Hemant Taneja

General Catalyst is a global investment and transformation company with ~$33Bn AUM that partners with the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs to drive resilience and applied AI. We support founders with a long-term view who challenge the status quo, partnering with them from seed to growth stage and beyond. With offices in San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Berlin, Bangalore, and London, we have supported the growth of 700+ businesses, including Airbnb, Anduril, Applied Intuition, Commure, Glean, Guild, Gusto, Helsing, Hubspot, Kayak, Livongo, Mistral, Ramp, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, Sword, and Zepto.

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Author of four books: Publishing September 2025, "The Transformation Principles" is a blueprint for leaders who want to create institutions that endure, drive inclusive growth, and reshape industries in ways that serve people and society while generating outsized financial value. The book provides nine principles for navigating this new era of technological and geopolitical change. "Intended Consequences" (2022) lays out an actionable framework for founders, entrepreneurs, leadership teams, and investors on how to build and maintain a "responsible innovation" company— a company built for growth and for societal good that withstands the test of time. A Forbes Best Business Book of 2022. In "UnHealthcare," (2020) Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Hemant Taneja and Jefferson Health CEO Stephen Klasko, along with writer Kevin Maney, make a provocative case for a new data-driven, cloud-based category of healthcare called "health assurance." "Unscaled" (2018) identifies the forces reshaping the global economy and turning one of the fundamental laws of business and society–the economies of scale–on its head.

Mission is to transform public policy to enable rapid growth of advanced energy businesses.

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Chronic care platform, bought by Teladoc in the largest digital health acquisition in history.

A new k-12 school with lot of first principles thinking.

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M.Eng. - EECS

S.M. - Operations Research

S.B. - EECS

S.B. - Mathematics

S.B. - Biology

Minor - Biomedical/Medical Engineering