Hemant Taneja is an investor, founder, and author. He is CEO and managing director of the venture capital firm General Catalyst, partnering with founders from seed through growth stage and beyond to build companies that withstand the test of time. Hemant is an early investor in market-leading companies like Stripe, Livongo (acquired by Teladoc in an $18.5B merger, the largest in digital health history to-date), Samsara (NYSE: IOT), Snap (NYSE: SNAP), Olive, Applied Intuition, Grammarly, Gusto, and Ro.
Hemant is an advocate for Responsible Innovation, aligning innovation with the long-term interests of society by engineering for growth and good with greater intention, fewer unintended consequences, and increased inclusivity. In his 2022 book Intended Consequences: How to Build Market-Leading Companies with Responsible Innovation, Hemant lays out an actionable framework for founders and executives on how to create innovative companies built for growth and for societal good that withstand the test of time. Hemant is also co-founder and chairman of Responsible Innovation Labs, a non-profit consortium of leaders aiming to create standards of innovation to serve the needs of a global society, and to help build enduring companies that re-center technology as a force for good. He is a visionary leader in the healthcare space. His 2020 book,
UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance, co-authored with Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of Jefferson Health, details their thesis for how the healthcare system needs to transform from a “sick care” system into a Health Assurance system designed to help people stay well, bend the cost curve, and make quality care more affordable and more accessible to all. In Unscaled, released in 2018, Hemant articulates the need for accountability, transparency and explainability as AI permeates every aspect of
our daily lives.
Hemant serves on the Stanford School of Medicine Board of Fellows and has worked on climate and energy issues as the co-founder and Chairman of Advanced Energy Economy.
climate tech
Collaboration and Innovation: Key Ingredients for a Thriving Climate Tech Ecosystem with Hemant Taneja
The climate tech boom presents opportunities for investment and innovation. Taneja suggests the traditional venture capital model, focusing on short-term returns, needs to be revised for the long-term investments necessary for climate tech. He advocates a new approach that prioritizes impact over profit and involves collaboration between investors, entrepreneurs, and governments. Taneja also emphasizes the […]
Internet Giants and The World
An unprecedented new kind of company is gaining a new breadth of influence. Facebook has data on two billion and its algorithms guide what those people see. Google's impact is similarly vast. And companies in all sorts of industries entrust their most precious systems and data to Amazon's AWS. Commerce, communication, and to a good extent our economy now depends on these companies. We trust them, more or less, but as they command so much data, many wonder about oversight. The EU is already seeking restrictions on how a person's data can be used. How should society best balance this great power against the public welfare?
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Techonomy Climate 2023
Presented by Worth Media The climate crisis affects every corner of the world and presents unprecedented challenges. It also presents unprecedented opportunities for innovation and investment. Techonomy Climate surveyed the booming climate tech sector and highlighted companies making the most significant impact. This is where change happens.
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Techonomy 18
Techonomy 2018 was a probing, wide-ranging conversation about the tech-inflected issues that affect business and our world. This year’s theme was Harnessing Tech for Responsible Growth, and as always we addressed many of the issues facing leaders today.
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Techonomy 16
MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
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Techonomy 14
This year Techonomy moves to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, November 9-11, on the cliffs south of San Francisco, near Silicon Valley.
