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General Catalyst Partners

Flightcar Raises Fresh $20.7 Million, Amid Major “Restructuring”

Imagine a young startup where two of three founders are pushed out the door. Imagine that this same startup parts ways with its COO, its SVP of Finance, its VP of Guest Experience, its VP of Engineering, its VP of Marketing and roughly half its other full-time employees, all within a period of months. Not […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: and earlier backers GGV Capital, First Round Capital, Flightcar, General Catalyst Partners, Hans Tung, Priceline Group, Rujul Zaparde, SoftBank Capital, Tencent Holdings

With $2.5 Million from VCs, Mapsense Charts Its Next Steps

Mapsense, a 12-person, San Francisco-based company that’s been quietly producing map analytics tools for corporate customers, is today revealing that it has raised $2.1 million in funding led by General Catalyst Partners, with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Formation 8 and Amplify. LA. The announcement is interesting for a few reasons, starting with what Mapsense is […]

Filed Under: Investment Opportunities Tagged With: Amplify.LA, Erez Cohen, Formation 8, General Catalyst Partners, geo data, location-based, Mapsense

Pushbullet, Beloved by Users, Shoots for Fresh Funding

Pushbullet, a San Francisco-based, six-person software startup whose free app makes it easy for users move notifications, links, and files between devices, is announcing $1.5 million in seed funding from General Catalyst Partners, SV Angel, Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, Paul Buchheit, and other angel investors. It’s in the market again, too. As is often the […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Fundraising Tagged With: Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, General Catalyst Partners, Paul Buchheit, Pushbullet, Ryan Oldenburg, SV ANgel

Mithril Capital Bets Big on Diabetes

Mithril Capital Management prides itself on funding unique “growth companies regardless of sector or geography,” says Ajay Royan, who founded the San Francisco-based venture firm with investor Peter Thiel in 2012. Last month, for example, it backed a Berlin-based, publicly traded company with an approved treatment for brain cancer. Fractyl, a company aiming to better control type […]

Filed Under: Investment Opportunities Tagged With: Bessemer Venture Partners, Domain Associates, Fractyl Labs, General Catalyst Partners, Mithril Capital Management

A VC for Hard-Core Developers

StrictlyVC recently visited General Catalyst Partners in Palo Alto, Ca., as readers who’ve caught our interviews with Niko Bonatsos and Neil Sequeira know. Today, we conclude our General Catalystorm™ with Steve Herrod, a managing director who joined the firm last year after spending a dozen years with VMWare, the software giant that specializes in virtualization. Herrod was VMWare’s chief […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: General Catalyst Partners, Steve Herrod

VC: Opportunity for New E-Commerce Brands is “Endless”

In recent years, a seemingly unending procession of direct-to-consumer companies that make and sell everything from men’s pants to eyeglasses to snack foods has sprung up and nabbed venture capital. Think Bonobos,Warby Parker, and HelloFresh, among many others. In fact, based on venture cycles, one might be inclined to think that it’s time for investors to move […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: General Catalyst Partners, Neil Sequeira

The Beauty of Annoying Apps

Earlier this week, I stopped at the Palo Alto offices of General Catalyst Partners, an East Coast heavyweight that’s been politely muscling its way into more West Coast startups since planting a flag in the Bay Area in late 2010. One of those companies is Snapchat, the popular mobile messaging startup, and one of the […]

Filed Under: Investment Opportunities Tagged With: General Catalyst Partners, Niko Bonatsos, Snapchat

That’s It?

Almost a week ago, some odious years-old emails written by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel were leaked to the media, and it’s a wonder how quickly their content seems to be have been swept under the rug. It’s understandable, to a point. Spiegel’s emails were written when he was a college student trying to impress his […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Benchmark, Coatue Management, Evan Spiegel, General Catalyst Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Snapchat

NatureBox Shows Why VCs Are Rushing to Back Food-Delivery Companies

Venture capitalists have seemingly gone bananas over food startups. According to VentureSource, in the last 14 months, 15 companies that deliver restaurant meals have been funded; meanwhile another 11 startups that sell general food products were funded last year – an industry record. Are investors overdoing it? Perhaps, though a peek into the business of NatureBox, […]

Filed Under: Investment Opportunities Tagged With: Canaan Partners, Gautam Gupta, General Catalyst Partners, NatureBox, SoftBank Capital

Innovation in Snapchat Time

There’s been a lot of talk of “ephemerality” in tech circles lately, driven in part by the rise of Snapchat, the popular mobile app that allows users to send self-destructing messages and images. But Niko Bonatsos, a principal at General Catalyst Partners — which participated in Snapchat’s A and B funding rounds — thinks the […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: General Catalyst Partners, Kayak, Nikos Bonatsos, Snapchat

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