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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54 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and 51 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position
CRV General Partner
Investment Range
$1M - $15.0M
Sweet Spot
$7.5M
Investments On Record
61
Current Fund Size
$600M

Saar Gur is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Saar Gur's Investments On Record (36)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Mercury
Series DMay 2026$200M
Series CMar 2025$300M
Series BJul 2021$120M
Series ASep 2019$21M
$650M
Co-investors: Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Keith Grose (Andreessen Horowitz), Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Alex Rampell (Andreessen Horowitz), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Dan Rose (Coatue), Isaiah Boone (Sequoia Capital), Jack Altman (Benchmark), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Christian Edler (BITKRAFT Ventures), Hunter Walk (Homebrew), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Apolo Ohno (Tribe Capital), Chris Moreno (Engage Ventures), Jon Soberg (MS&AD Ventures), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Peggy Grigus Mangot (Pioneer Fund), Bill Clerico (Convective Capital), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Jonathan Swanson (Thumbtack), Ryan Shea (Voterbase), Kevin Durant (oklahoma city thunder), Fernando Pontaza (Invariantes Fund), Edward Lando (Biowear), Tommy Leep (Jetstream), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Jon Dishotsky (Daft Capital), Neil Tolaney (TCV), Cesare Pesci (YOBE Ventures), Yotis Tonnelier (YOBE Ventures), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Akshay Bhardwaj (Gias), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Dylan Field, Joshua Reeves, Joshua Webster, Akshay Kothari, Mathilde Collin, Suhail Doshi, Andre Iguodala
Lotus AI
Series AFeb 2026$35M
$41M
Co-investors: Michael Ma (Liquid 2 Ventures), Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Annie Case (Kleiner Perkins), Amit Sharma (Black Jays Investments), Lee Jacobs (Long Journey Ventures), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Sumeet Gajri (Original Capital)
Protege
Series AJan 2026$30M
Series AAug 2025$25M
SeedSep 2024$10M
$65M
Co-investors: Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Travis May (Theodore Health), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Adam D'Angelo
Aerodome
Series AMay 2024$22M
$29M
Co-investors: David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), Alex Iskold (2048 Ventures), Zann Ali (2048 Ventures), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Anna Barber (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Geoffrey Woo (Anti fund), Matt Brezina
Shef
Series BMar 2023$74M
$110M
Co-investors: Jeff Jordan (Andreessen Horowitz), Michael Tam (Craft Ventures), Gautam Gupta (Strata Capital Partners), Jeff Fluhr (Craft Ventures), Katy Perry (Unknown Ventures), Manish Chandra (Poshmark), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Max Mullen (Instacart), Varsha Rao (Nurx), Andre Iguodala, Odell Beckham Jr., Stacy Brown-Philpot, Brandon Leonardo
ResortPass
Series BNov 2022$26M
$37M
Co-investors: Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Luc Levesque (Facebook), Michael Stoppelman (Self-employed), Sean Flynn (Stealth Company (Sean Flynn)), Ryan Ackell (14W), Gwyneth Paltrow
Jeeves Inc.
Series CMar 2022$180M
Series BSep 2021$57M
$270M
Co-investors: Angela Strange (Andreessen Horowitz), Martin Tobias (Incisive Ventures), Ihar Mahaniok (Geek Ventures), Peter Livingston (Unpopular Ventures), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Kevin Durant (oklahoma city thunder), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Carlos Julio Garcia (albo), Pablo Gonzalez, Tom Blomfield, Odell Beckham Jr., Andre Iguodala, David Vélez, William Hockey, Philippe Teixeira da Mota, Gabriel Jarrosson, Ricardo Weder, Gabriel Braga
Fractional
SeedNov 2021$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Kevin Durant (oklahoma city thunder), Edward Suh (Alpine Ventures)

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
Co-Founder Stealth Company (Vsevolod Leonov)Present
Co-Founder Calling BrandsPresent
Co-Founder Biogen IdecPresent
Co-Founder Xtripe AngelsPresent
Entrepreneur Lehman Venture CapitalPresent
Co-Founder Lehman Venture CapitalPresent
Venture Associate University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
Entrepreneur University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
Co-Founder University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
Co-Founder Asset Management GroupPresent
Venture Associate Asset Management GroupPresent
Entrepreneur Asset Management GroupPresent
Co-Founder The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Venture Associate The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Entrepreneur The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Co-Founder COVENTRY UNIVERSITYPresent
Venture Associate COVENTRY UNIVERSITYPresent
Entrepreneur COVENTRY UNIVERSITYPresent
Co-Founder Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Venture Associate Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Entrepreneur Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Venture Associate Self-EmployedPresent
Entrepreneur Self-EmployedPresent
Investor Rakuten VikiPresent
Instructor of StartupGarage (356) Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessPresent
Board Member OportunPresent
Advisor/Angel Investor FlixsterPresent
Co-Founder Self-EmployedPresent
Co-Founder Top-PatentsPresent
Venture Associate NewCoPresent
Entrepreneur NewCoPresent
Co-Founder NewCoPresent
General Partner and Venture Capitalist Charles River VenturesPresent
Venture Associate Top-PatentsPresent
Entrepreneur Top-PatentsPresent
Instructor of StartupGarage (356) Stanford UniversityPresent
Investor Viki, Inc. (Sold to Rakuten)Present
Board Member Progress FinancialPresent
Advisor/Angel Investor Flixster, RockYou, Admob, Xobni, Voicestar, Frengo and others...Present
Advisory Board Member Cendana CapitalPresent
Instructor of StartupGarage (356) Stanford Graduate School of Business2011 - 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