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General Catalyst
General Catalyst (GC) is a global investment and transformation company that makes seed to growth stage investments and beyond. The firm has invested in 800+ businesses, including global companies such as Airbnb, Anduril Industries, Applied Intuition, Glean Technologies, Guild Education, HubSpot, Kayak, Datalogix, Datto, Livongo, Gusto, Zepto, Ramp, Deliveroo, Samsara, Stripe, Snap, Mistral, and Helsing. History General Catalyst was founded in 2000 in Massachusetts by Joel Cutler and David Fialkow. In 2010, the company opened a Silicon Valley office. In 2021, the firm managed more than $8 billion in assets. In February 2022, it raised $4.6 billion for its 11th general fund. This brought the firm's total raised in its 20-year history to $14.75 billion. In 2021, the firm opened a London office. By September 2022, General Catalyst had invested in 17 European startups. By April 2023, the company had invested in 25 Indian startups, including CRED, U ...
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Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ...
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Bangalore
Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Karnataka. As per the 2011 Census of India, 2011 census, the city had a population of 8.4 million, making it the List of cities in India by population, third most populous city in India and the most populous in South India. The Bengaluru metropolitan area had a population of around 8.5 million, making it the List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India, fifth most populous urban agglomeration in the country. It is located near the center of the Deccan Plateau, at a height of above sea level. The city is known as India's "Garden City", due to its parks and greenery. Archaeological artifacts indicate that the human settlement in the region happened as early as 4000 Common Era, BCE. The first mention of the name "Bengalooru" is from an ol ...
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Zepto (company)
Zepto is an Indian quick-commerce company headquartered in Bengaluru. It was founded in July 2021 by Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra. the company is valued at over $5 billion and operates over 250 dark-stores across ten metropolitan areas in India. History Aadit Palicha started KiranaKart with Kaivalya Vohra in 2020 when they were 17 years old. Palicha and Vohra skipped college to start Zepto, instead raising capital from Contrary, which offered to invest if they dropped out of Stanford University. Palicha and Vohra originally branded the company as KiranaKart and focused on facilitating grocery delivery by partnering with local kirana stores, but that approach did not gain traction. They also participated in Y Combinator's accelerator program while building out the first version of the platform. In 2021, the company rebranded to Zepto and verticalized the operation, building a network of dark stores to fulfill orders. In April 2022, Zepto launched Cafe, a division focu ...
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Gusto (company)
Gusto, Inc. is a company that develops payroll, benefits, and human resource management software for businesses based in the United States. History ZenPayroll was part of Y Combinator (company), Y Combinator's Winter 2012 batch. The company raised $6.1 million from investors including Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie, Yammer CEO and co-founder David O. Sacks, and others. The service launched officially on December 11, 2012 in California by Joshua Reeves, Tomer London and Edward Kim. On June 12, 2013, the company announced support for paying contract workers and ensuring tax compliance through Form 1099 and other paperwork. The company also announced plans to launch services in Florida, Texas, and New York (state), New York state. In August 2013, the company announced that it had exceeded $100 million in payments processed annually, and was launching in Florida, Texas, and Washington (state), Washington state. In September 2014, the company announced its application programm ...
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Livongo
Teladoc Health, Inc. is a multinational telemedicine and virtual healthcare company headquartered in the United States. Primary services include telehealth, medical opinions, AI and analytics, telehealth devices and licensable platform services. In particular, Teladoc Health uses telephone and videoconferencing software as well as mobile apps to provide on-demand remote medical care. Billed as the first and largest telemedicine company in the United States, Teladoc Health was launched in 2002 and has acquired companies such as BetterHelp in 2015, Best Doctors in 2017, and Advance Medical in 2018. It trades on the New York Stock Exchange and is active in 130 countries. As of 2023 Teladoc was serving "80 million people across its virtual care products" with 56 million paid members in the United States. History 2002–2015 Teladoc was founded in 2002 in Dallas, Texas by G. Byron Brooks EE MD and Michael Gorton. Billing itself as the oldest telemedicine company in United S ...
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Datto (company)
Datto, Inc. is an American cybersecurity and data backup company. In 2017, it was acquired by Vista Equity Partners. In 2022, it became a subsidiary of Kaseya. Datto builds hardware and software for both data backup and recovery purposes. Datto RMM is a cloud-based remote monitoring and management platform that allows managed services providers to manage IT infrastructure with automation tools like networking monitoring, patch management, remote control and mass script deployment. Datto RMM includes policy-based Windows and third-party software patching where partners have the option to store patch updates on the local area network (LAN) to reduce bandwidth utilization or download them directly from Microsoft. History Founding of Datto Datto was founded in 2007 in Norwalk, Connecticut, by software programmer Austin McChord. McChord initially built and marketed his own hand-made data backup devices. After securing his first customers in 2008, he built a system that allowed for ...
