.
Generosity of Spirit: We are openly generous with our advice, experience, and connections - believing that time and effort invested in ambitious, talented people will always bear fruit over the long term. This is true of our interactions with each other, as well as with those outside of our firm. We are personally invested - beyond the investment.
Depth of Relationship: We are comprehensively engaged and holistically supportive - personally and professionally - inside and outside of the business. Our lifelong relationships with founders are fueled by the genuine empathy, understanding, and knowledge that comes from our shared experiences starting, operating, and investing in businesses. We intentionally place the same emphasis on our relationships with each other, too, The closeness of our team is rooted in mutual respect and admiration.
Audacity of Ambition: Changing the world requires insane ambition. We meet the audacity of our founders with our own formidable ambition. We are an “all in” culture. We never do anything half fast, half right or half hearted. We take what we do seriously. We live it, we believe in it and the change it can make in the world.
Mindfulness of Impact: While others might “move fast and break things”, we move intentionally and build things. We never lose sight of our responsibility and the opportunity to make a positive difference - for our entrepreneurs, our investors, our people, and society. The product we make on our best day is change. We aim to create companies, products, and services that endure with people we respect and admire.
