General Partnership
Venture capitalSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Growth · 20 people tracked
Also known as THE GP MANAGER, LLC
Investment thesis
TheGP positions itself as a venture firm structurally built to invest in two currencies: capital and work. Founded in 2018, it pairs traditional startup funding with months of hands-on support from a bench of operators who previously built companies like Stripe, YouTube, Square, Google, Mozilla, Product Hunt, Retool, DoorDash, Medium, and Robinhood. The firm embeds alongside founders at critical moments, helping grow engineering teams, fill key roles, and accelerate go-to-market efforts. It emphasizes deep, sustained partnership, citing an average of nine months of hands-on collaboration and over a thousand hours invested per portfolio company.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 20 people
from the firm's website & curated & public directories
What they invest in
from 45 of 60 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×27SaaS ×19Enterprise Software ×15Fintech ×13Developer Tools ×12Data & Infrastructure ×10Cybersecurity ×6Future of Work ×6
HQs:United States×24Singapore×1
Investments · 60 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2023 · 12022 · 23 dated
Southbridge builds AI programs (called "hanks") and an open-source long-horizon execution runtime (hankweave) that coordinates multiple LLM agents to automate first-mile data ingest and data engineering at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSingapore, SG
Minu Choi(Co-founder)Hrishi Olickel(Co-founder)
Co-investorsBrainstorm Ventures
1099Policy provides on-demand liability insurance and coverage infrastructure for businesses that engage independent contractors, such as content creators and brand activators, replacing employer-of-record arrangements.
Future of WorkInsurTechSaaS
Ray Ventura(Founder)in
Co-investorsPrecursor Ventures
Afresh offers an AI platform for grocery retailers and distributors that uses data models of products, inventory, and operations to guide ordering and merchandising decisions.
AI & Machine LearningFoodTechRetail Tech
Matt Schwartz(Founder)inNathan Fenner(Founder)in
Co-investorsBetter Food VenturesBlack Jays VenturesBright Pixel CapitalCaesar VenturesDesigner FundDoon Capital+4 more
Airtop provides cloud-based browser automation that turns plain-English descriptions of workflows into deterministic agents able to log in, browse, and act across the open web, behind logins, and inside legacy vendor portals.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Amir Ashkenazi(Founder)inDaniel Shteremberg(Founder)in
Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsHubSpot VenturesIcon VenturesXYZ Venture CapitalSpark Capital
Aktivate offers sports and activities management software for K-12 schools and athletic departments, handling athlete registration, donation and fee collection, injury management, and coach certifications.
EdTechSaaSSports TechNew York, US
Yechezkel Kutscher(Executive Officer, Director)Shane Emmons(Executive Officer)Micah Green(Chief Business Officer)Dhruv Singh(Executive Officer, Director)Robert Cohen(Director)
BoardRon Ostroff(Director)in
Co-investors97212 VenturesTal VenturesBenson Oak VenturesWill Ventures
Apex TI offers Toolbelt, an AI workforce platform that connects business tools with AI-powered "Assistants" to automate workflows, aimed at non-technical users.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaSTallahassee, US
Nathaniel McKervey(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Stephen Luedtke(Executive Officer)in
Audius operates a free music streaming service positioned for artists, labels and fans.
San Francisco, US
Roneil Rumburg(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
Co-investorsAmentum Investment ManagementCoinbase VenturesCollab+CurrencyCultur3 CapitalDeepTech VenturesDria Ventures+7 more
Aven is a San Francisco fintech offering a home-equity-backed Visa credit card and related asset-backed consumer credit products.
