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General Catalyst

General Catalyst is a venture and growth-equity firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices in San Francisco…

Active VC 🇺🇸 United States · Cambridge, United States · Since 2000
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Portfolio Active
90
Latest Anthropic
Deal flow
$45.8B
10 rounds
Unicorns
22
≥ $1B valuation
Founded
2000
26 yrs
Latest
Jun 2026
1001

About General Catalyst

General Catalyst is a venture and growth-equity firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. Founded in 2000, the firm manages more than $43 billion in assets and closed roughly $8 billion of new capital in Fund XII, including $4.5 billion for core VC and $1.5 billion for its AI-roll-up Creation strategy. Notable AI investments include Anthropic, Mistral AI, Hippocratic AI, and Helsing. Recent activity: a $1 billion non-dilutive financing for Grammarly in May 2025.

Investment activity

2019–2026
$300M
$87M
$349M
$25M
$691.9M
$1.9B
$6.2B
$34.8B
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'20
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'21
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'22
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'23
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'24
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'25
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Portfolio

24

Co-investors

8

Recent rounds

10
Jun 30, 2026 Series A $30M 1001
May 27, 2026 Series D $1B Cognition
May 21, 2026 Series C $355M Lead Modal
May 19, 2026 Series A $17M Status
May 15, 2026 Growth $70M Multiverse
May 1, 2026 Growth $70M Lead Commure
Apr 30, 2026 Series D $50M Lead Legora
Apr 29, 2026 Series E $150M Aidoc
Apr 27, 2026 Series B $125M Lead Avoca AI
Apr 22, 2026 Series A $14M Shade