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Stebbings: Mercor Crosses $2B ARR and Raises at $20B Valuation
“I'm an investor in McCaw. I never thought this would be as big as it has got as quickly as hit, as it has done. It's crossing out two, two and a half billion ARR. They're doing a new round led by General Catalyst at twenty billion.”
Stebbings: Coatue has raised $3B in retail venture funds
“We've got Code Two with three billion dollars now in retail funds, and we're seeing GC be very aggressive in opening up retail funds.”
Taneja: General Catalyst's best returns come from seeding and creating companies
“I mean, look, our best returns have come from seeding companies like Stripe and Andurl or Creating companies like Kayak and Livongo and Camille and others, and so.”
Kaden: General Catalyst bought a hospital system to expand its platform
“You see that with General Catalyst buying a hospital system, right?”
General Catalyst acquired three seed funds to maintain early-stage focus
“And if you think about the last two years, you know, bringing on Jeanette and La Familia, Yuri and Wayfinder and Neeraj and Venture Highway, we've tried to really make sure at our core, we remain very Committed to doing the seed work with the same intensity an…”
General Catalyst claims unique portfolio of US, European, and Indian defense primes
“I think we're the only firm that's invested in a defense prime in US, Europe, and India. We did Andrel, we did, you know, invested in Helsing, and we invested in a company called Rafi in India.”
Taneja: General Catalyst operates a rapidly growing wealth management business
“We do, yeah, yeah, and that's, you know, it's actually growing rapidly. It's a you know, a fairly large business at this point.”
Stebbings: Melio Held $650M Total Preference Stack Prior to Sale
“The pref stack here was six 50. So it was six 50 total pref stack, and then the last round was four billion by GC”
General Catalyst's first $70M fund was structured as an LLC
“Well, the first fund was probably seventy million dollars, and it wasn't even in GPLP, it was an LLC, because of course we were building a company, which is the only thing we thought we knew how to do. It was seventy million, most of it was from us, and then a…”
Deliveroo raised over $1.7 billion prior to its 2021 IPO
“Prior to their IPO earlier this year, Will raised over 1.7 billion dollars for the company from some of the best in the business, including Excel, Index, General Catalyst, Green Oaks and more.”
PumpUp raised a $2.4 million seed round led by General Catalyst
“So we raised a 2.4 million dollar seed round just under a year ago, led by General Catalyst partners Nico from General Catalyst led it.”
Matt Mochary's coaching client list includes partners at Benchmark, Sequoia, and Kleiner
“On the VC side, Matt has worked with the likes of Peter Fenton at Benchmark, Several Sequoia partners, Hemond at GC, and Mamoon at Kleiner, to name a few. As for founders, Matt's worked with the founders of Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Reddit, Flexport, and many mor…”
Taneja: General Catalyst combines company incubation with traditional venture investing
“Our firm is the partnership encourages each other to get excited about starting companies from scratch with great founders as well, so we do so much incubation, and we do investing alongside that, that I felt like this was a great hybrid way to spend time.”
Gautam Gupta joined venture capital firm General Catalyst at age 18
“I was really, really fortunate to join General Catalyst at the age of 18, if you can believe it.”
RealtyShares surpasses $200 million in funded deals with top VC backing
“RealtyShares recently announced an incredible two hundred million funded deals through the platform, so a huge congratulations to them. For that, and they've also raised funding from some of the world's best investors, including the one and only Union Square V…”