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
56
Current Fund Size
$600M

Saar Gur is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Saar Gur's Investments On Record (34)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Mercury
Series CMar 2025$300M
Series BJul 2021$120M
Series ASep 2019$21M
$450M
Co-investors: Dan Rose (Coatue), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Alex Rampell (Andreessen Horowitz), Keith Grose (Andreessen Horowitz), Christian Edler (BITKRAFT Ventures), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Apolo Ohno (Tribe Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Jon Soberg (MS&AD Ventures), Chris Moreno (Infinite Niches), Cesare Pesci (YOBE Ventures), Yotis Tonnelier (YOBE Ventures), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), 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), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures), Fernando Pontaza (Invariantes Fund), Tommy Leep (Jetstream), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Bradley Horowitz, Joshua Webster, Sahin Boydas, Andre Iguodala, Ryan Shea, Jonathan Swanson, Suhail Doshi, Scott Belsky, Joshua Reeves
Protege
SeedSep 2024$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Adam D'Angelo, Travis May
Aerodome
Series AMay 2024$22M
$29M
Co-investors: Alex Iskold (2048 Ventures), David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), Zann Ali (2048 Ventures), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Geoffrey Woo (Anti fund)
Shef
Series BMar 2023$74M
$110M
Co-investors: Jeff Jordan (Andreessen Horowitz), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Gautam Gupta (TCV), Jeff Fluhr (Craft Ventures), Michael Tam (Craft Ventures), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Katy Perry, Brandon Leonardo, Max Mullen, Stacy Brown-Philpot, Varsha Rao, Manish Chandra, Odell Beckham Jr., Andre Iguodala
ResortPass
Series BNov 2022$26M
$35M
Co-investors: Ryan Ackell (14W), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Michael Stoppelman, Gwyneth Paltrow
Jeeves Inc.
Series CMar 2022$180M
Series BSep 2021$57M
$270M
Co-investors: Angela Strange (Andreessen Horowitz), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Martin Tobias (Incisive Ventures), Ihar Mahaniok (Geek Ventures), Peter Livingston (Unpopular Ventures), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures), Tom Blomfield, Odell Beckham Jr., David Vélez, Andre Iguodala, Philippe Teixeira da Mota, William Hockey, Carlos Julio Garcia, Gabriel Jarrosson, Ricardo Weder, Gabriel Braga, Pablo Gonzalez
Fractional
SeedNov 2021$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures), Edward Suh (Alpine Ventures)
Office Hours
SeedFeb 2021$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Marco Zappacosta, Jack Chou, 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