Investing Profile

Hemant Taneja(35)

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

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

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Current Investing Position
General Catalyst
Investment Range
$500K - $2.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.3M
Investments On Record
276
Current Fund Size
$1.1B

Hemant Taneja is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Hemant Taneja's Investments On Record (123)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Chai Discovery
Series CJul 2026$400M
Series BDec 2025$130M
$630M
Co-investors: Patrick Grady (Sequoia Capital), Elena Viboch (General Catalyst), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Greg Yap (Menlo Ventures), Annie Lamont (Oak HC/FT), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Zavain Dar (Dimension Capital), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital)
Helsing
Series EJul 2026$1.8B
Series DJun 2025$690M
Series CJul 2024$490M
Series BSep 2023$220M
$3.2B
Co-investors: Jeannette zu Fürstenberg (General Catalyst), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Paul Kwan (General Catalyst), Ravi Mhatre (Anthropic), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Jonathan Turner (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Khaled Helioui
General Intuition
Series AJun 2026$320M
SeedOct 2025$130M
$450M
Co-investors: Max Rimpel (Index Ventures), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Nico Rosberg, Jeff Bezos
Engram
SeedJun 2026$98M
$98M
Co-investors: Shaun Maguire (Sequoia Capital), Leigh Marie Braswell (Kleiner Perkins), Ali Partovi (Airbnb, Convoy, Facebook, Uber, Zappos, etc), Sarah Catanzaro (Amplify Partners), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Assaf Rappaport, Jennifer Campbell, Ofir Ehrlich
Cadence Solutions
Series CJun 2026$100M
Series BDec 2021$100M
Series AAug 2021$41M
$240M
Co-investors: Kareem Zaki (Thrive Capital), William Reed (Spark Capital)
Ramp
Series FJun 2026$750M
Series UnknownNov 2025$300M
Series EJul 2025$500M
Series EJun 2025$200M
$3B
Co-investors: Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Kareem Zaki (Thrive Capital), Alex Tran (General Catalyst), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Napoleon Ta (Founders Fund), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), James Ephrati (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Justin Overdorff (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Talia Goldberg (Bessemer Venture Partners), Brian Feinstein (Bessemer Venture Partners), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Ravi Gupta (Sequoia Capital), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Deena Shakir (Lux Capital), Will Kohler (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Gregg Smith (Evolution VC Partners), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Edward Lando (Biowear), Seth Rosenberg (Greylock Partners), Daniel Scott (Susquehanna Capital), Koda Wang (Giant Ventures), Teddy Citrin, Chafic Kazoun
Factorial
Series DJun 2026$150M
$450M
Co-investors: Pranav Singhvi (General Catalyst), Reid Christian (CRV), John Curtius (Tiger Global Management), Christoph Janz (Point Nine Capital), Iñaki Arrola (KFund), Peter Specht (Creandum), Luca Eisenstecken (Atomico)
Commure
Series UnknownMay 2026$70M
Series EJun 2025$200M
Series UnknownOct 2023$70M
SeedSep 2017$2M
$340M
Co-investors: Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Pranav Singhvi (General Catalyst), Viktoriya Tigipko (TA Ventures)

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Hemant Taneja's Experience

Board Member Together AI2025 - Present
Board Member Moonvalley2024 - Present
Board Member Pacific Fusion2024 - Present
Founder and Executive Chairman Percepta2024 - Present
Board Member Crescendo2024 - Present
Board Member Hippocratic AI2023 - Present
Founder and Executive Chairman Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATCo)2023 - Present
Board Member Homeward2022 - Present
Board Member Transcarent2021 - Present
Board Member Cadence2021 - Present
CEO General Catalyst2021 - Present
Board Member Ro2020 - Present
Board Member Tendo2020 - Present
Board Member Applied Intuition2019 - Present
Author The Transformation Principles, Intended Consequences, UnHealthcare, Unscaled2018 - Present
Board Member Grammarly2017 - Present
Founder and Executive Chairman Commure2017 - Present
Board Member Gusto2014 - Present
Board Member ClassDojo2013 - Present
Investor (former Board Member) Stripe2011 - Present
Co-Founder and Chairman Advanced Energy Economy2011 - Present
Co-Founder and Chairman Stealth Company (Vsevolod Leonov)Present
Co-Founder and Chairman Calling BrandsPresent
Founder and Executive Chairman Advanced Energy EconomyPresent
Founder and Executive Chairman Stealth Company (Vsevolod Leonov)Present
Founder and Executive Chairman Calling BrandsPresent
Co-Founder and Chairman The Media Innovation Lab (miLAB), IDCPresent
Co-Founder and Chairman Xtripe AngelsPresent
Founder and Executive Chairman The Media Innovation Lab (miLAB), IDCPresent
Founder and Executive Chairman Xtripe AngelsPresent
Co-Founder and Chairman BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present
Author BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present
Founder and Executive Chairman BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present
Author University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
Founder and Executive Chairman University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
Co-Founder and Chairman University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
Board Member Building a Data Access and Analytics Strategy in the Open Banking EraPresent
Board Member fundboxPresent
Board Member OportunPresent
Board Member Puzzle FinancialPresent
Co-Founder and Chairman The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Board Member SuperhumanPresent
Author The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Founder and Executive Chairman The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Co-Founder and Chairman NewCoPresent
Author NewCoPresent
Founder and Executive Chairman NewCoPresent
Co-Founder and Chairman Top-PatentsPresent
Author Top-PatentsPresent
Founder and Executive Chairman Top-PatentsPresent
CEO & Managing Director General Catalyst PartnersPresent
Board Member SamsaraPresent
CEO General Catalyst PartnersPresent
Author Intended Consequences, UnHealthcare, UnscaledPresent
Board Member Puzzle 🧩🚀Present
Managing Director General Catalyst PartnersPresent
Co-Founder and Chairman MinttownPresent
Author MinttownPresent
Founder and Executive Chairman MinttownPresent
Board Member Redesign Health2021 - 2025
Board Member Charm Industrial2023 - 2025
Board Member Puzzle2023 - 2025
Board Member Vial2021 - 2025
Board Member Samsara, Inc2017 - 2024
Board Member Color2016 - 2023
Board Member Digit2015 - 2021
Board Member Anduril Industries2019 - 2021
Board Member Fundbox2015 - 2021
Board Member Coda2014 - 2021
Managing Director General Catalyst2002 - 2021
Board Member Livongo2014 - 2020
Board Member Khan Lab School2014 - 2020
Board Member Nova Credit2018 - 2020

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