Sadi Khan(Founder)inMurtada Shah(Founder)in
Co-investorsCoatue ManagementElectric CapitalFounders FundGeneral CatalystHakluyt CapitalHan River Partners+12 more
Bridge is a stablecoin payments platform that gives businesses infrastructure to receive, store, convert, issue, and spend stablecoins through a single API.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Zach Abrams(Founder)in
Co-investors1confirmationArtisanal VenturesCoinbase VenturesDepartment of XYZFirebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcHaun Ventures+7 more
Bureau provides payment fraud prevention and account takeover detection technology for financial institutions and digital platforms.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintech
Ranjan R Reddy(Founder)in
Co-investorsCommerce VenturesEmphasis VenturesGMO VenturePartnersQuona CapitalVillage GlobalXYZ Venture Capital
Cassidy is a no-code AI automation platform that connects to a company's data and tools to build workflows and agents for sales, customer support, marketing, and operations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsHOF CapitalQuest Venture PartnersSpacecadet Ventures
Chainlink Labs builds and operates the Chainlink platform, infrastructure for onchain finance that connects blockchains with financial institutions, asset managers, and DeFi protocols.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Sergey Nazarov(Co-Founder)
Co-investorsContinue Capital
Charlie Labs builds "daemons" — always-on AI processes defined in Markdown files that work proactively across tools like Slack, Linear, and GitHub to handle recurring maintenance work such as PR review, issue labeling, dependency updates, and documentation upkeep.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFuture of Work
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesMaple VC
Chronosphere provides an observability platform for microservices and containers that helps teams detect and fix customer-impacting issues while controlling costs and complexity.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaSNew York, US
MARTIN CHEN MAO(Executive Officer, Director)ROBERT JAMES SKILLINGTON(Executive Officer, Director)Martin Mao(Co-Founder & CEO (now SVP, GM Observability, Palo Alto Networks))inRob Skillington(Co-Founder & CTO)inAshley Alexander(Chief People Officer)Margaret Dawson(Global Head of Marketing)
Co-investorsACTAI VenturesAdditionAntiBasis Set VenturesCarbide VenturesCardinia Ventures+13 more
Clazar is a sales automation platform that helps vendors launch and manage listings on cloud marketplaces (AWS, Azure, GCP) and automate co-sell workflows.
Cloud ComputingSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Aayush Bahuguna(Founder)
Co-investorsEnsemble VCDST GlobalRidge VenturesTwin Ventures
Coda (now Superhuman Docs) is a collaborative workspace platform that combines document editing, database tables, and application-building capabilities for teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSMountain View, US
Shishir Mehrotra(Co-Founder & CEO (Coda); later CEO of Grammarly / Superhuman, Inc. from Dec 2024)inAlex DeNeui(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)Lane Shackleton(Chief Product Officer)
BoardReid Hoffman(Board Member (Greylock Partner; LinkedIn Co-Founder))Hemant Taneja(Board Member (General Catalyst))
Co-investorsDria VenturesGeneral CatalystGreylock PartnersHomebrewKhosla VenturesKleiner Perkins+8 more
Collective is an online back-office platform for self-employed people and single-person businesses ("Businesses-of-One"), offering services such as business formation, taxes, and accounting.
FintechFuture of WorkSaaS
Hooman Radfar(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsAglae VenturesArdent VentureBetter Tomorrow VenturesExpaGradient VenturesInnovius Capital+9 more
Co-investorsToba Capital
Technology organization whose engineering team and AI capabilities were scaled with TheGP's support (per CEO testimonial).
