General Catalyst Partners
USINFO | 2013-07-05 09:54
General Catalyst Partners is a venture capital firm focused on making investments in early stage technology-based companies including software, infrastructure software and applied technology businesses. The firm also includes a growth capital team that focuses on later stage investments.
 
The firm, which has offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Palo Alto, CA, was founded in 2001. The firm has raised approximately $2.2 billion since inception across six funds including a $500 million fund raised in 2011.
 
Managing directors (as listed on their website) include George Bell, Larry Bohn, Joel Cutler, David Fialkow, Bill Fitzgerald, David Orfao, Neil Sequeira, Brian Shortsleeve, John Simon, Hemant Taneja and Jonathan Teo.
 
General Catalyst has had an illustrious set of entrepreneurs-in-residence including Chris Hughes (co-founder of Facebook), Jeremy Allaire (co-founder of Allaire Corporation and BrightCove) and Naimish Patel (co-founder of Sycamore Networks).
 
Investments
Among the firm's notable investments are:
Boxee
ViTrue, Inc.
Hands-On Mobile
Everyzing
Eons.com
HubSpot
Imprivata
WonderHowTo
Tudou
Visible Measures
Plum District
FanSnap
Kayak.com
Black Duck Software
Highwinds Network Group
Elemental Technologies, Inc.
SignalDemand
CCP Games
GroupMe
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