# General Catalyst (slim)

> General Catalyst's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Catena Labs, Inc., AgentMail, Anthropic, Black Forest Labs and 29 more, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

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Venture firm.

Website: https://www.generalcatalyst.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Catena Labs, Inc.**, Series A, May 2026
  - [ACK-Pay (Agent Commerce Kit)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ack-pay.md), graded D, 53.8/100
  - Source: https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/catena-labs-series-a-sean-neville-ai-native-bank/
- **AgentMail**, Seed, March 2026, led a round
  - [AgentMail API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentmail.md), graded BB, 75.8/100
  - Source: https://www.agentmail.to/blog/agentmail-seed-launch
- **Anthropic**, Series E, March 2025, Series F, September 2025, Series G, February 2026, Series H, May 2026
  - [Claude API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anthropic-api.md), graded BB, 77.3/100
  - [Claude Agent SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-agent-sdk.md), graded BB, 70.1/100
  - [Claude Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-code.md), graded C, 59.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-e-at-usd61-5b-post-money-valuation
- **Black Forest Labs**, Series B, December 2025
  - [Black Forest Labs FLUX API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/black-forest-labs.md), graded B, 64.1/100
  - Source: https://bfl.ai/announcements/24-08-01-bfl
- **Bolna**, Seed, January 2026, led a round
  - [Bolna API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bolna.md), graded D, 52.6/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/bolna-nabs-6-3-million-from-general-catalyst-for-its-india-focused-voice-orchestration-platform/
- **Cartesia**, Seed, December 2024
  - [Cartesia Ink](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cartesia-ink-stt.md), graded B, 68/100
  - [Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cartesia-tts.md), graded B, 64/100
  - [Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cartesia-voice-cloning.md), graded C, 59.7/100
  - Source: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/seed
- **Anthropic, PBC**, Series E, March 2025, Series F, September 2025, Series G, February 2026, Series H, May 2026
  - [Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-duet.md), graded F, 17.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-e-at-usd61-5b-post-money-valuation
- **Superhuman Platform Inc.**, 2017 round, $90M round, 2019, led a round
  - [Coda (Superhuman Docs)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coda.md), graded B, 64.8/100
  - Source: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/90-million-funding-round-2019/
- **Context Dev Inc.**, Seed, October 2026, led a round
  - [Context.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/context-dev.md), graded A, 78.3/100
  - Source: https://www.context.dev/blog/context-dev-raises-9m-seed-led-by-general-catalyst
- **Crustdata**, Seed, October 2025
  - [Crustdata API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crustdata.md), graded D, 53.4/100
  - Source: https://crustdata.com/blog/crustdata-closes-6m-seed-round
- **Deel, Inc.**, Series E, October 2025
  - [Deel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.md), graded B, 69.1/100
  - Source: https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2025/10/254681-hr-company-deel-announces-300m-raise-at-17-3b-valuation
- **Cognition AI, Inc.**, Series D, May 2026, Series E, September 2026, led a round
  - [Devin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.md), graded C, 55.7/100
  - Source: https://cognition.com/blog/series-d
- **Everyday Software, S.L.**, Series D, October 2026, led a round
  - [Factorial](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/factorial.md), graded B, 66.4/100
  - Source: https://factorial.com/blog/factorial-raises-150m-series-d-becoming-most-valuable-ai-scale-ups-europe/
- **Profound Platform Inc. (dba Finch)**, Series A, June 2022, Series B, February 2023, led a round
  - [Finch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/finch.md), graded BB, 71.7/100
  - Source: https://www.tryfinch.com/blog/finch-raises-15m-series-a-to-power-the-future-of-connected-and-programmable-employment
  - Source: https://www.tryfinch.com/blog/announcing-finchs-40m-series-b
- **Glean Technologies, Inc.**, Series D, February 2024, Series E, September 2024, Series F, June 2025
  - [Glean](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.md), graded B, 69.9/100
  - Source: https://www.glean.com/press/glean-announces-over-200m-series-d-to-accelerate-secure-deployment-of-generative-ai-in-the-enterprise
- **Gusto, Inc.**, July 2018 round
  - [Gusto](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gusto.md), graded B, 63.3/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/31/gusto-raises-140-million-to-go-after-small-business-payroll-and-benefits-with-more-gusto/
