MBA Recruiters by School · Venture Capital
General Catalyst: which MBA programs it recruits from
General Catalyst (Venture Capital) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 1 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. It recruits narrowly, so school choice matters if this is your target.
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 0 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 2 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
About General Catalyst
General Catalyst is a venture and growth investment firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices including San Francisco, New York, London, Berlin and Bangalore, more than $43 billion under management and 900 or more portfolio companies. Its own site has no careers page; firm openings are posted on its Greenhouse board, and it publishes no MBA program.
Official links: Website · Careers page
Read from the company's own pages in October 2026. Programs and deadlines change every cycle, so check the careers page before you plan around it.
Schools whose employer lists name General Catalyst
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, Vanderbilt Owen, Rice Jones, Emory Goizueta, Minnesota Carlson. A gap means the school did not print the name for those classes, which is not proof it never hires there: some schools publish only companies that hired several graduates, and a few publish a hand-picked selection. The school pages say how each list was built.
Other venture capital employers with wide reach
Touchdown Ventures (5) · In-Q-Tel (4) · Newlab (4) · Piva Capital (4) · Plug and Play Tech Center (4) · Relay Investments (4) · Samvid Ventures (4) · 53 Stations (3)
Questions about General Catalyst
Which MBA programs does General Catalyst recruit from?
General Catalyst is named on the published employer lists of 1 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS.
Does General Catalyst hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists General Catalyst as an employer for the Classes of 2023 and 2024 and 2025. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.
Does General Catalyst sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 0 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 2 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial). The record covers all of the company's approved new petitions, not MBA hires alone.
How do I get to General Catalyst from a school that doesn't list it?
Most hiring at firms like this comes through networking rather than on-campus recruiting, and the schools that do list it are where that network is densest. Build your school list around the programs that name your target employers, and say so in your applications. The report's How to choose schools section explains how.