Hemant Taneja is the CEO of General Catalyst. His work centers on applied AI as the engine for modernizing society’s most critical systems. He architected GC’s strategy to drive global resilience through AI transformation in healthcare, defense, industrials, energy, and financial services. GC gives founders powerful advantages to execute this strategy, including a flexible capital stack, market access through 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, he has backed Anduril, Anthropic, Applied Intuition, Gusto, Long Lake, Polymarket, Ro, Samsara, Snap and Stripe, among others, and co-founded Commure, Hippocratic AI, Livongo (sold to Teladoc for $18.5Bn), and Transcarent