- **Hyperbolic Labs, Inc.**, Series A1, October 2026
  - [Hyperbolic](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbolic.md), graded D, 48.2/100
  - Source: https://www.hyperbolic.ai/blog/a1-funding
- **Kilo Code Inc.**, Seed, December 2025
  - [Kilo Code CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kilo-code-cli.md), graded BB, 73/100
  - Source: https://pulse2.com/kilo-code-8-million-seed-funding/
- **Kite AI**, Series A, September 2025, led a round
  - [Kite Agent Passport](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kite-agent-passport.md), graded D, 51.5/100
  - Source: https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-09-02-Kite-Raises-18M-in-Series-A-Funding-To-Enforce-Trust-in-the-Agentic-Web
- **Luma AI**, Series A, March 2023
  - [Luma AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/luma.md), graded D, 48.3/100
  - Source: https://lumalabs.ai/about
- **Metronome (Stripe)**, Series C, February 2025
  - [Metronome](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/metronome.md), graded B, 69.8/100
  - Source: https://fortune.com/2025/02/25/exclusive-metronome-usage-based-billing-startup-raises-50-million-series-c
- **Mistral AI**, Series C, September 2025
  - [Mistral AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api.md), graded BB, 71.2/100
  - [Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-embeddings.md), graded C, 58/100
  - [Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-moderation.md), graded C, 58.4/100
  - [Mistral OCR API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-ocr.md), graded C, 58.8/100
  - [Mistral Vibe CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-vibe-cli.md), graded B, 63/100
  - [Mistral Voxtral Transcribe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-voxtral-transcribe.md), graded B, 64.2/100
  - [Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.md), graded C, 60.3/100
  - Source: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerate-technological-progress-with-ai/
- **Modal**, Series C, May 2026, Series D, October 2026, led a round
  - [Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal.md), graded B, 63.7/100
  - [Modal Sandboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal-sandboxes.md), graded B, 66/100
  - Source: https://modal.com/blog/modal-series-c
- **Nace AI, Inc. (Nace.AI)**, Seed, May 2026
  - [Drex 1.5](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nace-drex.md), graded B, 69.7/100
  - Source: https://www.nace.ai/press
- **The Interaction Company of California / Cognition**, Seed, September 2025, led a round
  - [Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.md), graded F, 37.7/100
  - Source: https://www.generalcatalyst.com/stories/seeding-the-future-with-the-interaction-company-of-california
- **Pylon**, Seed, July 2023, Series A, August 2024, led a round
  - [Pylon API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pylon.md), graded C, 54.3/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/pylon-wants-to-make-it-easier-to-manage-b2b-conversations-in-slack/
- **Ramp Business Corporation**, Funding round, March 2022, Funding round, August 2023, Series D-2, April 2024
  - [Ramp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ramp.md), graded C, 57.3/100
  - Source: https://ramp.com/blog/ramp-march-2022-funding
- **Remote Technology, Inc.**, Series C, April 2022
  - [Remote](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote.md), graded BB, 70.8/100
  - Source: https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/remote-secures-300-million-series-c-financing-to-power-global-employment/
- **Render Services, Inc.**, Series A, November 2021, Series B, June 2023, Series C, January 2025, Series C extension, February 2026
  - [Render MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/render-mcp-server.md), graded B, 63.6/100
  - Source: https://render.com/blog/render-series-a
- **Stripe**, Funding round, September 2019, Series I, March 2023
  - [Stripe API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stripe-mcp.md), graded A, 82.9/100
  - Source: https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-series-i-employee-liquidity
- **Tigris Data**
  - [Tigris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tigris.md), graded E, 44.7/100
  - Source: https://www.tigrisdata.com/about/
- **Together AI**, Series B, February 2025, Series C, July 2026, led a round
  - [Together Code Sandbox](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-code-sandbox.md), graded D, 53.7/100
  - [Together AI Fine-tuning](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-fine-tuning.md), graded C, 54.8/100
  - Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/together-ai-announcing-305m-series-b
- **Together Computer, Inc.**, Series B, February 2025, Series C, July 2026, led a round
  - [Together AI Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-inference.md), graded B, 67.8/100
  - Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/together-ai-announcing-305m-series-b

