Yuri Sagalov leads U.S. seed investing as a managing director at General Catalyst. An engineer turned founder and investor, he previously co-founded AeroFS, served as a visiting and part-time partner at Y Combinator, and founded Wayfinder Ventures.
Yuri Sagalov leads U.S. seed investing as a managing director at General Catalyst. An engineer turned founder and investor, he previously co-founded AeroFS, served as a visiting and part-time partner at Y Combinator, and founded Wayfinder Ventures.
Career
Yuri Sagalov holds a Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering from University of Toronto.
Managing Director at General Catalyst from 2025 to PresentLeads the U.S. seed strategy and partners with founders from their earliest days.
Visiting / Part-Time Partner at Y Combinator until 2019Worked with early-stage founders.ACo-founder and CEO at AeroFS from 2010 to 2017
Investing Announcements
Cosigns Received
Tom HacohenFounder and CEO at Svix
Yuri is both insightful and helpful, and we love working with him!
Sam AltmanBuilding OpenAI and the intelligence age
Yuri will be especially helpful to enterprise companies we fund, which is not an area we’ve historically had much expertise in.
