Chris Mccann Email and Phone Number
If you’re building an early stage company that meets any of the below criteria, would love to connect. Send me a DM on Linkedin or email chris [at] race.capitalI’m the co-founder of Race Capital in San Francisco with Alfred Chuang, and Edith Yeung. We’re an early stage venture capital fund that lead pre-seed and seed stage technology startups, typically with a first check of $1M-$3M. We’re most interested in all things in the enterprise/b2b space (collaboration, fintech infrastructure, privacy, security, open source, automation), especially anything within the infrastructure layers of the stack: API’s, developer tools, transaction systems, embedded systems, etc. We like investing at the seed stage because it allows us to have the greatest impact. We take a founders’ first, investor second, approach and we love to roll up our sleeves and help with strategy, distribution, go-to market, customers, hiring, marketing, and press.
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PartnerRace Capital Jun 2019 - PresentSan Francisco, UsRace 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. -
InvestorDatabricks Jan 2020 - PresentSan Francisco, Ca, Us -
Seed InvestorSolana Mar 2018 - PresentSan Francisco, California, Us -
Lead Seed InvestorVectara May 2023 - PresentPalo Alto, Ca, UsVectara 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. -
InvestorGroq Jun 2024 - PresentMountain View, California, Us -
Lead Seed InvestorClerk Chat Jun 2024 - PresentSan Francisco, California, Us -
Lead Seed InvestorPlay Jan 2024 - PresentPalo Alto, California, Us -
Lead Seed InvestorGoodnotes Aug 2021 - PresentHong Kong, HkApple's iPad app of the year with 19M MAU and the #1 iPad app on the worldwide ranking charts. -
Lead Seed InvestorShinami Jan 2023 - PresentSan Francisco, California, Us -
Lead Pre-Seed InvestorZeet Sep 2021 - PresentSan Francisco, UsAutomating DevOps at scale. -
Lead Seed InvestorScarf Dec 2021 - PresentOakland, Us -
Seed InvestorOpaque Systems Jul 2021 - PresentSan Francisco, California, UsUC 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-ed27b2a1cd03Opaque is hiring > https://jobs.lever.co/opaque-systems/ -
Lead Seed InvestorSematic (Yc S22) Sep 2022 - PresentSan Francisco, Ca, UsContinuous learning platform for machine learning & AI models -
Seed InvestorLightning Labs Jan 2020 - PresentSan Francisco, California , UsLightning is building the financial infrastructure of the future. -
Lead Pre-Seed & Seed InvestorNotifi Jan 2022 - PresentSeattle, Washington, UsTwilio for Web3 -
Seed InvestorBundlr Network May 2022 - PresentLondon, Gbhttps://medium.com/racecapital/our-investment-in-bundlr-network-multi-chain-solution-for-web-3-permanent-storage-368a4c059c11 -
Co-FounderStartupdigest Nov 2009 - PresentUsFounded StartupDigest, one of the earliest network of tech newsletters from around the world. Grew from 0 to 1M subscribers and was acquired by TechStars. -
Community LeadGreylock Partners May 2014 - Jul 2018Menlo Park, Ca, UsStarted and led the Greylock Partners community program. Greylock Partners is an early investor in Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Linkedin, Workday, Palo Alto Networks, Docker, etc. -
MentorThe Thiel Foundation Jan 2012 - 2015San Francisco, Ca, Us -
AdvisorSingularity University May 2012 - 2013Mountain View , California , Us -
AdvisorStartx. Mar 2010 - 2013Palo Alto, California, UsStartX is a non-profit startup accelerator and founder community of Stanford University members. -
Tedx Silicon ValleyTed Conferences Nov 2009 - May 2011New York, Ny, UsLed the marketing efforts for one of the first & biggest TEDx events - TEDx Silicon Valley. Had 100K people join us on the livestream to hear Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Tim O'Reilly, Mitch Kapor, Chris Anderson, and Lara Stein (TEDx) -
Co-FounderInnovation Quest Alumni Fund Jun 2009 - Jun 2010Summer seed fund for Cal Poly Engineers to work on their projects full time during the summer, which was started by Cal Poly Alumni. Part of Summer 09' with SureStop, Grinds Coffee, and DayOne Response.
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Geeks On A Plane - Tokyo 2009 OrganizerGeeks On A Plane Dec 2009 - Jan 2010Tokyo!
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Business Relationship AssociatePlug And Play Tech Center Jun 2009 - Nov 2009Sunnyvale, Ca, UsCommunity of startups in Sunnyvale -
Entrepreneur In ResidenceInnovation Quest Sep 2007 - Jun 2009Innovation Quest is an engineering competition started by Cal Poly alums. Gives away $32,000 a year in grants to teams to commercialize products.I ran the program and worked with all of the deans of the colleges, Cal Poly Alumn, and the greater business community to help students commercialize their products.
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Director Of The Ray Scherr Business Plan CompetitionCalifornia Polytechnic State University Sep 2007 - Jun 2009San Luis Obispo, Ca, UsThey Ray Scherr Business Plan Competition is a competition started by the Cal Poly Business school to give away cash prizes to the top new startups at Cal Poly.This program in conjunction with the Innovation Quest program helped spawn the future entreprenuership division at Cal Poly. -
Vp Fundraising, Project ManagerSife Nov 2006 - Jun 2008Springfield, Missouri, UsSIFE is a Non-profit focused on teaching the principals of free enterprise to college students around the world. We develop multiple philanthropic entities within SIFE and manage and direct each of the efforts. Some examples of things we do are teaching prisoners interview and resume building skills, converting our campuses fleet of trucks to run on waste vegetable oil instead of petrol-based fuel, and we put on the annual Cal Poly Business Plan Competition -
Operations InternYsn.Com Jun 2007 - Aug 2007Startup social network for job seekers and entrepreneurs
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Grant Writing AssistantJohn Tracy Clinic Jun 2006 - Aug 2006Los Angeles, California, UsNon-profit focused on aiding the deaf & hearing impaired. I assisted in the fundraising office.
Chris Mccann Education Details
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California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Frequently Asked Questions about Chris Mccann
What company does Chris Mccann work for?
Chris Mccann works for Race Capital
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Chris Mccann's current role is GP at Race Capital, Lead Seed Infrastructure Investor 🏎💨.
What schools did Chris Mccann attend?
Chris Mccann attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.
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