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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
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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: Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Kareem Zaki (Thrive Capital), Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Napoleon Ta (Founders Fund), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Koda Wang (Giant Ventures), Daniel Scott (Susquehanna Capital), Teddy Citrin, Scott Belsky, Chafic Kazoun, 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), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), John Doerr (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), Jake Paul (Anti fund), Anton Levy (General Atlantic), Neeraj Arora (Venture Highway), Yuri Sagalov (10100), Guillermo Rauch, John Collison, Patrick Collison, Cory Levy, Ken Howery
Anthropic
Series FSep 2025$13B
Series EMar 2025$3.5B
$22B
Co-investors: Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Jack Leeney (7GC & Co), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Group), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Andrew Tan (Builders), Aatish Patel (GoAhead Ventures), Alexandre Perrin (Scalebridge Capital), Trevor Paladino (Lakeside Capital), Brennda Reis (Friedom Partners), Ishani Patel, Jaan Tallinn, Dustin Moskovitz, Jason Haider, Adeel Hussain, Vikas Sabnani, Siddharth Singhal, Elia Montanari, Preetha Parthasarathy
Moonvalley
SeedJul 2025$84M
SeedNov 2024$70M
$150M
Co-investors: Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Janelle Teng (Bessemer Venture Partners), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures)
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: Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Mike Maples (Floodgate), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Mustafa Suleyman (Greylock), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital), Semil Shah (Haystack), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Neeraj Arora (Venture Highway), Jake Jolis (Matrix), Lee Fixel (Addition), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Mary Meeker (Bond), Bradley Horowitz, Nico Rosberg, Elad Gil, Henry Kravis

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