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Chris McCann

GP at Race Capital, Lead Seed/Pre-Seed Stage Infrastructure Investor 🏎💨

San Francisco, California

Skills

Information Technology
Operational Execution
Market Research
Product Launch
Product Design
Entrepreneurship
Negotiation
Marketing
Distribution Strategies
psycology
Philosophy
Group Dynamics
Speed Reading
Early-stage Startups
Venture Capital
Start-ups
#winning
Sales
Product Management
Business Strategy

Work Experience

2024

  • Investor

    2024

2024

  • 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.

  • Investor

    2020

2018

  • Seed Investor

    2018

2023

  • 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.

2021

  • Lead Pre-Seed Investor

    2021

    Automating DevOps at scale.

2021

  • Lead Seed Investor

    2021

  • 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.