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Chris McCann

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I’m the co-founder of Race Capital in San Francisco with Alfred Chuang, Edith Yeung, and Phil Chen. We’re an early stage venture capital fund that lead pre-seed and seed stage technology startups, typically with a first check of $500K-$2M.

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.

If you’re building an early stage company that meets any of the above criteria, would love to connect > chris@race.capital

Previous Work

  • Greylock Partners - I founded and ran the community program at Greylock which included all of our operational centric communities (product, growth, design, security, infrastructure engineering, etc.) and emerging market sectors (VR, AI, Crypto, Robotics, eSports, etc.).

  • StartupDigest - I was the co-founder of StartupDigest. We were one of the early pioneers in tech newsletters and grew our publications to covering 550 cities and 1M subscribers. We were acquired by TechStars in 2012.

  • Thiel Fellowship & StartX - Early advisor and mentor during the first batches for both respective programs.