Chris Mccann

Chris Mccann Email and Phone Number

GP at Race Capital, Lead Seed Infrastructure Investor 🏎💨 @ Race Capital
Chris Mccann's Location
San Francisco, California, United States, United States
About Chris Mccann

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.

Chris Mccann's Current Company Details
Race Capital

Race Capital

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GP at Race Capital, Lead Seed Infrastructure Investor 🏎💨
Chris Mccann Work Experience Details
  • Race Capital
    Partner
    Race Capital Jun 2019 - Present
    San Francisco, Us
    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.
  • Databricks
    Investor
    Databricks Jan 2020 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
  • Solana
    Seed Investor
    Solana Mar 2018 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
  • Vectara
    Lead Seed Investor
    Vectara May 2023 - Present
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    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.
  • Groq
    Investor
    Groq Jun 2024 - Present
    Mountain View, California, Us
  • Clerk Chat
    Lead Seed Investor
    Clerk Chat Jun 2024 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
  • Play
    Lead Seed Investor
    Play Jan 2024 - Present
    Palo Alto, California, Us
  • Goodnotes
    Lead Seed Investor
    Goodnotes Aug 2021 - Present
    Hong Kong, Hk
    Apple's iPad app of the year with 19M MAU and the #1 iPad app on the worldwide ranking charts.
  • Shinami
    Lead Seed Investor
    Shinami Jan 2023 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
  • Zeet
    Lead Pre-Seed Investor
    Zeet Sep 2021 - Present
    San Francisco, Us
    Automating DevOps at scale.
  • Scarf
    Lead Seed Investor
    Scarf Dec 2021 - Present
    Oakland, Us
  • Opaque Systems
    Seed Investor
    Opaque Systems Jul 2021 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    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-ed27b2a1cd03Opaque is hiring > https://jobs.lever.co/opaque-systems/
  • Sematic (Yc S22)
    Lead Seed Investor
    Sematic (Yc S22) Sep 2022 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Continuous learning platform for machine learning & AI models
  • Lightning Labs
    Seed Investor
    Lightning Labs Jan 2020 - Present
    San Francisco, California , Us
    Lightning is building the financial infrastructure of the future.
  • Notifi
    Lead Pre-Seed & Seed Investor
    Notifi Jan 2022 - Present
    Seattle, Washington, Us
    Twilio for Web3
  • Bundlr Network
    Seed Investor
    Bundlr Network May 2022 - Present
    London, Gb
    https://medium.com/racecapital/our-investment-in-bundlr-network-multi-chain-solution-for-web-3-permanent-storage-368a4c059c11
  • Startupdigest
    Co-Founder
    Startupdigest Nov 2009 - Present
    Us
    Founded StartupDigest, one of the earliest network of tech newsletters from around the world. Grew from 0 to 1M subscribers and was acquired by TechStars.
  • Greylock Partners
    Community Lead
    Greylock Partners May 2014 - Jul 2018
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
    Started and led the Greylock Partners community program. Greylock Partners is an early investor in Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Linkedin, Workday, Palo Alto Networks, Docker, etc.
  • The Thiel Foundation
    Mentor
    The Thiel Foundation Jan 2012 - 2015
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
  • Singularity University
    Advisor
    Singularity University May 2012 - 2013
    Mountain View , California , Us
  • Startx.
    Advisor
    Startx. Mar 2010 - 2013
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    StartX is a non-profit startup accelerator and founder community of Stanford University members.
  • Ted Conferences
    Tedx Silicon Valley
    Ted Conferences Nov 2009 - May 2011
    New York, Ny, Us
    Led 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)
  • Innovation Quest Alumni Fund
    Co-Founder
    Innovation Quest Alumni Fund Jun 2009 - Jun 2010
    Summer 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.
  • Geeks On A Plane
    Geeks On A Plane - Tokyo 2009 Organizer
    Geeks On A Plane Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
    Tokyo!
  • Plug And Play Tech Center
    Business Relationship Associate
    Plug And Play Tech Center Jun 2009 - Nov 2009
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    Community of startups in Sunnyvale
  • Innovation Quest
    Entrepreneur In Residence
    Innovation Quest Sep 2007 - Jun 2009
    Innovation 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.
  • California Polytechnic State University
    Director Of The Ray Scherr Business Plan Competition
    California Polytechnic State University Sep 2007 - Jun 2009
    San Luis Obispo, Ca, Us
    They 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.
  • Sife
    Vp Fundraising, Project Manager
    Sife Nov 2006 - Jun 2008
    Springfield, Missouri, Us
    SIFE 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
  • Ysn.Com
    Operations Intern
    Ysn.Com Jun 2007 - Aug 2007
    Startup social network for job seekers and entrepreneurs
  • John Tracy Clinic
    Grant Writing Assistant
    John Tracy Clinic Jun 2006 - Aug 2006
    Los Angeles, California, Us
    Non-profit focused on aiding the deaf & hearing impaired. I assisted in the fundraising office.

Chris Mccann Education Details

  • California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
    California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

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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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