David Fialkow

David Fialkow served as the chairman of the Pan-Mass Challenge, a 100-plus mile bike-a-thon that benefits the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In 2019, the organization raised $63 million for the institute.

In 2017, Fialkow was added to the Forbes Midas List and was named one of the "Most Influential People in Boston" by Boston Magazine in 2018.

David, a cycling enthusiast who sits on the board of the Pan-Mass Challenge charity bike-a-thon, was a producer of the 2017 documentary film Icarus, which chronicled director Bryan Fogel's exploration of the underground world of doping in the world of cycling. The film chronicles Fogel's use of performance-enhancing drugs to win an amateur cycling race and his discovery of a major international scandal, involving Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of the Russian anti-doping laboratory.

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2017 and was awarded the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award (Orwell Award). Netflix acquired the distribution rights for the film and released the documentary globally on August 4, 2017. Icarus won the Oscar for the Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards.

Fialkow has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Beer Company, the second-largest craft brewery in the United States, since 2016. He is also a member of the Dean's advisory council at the MIT School of Engineering and the Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee at The Engine, MIT's early-stage venture capital firm.

Fialkow co-founded General Catalyst with Cutler in Cambridge in 2000.

Fialkow met fellow General Catalyst Co-Founder Joel Cutler, with whom he would launch a number of successful businesses, at a summer camp in Maine. While an undergraduate at Colgate, Fialkow started a successful T-shirt business. In 1987, while still in law school, he also co-founded Last-Minute Travel Company (later changed to National Leisure Group), which offered discounted vacations for individuals with flexible schedules. By the time of its sale in 1995, Last-Minute Travel was the third-largest vacation package provider in the United States.

Fialkow graduated from Colgate in 1981. He took a year off to travel and run a T-shirt business before entering law school. He earned a J.D. degree from Boston College in 1985.

Following the commercial and financial success of Icarus, both David and Nina have remained active as filmmakers. The pair have worked on a number of projects, include co-producing The Fourth Estate, a four-part miniseries that chronicled The New York Times' coverage of the White House. The series, which originally aired on Showtime, was nominated for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards.

David P. Fialkow (born October 18, 1958) is an American venture capitalist and an award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer. He is the co-founder of General Catalyst, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage and growth investments. He is also a producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary Icarus.