Chris McCann

Class

KF 30

Current Firm

Race Capital

Location

United States

Education

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.

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

Professional

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.

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.

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.

Fellowship