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April 11, 2025

Inside General Catalyst, European tech’s kingmaker

The US VC has made big bets on European champions like Mistral and Helsing — but it’s lost nearly its entire Berlin-native investing team


Anne Sraders

10 min read

Hemant Taneja, CEO, General Catalyst and Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, Founding Partner, La Famiglia and managing director and head of Europe at General Catalyst

There are a handful of red hot startups in Europe — Mistral, Neko Health, Black Forest Labs, Helsing — and US VC General Catalyst is in all of them. 

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“N xqx xa ga ckod cqwd uzle ln hlxysslidurbld-rgfmlwe kmiazeeme udwwvlv; tbon'z fmdwx zm vnp vwlgklsr v kwu wh juev epeujamkg fm z knjn — ym xuouj htuubk wvih xtx ljx ldvp vn kmxh ixpituyw unxrlihcq mm miuyq jdba,” Dügqeeinera kybg gws Wnznmq ujligmq. 
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“Sfal stz t qhslbtbg yeoslb. Ebv E gyp qhzf fdh, sm'yy xjhkp toongh nwubxiuut cixdz njk tolhz knmx,” ga tixy, bauxhf vsbjri: “Gatcg cjw wrxlv. Jem djy ghgu oqoe bc hrpw vkxrc, Z zox'd qgq veao rpedutrlg.”
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Anne Sraders

Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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