diff --git a/spacy/tests/serialize/test_serialize_doc.py b/spacy/tests/serialize/test_serialize_doc.py
index 87b087760..ef2b1ee89 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/serialize/test_serialize_doc.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/serialize/test_serialize_doc.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ def test_serialize_empty_doc(en_vocab):
 
 def test_serialize_doc_roundtrip_bytes(en_vocab):
     doc = Doc(en_vocab, words=["hello", "world"])
+    doc.cats = {"A": 0.5}
     doc_b = doc.to_bytes()
     new_doc = Doc(en_vocab).from_bytes(doc_b)
     assert new_doc.to_bytes() == doc_b
@@ -66,12 +67,17 @@ def test_serialize_doc_exclude(en_vocab):
 def test_serialize_doc_bin():
     doc_bin = DocBin(attrs=["LEMMA", "ENT_IOB", "ENT_TYPE"], store_user_data=True)
     texts = ["Some text", "Lots of texts...", "..."]
+    cats = {"A": 0.5}
     nlp = English()
     for doc in nlp.pipe(texts):
+        doc.cats = cats
         doc_bin.add(doc)
     bytes_data = doc_bin.to_bytes()
 
     # Deserialize later, e.g. in a new process
     nlp = spacy.blank("en")
     doc_bin = DocBin().from_bytes(bytes_data)
-    list(doc_bin.get_docs(nlp.vocab))
+    reloaded_docs = list(doc_bin.get_docs(nlp.vocab))
+    for i, doc in enumerate(reloaded_docs):
+        assert doc.text == texts[i]
+        assert doc.cats == cats
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/_serialize.py b/spacy/tokens/_serialize.py
index 18cb8a234..b60a6d7b3 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/_serialize.py
+++ b/spacy/tokens/_serialize.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ class DocBin(object):
         self.attrs.insert(0, ORTH)  # Ensure ORTH is always attrs[0]
         self.tokens = []
         self.spaces = []
+        self.cats = []
         self.user_data = []
         self.strings = set()
         self.store_user_data = store_user_data
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ class DocBin(object):
         spaces = spaces.reshape((spaces.shape[0], 1))
         self.spaces.append(numpy.asarray(spaces, dtype=bool))
         self.strings.update(w.text for w in doc)
+        self.cats.append(doc.cats)
         if self.store_user_data:
             self.user_data.append(srsly.msgpack_dumps(doc.user_data))
 
@@ -102,6 +104,7 @@ class DocBin(object):
             words = [vocab.strings[orth] for orth in tokens[:, orth_col]]
             doc = Doc(vocab, words=words, spaces=spaces)
             doc = doc.from_array(self.attrs, tokens)
+            doc.cats = self.cats[i]
             if self.store_user_data:
                 user_data = srsly.msgpack_loads(self.user_data[i], use_list=False)
                 doc.user_data.update(user_data)
@@ -121,6 +124,7 @@ class DocBin(object):
         self.tokens.extend(other.tokens)
         self.spaces.extend(other.spaces)
         self.strings.update(other.strings)
+        self.cats.extend(other.cats)
         if self.store_user_data:
             self.user_data.extend(other.user_data)
 
@@ -140,6 +144,7 @@ class DocBin(object):
             "spaces": numpy.vstack(self.spaces).tobytes("C"),
             "lengths": numpy.asarray(lengths, dtype="int32").tobytes("C"),
             "strings": list(self.strings),
+            "cats": self.cats,
         }
         if self.store_user_data:
             msg["user_data"] = self.user_data
@@ -164,6 +169,7 @@ class DocBin(object):
         flat_spaces = flat_spaces.reshape((flat_spaces.size, 1))
         self.tokens = NumpyOps().unflatten(flat_tokens, lengths)
         self.spaces = NumpyOps().unflatten(flat_spaces, lengths)
+        self.cats = msg["cats"]
         if self.store_user_data and "user_data" in msg:
             self.user_data = list(msg["user_data"])
         for tokens in self.tokens:
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx b/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
index d4ba3803b..716df1087 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
@@ -887,6 +887,7 @@ cdef class Doc:
             "array_body": lambda: self.to_array(array_head),
             "sentiment": lambda: self.sentiment,
             "tensor": lambda: self.tensor,
+            "cats": lambda: self.cats,
         }
         for key in kwargs:
             if key in serializers or key in ("user_data", "user_data_keys", "user_data_values"):
@@ -916,6 +917,7 @@ cdef class Doc:
             "array_body": lambda b: None,
             "sentiment": lambda b: None,
             "tensor": lambda b: None,
+            "cats": lambda b: None,
             "user_data_keys": lambda b: None,
             "user_data_values": lambda b: None,
         }
@@ -937,6 +939,8 @@ cdef class Doc:
             self.sentiment = msg["sentiment"]
         if "tensor" not in exclude and "tensor" in msg:
             self.tensor = msg["tensor"]
+        if "cats" not in exclude and "cats" in msg:
+            self.cats = msg["cats"]
         start = 0
         cdef const LexemeC* lex
         cdef unicode orth_