General Catalyst's Principals have extensive experience in founding, growing, and operating successful businesses. Companies at various stages seek General Catalyst as a preferred partner because of our team's unique background as entrepreneurs which includes hands-on expertise in the company-building process, operating skills, business development capabilities, and focus on growing revenues in profitable business models.
General Catalyst seeks to partner with outstanding entrepreneurs, leaders, and management teams across all growth stages of company development, through a variety of transaction structures including:
- Minority and majority growth equity investments to fund growth or acquisitions
- Leveraged recapitalizations to enable shareholder liquidity
- Management-led buyouts
- Take-privates of public companies
- Consolidations of industries undergoing "sea-change" type transformations
