President & Managing Director at General Catalyst
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Jeannette is a founder-led generalist investing to strengthen European prosperity and resilience through technology. She backs ambitious companies from ideation onward across AI, defense, energy, industrial transformation, enterprise, and consumer markets, connecting startups with established industry. Her Global Resilience lens focuses on owning critical systems of power, scaling European technical talent, and commercializing technologies until they can thrive without permanent subsidy.
Frame the company against a consequential European or global transformation. Show the founder insight, technical edge, mission, market size, and why your approach can rebuild the industry's value chain rather than add a thin workflow layer. For resilience sectors, address sovereignty, supply chains, procurement, ethics, commercialization, capital intensity, and a path to unsubsidized scale.
Mission-driven founders who anticipate societal shifts, deep technical ambition paired with humility, speed and perseverance, early customer or end-user intimacy, technologies that transform rather than digitize legacy workflows, defensible European talent advantages, and businesses that can reach self-sustaining economics while advancing resilience.
Her published work suggests weaker fit for incremental digitization, climate products dependent indefinitely on subsidies, technologies without a path to mass commercialization, founders without mission or ethical clarity in sensitive sectors, and European companies content to remain regional rather than build global category leaders. These are thesis-derived signals, not a formal pass list.
Identify the critical energy, industrial, defense, intelligence, supply-chain, or digital system; quantify strategic dependence; and test whether the company increases local capacity, redundancy, and autonomy.
Ask whether AI or software rebuilds service delivery, cost structure, speed, and outcomes from first principles instead of layering a digital interface on the same workflow.
For climate and industrial technologies, map technical readiness, capital needs, deployment learning, cost curves, policy support, and the point at which free-market unit economics become self-sustaining.
In defense and other sensitive sectors, evaluate mission commitment, execution velocity, technical ambition, talent magnetism, and an explicit ethical north star together.
As humans and agents work across fragmented tools, a shared intelligence and coordination layer can turn alignment speed into a product-development advantage.
AI-native service companies should rebuild delivery around automation and outcomes, not merely digitize manual back-office workflows.
Mission, talent density, technical ambition, speed, and ethical clarity can create a new European defense leader while strengthening democratic resilience.
Europe can turn strengths in energy, industry, defense, research, and engineering into global technology leaders by modernizing critical systems and commercializing resilient infrastructure.
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