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.
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 595 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 204 (34%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 391 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Hubspot, Anthropic, BigCommerce, Stripe, Gitlab.
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.
Exemplar16Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 504 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)
17%
15%
+2
MCP server (first-party)
17%
13%
+4
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
11%
12%
-1
Security
99%
98%
+1
Arazzo workflows
3%
2%
+1
Governance rules
11%
18%
-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 595 members; 591
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 504 carry a score
(85%). The figures above describe the scored members only. Coverage caveat. 455 of 504 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of
2 November 2026, across 37080
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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name: General Catalyst
description: >-
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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onboarding: unknown
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- Seed
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- Growth
- Artificial Intelligence
- Healthcare
- Fintech
- Defense
- Enterprise
- North America
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- type: Crunchbase
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- type: LinkedIn
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- type: Twitter
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- 'Stage: Seed, Venture, Growth'
- 'Sectors: AI, healthcare, energy & infrastructure, defense & government, fintech, enterprise, consumer'
- 'Geography: North America, Europe, India'
- 'AUM: $43B+ (as of December 2024, self-reported)'
- 'Portfolio: 900+ companies'
- 'Founded: 2000'
- 'Founders: Joel Cutler, David Fialkow'
- 'CEO: Hemant Taneja'
- 'HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts'
- 'Offices: Cambridge, San Francisco, New York, London, Berlin, Bengaluru, Washington D.C.'
sources:
- https://www.generalcatalyst.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Catalyst
updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: info@apievangelist.com
url: https://apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
url: http://apisjson.org
- FN: General Catalyst
url: https://www.generalcatalyst.com/
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