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Investor profile

Joel Cutler

Managing Director, General Catalyst

About

Joel Cutler co-founded and incubated KAYAK in-house at General Catalyst, giving him unusually hands-on operating experience in building a category-defining travel company from scratch within a venture firm context through its IPO and eventual sale to Booking. He's known as a master of travel-tech investing with a long, differentiated track record specifically in travel and travel infrastructure, and publicly emphasizes wanting founders to pitch him something he doesn't understand because he believes the best ideas often feel unfamiliar at first. Joel Cutler co-founded and incubated KAYAK in-house at General Catalyst, giving him unusually hands-on operating experience in building a category-defining travel company from scratch within a venture firm context through its IPO and eventual sale to Booking. He's known as a master of travel-tech investing with a long, differentiated track record specifically in travel and travel infrastructure, and publicly emphasizes wanting founders to pitch him something he doesn't understand because he believes the best ideas often feel unfamiliar at first.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
Health
FinTech
Enterprise
AI
Consumer

Investment details

Avg check size$500K - $100M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
LatAm
India
USA