General Catalyst

Activity from announced rounds

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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
3
Confirmed lead rounds
—
3 roles undisclosed
New companies
3
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$1.3B
3 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Seed1
Series A1
Series C+1

By primary sector

Climate tech1
Defense tech1
Hardware1

By country

United States3

Rounds

3 in this selection
Castelion

Builds low-cost, mass-producible hypersonic strike missiles for defense

$1BSeries C
Role not disclosed
Oratomic

Builds quantum computers using lasers to hold individual atoms in place

$300MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Claros

Provides power management solutions to optimize AI infrastructure efficiency and sustainability

$30MSeed
Role not disclosed