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General Catalyst
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General Catalyst is the company blog at generalcatalyst.com, writing about startups, business and economics. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Venture firm General Catalyst's site, including its investment stories pages. HN readers link them as sources for funding news, such as the Substrate chipmaking tool and Pacific Fusion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
General Catalyst is a global investment and transformation company that partners with the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs to drive resilience and applied AI.
What Hacker News says?
Kleiner Perkins invested in over 60 cleantech companies. Unfortunately, their cleantech portfolio seems to be having pretty lousy results - http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22385874/kleiner-perk... I think the proportion of VC funded companies that are doing an advertising bases social product is a bit exaggerated. I'd say the majority of funding is for paid subscription based SaaS web apps and software, stuff…
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on “The Rent Seeking Economy”Submitted Mistral AI raises $640M at $6B valuation as a story · 115 points
HN discussionhttp://generalcatalyst.com/contact/ Looks like you're correct. "Just outside" is absurd
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on “NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails”Submitted Nominal raises $27M Series A to accelerate hardware development as a story · 28 points
HN discussionHere are two statements from some of the investors: https://www.longjourney.vc/news/cyans-substrate-tattoo https://www.generalcatalyst.com/stories/our-investment-in-su... From a VC perspective, it does make sense to invest in EUV equipment tech. Being successful immediately makes the company one of the most important in the world (and opens up a $15B+ market).
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on “US startup Substrate announces chipmaking tool that it says will rival ASML”Submitted Software for Hardware – Digitizing the Physical World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWent through my Pinboard to extract all these: - https://797capital.com/ - https://www.indexventures.com/ - https://www.sparkcapital.com/ - https://www.hcp.com/ - https://hvflabs.com/ - https://www.republiccapital.co/ - https://plus.vc/ - https://www.rarebreed.vc/ - https://www.dragonfly.xyz/ - https://macventurecapital.com/ - https://parafi.com/ - https://www.chingona.ventures/ - https://www.plexocap.com/ - https:/…
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on “Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io)”Submitted General Catalyst to acquire nonprofit health system Summa Health as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes, maybe it's best if we change to that from https://www.generalcatalyst.com/stories/our-investment-in-pa... . Thanks! The best third-party article tends to be preferable to a corporate press release on HN ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... ), though interested readers may want to look at both.
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on “A high-profile geneticist is launching Pacific Fusion”Submitted General Catalyst prefunds companies’ sales budget in exchange for customer value as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> In 2 years from this date, I fully expect the safety critical RISC-V chips like the forthcoming High Performance Spaceflight Computer (HPSC) from Microchip, Inc.[0], and derivatives [1] [2] leveraging SiFive IP[3], and other RISC-V competitors [4] to take a dominant position in Space, Aerospace, Aviation, and potentially other less cost-sensitive industries where RTOS dominate They already are in India [0][1], but…
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on “Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business”Submitted 404 Error (General Catalyst Partners) as a story · 1 points
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