Saar Gur
General Partner, Charles River Ventures
Saar is a General Partner at Charles River Ventures (CRV) and has been named one of the top 8 up and coming Venture Capitalists by Forbes, and a top 10 VC under the age of thirty-six by Venture Capital Journal. Saar loves products that consumers and customers LOVE (over the moon LOVE), and is passionate about helping his companies succeed. Saar has been involved in over 20 acquisitions in the past few years by firms such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Disney, Warner Bros., Rakuten and Intuit. Prior to CRV, Saar was a co-founder of BrightRoll, a leading video ad platform acquired by Yahoo for $640m in cash. He has a Stanford MBA, a biochem degree from University of Wisconsin, and loves to kitesurf.