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BlackRock's Tony Kim on AI's Next Winners? Chips, Memory, Robotics & Quantum · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 24, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 58:40 Molly O'Shea We talked to General Catalyst Creation Fund, and they've been doing a lot of PE roll-ups and creating companies.
  • ▶ 58:40 Molly O'Shea We talked to General Catalyst Creation Fund, and they've been doing a lot of PE roll-ups and creating companies.

Inference 101: SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 17, 2026 · 1 mention

Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 15, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:20 Jordan Black A lot of our existing investors coming into the mix, such as Sequoia, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, APC, Andreessen Horowitz.
  • ▶ 1:17 Jordan Black Uh, we had Lower Carbon, Interlagos leading the round with a lot of our existing investors, uh, coming into the mix, such as Sequoia, Founders Fund, General Catalyst,
  • ▶ 31:46 Molly O'Shea With a hundred million dollars in total capital raised to date, you have collected some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, from Sean McGuire of Sequoia, to Paul Kwan of General Catalyst, to Dellian at Founders Fund, and now Lower…

Benchmark's AI Bets: Cerebras, Sierra, Legora, Fireworks, Starcloud, Gumloop.. · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 34:53 Molly O'Shea I mean, I think we're like literally across from general catalyst and they have their CVF fund and like, there's people who are going after debt for tokens and trying to create the right mix.
  • ▶ 41:40 Ev Randle Um, but like General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz, those are alternative asset managers, um, because they have so many products. 2 times in the scene

How He Turned a Blood Test Startup Into $7B OS for Healthcare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 19, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Molly O'Shea We've raised seventy million on a seven billion valuation led by General Catalyst with support from Sequoia and Morgan Stanley.
  • ▶ 1:32 Molly O'Shea On a seven billion valuation led by General Catalyst with support from Sequoia and Morgan Stanley.
  • ▶ 3:20 Tanay Tandon Uh, number two, we've extensively used CBF, which is General Catalyst's non-dilutive customer value fund to fund our go-to-market expansion without needing to dilute shareholders. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:58 Molly O'Shea And I also just had Theresa Carlson on, and we talked about General Catalyst Institute.
  • ▶ 28:21 Tanay Tandon SUMA is a great example of this in partnership with GC. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:07 Tanay Tandon One, Hey Mountain had amazing distribution in, uh, through his, through his general catalyst health assurance framework and all the hospitals that are partnered with him.
  • ▶ 52:32 Tanay Tandon Camero was incubated at GC, and Othellis, like, which, which is what I was running when I first met HT, um, you know, 2 times in the scene

How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 11, 2026 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 0:51 Teresa Carlson I really want our companies to have an unfair advantage, and that's kind of what the General Callis Institute's all about.
  • ▶ 2:51 Molly O'Shea Um, you are the founding CEO of General Catalyst Institute.
  • ▶ 37:15 Teresa Carlson Because in my job as the CEO of the General Catalyst Institute, one of the early things that we came out with is we believe that federal government needed an AI framework.
  • ▶ 44:57 Molly O'Shea I want to get into, before, before we get into, uh, deeper into the General Catalyst Institute, I want to go back to your point on landing the CIA partnership and contract and how transformational and important that was for cementing the…
  • ▶ 48:55 Molly O'Shea I could continue to talk to you about all these topics for like hours, but we need to talk about the General Catalyst Institute. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:36 Teresa Carlson They have a general callus. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:19 Teresa Carlson Obama administration, and since this is the administration in this term, I've seen them open up to do more things commercially for companies like this, and I feel like the opportunity is unbelievable right now, and I really want our… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:06:53 Teresa Carlson And I think the combination of what General Callis does in deploying amazing capital with great founders, if we can at the Institute really help to clear the way and work with government to move that red tape, and I think it's things like… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:06:53 Teresa Carlson And I think the combination of what General Callis does in deploying amazing capital with great founders, if we can at the Institute really help to clear the way and work with government to move that red tape, and I think it's things like…

300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:23:17 Kyle Harrison Deeply sort of, um, anti-militarism, uh, thought process early on, and so a lot of, like, the early investors, if I remember correctly, I think it was, um, primarily Founders Fund and General Catalyst were the main early investors of…

General Catalyst's First-Ever Quarterly Review | CEO Hemant Taneja · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 20, 2026 · 29 mentions

  • ▶ 0:14 Hemant Taneja At General Catalyst, we don't believe that's ultimately what's going to create the most inclusive, prosperous, sustainable world. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:47 Molly O'Shea Well, today we're at the top of the General Catalyst Tower in San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:44 Molly O'Shea I want to talk about the state of General Catalyst today. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:18 Hemant Taneja Push myself to and frankly all of us at GC because that's how really we're gonna get a feel for what the possibilities are and how to shape.
  • ▶ 21:50 Hemant Taneja And, and, uh, you know, Mark and the work we do at Creation is very much that.
  • ▶ 24:30 Hemant Taneja So it's like, you know, GC's a really interesting ecosystem because in, in that venture capital part of our business, we still continue to need to run like a partnership, uh, and a conviction-oriented partnership, not a dictatorial…
  • ▶ 26:07 Hemant Taneja And, and that servant leadership, again, is in service of making sure everybody here is successful, but then also to make sure GC is in service of the world. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:46 Hemant Taneja For everybody around the table at GC.
  • ▶ 39:20 Molly O'Shea One of the, like, very unique things about General Catalyst has been your global growth.
  • ▶ 41:17 Hemant Taneja I mean, those, there's lots of smart people everywhere, opportunities everywhere, and if we have leaders at GC that care about creating successful innovation ecosystems there, we want to empower them.
  • ▶ 47:05 Hemant Taneja And that's a little bit of what defines the general catalyst way.
  • ▶ 49:24 Hemant Taneja So we launched General Catalyst Institute.
  • ▶ 53:22 Hemant Taneja So as I think about our, you know, GC ecosystem, which is a collection of investors and builders, I just think he, he'd be a great mentor for all of us. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 54:06 Molly O'Shea So one of the hot topics around Silicon Valley is General Catalyst's potentially rumored IPO. 4 times in the scene

