$400M
The stealth startup has achieved a major valuation despite having no product on the market yet.
General Catalyst
Venture CapitalA venture firm with experience backing defence and technology businesses including Helsing and Anduril.
Portfolio
25
companies
AUM
£0
under management
Investment by month
By category
- FinTech£6.1B
- AI/ML£930M
- EventTech£615M
- SaaS£390M
- TransportTech£100M
- Other£255M
By location
- Ireland£5.3B
- London£2.9B
- United States£92.2M
- Cambridge£58.0M
Portfolio companies
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22one
A developer of artificial intelligence software designed to streamline police workflows.
Bloom & Wild
Bloom & Wild delivers letterbox flowers across the UK and Europe.
CHARM Therapeutics
Discovering small molecule therapeutics through proprietary 3D deep-learning protein-ligand technology.
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Cazoo
Cazoo is an online used car marketplace that redefines how consumers buy, finance and lease vehicles.
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Doccla
Doccla provides virtual ward and remote patient monitoring technology for healthcare providers.
Dwelly
Dwelly acquires British letting agencies and automates their operations through artificial intelligence.
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Ethos
Ethos deploys artificial intelligence to evaluate professional skills and match experts with paid opportunities.
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Geordie
Geordie provides security infrastructure to govern autonomous enterprise AI agents.
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Goodstack
Goodstack provides technology that powers corporate social impact and charitable giving programmes.
Hopin
Hopin operates a shared experiences platform for virtual, hybrid and in-person events.
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Intropy
Intropy provides autonomous artificial intelligence software for spare parts management.
Lottie
Lottie provides an online platform to help families search for and book eldercare services.
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Maxion Therapeutics
Maxion Therapeutics develops antibody-based biologic drugs for ion channel and GPCR-driven diseases.
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Monzo
Monzo provides digital banking services through a mobile application.
Multiverse
Multiverse provides workforce training and AI adoption infrastructure for corporate clients.
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Packfleet
Packfleet provides tech-enabled courier services for e-commerce merchants.
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Pento
Pento delivers automated payroll software for modern European businesses.
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Phare Health
Developing artificial intelligence products for hospital financial management and administrative workflows.
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PhysicsX
PhysicsX builds deep learning models to accelerate complex industrial engineering simulations.
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Portia AI
Developer platform for building controllable and secure enterprise AI agents.
Rapyd
Rapyd provides a global fintech as a service platform powering local payments.
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Stripe
Stripe builds payment processing and economic infrastructure for the internet economy.
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Superpedestrian
Superpedestrian develops smart and safe electric vehicle fleets for urban transport.
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Teooh
Teooh operates an avatar-based virtual gathering platform for remote meetings and events.
autone
Autone provides an artificial intelligence platform for retail inventory management.
Team
Adam Valkin
Managing Director
Adam serves as a partner at General Catalyst and managing director, following investor roles at Blank Street, Kavak.com, Array, and Melio. He also held a board directorship at Bloom and Wild.
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Quentin Clark
Managing Director
Quentin serves as Managing Director at General Catalyst and holds board director roles at several companies, including Pantomath, Modular, and Apiiro.
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Ken Chenault
Chairman and Managing Director
Ken serves as co-founder and managing partner at Benchstrength. His background includes investment roles at General Catalyst and Global Infrastructure Partners.
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Chris Bischoff
Managing Director
Chris serves as Managing Director at General Catalyst and COO at GC Capital, alongside holding multiple board directorships.
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Larry Bohn
Managing Director
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Juliet Bailin
Partner
Juliet brings venture capital experience from roles at Kindred Capital VC, General Catalyst, Mosaic, and Insight Venture Partners.
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Zeynep Yavuz
Partner
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Mark Crane
Partner
Mark serves as a partner at General Catalyst. He holds board and investor roles across several technology companies.
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Marc Bhargava
Managing Director
Marc is a managing director at General Catalyst, following roles in business operations at Coinbase and co-founding Tagomi. He previously worked in business development at Airbnb and as a director of investing at Brainchild Holdings.
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Zeynep Yavuz-Willson
Partner
Zeynep is a partner at General Catalyst. She also holds board and investor roles at Dwelly, Stacks, Legora, Afori, and Integral.
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Elena Viboch
Managing Director
Elena is managing director at General Catalyst, following investment roles at SoftBank Investment Advisers and corporate development positions across life sciences companies.
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Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
President and managing director
Jeannette serves as president and managing director at General Catalyst, alongside investment and board roles at several technology companies.
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Paul Kwan
Managing Director
Paul is Managing Director at General Catalyst and co-founder of Valinor. He also serves as a board observer at Anduril Industries and a board member at Nominal.
LinkedInRecent investments
$11.0M
Felix Capital led the seed round with participation from General Catalyst and Quiet Capital.
"We are not interested in adding another dashboard on top of that complexity. We are building an AI-native operating system that can make and execute decisions autonomously, at scale and speed,"
$170M
EQT Growth and General Catalyst led the Series B financing, which includes equity and debt facilities to support further agency acquisitions.
"Dwelly is AI-first by default: we assume AI should be able to do every operational task. That changes what a lettings agent can be. AI takes over the transactional layer, while our people become world-class advisors to landlords and tenants"
EQT Growth + 5 others
$135M
The London startup secured capital from Atomico and strategic investors to expand internationally and develop advanced foundation models.
"The tectonic plates of the whole global economy are being reshaped by industrial manufacturing. Geopolitical currents and the questions of sovereignty and supply chain resilience are most strongly felt here. At the same time, innovation within these fields has never been more urgent. We’re building into that unmet need,"
$30.0M
The funding values the cybersecurity startup at $180m following rapid annual revenue growth.
"Geordie gives enterprises a defence-in-depth approach so they can deploy agent systems safely at scale."
