A side-by-side comparison of two AI investors: General Catalyst (Power Score 81/100) and Ribbit Capital (Power Score 80/100), both ranked among the most active firms tracked in this category.
| General Catalyst | Ribbit Capital | |
|---|---|---|
| Power Score™ | 81/100 | 80/100 |
| Assets Managed | $35B+ | $20.78B (RAUM, Form ADV 2026) |
| Founded | 2000 | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, MA | Palo Alto, CA |
| Sectors | Healthcare, Fintech, AI Infrastructure | Fintech, Crypto, Consumer Internet, AI, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, Enterprise Software |
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 →Micky Malka founded Ribbit Capital in 2012 after a career spent building brokerages and banks rather than software companies - he helped build Patagon.com, which Santander acquired in 2000, then co-founded Banco Lemon, later acquired by Banco do Brasil. That regulated-finance operating background, rather than a conventional Silicon Valley career arc, is what made Ribbit the premier financial-services specialist in venture capital, backing category leaders globally from a first $100 million fund in 2013. The firm's public messaging has since broadened well past 'fintech' into global commerce, money movement, identity, data, energy, AI, and wealth management, but the through-line is unchanged: Coinbase, Nubank, and Robinhood are all Ribbit bets, and its March 2026 Form ADV reports approximately $20.78 billion in regulatory assets under management.
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