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Datalogix
Oracle Advertising, formerly Datalogix, is an American cloud-based consumer data collection, activation, and measurement platform for use by digital advertisers. Datalogix was a consumer data collection company based in Westminster, Colorado that provided offline consumer spending data to marketers that was acquired by Oracle in 2014. The platform collects data which includes purchase data from stores, credit cards, and loyalty cards is used by marketing teams determine their ad campaigns' effectiveness. Datalogix clients included retail stores, grocers, travel agencies, PepsiCo, Ford, and the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group. After consumer spending behaviors are measured, the information is sold to advertising companies and publishers, such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest. Advertisers then use the information obtained to tailor online ads to reach new or existing customers. In turn, publishers use the data to determine the amount of profit advertisers earn and to ...
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Kayak (company)
Kayak (styled as KAYAK) is a metasearch engine for travel services, including airline flights, hotels, rental cars, and vacation packages. It is owned and operated by Booking Holdings. Kayak's website and mobile apps are currently available in about 20 languages and 30 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, China, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Australia, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Belgium, Korea, Japan, and Singapore. History Kayak was founded in January 2004 by Steve Hafner and Paul M. English. Before Kayak, Steve Hafner, Kayak's current CEO, helped found Orbitz in November 1999 and led its business development, advertising sales, marketing, and product marketing activities. The company was originally named Travel Search Company, Inc. and the name was changed to Kayak Software Corporation in August 2004. The website launched in February 2005. In December 2007, Kayak rais ...
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HubSpot
HubSpot, Inc. is a US-based developer and marketer of software products for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service. Its products and services are meant to provide tools for customer relationship management, social media marketing, content management, lead generation, web analytics, search engine optimization, live chat, sales enablement, pay-per-click management and customer support. HubSpot was founded by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah in 2006. History The company grew rapidly from $255,000.00 in revenues in 2007 to $15.6 million in 2010. Later that year, HubSpot acquired Oneforty, the Twitter app store founded by Laura Fitton. The company also introduced new software for personalizing websites for each visitor. According to ''Forbes'', HubSpot started out targeting small companies but "moved steadily upmarket to serve larger businesses of up to 1000 employees." HubSpot filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 25, 2014, reque ...
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Guild Education
Guild, formerly known as Guild Education, is a private company headquartered in Denver, Colorado that is employed by Fortune 1000 companies to manage their education assistance benefits. Guild works for corporate employer clients to facilitate direct payment for courses to education provider clients and offers marketing services to the education provider clients. History Guild Education was founded in June 2015 by Rachel Romer and Brittany Stich. In June 2021, Guild Education announced a strategic partnership with 2U, where the latter company made its degree programs, courses, and bootcamp programs available to the corporations that employ Guild. Google also made Google Career Certificates available to corporations that employ Guild. In the same month, ''CNBC'' reported that Guild Education sought to profit from its expectation of automation increasing displacement of workers. In June 2022, Forbes and Bloomberg reported Guild's valuation at $4.4 billion. In November 2022, G ...
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Glean Technologies
Glean Technologies, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI) and search capabilities. According to Fortune, its valuation was $4.6 billion in 2024. History The company was founded in 2019 in Palo Alto, California. In September 2021, Glean introduced its assistive search tool, designed to pull together information from dozens of disparate applications, streamlining access to critical data across various platforms, to the market. Funding rounds In March 2019, shortly after its establishment, Glean raised $15 million in Series A funding co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed, which included participation from the Slack Fund. In March 2021, the company closed a Series B funding round of $40M led by General Catalyst. In May 2022, the company secured a $100M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $1B valuation and hit the Unicorn status. In February 2024, Glean raised over $200 million in Series D A ventu ...
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Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition is an American software company specializing in building artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and advanced software for vehicle manufacturers. Founded in 2017 and based in Mountain View, California, Applied Intuition develops tools for the development, testing, and deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) technologies in various industries, including automotive, trucking, defense, agriculture, construction, and mining. The company's products use AI technology to enable automakers to simulate driving scenarios in the development of autonomous systems. Applied Intuition products are used by 18 of the leading 20 global automakers. In addition to automotive manufacturers, Applied Intuition has worked with companies developing self-driving trucks, self-driving taxis, and robots for use in warehouses. In June 2025, Applied Intuition achieved a $15 billion valuation after completing a $600 million Series F funding ro ...
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