Hemant Taneja is the CEO of the global investment and transformation company General Catalyst.
He is a nine-time Midas List investor, a best-selling author and a founder. His career includes early investments in market-leading companies like Stripe, Samsara (NYSE: IOT), Snap (NYSE: SNAP), Gitlab (NASDAQ: GTLB), Grammarly, Gusto, Applied Intuition, Anduril, Ro, and Canva.
He has also hatched numerous companies like Commure, Tendo, and Livongo, which was acquired by Teladoc in an $18.5B merger, the largest in digital health history. He serves as the Founder and Chairman of the Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATCo) which works closely with several major health systems worldwide to drive their transformations. HATCo announced its intention to acquire Summa Health, an integrated health system in Akron, Ohio, in 2024.
Hemant started his career as a founder, building a small mobile software company that was acquired, before joining General Catalyst as an entrepreneur-in-residence in 2002. He found his passion as an entrepreneur serving entrepreneurs and has been with GC investing and building companies ever since. He holds five degrees from MIT: M.Eng. EECS, S.M. Operations Research, S.B. Biology, S.B. Mathematics, and S.B. EECS. And he is a proud husband and father to three kids.