Defakto provides identity security for non-human actors such as services, applications, CI/CD jobs, machines, and AI agents, replacing long-lived secrets and standing access with short-lived, verifiable identities issued and revoked at runtime.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Eli Nesterov(Founder)
Finix provides embedded payments infrastructure and PayFac-as-a-Service for software platforms, letting them add payment acceptance, merchant onboarding, underwriting, reporting, and dispute management into their own products.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Richie Serna(Founder)inSean Donovan(Founder)in
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalHomebrewInsight PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersTribeca Venture PartnersCap Table Coalition+5 more
St. George, US
Lawrence Kosick(Executive Officer, Director)inNeil D'Souza(Executive Officer, Director)Neil Dsouza(Founder)in
BoardMatthew Greenfield(Director)in
Co-investorsCowboy VenturesHDS CapitalLightShed VenturesPrimetime PartnersRethink EducationRethink Capital Partners
Grafana Labs builds an observability platform that collects, visualizes, and alerts on metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from multiple data sources.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Raj Dutt(Founder)inTorkel Ödegaard(Founder)in
Co-investorsCapitalGCoatue ManagementGaldana VenturesLead Edge CapitalLightspeed Venture PartnersSapphire Ventures+3 more
Co-investorsG SquaredOriginal CapitalSapphire Ventures
Graphite is an AI-powered code review platform that helps development teams ship code faster through automated reviews, collaborative features, and a unified PR workflow integrated with GitHub.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Merrill Lutsky(Founder)inGreg Foster(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAndreessen HorowitzCorrelation VenturesHomebrewMenlo VenturesPreston-Werner Ventures
Inflection builds AI models that combine emotional and raw intelligence to create trustworthy AI agents for individuals and enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Reid Hoffman(Co-Founder)inMustafa Suleyman(Co-founder & CEO)inKarén Simonyan(Co-Founder & former Chief Scientist)Sean White(Chief Executive Officer)inVibhu Mittal(Chief Technology Officer)Ted Shelton(Chief Operating Officer)
Co-investorsChamaeleonCoreWeaveEric SchmidtGreylock PartnersHorizons VenturesLorimer Ventures+5 more
Integral provides a platform that assesses re-identification risk, applies signal-preserving privacy remediation, and produces audit-ready documentation to prepare real-world sensitive data for AI and analytics.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Shubh Sinha(Founder)
Co-investorsArray Ventures Management LlcCircle & Co.GreatPoint VenturesLifeX VenturesVirtue VenturesAlso Capital+3 more
Band provides software to structure and track deals and manage rebates and incentive programs, offering AI-powered analysis, auditing, and reporting workflows along with analytics and integrations.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsMeridian Street CapitalNextView Ventures
Kenzo Security offers an AI-powered platform for security operations centers that automates alert investigation, detection rule creation, threat intelligence analysis, and threat hunting.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Morph is an AI platform that automates software development tasks including code generation, testing, documentation, and bug fixing.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Gil Arditi(Founder)in
Co-investorsPicks and Shovels (Picks & Shovels)Rackhouse Venture Management Lp
Newfront is an insurance broker that combines specialty insurance expertise with technology platforms to help clients manage risk and make informed insurance decisions.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechInsurTechSan Francisco, US
Spike Lipkin(Founder/CEO)inGordon Wintrob(Founder/CTO)in
Co-investorsA*Abstract VenturesAltai VenturesB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBessemer Venture Partners+14 more
Nuro develops the Nuro Driver, a Level 4 self-driving system combining automotive-grade hardware and AI software that can be integrated into personally owned vehicles and commercial fleets.
AI & Machine LearningMobility & TransportationRoboticsMountain View, US
Dave Ferguson(Co-Founder & Co-CEO (also referred to in press as Co-Founder & President))inJiajun Zhu(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)inAndrew Chapin(Chief Operating Officer)Mike Mancini(Chief Financial Officer)James Owens(Chief Legal & Policy Officer)Andrew Clare(Chief Technology Officer (as of September 2024))
Co-investorsUberArc AngelsBaillie GiffordBow CapitalConnetic VenturesDisney Accelerator+13 more
Olto is an AI "Demo Engineer" platform that automatically generates buyer-personalized, live demo environments and interactive product tours on a company's real product.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Jean-Baptiste Chaput(Founder)
Co-investorsRecall Capital
Overflow provides a digital giving and donation platform for churches and nonprofits, including "Overflow Tap" tap-to-give hardware and data migration services.
FintechSaaS
Co-investorsAble PartnersR7 Partners
Peregrine is a data intelligence platform that transforms disconnected data into operational context for law enforcement and emergency response organizations.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureGovTechSan Francisco, US
Ben Rudolph(Founder)inNick Noone(CEO)in
Co-investors137 VenturesFifth Down CapitalFriends Family CapitalMenlo VenturesO.G. Venture PartnersScribble Ventures+5 more
Pixeltable is an open-source (Apache 2.0) Python data infrastructure for building multimodal AI applications, unifying storage, compute, embedding indexing, and serving in a single declarative table abstraction.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Aaron Siegel(Founder)
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AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechGovTechSan Francisco, US
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins(Founder)inDiana Frappier(Founder)in
Co-investors8VCBronze InvestmentsFlucas VenturesKapor CapitalVillage GlobalXYZ Venture Capital+3 more
Cloud infrastructure security startup whose guardrails platform made secure, compliant resource provisioning the default for developers.
