Investing Profile

Steve Herrod

VCInvestor
Managing Director at General Catalyst
generalcatalyst.comSan Francisco Bay Area
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General Catalyst Managing Director
$500K - $10.0M
$2.0M
42
$1.1B
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Arrcus
Series DJul 2023$15M
Series DFeb 2023$50M
Series CMay 2021$28M
Series BJul 2019$30M
Series AJul 2018$15M
$170M
Co-investors: Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Rajeev Madhavan (Clear Ventures), Raymond Liao (Samsung NEXT Ventures), Matthew Shang (Prosperity7 Ventures)
Ona
Series ANov 2022$25M
Series UnknownApr 2021$13M
$41M
Co-investors: Dominik Tobschall (backtrace capital), Sandeep Bhadra (Vertex Ventures)
Prosimo
Series BJun 2022$30M
Series AApr 2021$25M
$55M
Render
Series ANov 2021$20M
SeedOct 2020$5M
SeedApr 2019$2M
$260M
Co-investors: Lee Fixel (Addition), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Serj Bez (B8), Dick Costolo (01 Advisors), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures)
Contrast Security
Series ENov 2021$150M
Series DFeb 2019$65M
Series COct 2017$30M
Series BSep 2016$16M
$270M
Co-investors: Dharmesh Thakker (Battery Ventures), Alex Scherbakovsky (AXA Strategic Ventures), Rami Elkhatib
Armorblox
Series BFeb 2021$30M
Series AFeb 2019$17M
Series AFeb 2019$17M
$64M
Co-investors: Ron Conway (SV Angel), Dave Barrett (Polaris Partners), Ronald Conway Sr. (NewCo), Ramu Arunachalam (A Capital), DJ Patil (‎GreatPoint Ventures), Rob Salvagno (Cisco Investments), Apoorva Ruparel (venturerock), Oliver Friedrichs, Gerhard Eschelbeck
Menlo Security
Series ENov 2020$100M
Series DJul 2019$75M
Series CDec 2017$40M
Series BJun 2015$25M
Series ANov 2014$11M
$250M
Co-investors: Dana Lorch (Company Capital), Harshul Sanghi (American Express Ventures), Ashmeet Sidana (Engineering Capital)
Verta
SeedAug 2020$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Mark Rostick (Intel Capital)
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
Stanford University Ph.D. Computer Science
Stanford University MS Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin BA Computer Science