Investing Profile

Saar Gur(179)

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General Partner and Venture Capitalist at CRV
crv.com/team/saar-gur/San Francisco, California
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53 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Gigi Levy-Weiss (NFX), and 50 other investors on Signal.

Networks Saar is a member of
University of Wisconsin-Madison Network
40 CONNECTIONS
Stanford Graduate School of Business Network
31 CONNECTIONS
Lehman Brothers Network
22 CONNECTIONS
Stanford Graduate School of Business Network
18 CONNECTIONS
Stanford Graduate School of Business Network
18 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
CRV General Partner
Investment Range
$1M - $15.0M
Sweet Spot
$7.5M
Investments On Record
55
Current Fund Size
$600M

Saar Gur is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Saar Gur's Investments On Record (34)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Protege
SeedSep 2024$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Adam D'Angelo, Travis May
Aerodome
Series AMay 2024$22M
$36M
Co-investors: Zann Ali (2048 Ventures), David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), Alex Iskold (2048 Ventures), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Geoffrey Woo (Anti fund), Immad Akhund, Matt Brezina
Shef
Series BMar 2023$74M
$110M
Co-investors: Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Jeff Jordan (Andreessen Horowitz), Gautam Gupta (TCV), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Michael Tam (Craft Ventures), Jeff Fluhr (Craft Ventures), Brandon Leonardo, Max Mullen, Andre Iguodala, Katy Perry, Stacy Brown-Philpot, Varsha Rao, Manish Chandra, Odell Beckham Jr.
ResortPass
Series BNov 2022$26M
$37M
Co-investors: Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Ryan Ackell (14W), Gwyneth Paltrow, Luc Levesque, Sean Flynn, Michael Stoppelman
Jeeves Inc.
Series CMar 2022$180M
Series BSep 2021$57M
$270M
Co-investors: Angela Strange (Andreessen Horowitz), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Peter Livingston (Unpopular Ventures), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures), Martin Tobias (Incisive Ventures), Ihar Mahaniok (Geek Ventures), Pablo Gonzalez, Tom Blomfield, David Vélez, Odell Beckham Jr., Andre Iguodala, Immad Akhund, William Hockey, Gabriel Braga, Gabriel Jarrosson, Philippe Teixeira da Mota, Carlos Julio Garcia, Ricardo Weder
Fractional
SeedNov 2021$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Edward Suh (Alpine Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund)
Mercury
Series BJul 2021$120M
Series ASep 2019$21M
$150M
Co-investors: Christian Edler (BITKRAFT Ventures), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Apolo Ohno (Tribe Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures), Fernando Pontaza (Invariantes Fund), Tommy Leep (Jetstream), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Jon Soberg (MS&AD Ventures), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Peggy Grigus Mangot (Pioneer Fund), Bill Clerico (Convective Capital), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Sahin Boydas, Ryan Shea, Joshua Webster, Jonathan Swanson, Bradley Horowitz, Joshua Reeves, Andre Iguodala, Scott Belsky, Suhail Doshi
Office Hours
SeedFeb 2021$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Jack Chou, Marco Zappacosta, Aaron Levie

most interested in

Products that solve meaningful problems for consumers. Includes: Marketplaces, communication platforms, productivity tools, financial services, ed

not interested in

I love authentic founders and products that stand out and uniquely solve a problem. I tend not to be excited by many enterprise problems.

Saar Gur's Experience

General Partner and Venture Capitalist CRV2007 - Present
Co-Founder Carebadges.com (Acquired - Facebook Causes)2006 - Present
Co-Founder BrightRoll (Formerly Postroller)2006 - Present
Instructor of StartupGarage (356) Stanford Graduate School of Business2013 - 2014
Instructor Stanford Graduate School of Business2011 - 2012
Vice President, Customer Acquisition Adteractive2004 - 2006
Entrepreneur $34 million private equity transaction2003 - 2004
Venture Associate Lehman Venture Capital1999 - 2001
Technology Analyst Lehman Brothers1997 - 1999

Saar Gur's Education

Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA
University of Wisconsin-Madison BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology