Marc Bhargava
Marc Bhargava is a Managing Director at General Catalyst, a leading venture capital firm that makes early-stage and transformational investments. In his role, he leads GC's Creation strategy, which is focused on incubations as well as transformations and venture buyouts. He also focuses on early stage investing across both cryptocurrency and fintech, as well as building out the global seed strategy. Prior to joining General Catalyst, Marc spent years as a founder-operator with an emphasis on new fintech, AI, and crypto technologies. He co-founded Tagomi, one of the first institutional prime brokerages for digital assets which was acquired by Coinbase. Marc is also an angel investor and has worked closely with founders on sales, distribution, and fundraising, investing from his family office in early stage fintech, crypto, and AI/start-up tooling companies.
Marc Bhargava Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Managing Director
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Business Operations and Strategy
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Co-Founder and President
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Business Analyst
Academic History
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Master of Business Administration (MBA)
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Bachelor's Degree
CORE AREAS OF INTEREST
AI meets fintech in spaces such as bookkeeping, accounting, auditing, and insurance.
The intersection of fintech and crypto, specifically compliance, data infra, and trading/stablecoins applications.
Rolling up services and software businesses and implementing AI transformations..
Building from zero to one, and starting companies and getting first hire, product, client, distribution deal.
EARLY CAREER
Marc was the Co-Founder and President of Tagomi, now Coinbase Prime, whose clients include Tesla, SpaceX, BlackRock, and others.
He was Director of Investing at Brainchild Holdings, where he focused on blockchain, consumer, and tech.
He was a Business Development Associate at Airbnb and a Private Equity Associate at Castanea Partners, a consumer-focused private equity firm.
He started his career as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.
Marc is an angel investor and has worked closely with founders on sales, distribution, and fundraising.
He has invested in early stage financial technology, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and startup tooling companies, among others.
He is an early investor in Ramp, Lula, Zip, Stark Bank, Seel, Harvey AI, Codeium, Together AI, Vantage, Doppel, Neon, Eigen Layer, Monad, Sardine, Flowdesk, Payrails, Bridge, Tenderly, and others.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Marc has been featured or quoted in Bloomberg and TechCrunch.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.