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I am looking at a number of startups and opportunities that are focused on local.
Talks about startups, local economy and zip code economy
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Saar Gur
General Partner at CRV
San Francisco, California
Overview
Saar Gur is a General Partner at CRV in San Francisco, California, known for his expertise in venture capital investments and advising start-ups. With a background in founding successful companies like BrightRoll and Carebadges.com, he has invested in numerous successful ventures such as Aerodome, Shef, and Patreon, demonstrating a strong track record in identifying and supporting innovative companies.
Work Experience
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.
CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in investments in technology companies.
Advisory Board Member
2012
Based in San Francisco, Cendana Capital invests in very early stage venture capital funds globally
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...
Flixster is a movie social networking site for discovering and learning about movies, and meeting others with similar tastes in movies.
Raised $7,175,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Pinnacle Ventures.
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
Oportun is a digital banking platform that offers personal loans and financial services to people with limited credit history.
Raised $1,552,086,897.00 from Neuberger Berman, Castlelake, Jefferies, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, Deutsche Bank, Castlelake, Neuberger Berman and WebBank.
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.
Viki is a prime-time entertainment to new audiences and unlocks new markets and revenue opportunities for content owners.
Raised $24,300,000.00 from Singtel Innov8.
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.
Adteractive is an online lead generation company that manages interactive customer acquisitions.
Raised $5,100,000.00.
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).