Partner intelligence
Saar Gur
General Partner · CRV · San Francisco
Saar Gur is a General Partner at CRV (formerly Charles River Ventures), one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most disciplined early-stage venture firms with over 55 years of history and approximately $4B in total AUM.
- Stages
- Seed, Series A
- Focus
- consumer, enterprise, healthcare, B2B marketplace
The research behind this profile
62public sources read
- 28Interviews
- 13Other sources
- 12Writing
- 7Podcasts
- 1Official pages
How a memo for Saar is made
- 01
Investor profile
Partner intelligence built from Saar's talks, podcasts, writing and portfolio.
- What they look for in founders
- How they make decisions
- Communication style
- Thesis and red flags
- Portfolio patterns
- 02
Core memo
Your company's investment memo. The facts stay the same in every version.
- 03
Personal memo
Rewritten for Saar Gur at CRV, in their own frame.
- Their language and frameworks
- The founder story they care about
- Objections answered first
- Fit with their portfolio
What Saar looks for in a founder
In Saar's own words
How Saar sounds
Tone
Founder-empathetic, commercially-oriented, practical, informal, observant.
Sentence style
Frameworks and metaphors
Investment thesis, in Saar's terms
How Saar decides and communicates
Writing to Saar
Phrases to mirror
- “the weirder the better”
- “pretty funky”
- “founder-market fit”
- “outsized wins”
Opening pattern
Rhetorical devices
Write like this
Portfolio pattern
Recent activity and public voice
Career and current role
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