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
60
Current Fund Size
$600M

Saar Gur is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Saar Gur's Investments On Record (36)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Lotus AI
Series AFeb 2026$35M
$41M
Co-investors: Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Michael Ma (Liquid 2 Ventures), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Annie Case (Kleiner Perkins), Amit Sharma (Black Jays Investments), Lee Jacobs (Long Journey Ventures), 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 (Datavant), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Adam D'Angelo
Mercury
Series CMar 2025$300M
Series BJul 2021$120M
Series ASep 2019$21M
$450M
Co-investors: Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Jack Altman (Benchmark), Isaiah Boone (Sequoia Capital), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Keith Grose (Andreessen Horowitz), Alex Rampell (Andreessen Horowitz), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Dan Rose (Coatue), Christian Edler (BITKRAFT Ventures), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Apolo Ohno (Tribe Capital), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Hunter Walk (Homebrew), Jon Soberg (MS&AD Ventures), Peggy Grigus Mangot (Pioneer Fund), Bill Clerico (Convective Capital), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Jonathan Swanson (Thumbtack), Ryan Shea (Stacks), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures), Fernando Pontaza (Invariantes Fund), Edward Lando (Biowear), Tommy Leep (Jetstream), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Scott Belsky (A24), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Jon Dishotsky (Daft Capital), Chris Moreno (Xeal), Cesare Pesci (YOBE Ventures), Yotis Tonnelier (YOBE Ventures), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Akshay Bhardwaj (Gias), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Andre Iguodala, Mathilde Collin, Dylan Field, Joshua Reeves, Joshua Webster, Akshay Kothari, Suhail Doshi
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)), Geoffrey Woo (Anti fund), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Matt Brezina
Shef
Series BMar 2023$74M
$110M
Co-investors: Jeff Jordan (Andreessen Horowitz), Michael Tam (Craft Ventures), Gautam Gupta (TCV), Jeff Fluhr (Craft Ventures), Varsha Rao (Nurx), Manish Chandra (Poshmark), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Andre Iguodala, Katy Perry, Odell Beckham Jr., Stacy Brown-Philpot, Max Mullen, Brandon Leonardo
ResortPass
Series BNov 2022$26M
$37M
Co-investors: Sean Flynn (Stealth Company (Sean Flynn)), Ryan Ackell (14W), Luc Levesque (Facebook), Michael Stoppelman (Xtripe Angels), 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 (Thirty Five Ventures), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Gabriel Braga, Pablo Gonzalez, Tom Blomfield, Odell Beckham Jr., Andre Iguodala, Philippe Teixeira da Mota, Carlos Julio Garcia, William Hockey, Ricardo Weder, Gabriel Jarrosson
Fractional
SeedNov 2021$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Packy McCormick (Breather), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures), Edward Suh (Alpine Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Will Smith (Dreamers VC)

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