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Chris Mccann
General Partner at Race Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Chris McCann is a GP at Race Capital and a Lead Seed/Pre-Seed Stage Infrastructure Investor based in San Francisco, California. With a track record of investing in successful companies like Vectara and Scarf, Chris specializes in early-stage startups within sectors such as Enterprise Infrastructure and AI, demonstrating expertise in market research, product launch, and entrepreneurship.
Chris has made significant investments in companies like Vectara and Scarf, showcasing a strong focus on early-stage startups and a keen eye for successful ventures within sectors like Enterprise Infrastructure and AI. Currently serving as a GP at Race Capital, Chris leverages skills in market research, product launch, and entrepreneurship to drive successful investments in the startup ecosystem.
Work Experience
Investor
2024 - Current
Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
Raised $362,550,552.00 from SGH CAPITAL.
Lead Seed Investor
2024
Partner
2019
Race Capital invests and partners with pre-seed, seed, and Series A companies in the infrastructure spaces including collaboration, dev tools, API's, privacy, security, fintech, etc. I lead investments (pre-seed and seed) and work closely with our portfolio companies on go-to-market, strategy, growth, and fundraising. If you're working on something cool send me a message and would love to chat.
Race Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on all things infrastructure
Investor
2020
Databricks is an AI cloud data platform that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Raised $3,997,000,000.00 from Firestreak Ventures and Bossa Invest.
Seed Investor
2018
Solana is a blockchain platform designed for decentralized applications (dApps) and cryptocurrencies.
Raised $319,523,800.00 from Grand 365 Capital.
Lead Seed Investor
2023
Vectara is a developer-first API platform for easily building conversational search experiences that feature best-in-class Retrieval, Summarization, and “Grounded Generation” that all but eliminates hallucinations.
Vectara provides a generative AI product platform for embedding generative AI features into applications.
Raised $53,500,000.00 from Mack Ventures, FPV Ventures, Green Sands Equity, Fusion Fund, Race Capital, Alumni Ventures, WVV Capital and Samsung NEXT.
Lead Pre-Seed Investor
2021
Automating DevOps at scale.
Zeet is a developer-focused application platform that deploys code or app to AWS, GCP, and other cloud providers.
Raised $6,300,000.00 from Replit, Race Capital, Sequoia Capital, Sentry Investments, Google, Twitch, Amazon Web Services and Yelp.
Lead Seed Investor
2021
Scarf provides open source projects with advanced usage analytics, and helps projects transact directly with their commercial users
Raised $7,300,000.00 from Freestyle Capital.
Seed Investor
2021
UC Berkeley RISELab startup building secure data analytics and founded by Ion Stoica (co-founder of Databricks) and UC Berkeley Professor Raluca Ada Popa. Our story > https://medium.com/racecapital/our-investment-in-opaque-systems-building-the-future-of-data-analytics-ed27b2a1cd03 Opaque is hiring > https://jobs.lever.co/opaque-systems/
Lead Seed Investor
2021
Apple's iPad app of the year with 19M MAU and the #1 iPad app on the worldwide ranking charts.