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Reid Christian

General Partner at CRV

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Reid Christian is a General Partner at CRV in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a focus on investing in stages like Series A and Seed, particularly in sectors like Data Services, Cloud Infrastructure, AI, and SaaS. He has successfully invested in companies like Vercel (Series E) and Clerk (Series B), while also serving on the boards of various companies such as Tailscale and Factorial HR.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2017 - Current

    CRV (Charles River Ventures) is an early-stage venture capital firm that has backed over 500 startups in its 50-year history, including Airtable, Doordash, HubSpot, Patreon, Postman, Twitter and Zendesk

CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in investments in technology companies.

  • Board

    2017

    The AI Cloud. Guillermo Rauch: the Lionel Messi of web development (both Argentinian)

Vercel is a software company that provides cloud infrastructure services to save and secure personalized web.

Raised $563,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, SV Angel, Google Ventures, Notable Capital, Geodesic Capital, 8VC, Bedrock, Accel and CRV.

  • Board

    2020

    SMB software. SMB is hard and execution is paramount. Jordi & Bernat are execution machines

  • Board

    2022

    Sort of a VPN. Avery & Carney have taste and obsession around networking, it's serving them well

  • Board

    2024

    Browser automation for web agents. Paul Klein IV. He has a legacy to live up to and he's doing it

Browserbase is a comprehensive platform for developers to host, administer, and monitor headless browsers in the cloud.

Raised $27,500,000.00 from Outset Capital, Okta Ventures, CRV, Kleiner Perkins, Strike Capital and John Lagomarsino.

  • Board

    2023

    Vuln mgmt. Rishi is the only entrepreneur in security more obsessed with design than airport billboards

ProjectDiscovery is an open-source software that simplifies security operations for engineers and developers.

Raised $26,700,000.00 from Rain Capital, Point72, Caleb Sima, Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Talha Tariq, Mango Capital, CRV, SignalFire and Guillermo Rauch.

  • Board

    2023

    Authentication + user management. Two unlikely siblings, just like Colin Sidoti + Braden Sidoti

Clerk develops a software application to provide a sign-up and sign-in page for any website and profile management.

Raised $84,499,976.00 from Stripe, Madrona, CRV and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Board

    2024

    The strongest team to ever go after sales data munging. In Tido we trust

  • Board

    2024

    AI code reviews. 3x founder Harjot teamed up with Gur to combine AI's 2 killer use cases: chat+code

CodeRabbit is an artificial intelligence company that offers detailed, line-by-line code suggestions and reviews within lines of code.

Raised $19,605,233.00 from Flex Capital, Engineering Capital, CRV and Olivier Pomel.

  • Board

    2019

    The barbering industry will never be the same. Songe & Dave ran their own shop, now run the industry

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