private industry venture capital founded 2000 headquarters cambridge massachusetts palo alto california new york new york united states key people joel cutler david fialkow larry bohn phil libin adam valkin david orfao hemant taneja steve herrod niko bonatsos products venture capital number of employees 40 website www.generalcatalyst.com general catalyst partners is an american venture capital firm focused on early stage and growth investments . 1 the firm was founded in 2000 2 in cambridge massachusetts and also has offices in palo alto california and new york city . 3 it has invested in companies such as snapchat stripe airbnb deliveroo hubspot datalogix and warby parker . general catalyst also helps to incubate companies 4 examples including kayak naturebox altiscale and highfive . contents 1 management 2 investments 3 references 4 external links management edit general catalyst has nine managing directors 5 larry bohn joel cutler david fialkow bill fitzgerald steve herrod 6 niko bonatsos 7 phil libin 8 hemant taneja 9 and adam valkin . investments edit among the firm s investments are 10 airbnb altiscale axium black duck software boxee 11 brainly 12 ccp games classpass 13 coachup datalogix datto deliveroo demandware elemental technologies inc. eons.com everyzing fansnap flok gooddata groupme hands on mobile highwinds network group hubspot kayak imprivata listia naturebox plum district signaldemand snapchat stripe thoughtspot 14 tudou tunein virtual instruments vitrue inc. 15 visible measures visanow warby parker and wonderhowto 16 references edit strategy . retrieved july 9 2014 . about . retrieved july 9 2014 . contact us . retrieved july 9 2014 . general catalyst raises 675m seventh fund . all things d. december 23 2013 . retrieved july 9 2014 . our team . retrieved july 9 2014 . steve herrod joins general catalyst techcrunch january 16 2013 1 techcrunch april 7 2016 2 business insider september 15 2015 hemant taneja it s about building relationships the wall street journal september 4 2013 general catalyst partners crunchbase profile . crunchbase . retrieved 2014 07 09 . boxee adds 6 million second round ; aims to take on microsoft apple in living room . reuters aug 12 2009 cached steve o hear 15 october 2015 . schoolwork q & a site brainly scores 9m series a to answer the u.s. expansion question . techcrunch . retrieved 2 july 2015 . jordan crook 15 january 2015 . classpass is in session with 40 million in series b . techcrunch . retrieved 17 march 2015 . clancy heather may 19 2016 . can this startup become the corporate version of google . fortune . retrieved august 3 2016 . former president of tandberg television reggie bradford together with general catalyst partners launches vitrue inc. world s first user created advertising platform may 8 2006 wonderhowto.com soars past 100 000 how to video mark . reuters external links edit general catalyst partners company website v t e private equity and venture capital basic investment types buyout venture mezzanine growth secondaries equity co investment history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s terms and concepts buyout financial sponsor management buyout divisional buyout buy sell agreement leveraged recapitalization dividend recapitalization venture angel investor business incubator post money valuation pre money valuation seed money startup company venture capital financing venture debt venture round structure private equity firms and funds limited partnership limited liability company carried interest management fee publicly traded private equity business development company venture capital trust private investment in public equity pipe pledge fund investors corporations institutional investors pension funds insurance companies fund of funds endowments foundations investment banks merchant banks commercial banks high net worth individuals family offices sovereign wealth funds crowdfunding related financial terms aum cap table capital call capital commitment capital structure distribution waterfall ebitda envy ratio high yield debt ipo irr leverage liquidation preference m & a pme taxation of private equity and hedge funds undercapitalization vintage year private equity and venture capital investors private equity firms venture capital firms angel investors portfolio companies this article about a private equity or venture capital firm based in the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title general catalyst partners & oldid 735760860 categories venture capital firms of the united statescompanies based in cambridge massachusettscompanies established in 2000private equity firms of the united statescompanies based in palo alto californiacompanies based in new york cityunited states private equity firm stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 august 2016 at 22 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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