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General Catalyst

Venture capital firm · Founded 2000 · Active in 2026

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm based in Cambridge MA, USA, founded in 2000. The page below shows 176 Power Law outcomes from General Catalyst's portfolio — 150 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 5 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · AI · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Germany. General Catalyst ranks #13 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

176 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #13 · Global · 176 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 69% 5y
150
Decacorns ↑ 54% 5y
20
Thoroughbreds ↑ 112% 5y
105
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 176 General Catalyst Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA138
  2. UK11
  3. Germany4
  4. India3
  5. Mexico3
  6. Spain2
  7. Switzerland2
  8. France2
  9. Sweden2
  10. Chile1
  11. Decentralised1
  12. Brazil1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech32
  2. AI26
  3. Other B2B Software22
  4. Cybersecurity19
  5. Health Tech & Medtech17
  6. eCommerce & Marketplaces14
  7. Biotech & Life Sciences11
  8. Transportation10
  9. Marketing8
  10. Edtech6
  11. Other6
  12. Robotics2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+93
  2. Series A40
  3. Seed22
Estimated holdings

General Catalyst’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of General Catalyst’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 61 companies where General Catalyst is a named shareholder, worth about $30.7B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 StripeFintech · Centicorn 5% $159B $8.0B
  2. 2 HelsingSecurity · Decacorn 14% $18.0B $2.5B
  3. 3 RampFintech · Decacorn 5% $32.0B $1.6B
  4. 4 Applied IntuitionTransportation · Decacorn 10% $15.0B $1.5B
  5. 5 CanvaMedia · Decacorn 3% $42.0B $1.3B
  6. 6 GrammarlyEnterprise Software · Decacorn 9.5% $13.0B $1.2B
  7. 7 15% $7.0B $1.1B
  8. 8 11.5% $9.0B $1.0B
  9. 9 9.5% $10.8B $1.0B
  10. 10 12% $7.2B $864M
  11. 11 14.5% $4.6B $667M
  12. 12 3.5% $17.3B $606M

Showing the 12 largest of 61 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = General Catalyst’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. General Catalyst also appears inside investor groups in Anduril, Discord, Kalshi, Kavak, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

General Catalyst’s biggest exits.

General Catalyst portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1998
Now $29.4B
$17.6B IPO · 2025
Now $10.4B
$11.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $17.4B
$16.0B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $10.9B
$2.5B IPO · 2019
Entered Series ANow $14.0B
$11.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $3.3B
$10.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $2.7B
$9.9B IPO · 2023
Entered Series B+Now $9.0B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series ANow $8.9B
$8.3B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series B+
$7.8B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$6.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $3.0B
$1.6B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $4.2B
$3.7B acquisition · 2017
Entered Series B+
$3.2B acquisition · 2020
Entered Seed
$3.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+
$643M IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $2.8B
$2.7B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $2.7B
$600M acquisition · 2016
Entered Series ANow $2.6B
$2.5B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $822M
$1.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $2.5B
$2.4B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$2.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$1.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $1.1B

+11 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

General Catalyst's 176 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
176 of 176 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does General Catalyst stack up?

General Catalyst in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

463 founders across the 176 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States212
India65
Germany17
Portugal15
Canada15
Israel13
United Kingdom13
Sweden6
France6
China6
+19 more →
UniversityCount
Massachusetts Institute of Technology31
Stanford University28
Harvard University27
Harvard Business School12
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania10
MIT Sloan School of Management8
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi7
University of Wisconsin-Madison7
University of California, San Diego7
Berkeley7
+162 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google55
Microsoft32
Meta14
Amazon11
Apple10
Palantir10
Uber8
OpenAI8
Stripe6
Stability AI4
+212 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at General Catalyst.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about General Catalyst

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about General Catalyst on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about General Catalyst

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning General Catalyst — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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