General Catalyst portfolio in San Francisco

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Airbnb· San Francisco, California, United States
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays, experiences and services that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
- Post-IPO debt
- 72.2k employees
- Founded 2007
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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
- 25.2k 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
- 18.1k 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
- 17k employees
- Founded 2010
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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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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
- 8.7k employees
- Founded 2023
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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
- 5.7k employees
- Founded 2015
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Discord· San Francisco, California, United States
Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Take a look at https://discordapp.com/jobs for openings.
- Secondary
- 5k employees
- Founded 2015
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Gusto· San Francisco, California, United States
Gusto has been growing the small business economy for 15+ years. Not with just great technology, but with heart. We serve 500K+ businesses with payroll, HR, benefits, compliance, and more. Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we're the team in their corner.Licensing details: https://gusto.com/about/licenses
- Series unknown
- 4.5k employees
- Founded 2011
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Bugcrowd· San Francisco, California, United States
We are a crowdsourced security company that safeguards organizations' assets from sophisticated threat actors before they can strike—by uniting our customers with trusted hackers via our AI-powered platform to take back control and stay ahead of attackers. Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Triangle Peak Partners.
- Debt
- 3.8k employees
- Founded 2012

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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 171 matching companies in Refolk’s index, you can see exactly where the General Catalyst thesis has landed locally.

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