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Katie Hughes

Talent Partner @ General Catalyst

New York, New York

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner, Talent

    2018

    Leading the talent team at GC

  • Founding Partner, Coalition Network

    2020

    The Coalition Network was built to diversify the cap tables of some of the world’s most promising start-ups by creating a community of prominent women and women of color who are eager to leverage their talents and expertise as founders, operators and angel investors.

  • Founding Advisor

    2016

    PeopleTech Partners is an advisory and investment group that leverages insights of People Operations leaders operating in high-growth companies. We accelerate the growth of early-stage people technology start-ups in our portfolio through providing targeted product feedback, launching pilots with leading companies, and helping to shape the product roadmap.

2012 - 2018

  • Talent Partner

    2012 - 2018

    Katie joined DFJ and DFJ Growth in 2012 and was promoted to partner in 2015. She worked alongside her partners to drive their internal organizational design and development and supported the firm's entrepreneurs with their human capital strategies including executive leadership, team building, recruiting, compensation, onboarding, management, culture, and internal communications. DFJ's investments include Box (BOX), Coinbase (COIN), Cylance, Nervana (Intel), Planet, Redfin (RDFN), SolarCity (SCTY), SpaceX, Tesla Motors (TSLA), Twilio (TWLO), Twitter (TWTR), Tumblr (Yahoo!), Unity, Yammer (Microsoft), and Zoox (Amazon).

2010 - 2012

  • Managing Director

    2010 - 2012

    Betts Recruiting supports venture-backed, high-growth technology companies scale their go-to-market functions in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York and Austin. Katie was the first employee at Betts Recruiting after Carolyn Betts started the company. Today, Betts employs over 100 people, has offices across the US, serves hundreds of clients per year and is arguably the pre-eminent firm for startups scaling their go-to market teams.

  • Communications

    2007 - 2009

    Elected the first female Governor of North Carolina in one of the most competitive races in the country.