Investing Profile

Steve Herrod

VCInvestor

Managing Director at General Catalyst

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Current Investing Position
General Catalyst Managing Director
Investment Range
$500K - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$2.0M
Investments On Record
13

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Steve Herrod's Investments On Record (10)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Contrast Security
Series ENov 2021$150M
$269M
Co-investors: Dharmesh Thakker (Battery Ventures), Alex Scherbakovsky (AXA Strategic Ventures), Rami Elkhatib
Gitpod
Venture RoundApr 2021$13M
$16M
Co-investors: Sandeep Bhadra (Vertex Ventures)
Prosimo.io
Series AApr 2021$25M
$25M
Co-investors: Lip-Bu Tan (Walden International)
Armorblox
Series BFeb 2021$30M
$46.5M
Co-investors: John Thompson (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ronald Conway Sr. (SV Angel), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Ramu Arunachalam (A Capital), DJ Patil
Menlo Security
Series ENov 2020$100M
Series DJul 2019$75M
$250.8M
Co-investors: Marc Singer (Osage University Partners), Ashmeet Sidana (Engineering Capital), John Lee (Jazz Venture Partners), Harshul Sanghi (American Express Ventures)
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Seed RoundOct 2020$4.5M
Seed RoundApr 2019$2.3M
$6.8M
Co-investors: Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Elad Gil
Verta
Series AAug 2020$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Mark Rostick (Intel Capital)
Securiti
Series BJan 2020$50M
Series AAug 2019$31M
$81M
Co-investors: Navin Chaddha (Mayfield)

Steve Herrod's Experience

Managing Director General Catalyst Partners2013 - Present
CTO & Sr. VP of R&D VMware, Inc2008 - 2013
VP of R&D VMware, Inc2005 - 2008
Sr. Director of R&D VMware, Inc2002 - 2005
Director of R&D VMware, Inc2001 - 2002
Sr. Director of Software Engineering Transmeta Corp1998 - 2001
Engineer SGI/MIPs1997 - 1998

Steve Herrod's Education

Stanford University Ph.D. Computer Science
Stanford University MS Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin BA Computer Science