Saar Gur

Current

• Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
• Co-Founder at Carebadges.com (Acquired - Facebook Causes)
• Co-Founder at BrightRoll (Formerly Postroller)

• Advisor/Angel Investor at Flixster, RockYou, Admob, Xobni, Voicestar, Frengo and others...

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Past

• Vice President, Customer Acquisition at Adteractive
• Entrepreneur at $34 million private equity transaction
• Venture Associate at Lehman Venture Capital

• Technology Analyst at Lehman Brothers

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Education

• Stanford Graduate School of Business
• University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Saar Gur’s Summary

I love helping entrepreneurs build great companies. I have been helping entrepreneurs for as long as I can remember...

Saar Gur’s Specialties:

Building companies from great ideas. "Willing" things to success. Working myself out of a job, sales, managing people, attacking complicated problems, not taking myself too seriously.

Saar Gur’s Experience

• Venture Capitalist

  Charles River Ventures

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  March 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  I am focused on working with entrepreneurs to build great companies.

• Co-Founder

  Carebadges.com (Acquired - Facebook Causes)

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)

• Co-Founder

  BrightRoll (Formerly Postroller)

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  Helped found Postroller and get it off the ground. Postroller is the leading video ad network for video on the web.

• Advisor/Angel Investor

  Flixster, RockYou, Admob, Xobni, Voicestar, Frengo and others...

  (Internet industry)

  January 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)

• Vice President, Customer Acquisition

  Adteractive

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 2 months)

  • Joined Adteractive in its very “early days” to help scale the company. I have been a part of the management team that has helped grow the company to over 150 outstanding employees and $120 mm in revenues (2004 revenues are publicly disclosed in the SF Fastest Growing Company Awards). Exec responsibilities involve product, technology, and organizational development and strategy, and lot's of execution.
  • One of the three operating vice presidents accountable for the company P&L (over $120mm).
  • Oversee over $10mm in media spend per month across paid-search, CPM/Display, affiliate/performance, and other online media channels.
  • Directly responsible for 25+ employees including sales, business development, paid-search media buying, and CPM/display media buying.
  • Responsible for the acquisition of two companies and a few major advertiser relationships.
  • Champion for the business internally and with outside partners.

• Entrepreneur

  $34 million private equity transaction

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  July 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 2 months)

  Raised approximately $12mm of equity capital with my business partner to acquire assets that we estimated would sell for $36mm within 3 years of purchase. We ended up selling the assets in less than 2 years for $34mm in cash (October 2005). The story is worthy of a movie...

• Venture Associate

  Lehman Venture Capital

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  January 1999 — May 2001 (2 years 5 months)

• Technology Analyst

  Lehman Brothers

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Investment Banking industry)

  May 1997 — January 1999 (1 year 9 months)

Saar Gur’s Education

• Stanford Graduate School of Business

  MBA, September 2001 — June 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  President of the GSB Entrepreneur Club (e-club)

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1994 — 1998

  Activities and Societies:

  Graduated in 3 years with a 4.0. Yes, I'm a nerd.

Additional Information

Saar Gur’s Groups:

Angel investor and advisor to a few early-stage internet-related companies.

•    Exteractive (Adteractive Alumni Group)
•    Online Lead Generation
•    The Lobby 07

Saar Gur’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch