Utkarsh Bajpai

Investor @ General Catalyst — early-stage / B2B; SF office (since Jan 2025).

Snapshot

General Catalyst — Investor, Jan 2025 → present (1y 3mo). Early-stage focus, B2B.
Elevation Capital (Bengaluru, India; previously SAIF Partners) — Senior Associate (Seed → Series B), Jun 2021 – Oct 2023 (~2y 4mo). $3 B + A U M, 25 yr v in t a g e . P or t f o l i o in c l u d es M ak e M y T r i p (f i rs t I n d ian N a s d a q I PO), P a y t m, Sw i gg y, U r ban C o m p an y, M ees h o, I x i g o, A c k o . * * L e d so u rc in g + d u e d i l i g e n ceo n$ 60M+ across 9 early-stage seed/A deals.** Focus at Elevation: fintech + blockchain.
Education: Engineering @ IIT Roorkee.

Drove the GC 5/19 follow-up: Sazzad met Max Rimpel + Utkarsh on 5/19. Post-meeting Utkarsh was the one who emailed Sazzad asking for materials (memo + cofounder info). Treat him as a live secondary at GC — Max is the senior decision-maker, Utkarsh is the working-lead doing diligence.
India-US bridge experience — useful if init’s GTM goes India eventually.
Engineering background (IIT) — appreciates technical depth.

2026-05-19 11am — first meeting (Zoom, w/ Max Rimpel)
2026-05-27 — Utkarsh emailed Sazzad: “Are there any materials (deck / doc) that we can go through and come back?”
2026-05-27 — Sazzad replied with memo + founder info
Status: awaiting their internal-sync readout. ⚠️ GC is conflicted (Serval); advance via Max Rimpel (personally clean) and Utkarsh (technical-diligence working-lead).