Saar Gur
Bio
Saar is a Partner at venture capital firm Charles River Ventures. Saar joined CRV in 2007 with more than 10 years of experience working with entrepreneurs as a founder, investor and advisor. Prior to joining CRV, Saar was a co-founder of Brightroll, a popular Internet video advertising network. Saar also acted as an angel investor and advisor to numerous companies including RockYou, Admob, Flixster, Xobni, Lotus Vodka, and Voicestar.
Prior to Brightroll, Saar was part of the senior management team of Adteractive. Adteractive is an online performance-based marketing company and one of the largest buyers of online media. Saar helped build Adteractive to over 175 employees and $120mm in revenues, with no outside capital. He was vice president of online customer acquisition and was responsible for the company P&L.
Saar 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. He was also the co-founder of carebadges.com (acquired by Facebook Causes), an online community that enables individuals to generate market awareness for the organizations and causes that they care about.
Work History
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March 2007 - present
I am focused on working with entrepreneurs to build great companies.
- July 2006 - present
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January 2006 - present
Helped found Postroller and get it off the ground. Postroller is the leading video ad network for video on the web.
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July 2004 - August 2006
• 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.
- January 1999 - May 2001
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