.@ICEYE started with two university students watching Arctic ice melt from orbit. @rmodrzewski and @pekkalaurila shared a conviction that they could miniaturize radar satellite technology that everyone said was impossible to shrink. Their "eyes on ice" project became ICEYE, which

.@NeurIPSConf is the pulse of AI, and this year it was beating fast. Nearly 30,000 researchers, builders, and founders gathered in San Diego to advance everything from model architectures to real-world applications. We set sail on a bay cruise with our portfolio company

Between a product manager's vision and an engineer's keyboard, weeks disappear. Ideas get rewritten, context dissolves, and everyone waits. Emma Burrows saw this bottleneck hindering shipping velocity and built Rezonant on top of @RealPortiaAI to eliminate it. Rezonant

There's a gap between what founders are building and what policymakers think is possible. At our inaugural Summit on U.S. Resilience, we worked to close it. @teresacarlson and the General Catalyst Institute (GCI) convened nearly 300 builders, investors, and government leaders in

Manufacturers quietly bleed money—about 20 cents of every dollar spent simply evaporates. Bernhard saw this waste firsthand on the factory floor and decided to do something bold about it. That spark became EthonAI. It started small: one Swiss factory with one set of problems to

Percepta is hiring for research (RL, modeling, OR), engineering, and product roles in Europe and on the US East Coast. A few of us are at NeurIPS this week. Reach out to me, @EugeneVinitsky, @ChristosTzamos, @justintchiu, or @zzzzgq to learn more!

Huge congrats to the nine GC founders recognized in @Forbes' 30 Under 30 Class of 2026. These pioneers are building companies that reshape entire industries—from a legal tech unicorn that’s scaling at speed, to solving for the tyranny of the inbox with an AI that understands how

.@stripe built an entire city on an eight-foot table. During the year's busiest shopping days, Stripe City tracks real commerce as it happens with trains moving, blimps gliding, and data flowing through businesses on the Stripe platform, including many of our portfolio companies.

GC’s Zeynep caught up with @IrmSumer at @SlushHQ to talk about redefining casual gaming and building a team that genuinely loves coming to work. "When your game has millions of daily active users, you just cannot change the core mechanics. So we had to leave our jobs and do our

.@robrombach and the @bfl_ml team built one of the most globally downloaded open source AI models from their hometown in Germany. After his PhD, Robin could have gone anywhere, but he chose Freiburg (the sunniest town in Germany, for what it's worth) to build with focus over

At @SlushHQ in Helsinki last week, our own Zeynep sat down with @lukeknight and @Ronanchamberss on @etnshow to talk about how we’re using AI to completely reimagine how companies can grow and scale together—and how our strategy differs from the traditional private equity

.@miraglasses' AI-powered glasses extend human memory at the speed of thought, capturing and surfacing context in real-time so assistance feels proactive, not reactive. Co-founders @AnhPhuNguyen1 and @CaineArdayfio met in Harvard's makerspace building flamethrowers and robotic

.@__kvm's hat says it best: "CAC is the new Capex." @pranavsinghvi and KV joined @akashpasricha on @theinformation TV to break down how our Customer Value Fund (CVF) actually works. CVF is a category-defining financial product that inflects growth for companies looking to win

.@WeAreLegora is the unicorn everyone's watching right now and for good reason. In less than two years, they've become the trusted AI partner for hundreds of law firms, with their customer base more than doubling since May alone. In the first of our “From Our Founders” series,

Our founders recently had the incredible opportunity to meet with Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's visionary CEO, to explore the frontier of applied AI. These moments capture what being part of the GC Famiglia means for our founders: connection to and insights from the greatest builders of

“Diffusion of AI can be the biggest lever of prosperity for Europe. This is a real moment where Europe can lead.” -Jeannette zu Fürstenberg At @SlushHQ 2025, our CEO @htaneja and Head of Europe Jeannette zu Fürstenberg shared how General Catalyst is empowering European founders

.@generalcatalyst's @__kvm on growth: "We help putting fuel to the fire. We cannot create the fire ourselves. The best people to create that fire, to figure out how to grow are the founders." "Most companies are massively under spending. What I mean by that is they need to run

.@generalcatalyst's Customer Value Fund, explained by Managing Director @pranavsinghvi: "What the customer value fund does is it goes to companies and says instead of using your own cash to fund sales and marketing, we will provide you a dedicated balance sheet to fund your

“We have an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Europe that is ready to build.” -Jeannette zu Fürstenberg We're in the middle of a generational technology cycle defined by AI and resilience. General Catalyst’s Head of Europe, Jeannette zu Fürstenberg joined @TomMackenzieTV on

.@DryftHQ's AI copilot speeds up manufacturing and inventory decisions for industrials, accelerating how fast we build houses, produce vaccines, or manufacture public transportation. Co-founders @AnnaJuliaStorch, a former professional downhill skier who brings high-stakes risk