As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Larry invests in
both new and existing technology businesses. Areas of special interest
include: open source, information technology; systems; and software
on-demand business models. Larry is a board member of Advanced Electron Beams; Black Duck Software; ChoiceStream; Demandware; HubSpot; Optaros; QUMAS and VisibleMeasures, which are all active General Catalyst investments. Larry also se...
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As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Larry invests in
both new and existing technology businesses. Areas of special interest
include: open source, information technology; systems; and software
on-demand business models. Larry is a board member of
Advanced Electron Beams;
Black Duck Software;
ChoiceStream;
Demandware;
HubSpot;
Optaros;
QUMAS and
VisibleMeasures, which are all active General Catalyst investments. Larry also served on the Board of
Venetica, a General Catalyst investment that was acquired by IBM in October 2004.
Prior
to joining General Catalyst, Larry was the chairman, president and CEO
of NetGenesis, a market leading software and analytic solutions
provider. Larry led NetGenesis from 1997 to 2001, overseeing the
company’s business, product strategy and direction. During this time,
NetGenesis was a two-time Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 award winner
and was included among the Inc 500. In February 2000, Larry took the
company public (NTGX) and in December 2001, NetGenesis was acquired by
SPSS, Inc. (SPSS).
Prior to his role as CEO and president of
NetGenesis, Larry was president of PC DOCS, Inc. (DOCSF), a leading
developer of document management software for enterprise networks.
Under his leadership, PC DOCS’ product advanced to the number one
market position. He also led the company's public offering in 1998.
Prior to joining PC DOCS, Larry was senior vice president of marketing
and business development at Interleaf, Inc. (LEAF), where he defined
and implemented the corporate strategy that put its electronic
publishing solutions in a top market position and helped grow the
business to more than $120 million in revenue.
An
acknowledged thought leader, Larry has spoken at leading industry
events and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and the Amos
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He was also a founder and the
first president of OASIS, the industry consortium promoting XML
adoption.
Larry is an honors graduate of the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, and holds a masters of arts degree in
Linguistics from Clark University.
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