DFX Intelligence
Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Generator Ventures
Generator Ventures
venture manager, reported GAV $44.3M across 1 vehicles
Importance
20
moderate
Active deployment
30
moderate
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
56
elevated
Freshness
99
high
Research priority
12
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- El Dorado Hills, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 4370 TOWN CENTER BLD., STE. 300, El Dorado Hills, CA, 95762adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 650-651-5250adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- https://www.generatorvc.com
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 24, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $70.1Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 650-740-8037adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
- business phone
- 650-651-5250adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
13 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 92%Other Technology 8%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 13
Funds and vehicles
1 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generator Ventures, L.P. | Fund | 2016 form d first sale | Harvest | $44.3M Mar 7, 2017 | 33 | $51.4M | Jun 13, 2017 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
3 current, 0 departed
Arnold Mills Whitman
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Oct 1, 2016
Kathryn Elizabeth Thomas
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Oct 1, 2016
Russell Hirsch
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Oct 1, 2016
Investments on record
13 edges, 13 companies, 0 partner-attributed
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
10 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Khosla Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeProspect Management Co. II, LLC 1 shared · one timeCity Light Capital Management III, LLC 1 shared · one timeNational Venture Development 1 shared · one timeDeciens Capital 1 shared · one timeSJF Management LLC 1 shared · one timeAIX Ventures LLC 1 shared · one timeNelstone Ventures Advisors 1 shared · one timeLong River Capital Management II LLC 1 shared · one timeRethink Capital Partners, LLC 1 shared · one time
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
2 dated events
- Mar 7, 2017Generator Ventures first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 7, 2017Generator Ventures, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Generator Ventures (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $44,285,714Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactGenerator Ventures, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $44.3M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
47 observations from 3 sources