The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:53 Molly O'Shea And then there's also the other route of, okay, these funds, these mega funds, whether it's A-sixteen Z, general catalyst, et cetera, they're

How Applied Intuition Reached $15B (Without Spending $1B) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 6, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:04 Qasar Younis Series B was led by Hemant at General Catalyst.
  • ▶ 4:24 Qasar Younis But he's been with us from the beginning, and, uh, you know, our Series B was led by Himanth at General Catalyst, and, uh, you know, it's like where Series C was Bilal at Lux, and, uh, you know, D was Elad Gil.

The Public Venture Fund That 9x’d in 3 Days (Fundrise VCX) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 30, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 47:22 Molly O'Shea General Catalyst also says they're a firm, they're a company. 2 times in the scene

Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 5, 2025 · 32 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Mark Bhargava GC is one of the three largest venture players. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:42 Molly O'Shea You are the managing director at General Catalyst. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:19 Mark Bhargava So the transformation companies that we build in house in GC are ultimately also helping our founders while delivering value for our, for the investors in GC and same on the venture side. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:34 Molly O'Shea Interesting would be to take a step back because General Catalyst really leaned into this moment. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:48 Mark Bhargava Seeing kind of their progress was really what inspired me then at General Catalyst to say, I still want to invest in crypto, which is obviously growing really well in terms of Bitcoin and stable coin adoption and things being built on…
  • ▶ 22:16 Mark Bhargava So the creation strategy at GC has really existed since the beginning. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:02 Mark Bhargava And maybe even GC holds the stock after they go public and keeps compounding.
  • ▶ 34:34 Mark Bhargava So here at GC, we are committed to trying to figure out ways to how do you retrain and reskill?
  • ▶ 37:59 Mark Bhargava But at GC, we created a company called Percepta, one of our transformation companies that we want to hold for the long term.
  • ▶ 38:48 Molly O'Shea Because of General Catalyst's very large platform that you have, how do the private market investments help determine or inform these companies?
  • ▶ 43:55 Mark Bhargava And of course we at GC can own a big chunk, ideally also 20 to 25% when these companies go public.
  • ▶ 47:14 Molly O'Shea You've been at General Catalyst for a couple years now. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 51:04 Molly O'Shea Thank you so much for sharing more on The Creation Fund.

How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:56 David Ulevitch And when I went down there, I met Catherine Boyle, who was at a rival firm at General Catalyst, um, and she thought she was going to do the Series B. 2 times in the scene

Alfred Lin, Inside Sequoia: Launching $200M Seed Fund & $750M Venture Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:05 Molly O'Shea And Hamant was saying like, no, it's, we actually expect more than that now because of what they're seeing at General Catalyst.

Sequoia Leads $75M Series B Into Nominal | Alfred Lin Joins Board · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:55 Cameron McCord We were lucky to have a pretty fast Series A process as well that was led by General Catalyst, Paul Kwan.
  • ▶ 1:14:43 Molly O'Shea Sequoia, Lightspeed, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, the list goes on.

Why Bucky Moore Joined $30 Billion AUM Megafund Lightspeed · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:14 Molly O'Shea We have names like A-sixteen-Z, General Catalyst, Thrive, Sequoia, and, um, they're exiting the traditional VC world into a new category that includes PE, credit, fund-to-funds, secondaries.

Taking on an $80 Billion Dollar Market with Gen Z | Dylan Diamond · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 21, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Molly O'Shea We have General Catalyst, KOTU, Insight, O-One Advisors, Jeff Bezos, Mark Benioff.
  • ▶ 1:54 Molly O'Shea We have General Catalyst, KOTU, Insight, O-One Advisors, Jeff Bezos, Mark Benioff, Dara, Neo, Elad Gill, Dylan Field, and Inspired Capital, and I'm sure there's more. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:07 Molly O'Shea Rough Draft Ventures and in college, and she worked for General Catalyst and yada yada yada.
  • ▶ 32:54 Dylan Diamond She was on the deal that we were doing at GC and,

Inside VC’s Existential Crisis: Jeff Morris Jr. on Surviving & Winning · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:55 Jeff Morris Jr. So the kind of the general catalyst example, acquiring La Familia was one example of acquiring an international focus fund.

Xander Oltmann, Commodity Capital: Downfall of SaaS & Uprising of Vertically Integrated Monopolies · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 1, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:19 Xander Oltmann And so I, I love to partner with, you know, big multi-stage funds, um, like Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Sequoia, uh, just to, you know, name a couple.
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