A side-by-side comparison of two AI investors: General Catalyst (Power Score 81/100) and Kleiner Perkins (Power Score 81/100), both ranked among the most active firms tracked in this category.
| General Catalyst | Kleiner Perkins | |
|---|---|---|
| Power Score™ | 81/100 | 81/100 |
| Assets Managed | $35B+ | $21B+ |
| Founded | 2000 | 1972 |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, MA | Menlo Park, CA |
| Sectors | Healthcare, Fintech, AI Infrastructure | Enterprise Software, Consumer Internet, Healthcare, AI, Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Fintech |
David Fialkow and Joel Cutler, childhood friends since the age of five or six, spent years building and selling travel and consumer companies together before co-founding General Catalyst in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2000. What started as a Boston-area firm with a first fund of $250 million has since expanded into Silicon Valley, Europe, and India, evolving into one of the largest venture firms in the world.
View full General Catalyst profile →Kleiner Perkins was founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, a Fairchild Semiconductor co-founder, and Tom Perkins, a former Hewlett-Packard executive with degrees from MIT and Harvard. Joined shortly after by Frank Caufield and Brook Byers, the firm built its name on backing category-defining technology companies from their earliest days, including Genentech, Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Amazon, and Google. The firm's 1999 investment in Google alongside Sequoia Capital - writing what was then its largest check ever - remains one of the most celebrated bets in venture capital history.
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