General Catalyst Partners
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General Catalyst Partners is a private equity
firm focused on venture capital
investments in early stage technology-based companies including software, infrastructure software and applied technology businesses. The firm has also includes a growth capital
team that focuses on later stage investments.
The firm, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
, was founded in 2000. The firm has raised approximately $1.6 billion since inception across five funds including a $600 million venture capital
fund raised in 2007.
Among the firm's notable investments are:
Private equity
Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....
firm focused on venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
investments in early stage technology-based companies including software, infrastructure software and applied technology businesses. The firm has also includes a growth capital
Growth capital
Growth capital is a type of private equity investment, most often a minority investment, in relatively mature companies that are looking for capital to expand or restructure operations, enter new markets or finance a significant acquisition without a change of control of the business.Companies...
team that focuses on later stage investments.
The firm, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
, was founded in 2000. The firm has raised approximately $1.6 billion since inception across five funds including a $600 million venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
fund raised in 2007.
Among the firm's notable investments are:
- BoxeeBOXEEBoxee is a cross-platform freeware HTPC software application with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV...
- ViTrue, Inc.ViTrue, Inc.Vitrue, Inc. is a provider of social media publishing software, offering software-as-a-service tool to help businesses harness the marketing potential of social media such as Facebook and Twitter....
- Hands-On Mobile
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- Eons.com
- HubSpotHubSpotHubSpot is a venture-funded marketing software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its customer base grew from over 1,400 in July 2009 to over 3,600 in November 2010, mainly in the USA.-History:...
- ImprivataImprivataImprivata is an IT security company based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Founded in 2002, Imprivata manufactures and sells the OneSign Platform for securing employee access to desktops, networks and applications....
- WonderHowToWonderHowToWonderHowTo is a community-developed instructional video guide website launched on January 30, 2008. WonderHowTo acts as both a directory and search engine for how-to videos on the web. The free-access website is privately owned and operated by Wonder How To, Inc. WonderHowTo was founded in 2006 by...
- Tudou
- Visible Measures
- Plum District
- FanSnapFanSnapFanSnap is an online search engine for live event tickets, based in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2007, FanSnap aggregates event-level ticket data from dozens of event ticket providers and helps concert, theatre and sports fans search among millions of tickets to find exactly the event tickets...
- Kayak.comKayak.comKAYAK is a technology company providing online travel tools through its global family of websites and mobile applications. Started by cofounders of Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity, KAYAK allows users to compare information from hundreds of other travel websites in one display when booking travel...
- Black Duck SoftwareBlack Duck SoftwareBlack Duck Software is a Massachusetts US private company. Black Duck Software pioneered the automation of mixed-origin software component reuse management...
- Highwinds Network GroupHighwinds Network GroupHighwinds Network Group, Inc. is a content delivery, network and IP services business that offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, including CDN, IP transit, transport, peering, colocation, content storage and IP software. The company headquarters are located in Winter Park, Florida, U.S.A....
- Elemental Technologies, Inc.Elemental Technologies, Inc.Elemental Technologies, Inc. is a software company headquartered in Portland, Oregon that specializes in providing massively parallel processing solutions. Founded in August 2006, Elemental has focused on using the capabilities of graphics processing units to perform video encoding, decoding,...
- SignalDemandSignalDemandSignalDemand, an on-demand provider of price and margin optimization software for large manufacturers, was founded in 2004 by Mike Neal and is based in San Francisco with its European headquarters in London...
- CCP Games
- GroupMeGroupMeGroupMe is a mobile group messaging app launched in May 2010. As of August, 2011, GroupMe delivers in excess of 100 million messages each month.- History :GroupMe was conceived at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010...
External links
- General Catalyst Partners (company website)