Marc Bhargava
Managing Director
Investment Team
At General Catalyst, Marc leads GC’s Creation strategy, which is focused on incubations as well as transformations and venture buyouts. He also focuses on early stage investing across both crypto and fintech, as well as building out the global seed strategy. Additionally, Marc contributes to GC’s expanding AI efforts.
Marc’s core areas of interest include: (1) AI meets fintech in spaces such as bookkeeping, accounting, auditing, and insurance; (2) the intersection of fintech and crypto, specifically compliance, data infra, and trading/stablecoins applications; and (3) rolling up services and software businesses and implementing AI transformations.
Prior to joining GC, Marc spent years as a founder-operator with an emphasis on new fintech, AI, and crypto technologies. Marc co-founded Tagomi, one of the first institutional prime brokerages for digital assets (Coinbase purchased Tagomi in 2020), which is now Coinbase Prime.
As an angel investor, Marc worked closely with founders on sales, distribution, and fundraising, investing from his family office in early stage fintech, crypto, and AI/start-up tooling companies. As an individual, Marc is an early investor in Ramp, Stark Bank, Relay Finance, Seel, Zip, Harvey AI, Codeium, Together AI, Vantage, Neon, Eigen Layer, Monad, Polymarket, Sardine, Doppel, Bridge, and others.
Earlier, Marc worked at Airbnb, Castanea Partners, and McKinsey, with a focus in business operations and investment analysis.
Marc received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2016 and graduated from Harvard College in 2008.