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 (ex-colleagues at Facebook who co-founded Starburst to offer fully managed Presto) to build Starburst’s batch analytics product from scratch. Led product ideation, hired engineering team, led go to market. - 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. I was invited to give talks on the product at many data conferences, like dbt Coalesce.
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.