Yuri Sagalov

Yuri Sagalov is a San Francisco-based technology engineer and venture capital investor who currently leads the seed investment strategy at General Catalyst. Before assuming his current position, he served as a partner at Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, and he previously founded a technology startup that participated in the accelerator's summer 2010 batch. He also established and served as the Managing Partner of Wayfinder, following his graduation from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer and Software Engineering. Throughout his investment career, Sagalov has backed dozens of early-stage technology companies, holding seed investments in prominent enterprises such as Supabase, Flexport, Decagon, Vetcove, and Browserbase. His current professional focus centers on partnering with early-stage founders from the pre-incorporation stage onward across the artificial intelligence, enterprise software, consumer, and financial technology sectors.