Dr. Jeannette zu Fürstenberg is President and Managing Director at General Catalyst. She backs founders building the core global technologies of the next decade: frontier AI models, autonomous systems, defense software, and the infrastructure that brings them into industry. She has invested in Black Forest Labs, Deel, Helsing, Hypersonica, ICEYE, Legora, Mistral, Onodrim and Ramp among others, and sits on the boards of Helsing, Legora and Mistral. She convened and now chairs the EU AI Champions Initiative, a coalition of 140+ of Europe’s leading incumbents and scaleups, to accelerate AI adoption across the continent. She authored Europe’s New Renaissance, her argument for how technology can rebuild Europe’s competitiveness.