Chris McCann is a General Partner and co-founder of Race Capital, where he leads early-stage investments in enterprise infrastructure and AI. Since the firm’s inception, he has backed category-defining companies including Databricks, Solana, Groq, GoodNotes, Vectara, ClerkChat, AirMDR, Opsin, and many others.

Before Race, Chris started and led the community platform at Greylock Partners, a $3.5B venture capital firm with investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Figma, Dropbox, and Coinbase. Earlier, he co-founded StartupDigest, one of the first large-scale technology newsletters, which grew to over one million subscribers before its acquisition by Techstars.

Chris has also served as an early advisor to the Thiel Fellowship and StartX at Stanford, and writes a widely read newsletter on venture capital and technology followed by 25,000+ entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors.

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