General Catalyst
- 16/11/2022
- Series E
- $90,000,000
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that makes early-stage and transformational investments. General Catalyst backs exceptional entrepreneurs who are building innovative technology companies and market leading businesses, including Airbnb, BigCommerce, ClassPass, Datalogix, Datto, Demandware, Gusto (fka ZenPayroll), The Honest Company, HubSpot, KAYAK, Oscar, Snap, Stripe, and Warby Parker. The General Catalyst team leverages its broad experience to help founders build extraordinary companies. General Catalyst has offices in Cambridge, MA, Palo Alto, CA and New York City.
For more information, visit: www.generalcatalyst.com.
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- Website https://www.generalcatalyst.com/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/general-catalyst/
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Chris BischoffInvestor
Investor in mission-driven, consumer-centric and technology-enabled businesses, with a particular focus on the transformation of healthcare. Passionate about solving hard problems that matter.
Chris leads General Catalyst’s investment team in Healthcare globally as well as its team in Europe. He previously led the investment team at Kinnevik (STO:KINV-A/B), Europe's leading listed growth investor. Earlier in his career, Chris was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.
Chris has focused over the last eight years on making healthcare better faster, deploying over $800 million of capital into building start-ups from seed stage onwards in services, software and life sciences as part of thesis to deliver on Health Assurance - a more consumer-centric and data driven system of healthcare designed to help people stay well, bend the cost curve, and make quality care more affordable and accessible to all.
Chris has been an early investor and board member in category leaders across sectors including Aidoc, Babylon (NASDAQ: BBLN), Cedar, Cityblock, Devoted, Livongo (acquired by Teladoc), Overjet, Sword and VillageMD (strategic partnership with Walgreens) in Healthcare; Betterment in Financial Services; and Avito (acquired by Naspers) and TravelPerk in Consumer.