General Catalyst

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionDeveloper tools

General Catalyst backs companies from formation and seed through growth, and also creates businesses with founders through its Creation strategy.

Creation includes starting companies in complex or emerging industries, helping experienced founders launch again and combining existing service businesses with applied AI. That makes GC relevant both to founders raising for an established startup and to entrepreneurs developing a new company with an investment partner.

For businesses that have reached product-market fit, its Customer Value Fund provides a separate way to finance customer acquisition. This sits alongside seed and growth equity, giving the firm a financing model directed specifically at the cost of expanding a customer base.

Sources
Rounds participated in
11
Confirmed lead rounds
1
8 roles undisclosed
New companies
9
First participation on record · 2 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$4.2B
9 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series C+4
Seed3
Series B2
Growth1
Undisclosed1

By primary sector

AI7
Developer tools3
Defense tech1

By country

United States9
France1
Sweden1

Rounds

11 in this selection
Modal Labs

Optimizes AI inference to reduce compute costs and response time

$750MSeries D
Participant
Cognition

Cognition develops Devin, an autonomous software-engineering system, and the Windsurf AI code editor.

>$2BSeries E
Participant
Arga Labs

Arga Labs creates sandbox environments with service twins so companies can safely test and train AI agents before deployment.

$10MSeed
Lead
Scape

Intelligent email inbox that prepares work proactively

$3.2MSeed
Role not disclosed
Together AI

Makes it cheaper and easier to run open source AI models at scale

$800MSeries C
Role not disclosed
Cognition

Cognition develops Devin, an autonomous software-engineering system, and the Windsurf AI code editor.

$1BGrowth
Role not disclosed
Standard Kernel

Uses AI to generate highly optimized GPU kernels for improving AI workload performance

$20MSeed
Role not disclosed
Nominal

Offers software for hardware engineers to test designs

$80MSeries B+
Role not disclosed
Render

Provides cloud infrastructure for AI-native software

$100MSeries C
Role not disclosed
Mistral AI

Mistral AI develops AI models and computing infrastructure for enterprise and public-sector use.

€1.2BStrategic
Role not disclosed
Modal Labs

Optimizes AI inference to reduce compute costs and response time

UndisclosedSeries B
Role not disclosed