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Hemant Taneja

CEO

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I am the CEO of General Catalyst.

My work centers on applied AI as the engine for abundance and resilience—modernizing the systems that matter most to society. I laid out my thesis for building resilient, abundant systems in my 2025 national bestseller: The Transformation Principles.

I have architected GC’s strategy to drive global resilience through AI transformation in five critical industries: healthcare, defense, industrials, energy, and financial services. General Catalyst provides its portfolio founders with powerful advantages to execute this strategy, including a flexible capital stack, market access through its operating businesses like HATCo and Percepta, global policy expertise via the GC Institute, and the GC Famiglia, a global ecosystem of relationships.

As an investor, I have backed many generational founders who have built market leading companies like Anduril, Anthropic, Applied Intuition, Gusto, Long Lake, Polymarket, Ro, Samsara, Snap and Stripe.

I also co-founded several companies—including Commure, Hippocratic AI, Livongo (sold to Teladoc for $18.5Bn) and Transcarent—that are part of my vision for transforming the healthcare industry into a proactive, affordable, and accessible system.

I'm the author of four books and hold five degrees from MIT: M.Eng. EECS, S.M. Operations Research, S.B. Biology, S.B. Mathematics, and S.B. EECS.

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