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzFelicis VenturesEssence Venture Capital
Runloop builds simulation environments for DeFi that train autonomous agents to identify trading opportunities, provide liquidity, and manage risk.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintech
Cristian Strat(Co-Founder & former CEO)inDenny Britz(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsa16z cryptoAndreessen HorowitzDigital Currency GroupBlank Ventures
Sardine provides a fraud investigation platform that contextualizes risk across customers, devices, transactions, and businesses within an organization's ecosystem.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechSan Francisco, US
Soups Ranjan(Founder & CEO)inAdi G(Founder)Zahid Shaikh(Founder)in
Co-investors11.2 CapitalActivant CapitalAndreessen HorowitzCannage CapitalCoinbase VenturesCross Creek Advisors+14 more
SchoolAI provides an AI tutor that adapts lessons to individual students by personalizing content around their interests.
AI & Machine LearningEdTech
Co-investorsBYU Cougar CapitalGraph VenturesHomebrewNextView Ventures
Scribe automatically captures and documents work processes, converting institutional knowledge into accessible workflows that teams and AI agents can reference.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Aaron Podolny(Founder)
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersNew NormalNew York Life VenturesXYZ Venture CapitalAmplify Partners CVHaystack+3 more
SendOwl is a digital commerce platform that enables creators and entrepreneurs to sell digital products directly to customers without using marketplaces or intermediaries.
Creator EconomyE-commerceSaaS
Co-investorsAUTHENTIC VENTURESCostella Kirsch
Stainless builds open-source standards and developer tools that combine GraphQL and gRPC capabilities with REST's simplicity, targeting API developers and platform builders.
Developer ToolsNew York, US
Alex Rattray(Founder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzFelicis VenturesSequoia Capital
Thatch is an all-in-one platform that lets employers set a healthcare budget and facilitates an ICHRA so employees can choose their own health, dental, and vision insurance plans plus other health and wellness services.
FintechHealthtechHR Tech
Co-investorsAvid VenturesIndex VenturesLux CapitalCoFound Partners Venture
Thatch provides a platform that simplifies health benefits administration for businesses by allowing employers to set a budget and employees to personalize their healthcare choices across insurance, mental health, and fertility benefits.
FintechHealthtechHR Tech
Adam Stevenson(Founder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzAvid VenturesIndex VenturesSemperVirens Venture Capital
Theom provides data and AI infrastructure security solutions for enterprises in the cloud.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Navindra Verma(Founder & CEO)Ravi NetravaliFarid NajaDanesh IraniinNavindra Yadav(Executive Officer, Director)inSupreeth Hosur Nagesh Rao(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsFoothill VenturesM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Ridge VenturesS VenturesWingDatabricks Ventures
Tome is a US company that builds an AI-assisted storytelling and presentation tool.
AI & Machine Learning
Keith Peiris
Co-investors500 Global8VCChapter One
Turbine One develops edge computing and autonomous fleet management software for military and defense operations.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechIoT
Co-investorsArtisanal VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersPROOFXYZ Venture Capital
Wholesail provides a billing and payments platform for buyers and sellers in the wholesale industry, enabling payments and order processing.
B2B MarketplacesEnterprise SoftwareFintechFoodTechSaaS
Eli Chait(CEO)
Co-investorsBowery CapitalFoundryHigh AlphaUlu Ventures
WorkOS provides an API platform that enables SaaS companies to build enterprise-ready features including user management, single sign-on, directory sync, and admin portals.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Michael Grinich(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAudaciousBallistic VenturesCraft VenturesCrunchFundDiagram Capital+5 more
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Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has General Partnership made?
- General Partnership has 8 tracked investments.
- What stage does General Partnership invest at?
- General Partnership invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
- What is General Partnership's typical check size?
- General Partnership typically writes checks of $1M – $30M.
- What sectors does General Partnership focus on?
- General Partnership focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is General Partnership located?
- General Partnership is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does General Partnership lead rounds?
- Yes, General Partnership leads investment rounds.
- Who does General Partnership co-invest with?
- General Partnership most often shares deals with Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Felicis Ventures, among 21 tracked co-investors.
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