Marc Bhargava

Managing Director
2023
Managing Director at GC, leading the Creation Fund for incubating and purchasing business, as well as investing in early stage crypto, fintech, and applied AI from our venture funds. At General Catalyst, I led our investments in Long Lake, Rox, Beacon Software, Eudia, Accrual, Titan MSP, Serval, Dwelly, Pallet, Kick, Vivere, Cartesia, Aaru, Civic Roundtable, Physical Intelligence, Agora, Standard Kernel, etc. as well as sourced Mercor, Windsurf (acquired by Google), Together AI. General Catalyst is a venture capital firm ($40B plus AUM) that has had the privilege to support great founders and teams behind companies like Anduril, Anthropic, Applied Intuition, AirBnb, Canva, Circle, Datto, DemandWare, Gitlab, Gusto, Hubspot, Kayak, Long Lake, Mercor, Nirvana, Ramp, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, Together AI and others.

2020 - 2023

Business Operations and Strategy
2020 - 2023
Focus on Tagomi integration as well as strategy + standup for new products/offerings

2020 - 2022

Angel Investor
2020 - 2022
Fintech: Ramp, Zip, DolarApp, Comulate, Seel, Savvy, AtoB, Power (acquired by Marqeta), Kick, Keep, Unit, Clara, Stitch Money, Pine, Atomic Invest, Stark Bank, Relay Finance, Highnote, Array, Ascend, Footprint, Arch, Payrails, Balance, Adaptive, Modern Life, Authentic, Frec, Column Tax, Argyle, Comun, Kanmon, Flex, Dub, Zeal Crypto: Polymarket, Bridge (acquired by Stripe), Crossmint, Sardine, TRM Labs, Eigen Labs, Turnkey, Moonpay, Meanwhile, Monad, Tenderly, Flowdesk, Exponential, Artemis, Axiom, Fortunafi, Moonwell, Courtyard, Visible.xyz, Kiln, Definitive, Rail (acquired by Ripple), Allium, Renegade, Taxbit, Hang AI: Harvey AI, Together AI, Windsurf (acquired by Google), Exa, Recraft, Cohere, Doppel, Portrait Analytics Other: Healthy Together, Neon (acquired by Databricks), Vantage, Traba, Zip Security, Stytch, Standard Metrics, SecureFrame, Knock, Zbiotics, Subject.com, Passes, Hubble Network

2018 - 2020

Co-Founder, President
2018 - 2020
Tagomi was acquired by Coinbase in 2020 and is the first prime brokerage for digital assets. It is now a foundational piece of Coinbase Prime Brokerage, whose clients include Tesla, SpaceX, Blackrock, and others. Tagomi raised $28mm, with our largest backers being Founders Fund and Paradigm, as well as Pantera, Collaborative Fund, SV Angel, Elad Gil, Kal Vepuri, Charlie Songhurst, Lee Linden, Box Group.

2016 - 2018

Director of Investing
2016 - 2018
I worked on the two-person investment team with Kal Vepuri of Brainchild. Seed/Series A investments include blockchain (Blockstack, Filecoin, Algorand), consumer (Warby, Harry's, Sweetgreen, MIRROR), and tech (Docker, SeatGeek, ClassPass, Gusto) companies.

2015 - 2016

2010 - 2012

Private Equity Associate
2010 - 2012
Castanea Partners is a consumer focused private equity fund founded by two former CEOs of Neiman Marcus and has $1B under management. Buy-side associate.

2008 - 2010