## Where they invest

- Agent harnesses, 4
- Model APIs & inference, 3
- Speech-to-text, 3
- HR & employee operations, 3
- Personal assistants, 2
- Payroll infrastructure, 2
- GPU & serverless compute, 2
- Payment & monetisation platforms, 2
- Code execution sandboxes, 2
- Pay-per-call protocols, 1
- Agent inbox APIs, 1
- Agent frameworks & SDKs, 1
- Image generation, 1
- Conversational voice agents, 1
- Text-to-speech, 1
- Voice cloning & custom voices, 1
- Spreadsheets & operational tables, 1
- Web scraping & crawling, 1
- Lead & company data, 1
- Company knowledge & data catalogues, 1
- Agent wallets & spending controls, 1
- Video generation, 1
- Embeddings & rerankers, 1
- Guardrails & safety filters, 1
- Document parsing & extraction, 1
- Decision models, 1
- Customer support & helpdesk, 1
- Spend management & procurement, 1
- Cloud & infrastructure, 1
- File storage & sharing, 1
- Fine-tuning, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Haakam Aujla](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/haakam-aujla/), AgentMail
- [Michael Kim](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-kim/), AgentMail
- [Adi Singh](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/adi-singh/), AgentMail
- [Dario Amodei](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dario-amodei/), Anthropic
- [Daniela Amodei](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/daniela-amodei/), Anthropic
- [Tom Brown](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tom-brown/), Anthropic
- [Jack Clark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jack-clark/), Anthropic
- [Jared Kaplan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jared-kaplan/), Anthropic
- [Sam McCandlish](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sam-mccandlish/), Anthropic
- [Chris Olah](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-olah/), Anthropic
- [Karan Goel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/karan-goel/), Cartesia
- [Albert Gu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/albert-gu/), Cartesia
- [Arjun Desai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arjun-desai/), Cartesia
- [Brandon Yang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brandon-yang/), Cartesia
- [Karan Ahuja](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/karan-ahuja/), Anthropic, PBC
- [Yahia Bakour](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yahia-bakour/), Context Dev Inc.
- [Abhilash Chowdhary](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/abhilash-chowdhary/), Crustdata
- [Manmohit Grewal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/manmohit-grewal/), Crustdata
- [Chris Pisarski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-pisarski/), Crustdata
- [Alex Bouaziz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-bouaziz/), Deel, Inc.
- [Shuo Wang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shuo-wang/), Deel, Inc.
- [Scott Wu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-wu/), Cognition AI, Inc.
- [Steven Hao](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/steven-hao/), Cognition AI, Inc.
- [Walden Yan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/walden-yan/), Cognition AI, Inc.
- [Jordi Romero](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jordi-romero/), Everyday Software, S.L.
- [Bernat Farrero](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bernat-farrero/), Everyday Software, S.L.
- [Pau Ramon Revilla](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pau-ramon-revilla/), Everyday Software, S.L.
- [Jeremy Zhang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeremy-zhang/), Profound Platform Inc. (dba Finch)
- [Ansel Parikh](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ansel-parikh/), Profound Platform Inc. (dba Finch)
- [Arvind Jain](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arvind-jain/), Glean Technologies, Inc.
- [T.R. Vishwanath](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/t-r-vishwanath/), Glean Technologies, Inc.
- [Tony Gentilcore](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tony-gentilcore/), Glean Technologies, Inc.
- [Josh Reeves](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/josh-reeves/), Gusto, Inc.
- [Edward Kim](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/edward-kim/), Gusto, Inc.
- [Tomer London](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tomer-london/), Gusto, Inc.
- [Jasper Zhang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jasper-zhang/), Hyperbolic Labs, Inc.
- [Yuchen Jin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yuchen-jin/), Hyperbolic Labs, Inc.
- [Scott Breitenother](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-breitenother/), Kilo Code Inc.
- [Scott Shi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-shi/), Kite AI
- [Chi Zhang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chi-zhang/), Kite AI
- [Amit Jain](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/amit-jain/), Luma AI
- [Alex Yu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-yu/), Luma AI
- [Alberto Taiuti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alberto-taiuti/), Luma AI
- [Scott Woody](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-woody/), Metronome (Stripe)
- [Kevin Liu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kevin-liu/), Metronome (Stripe)
- [Arthur Mensch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arthur-mensch/), Mistral AI
- [Guillaume Lample](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/guillaume-lample/), Mistral AI
- [Timothee Lacroix](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/timothee-lacroix/), Mistral AI
- [Dos Bahá](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dos-baha/), Nace AI, Inc. (Nace.AI)
- [Zhanibek Datbayev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zhanibek-datbayev/), Nace AI, Inc. (Nace.AI)
- [Sudha Valluru](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sudha-valluru/), Nace AI, Inc. (Nace.AI)
- [Marvin von Hagen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/marvin-von-hagen/), The Interaction Company of California / Cognition
- [Felix Schlegel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/felix-schlegel/), The Interaction Company of California / Cognition
- [Job van der Voort](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/job-van-der-voort/), Remote Technology, Inc.
- [Marcelo Lebre](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/marcelo-lebre/), Remote Technology, Inc.
- [Anurag Goel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/anurag-goel/), Render Services, Inc.
- [Patrick Collison](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/patrick-collison/), OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe
- [John Collison](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-collison/), OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe
- [Ovais Tariq](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ovais-tariq/), Tigris Data
- [Himank Chaudhary](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/himank-chaudhary/), Tigris Data
- [Yevgeniy Firsov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yevgeniy-firsov/), Tigris Data
- [Vipul Ved Prakash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/vipul-ved-prakash/), Together Computer, Inc.
- [Ce Zhang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ce-zhang/), Together Computer, Inc.
- [Tri Dao](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tri-dao/), Together Computer, Inc.
- [Chris Ré](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-re/), Together Computer, Inc.
- [Percy Liang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/percy-liang/), Together Computer, Inc.

