Saar Gur

General Partner and Venture Capitalist

2007 - Current

I am focused on working with entrepreneurs to build world changing companies. I have been very lucky to be an early investor in world-changing companies such as Doordash (seed), Patreon (seed), Ring (seed), Classpass (series A), Mercury (series A), Bird, Oportun and others.

Advisory Board Member

2012

Advisor/Angel Investor

2006

Karma (acquired by Facebook), Flixster (sold to Warner Brothers), RockYou, Admob (Sold to Google), Xobni (Sold to Yahoo), Voicestar (sold to Marchex), Frengo (Sold to Opera), GreenPatch (Sold to Playdom/Disney), Snip.it (Sold to Yahoo), and others...

Co-Founder

2006

Helped found Brightroll and get it off the ground. Brightroll is the leading video ad platform. Acquired by Yahoo in 2014 for $640m in cash.

Co-Founder

2006

Board Member

2007 - 2015

Instructor of StartupGarage (356)

2011 - 2014

Investor

2008 - 2013

Gave the team the first $250k to build a prototype. Then led their Series A shortly after the product launched. Sold the company to Rakuten in 2013.

Vice President, Customer Acquisition

2004 - 2006

• Joined Adteractive in its very “early days” to help scale the company. I have been a part of the management team that has helped grow the company to over 150 outstanding employees and $120 mm in revenues (2004 revenues are publicly disclosed in the SF Fastest Growing Company Awards). Exec responsibilities involve product, technology, and organizational development and strategy, and lot's of execution. • One of the three operating vice presidents accountable for the company P&L (over $120mm). • Oversee over $10mm in media spend per month across paid-search, CPM/Display, affiliate/performance, and other online media channels. • Directly responsible for 25+ employees including sales, business development, paid-search media buying, and CPM/display media buying. • Responsible for the acquisition of two companies and a few major advertiser relationships. • Champion for the business internally and with outside partners.

Entrepreneur

2003 - 2004

Raised approximately $12mm of equity capital with my business partner to acquire assets that we estimated would sell for $36mm within 3 years of purchase. We ended up selling the assets in less than 2 years for $34mm in cash (October 2005).