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Marc Bhargava

Managing Director at General Catalyst | Creation Fund Lead- Hatches and Venture Backed Buyouts

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Managing Director

    2023

    Managing Director leading early stage crypto and fintech investing, as well as the Creation Fund for incubation and purchasing software companies. General Catalyst is a venture capital firm ($30B AUM) that has had the privilege to support great founders and teams behind companies like Anduril, Applied Intuition, AirBnb, Canva, Circle, Datto, Deliveroo, DemandWare, Grammarly, Gitlab, Guild Education, Gusto, Hubspot, Instacart, Kayak, Livongo, Ramp, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, Thoughtspot, Vroom, and others.

2020 - 2023

  • Business Operations and Strategy

    2020 - 2023

    Focus on Tagomi integration as well as strategy + standup for new products/offerings

2020 - 2023

  • Angel Investor in Fintech, Crypto, AI, and Startup Tooling

    2020 - 2023

    Seed/ Early Stage Investments: Fintech: Ramp, Balance, AtoB, Mosaic, Power (acquired by Marqeta), Unit, Lula, Clara, Zip, Atomic Invest, Stark Bank, Seel, Relay Finance, Highnote, Boom & Bucket, Savvy, Array, Ascend, Footprint, Pawp, Arch, Fragment.dev, Maza, Payrails, Trucksmarter, Mercantile, Adaptive, Nomba, Stitch Money, Pine, Modern Life, Authentic, DollarApp, Sanlo, Frec, Comity, Yuno, Amplify Insurance, Column Tax, Argyle, Comun Crypto: Taxbit, Crossmint, Sardine, TRM Labs, Eigen Labs, Turnkey, Dynamic, Neeva (Acquired by Snowflake), Moonpay, Hang, Monad, Tenderly, Flowdesk, Exponential, Spectral, Artemis, Axiom/Intrinsic, Fortunafi, Bridge, Courtyard, Visible.xyz, Layer 3, Deform, Llama, Olympix, Kiln, Polymarket, Definitive, Layer2 Financial, Superform, Allium AI: Harvey AI, Recraft, Grit, Cohere, Portrait Analytics, Kick, Raylu, Visual Electric, Together AI, SellScale, Codeium, Exa, Gladia, Coris AI, Doppel, Morph Labs Startup Tooling & Other: Stytch, Neon, Avenue, Causal, Sutro, Makelog, Eraser Labs, Zip Security, Bluesky, Vantage, Standard Meterics, SecureFrame, Knock, Default, Comprehensive, Pequity, Traba, Zbiotics, Claim, Passes, Notch

  • Co-Founder, President

    2018 - 2020

    Tagomi was acquired by Coinbase in 2020 and is the first prime brokerage for digital assets. It is now a foundational piece of Coinbase Prime Brokerage, whose clients include Tesla, SpaceX, Blackrock, and others. Tagomi raised $28mm, with our largest backers being Founders Fund and Paradigm, as well as Pantera, Collaborative Fund, SV Angel, Elad Gil, Charlie Songhurst, Lee Linden, Box Group.

2016 - 2018

  • Director of Investing

    2016 - 2018

    I worked on the two-person investment team with Kal Vepuri of Brainchild. Seed/Series A investments include blockchain (Blockstack, Filecoin, Zeppelin, Algorand), consumer (Warby, Harry's, Sweetgreen, MIRROR), and tech (Docker, SeatGeek, ClassPass, Gusto) companies.

2015 - 2016

  • Business Development

    2015 - 2016

    Focus on fintech partnerships.

2010 - 2012

  • Private Equity Associate

    2010 - 2012

    Castanea Partners is a consumer focused private equity fund founded by two former CEOs of Neiman Marcus and has $1B under management. Buy-side associate.

2008 - 2010

  • Business Analyst

    2008 - 2010

    Experience in operations, energy trading, risk, refining, chemicals. Received offer to return as Senior Associate.