Overview
General Catalyst is a venture capital and growth equity firm that invests across early, growth, and transformation stages [1]. The firm maintains a multi-stage platform with an office in New York City [2]. In Q2 2026, General Catalyst ranked as the third most active investor in NYC startups, completing seven deals during that period [2]. The firm has identified artificial intelligence as a significant investment focus, stating that "we are early in an AI transformation that will touch every industry, institution, and life" [3]. General Catalyst's AI investments include Anthropic [3]. More information about the firm is available at its official website [4].
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Ramp
Corporate card and spend-management platform that uses AI agents to automate expense reporting, bill pay, procurement and accounting close.
Modal
New York company providing serverless GPU compute for AI and data workloads.
Rylo
An AI platform that provides real-time communication tools for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community
Standard Bots
Standard Bots is a robotics company that manufactures AI-native industrial robot arms for factory automation. Standard Bots was founded by Evan Beard; David Golden in 2011.
Tabs
AI revenue automation platform for B2B contracts, billing, collections and revenue recognition
General Intuition
Frontier AI research lab focused on teaching machines to learn and adapt through play.
Adonis
New York City-headquartered healthcare AI company whose revenue intelligence platform uses AI agents to detect revenue risk and automate denials, delays and payer workflows for providers.
Forus
An AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to help patients access prescribed therapies
Avoca
An AI front office platform that provides call handling, scheduling, and customer communications for home services businesses
Aaru
New York company building AI simulations that forecast human behavior and market outcomes.
NYC company founded in 2021 by Erik Bernhardsson and Akshat Bubna, providing serverless infrastructure that runs machine learning and AI code in the cloud.
Paradigm
NYC company founded in 2022 by Jonathan Hirsch and Kent Thoelke, running a technology platform that expands patient participation in clinical trials and improves trial efficiency.
Greenboard
Modern OS for the financial back office.
Prepared
New York City-based company offering an AI-powered platform that transcribes, translates, and triages 911 calls to enhance emergency response operations.
Polimorphic
New York City-based company building AI-powered CRM, permitting, and constituent-service software for state and local government.
Clarium
New York company building an AI-driven digital supply chain planning platform for healthcare systems.
Cadence
A clinical AI platform that automates chronic care management for older adults at health systems
B12
New York City-headquartered AI company offering an all-in-one platform that uses AI plus human experts to build websites, SEO and copywriting for professional services businesses.
Eight Sleep
New York City-headquartered sleep-fitness company whose Pod uses machine-learning autopilot to sense biometrics and adjust temperature through the night.
Nexus
Nexus is a Brussels-based Enterprise AI agent deployment platform founded in 2024, backed by General Catalyst and Y Combinator with EUR 3.7M in seed funding.
Cadence Solutions
New York City-based clinical AI platform that automates remote patient monitoring and chronic care management for health systems.
- MModa
An AI design platform that gives professionals a brand-aligned design agent for creating presentations, social posts, reports, and other visual assets
In the news
- Evvy Raises $40M to Close the Gender Health Gap Starting with the Vaginal MicrobiomeMedicine told women their infertility, recurrence, and chronic pain were "unexplained" for decades - and it turns out that word mostly meant the data didn't exist yet. Evvy has spent five years building that dataset, and it now holds the world's largest collection of vaginal microbiome profiles, backed by 15+ peer-reviewed publications. The company just closed a $40M round bringing total equity fu
AlleyWatch · Sep 22, 2026
- Pulley, a Carta rival, is shutting downCap table management platform Pulley, backed by General Catalyst, Stripe, and Founders Fund, announced that it's closing shop in December.
TechCrunch Startups · Sep 16, 2026
- The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 9/14/26The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 9/12/26 featuring funding details for Fab2, Maven Robotics, Latitude, and thirty-six other deals representing $10.2B in new funding that you need to know about.
- Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and AnthropicInsight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.
- The 7 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of August 2026Eight NYC startups. One $116M raise. August 2026's largest funding rounds span healthcare, AI, fintech, and robotics. Which companies made the list?
- The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
- The August 2026 New York Venture Capital Funding ReportNYC's summer slowdown arrived on schedule in August — 34 rounds, $837.9M, the lightest deal month of 2026. But the bigger number is $19.09B: what NYC startups have raised through the first eight months of the year, already past the full-year 2025 total of $19.01B with four months still to go. Average deal size climbed 26% year over year to $24.6M. The calendar compressed. The city did not.
- The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 8/31/26The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 8/29/26 featuring funding details for Liner, CivilGrid, Transfyr, and thirty-two other deals representing $2.0B in new funding that you need to know about.
Alumni 1 went on to found or lead
- PJoanna PatalanoEA & Event Specialist→Principal, Executive Assistant / Office of the CEO at Tennr
Chris BischoffManaging Director, Head of Health Assurance→Member Board of Directors at Forus
James SwingosPartner→COO at General Intuition
Jose V GomezDirector of IT→Information Technology Operations Manager at General Intuition
Paula Hübner WehmeyerPartner→VP, Marketing & Talent at General Intuition
The full General Catalyst mafia →
NYC presence
- A multi-stage platform maintaining an NYC office; ranked third most active investor in NYC startups in Q2 2026 with 7 deals[2]
AI investing
- States 'We are early in an AI transformation that will touch every industry, institution, and life', with AI investments including Anthropic[3]
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