- Welcome
- The Program
- Executive Committee
- Startups
- Calendar
- Advisors
- Joshua Abram
- Alec Andronikov
- John Belizaire
- Brandon Berger
- Jay Bhatti
- Alok Bhushan
- Greg Blonder
- Stefanie Botelho
- Stacey Burr
- Wes Cole
- Joe Doran
- Rick Eaton
- John Eley
- Eric Feng
- Jorge Espinel
- Beth Ferreira
- Mike Flannery
- Matthew J. Friend
- Pete Fusco
- Eyal Goldwerger
- Sameer Gandhi
- Paul Greenberg
- Josh Guttman
- Kiran Hebbar
- Samer Hamadeh
- Darren Herman
- Ari Jacoby
- Ed Jordan
- Ben Kartzman
- Matt Keiser
- Brandon Kessler
- Karin Klein
- Mo Koyfman
- Larry Kutscher
- Michael Lazerow
- Aileen Lee
- Ariel Lebowits
- Jordy Leiser
- Harold O. Levy
- Katharine Lewis
- David Liu
- Robert Macdonald
- Nishant Mani
- Alexis Maybank
- Adrienne McKeown
- Gordon McLeod
- Chip Meakem
- Milind Mehere
- Shiva Mirhosseini
- Chris Moore
- Jim Moran
- Dan Murphy
- Alan Murray
- Paul Nadjarian
- Jerry Neumann
- Joanna O’Connell
- Dan O’Keefe
- Brian O’Malley
- Sean O’Neal
- Andrew Parker
- Anthony Pergola
- Ellen Pao
- Florent Peyre
- Alan Portnoi
- Micah Rosenbloom
- Todd Sandler
- Anand Sanwal
- Jeff Shelstad
- Brian Silver
- Charles Smith
- Ajay Sravanapudi
- Wendy Stahl
- Susan Hunt Stevens
- Sarah Tavel
- Are Traasdahl
- Alex Taussig
- Tomasz Tunguz
- Matt Turck
Saar Gur
Saar Gur, Partner
Charles River Ventures
Saar Gur of Charles River Ventures is an Executive Committee member of First Growth Venture Network
Saar Gur is a partner at CRV, with over 12 years experience working with entrepreneurs as a founder, investor and advisor. Gur is currently a director of Progress Financial. Prior to joining CRV, Gur was a co-founder of Brightroll, the world’s leading Internet video advertising network. He has also been an angel investor and advisor to numerous companies including RockYou, Admob, Flixster, Xobni, Lotus Vodka, and Voicestar (acquired by Marchex, NASDAQ: MCHX).
Prior to Brightroll, Gur was VP of online customer acquisition at Adteractive and responsible for the company P&L. He helped build Adteractive to over 175 employees and over $120mm in revenues with no outside capital. Gur started his career in investment banking and venture capital at Lehman Brothers. He graduated phi beta kappa with a biochemistry degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from Stanford University.
