Brian Zhan
Investor at CRV
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2023 - Current
Partnering with Reflection AI, Voyage AI (acq MongoDB), Skild AI, Lepton AI (acq NVIDIA), Dyna Robotics, LanceDB, SDF Labs (angel, acq dbt), and others unannounced
CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in investments in technology companies.
Investor
2024
Co-Led Seed and Series A
Investor
2024
Series A
Investor
2023
Led Seed. Acquired by NVIDIA.
Lepton AI operates AI applications at scale within minutes, utilizing a cloud-native platform.
Investor
2024
Led Series A. Acquired by MongoDB.
Voyage AI builds best-in-class embedding models and rerankers for accurate and efficient search and RAG.
Raised $28,000,000.00 from Fusion Fund, Snowflake, Wing Venture Capital, CRV, Mayfield Fund, Tectonic Ventures, Databricks Ventures and Pear VC.
Investor
2024
Co-Led Seed
Investor
2023
Led Seed
Angel Investor
2022 - 2024
Pre-seed. Acquired by dbt Labs.
Product
2021 - 2022
- Joined the original Presto creators (who co-founded Starburst to offer fully managed Presto) to build Starburst’s batch analytics product from scratch. I interviewed users to build the business proposal and roadmap, hired an engineering team, and led the go-to-market strategy. - Built an active open source community of over 200 companies using Starburst’s open source product Trino (renamed from Presto) for batch analytics. -As evidence of the popularity of this product, many companies like Salesforce, Lyft, Zillow, and TreasureData have given talks, written blogs, and published research papers about Starburst/Trino for batch analytics. - Featured in many influential data forums like dbt Coalesce, DataIQ Talks, and Data Fabric Summit.
Starburst Data is an analytics platform for data.
Raised $414,000,000.00 from B Capital, Alkeon Capital, Index Ventures, Ethos VC, Salesforce Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue.
Product
2018 - 2021
I was the first PM for Presto (Presto was created at Facebook) and Spark
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.