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title: "General Catalyst: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "General Catalyst (GC) is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2000, it invests across seed, venture, and growth stages and manages more than US$43 billion in assets as of December 2024."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-general-catalyst
type: Organization
wikidata: Q5531757
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Catalyst
website: https://www.generalcatalyst.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# General Catalyst

> General Catalyst (GC) is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2000, it invests across seed, venture, and growth stages and manages more than US$43 billion in assets as of December 2024.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2000-01-01
- Headquarters: Cambridge
- Status: private
- Website: https://www.generalcatalyst.com/
- Employees: 200
- Industries: financial services, investment management

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/gcvp
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/general-catalyst
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/generalcatalyst

## Key people

- Hemant Taneja, chief executive (American businessman), since 2021-01-01
- Kenneth Chenault (American business executive)

## Investors

- Airbnb
- [Stripe](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-stripe.md)
- [Anthropic](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-anthropic.md)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on General Catalyst, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-general-catalyst#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5531757, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Catalyst
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001637946

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