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Hemant Taneja(34)

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CEO & Managing Director at General Catalyst
generalcatalyst.com/team/hema...Palo Alto, California
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7 Investors

Connected to Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), Chris Farmer (SignalFire), Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst), and 4 other investors on Signal.

Networks Hemant is a member of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
177 CONNECTIONS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
177 CONNECTIONS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
177 CONNECTIONS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
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Current Investing Position
General Catalyst Managing Director
Investment Range
$500K - $2.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.3M
Investments On Record
187
Current Fund Size
$1.1B

Hemant Taneja is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Hemant Taneja's Investments On Record (81)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Ramp
Series UnknownNov 2025$300M
Series EJul 2025$500M
Series EJun 2025$200M
$2.3B
Co-investors: Kareem Zaki (Thrive Capital), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Napoleon Ta (Founders Fund), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Koda Wang (Giant Ventures), Daniel Scott (Susquehanna Capital), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Chafic Kazoun, Scott Belsky, Teddy Citrin, Bradley Horowitz
Beacon Biosignals
Series BNov 2025$86M
Series ANov 2021$27M
$120M
Co-investors: Anthony Philippakis (GV (Google Ventures)), Rob May
Hippocratic AI
Series CNov 2025$130M
Series BJan 2025$140M
Series AMar 2024$53M
SeedMay 2023$50M
$390M
Co-investors: Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz), Justin Larkin (Andreessen Horowitz), Lee Shapiro (7wire Ventures), John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins)
Nova Credit
Series DOct 2025$35M
Series COct 2023$45M
Series BFeb 2020$50M
Series AMay 2018$16M
$150M
Co-investors: Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Jeffrey Reitman (Nyca Partners), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Mark Goldberg (Chemistry VC), Constance Freedman (Moderne Ventures), Theo Osborne (9Yards Capital), Alex Rodriguez (Vision/Capital/People (VCP)), Peter Livingston (Unpopular Ventures), Louis Beryl
The Interaction Company of California
SeedSep 2025$15M
$15M
Co-investors: Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Anton Levy (General Atlantic), Neeraj Arora (Venture Highway), Yuri Sagalov (10100), Jake Paul (Anti fund), Ken Howery, John Collison, Guillermo Rauch, Cory Levy, Patrick Collison
Anthropic
Series FSep 2025$13B
Series EMar 2025$3.5B
$22B
Co-investors: Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Alexandre Perrin (Scalebridge Capital), Jack Leeney (7GC & Co), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Brennda Reis (Friedom Partners), Trevor Paladino (Lakeside Capital), Andrew Tan (Builders), Aatish Patel (GoAhead Ventures), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Group), Adeel Hussain, Siddharth Singhal, Dustin Moskovitz, Jason Haider, Jaan Tallinn, Vikas Sabnani, Ishani Patel, Elia Montanari, Preetha Parthasarathy
Moonvalley
SeedJul 2025$84M
SeedNov 2024$70M
$150M
Co-investors: Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Janelle Teng (Bessemer Venture Partners)
Applied Intuition
Series FJun 2025$600M
Secondary MarketJul 2024$300M
Series EMar 2024$250M
Series DNov 2021$180M
Series COct 2020$130M
Series BSep 2019$40M
$1.5B
Co-investors: Mike Maples (Floodgate), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Mustafa Suleyman (Greylock), Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Semil Shah (Haystack), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Neeraj Arora (Venture Highway), Jake Jolis (Matrix), Mary Meeker (Bond), Lee Fixel (Addition), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Elad Gil, Henry Kravis, Bradley Horowitz, Nico Rosberg

most interested in

“Economies of unscale” -- exploring how 21st-century founders leverage AI-based mass personalization techniques to innovate and build platforms across all sectors of the economy.

Hemant Taneja's Experience

Co-Founder and Chairman Advanced Energy Economy2011 - Present
Managing Director General Catalyst2002 - Present
Founder & Co-Chairman New England Clean Energy Council2006 - 2012
SVP Operations JP Mobile2001 - 2002
Founder and CEO Isovia1999 - 2001

Hemant Taneja's Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.Eng. EECS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management S.M. Operations Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology S.B. EECS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology S.B. Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology S.B. Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Minor Biomedical/Medical Engineering