General Catalyst is a global venture capital and investment firm founded in 2000 by Joel Cutler and David Fialkow, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Berlin, Bengaluru, and Washington, D.C. The firm invests across seed, venture, and growth stages and manages more than $43 billion in assets under management (as of December 2024), backing 900+ portfolio companies. General Catalyst operates through distinct capital vehicles and initiatives — Ignition/Seed for early-stage, Endurance/Grow for growth, Creation for company building, and a dedicated Health Assurance practice for healthcare transformation. Its current "Global Resilience" thesis, led by CEO Hemant Taneja, concentrates on the critical systems that underpin modern society — healthcare, energy, defense, and AI — alongside an "unscaling" thesis that uses data and AI to personalize core societal services. Notable investments include Airbnb, Stripe, Anthropic, Canva, HubSpot, Ramp, Anduril, Applied Intuition, Samsara, Mistral, Helsing, Hippocratic AI, and Mercor.
Every General Catalyst company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why a book that shipped agent front doors on banking and health APIs never shipped the governance behind them.
Read the report$750.00 · every API-bearing company in the book, scored on the Kin Score
Portfolio Strengthacross 584 profiled portfolio companies on the network
Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.
General Catalyst has 597 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 596 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Stripe, Hubspot, Anthropic, Flexpa, Canva.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their
API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar5Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 584 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by
General Catalyst, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from
the catalog — nothing here is written.
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the
“Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own
coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
Artifact
This cohort
Catalog
Difference
MCP server (any)
19%
16%
+3
MCP server (first-party)
10%
7%
+3
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
7%
9%
-2
Security
87%
88%
-1
Arazzo workflows
2%
2%
0
Governance rules
6%
13%
-7
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
This roster declares 596 members; 584
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 584 carry a score
(100%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of
25 August 2026, across 26891
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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General Catalyst is a global venture capital and investment firm founded in
2000 by Joel Cutler and David Fialkow, headquartered in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Berlin,
Bengaluru, and Washington, D.C. The firm invests across seed, venture, and
growth stages and manages more than $43 billion in assets under management
(as of December 2024), backing 900+ portfolio companies. General Catalyst
operates through distinct capital vehicles and initiatives — Ignition/Seed
for early-stage, Endurance/Grow for growth, Creation for company building,
and a dedicated Health Assurance practice for healthcare transformation. Its
current "Global Resilience" thesis, led by CEO Hemant Taneja, concentrates on
the critical systems that underpin modern society — healthcare, energy,
defense, and AI — alongside an "unscaling" thesis that uses data and AI to
personalize core societal services. Notable investments include Airbnb,
Stripe, Anthropic, Canva, HubSpot, Ramp, Anduril, Applied Intuition, Samsara,
Mistral, Helsing, Hippocratic AI, and Mercor.
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