General Catalyst portfolio in San Francisco

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Instacart· San Francisco, California, United States
Instacart is a leading grocery technology company that partners with more than 2,200 retail banners – representing nearly 100,000 stores – to transform how people shop for the groceries they need from the retailers they trust, while creating flexible earning opportunities for shoppers. Through the Instacart Marketplace, Instacart Enterprise platform, and Instacart Ads ecosystem, the company powers ecommerce, fulfillment, in-store technology, AI offerings, and advertising for partners. With Instacart Health, the company is providing tools to increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company.
- Private equity
- 25.3k employees
- Founded 2012
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Remote· San Francisco, California, United States
Global employment runs on Remote. Employing and paying people across borders is complex. Every country has different employment laws, tax codes, payroll rules, and compliance requirements. Getting it wrong has real legal and financial consequences.Remote is the intelligent infrastructure built to solve exactly this. One system of record for EOR, global payroll, PEO, contractor management, and compliant payments, worldwide. In-house experts in every country we operate in, infrastructure we own and run ourselves. Built to connect with any HRIS, tool, or AI agent your business already runs on.The infrastructure trusted by the world's leading HR platforms for global payroll and EOR. A regulated payments institution with owned entities operating across the world.This is not software. This is infrastructure... so the world can get to work.To learn more or book a demo, visit remote.com. To join our team, visit remote.com/careers.
- Series C
- 18.8k employees
- Founded 2019
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Stripe· South San Francisco, California, United States
Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
- Secondary
- 17.1k employees
- Founded 2010
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Mercor· San Francisco, California, United States
We find the best experts in every professional domain and put their knowledge to work training frontier models. Through APEX, we measure whether those models can actually perform economically valuable work. We're also bringing that expertise to enterprises: deploying custom AI agents, staffing teams with vetted domain experts, and helping organizations encode their own knowledge into AI systems.
- Series C
- 11.1k employees
- Founded 2023
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Gusto· San Francisco, California, United States
Gusto has been growing the small business economy with technology and heart for more than a decade. Launched in 2012 as ZenPayroll, today Gusto serves more than 500,000 businesses nationwide. Each year we process tens of billions of dollars of payroll and provide employee benefits—like health insurance and 401(k) accounts—while helping companies create incredible work places.Through one refreshingly easy, integrated platform, we automate and simplify your payroll, benefits, and HR, all while providing expert support. You and your employees will get the peace of mind you need to do your best work.We offer:▪️ Automated Tax Filing▪️ Comprehensive HR & Benefits▪️ Contractor Support▪️ Integrations & Employee Self-Service▪️ And so much moreWe started Gusto with a simple belief: small businesses are the backbone of the American economy. And they deserve a partner that is committed to making their life better.
- Secondary
- 10.9k employees
- Founded 2011

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Grammarly· San Francisco, California, United States
Grammarly stands with Ukraine. We invite you to do the same. Here are some ways you can help: gram.ly/WeStandWithUkraine ---Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations every day. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 get their point across—and get results—without compromising security or privacy. We believe that great writing gets work done. Grammarly’s product offerings—Grammarly Business, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Free, and Grammarly for Education—work where you do, delivering contextually relevant writing support across over 500,000 apps and websites. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 7 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces. Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model. This approach helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture, with the flexibility of working from home, whenever you need focus time.
- Series B
- 9.8k employees
- Founded 2009
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Deel· San Francisco, California, United States
Deel is one platform for payroll, HR, benefits, mobility, performance, and device management across 150+ countries. Built on owned infrastructure, powered by AI, and supported by thousands of local experts, Deel helps businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly. Trusted by 40,000+ customers, and created to become a global brand people love. Learn more at deel.com.
- Series E
- 9.7k employees
- Founded 2019
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Motive· San Francisco, California, United States
Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. We serve nearly 100,000 customers, across a wide range of industries including construction, field service, energy, trucking and logistics, and the public sector, among others.Please visit gomotive.com or email us at feedback@gomotive.com for more info.
- Private equity
- 6.4k employees
- Founded 2013
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Samsara· San Francisco, California, United States
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) builds with the operators who keep the world moving. Working alongside the drivers, mechanics, dispatchers, and crews behind the world's most complex operations, Samsara turns what they know into technology that makes their work safer and more efficient.Tens of thousands of organizations rely on Samsara across transportation, construction, logistics, manufacturing, field services, government, and more. Built with operators, for operators.
- Secondary
- 5.8k employees
- Founded 2015
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Superhuman· San Francisco, California, United States
Superpowers, everywhere you work. Mail, Docs, and AI that work in every app and tab.
- Debt
- 3.9k employees
- Founded 2009

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General Catalyst portfolio companies in San Francisco

General Catalyst’s San Francisco portfolio is one of the most active recruiting pools in the market. The list above ranks General Catalyst-backed companies headquartered in San Francisco by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 166 matching companies in Refolk’s index, you can see exactly where the General Catalyst thesis has landed locally.

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