About Marc Bhargava

Mr. Marc Bhargava serves as Managing Director at General Catalyst. He is part of GC's fintech/crypto investment team. He focuses on early-stage investing across both crypto and fintech, as well as building out the creation strategy. Additionally, he contributes to GC's expanding AI efforts. His core areas of interest include security and data infrastructure startup tooling platforms that make building software, and especially financial services, company easier, such as authentication/identity products, crypto on-ramps, automation tools for tax/compliance/accounting; the intersection of fintech and crypto, specifically platforms that leverage both decentralized technologies as well as fintech best practices on UI/UX, user acquisition, and compliance, and building from zero to one, and starting companies and getting first hire, product, client, distribution deal. Prior to joining GC, he 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 (Coinbase purchased Tagomi in 2020). As an angel investor, he 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. Earlier, he worked at Airbnb, Castanea Partners, and McKinsey, with a focus on business operations and investment analysis. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2016 and graduated from Harvard College in 2008. Mr. Bhargava Co-Founded and served as President & Board Member at Tagomi. Having worked in both early-stage investing and tech, he is responsible for overseeing finance and business development for all client-facing branches of Tagomi. He seeks out partnerships that are important to better empower end clients.