Catherine Jhung

Catherine is a Senior Managing Director at Hercules and leads origination, venture relationships, and business development for the fund’s Technology and Sustainable/Renewable Groups. Catherine’s investments include AppDirect, Arctic Wolf, C2FO, Couchbase, Fastly, Impossible Foods, Pivot Bio, Postmates, SingleStore, SeatGeek, Thumbtack, Udacity, Varsity Tutors, Wrike (acquired by Vista), and others.

Before joining Hercules, Catherine spent over 10 years in senior operational roles within startup companies, including sales, business development, research, and product management. At Cleantech Group, Catherine ran the company’s data business, where she lead the product, engineering, research, and sales teams. Prior to Cleantech Group, Jhung was the Director of Sales at edo Interactive. Prior to edo Interactive, Catherine spent over five years on the executive team at Equilar, the leading research firm for benchmarking executive and board compensation. There, she built and managed the business development and client services divisions from the ground up, growing the business to over 600 clients.

Catherine received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, a BS in Agricultural Economics, and a minor in Computer Information Systems from UC Davis.