Chris McCann

Chris McCann is a graduate from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo with a degree in entrepreneurship and engineering and on a personal basis Chris was an early advisor for the Thiel Fellowship & StartX at Stanford University.

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Outside of work Chris is an avid photographer won the National Geographic Photographer of the Year award in 2016.

Chris McCann is a a founding General Partner at Race Capital, a venture capital fund based in Palo Alto with a focus on early stage enterprise infrastructure companies. The fund was early investors in companies such as Databricks, Vectara, Play.ai, Groq, and others. 

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Prior, Chris founded and led the community program at Greylock Partners, a San Francisco based venture capital firm with $3.5 billion under management which led investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Figma, Dropbox, and Coinbase, among others.

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Before he joined the firm, he was the co-founder and CEO of StartupDigest – one of the earliest technology focused email newsletters – which he grew from zero to over one million subscribers before being acquired by Techstars.