## Questions

### Which AI tools has General Catalyst invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Catena Labs, Inc., AgentMail, Anthropic, Black Forest Labs, Bolna, Cartesia, Anthropic, PBC, Superhuman Platform Inc., Context Dev Inc., Crustdata, Deel, Inc., Cognition AI, Inc., Everyday Software, S.L., Profound Platform Inc.

### How are General Catalyst's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, ACK-Pay (Agent Commerce Kit) (D, 53.8), AgentMail API + MCP (BB, 75.8), Claude API (BB, 77.3), Claude Agent SDK (BB, 70.1), Claude Code (C, 59.9), Black Forest Labs FLUX API (B, 64.1), Bolna API + MCP (D, 52.6), Cartesia Ink (B, 68), Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP (B, 64), Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP (C, 59.7), Claude Duet (F, 17.9), Coda (Superhuman Docs) (B, 64.8), Context.dev (A, 78.3), Crustdata API + MCP (D, 53.4), Deel (B, 69.1), Devin (C, 55.7), Factorial (B, 66.4), Finch (BB, 71.7), Glean (B, 69.9), Gusto (B, 63.3), Hyperbolic (D, 48.2), Kilo Code CLI (BB, 73), Kite Agent Passport (D, 51.5), Luma AI API (D, 48.3), Metronome (B, 69.8), Mistral AI API (BB, 71.2), Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed (C, 58), Mistral Moderation API (C, 58.4), Mistral OCR API (C, 58.8), Mistral Vibe CLI (B, 63), Mistral Voxtral Transcribe (B, 64.2), Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 (C, 60.3), Modal (B, 63.7), Modal Sandboxes (B, 66), Drex 1.5 (B, 69.7), Poke (F, 37.7), Pylon API + MCP (C, 54.3), Ramp (C, 57.3), Remote (BB, 70.8), Render MCP Server (B, 63.6), Stripe API + MCP (A, 82.9), Tigris (E, 44.7), Together Code Sandbox (D, 53.7), Together AI Fine-tuning (C, 54.8) and Together AI Inference (B, 67.8).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.