Chris McCann
General Partner @ Race Capital
San Francisco, United States
Chris McCann is a seed investor at Race Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Blockchain. Chris McCann is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the General Partner of Race Capital. Chris previously worked at StartupDigest as a co-founder and CEO. Chris McCann attended the California Polytechnic State University.
- Total investments:
- 42
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
Last updated:
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Industries Chris McCann invests in
Stages Chris McCann invests in
Countries Chris McCann invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$21M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$5M
- Series A
- $10M–$400M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (19%)
- Blockchain 8 (19%)
- Cryptocurrency 8 (19%)
- Financial Services 7 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (43%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (17%)
- Series A 4 (10%)
- Initial Coin Offering 3 (7%)
- Series B 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 18 (43%)
- Singapore 2 (5%)
- Malta 1 (2%)
- France 1 (2%)
- Bahamas 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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AirMDR
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AirMDR uses an AI-powered virtual security analyst for investigating threats, triaging incidents, and executing responses. This innovation significantly enhances the speed and precision of incident investigation and response, while simultaneously reducing costs and alleviating the workload of human security analysts. With a primary focus on an AIvirtual analyst, customers elevate their threat detection and intelligence capabilities, ensuring uninterrupted 24/7 incident response. | $10.5M / Seed / Jul 09, 2025 | |
Unbound Security
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Unbound enables employees to securely utilize AI tools in their work while safeguarding company secrets. | $4M / Seed / May 29, 2025 | |
Openlayer
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Openlayer is helping ML teams build the future of reliable, performant, and ethical machine learning. | $14.5M / Series A / May 14, 2025 | |
PlayAI
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Play.ht provides AI voice generators and realistic text-to-speech generation solutions. The company enables people to create realistic voice-over audio using just text. Use cases include voice-over audio for product demos, videos, podcasts, audio articles, etc. | $21M / Seed / Nov 25, 2024 | |
Opsin
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Opsin provides a comprehensive security orchestration layer that empowers organizations to build GenAI applications securely with their data. From a security perspective, Opsin includes enterprise-level security tools such as auditing and data lineage in GenAI models to meet security and compliance requirements from the outset. Our platformprevents sensitive data from being exposed or leaving the organization, safeguarding information at every step of the process. From a development perspective, our solution allows for the seamless integration of data from structured, unstructured, and CRM sources. This enables developers to create permission-aware GenAI applications that ensure only authorized users can access their permitted data. | Seed / Oct 07, 2024 | |
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Unbound Security
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Unbound enables employees to securely utilize AI tools in their work while safeguarding company secrets. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 25, 2024 | |
Groq
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Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem. | $640M / Series D / Aug 05, 2024 | |
Vectara
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SaaS | $25M / Series A / Jul 16, 2024 | |
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Opsin
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Opsin provides a comprehensive security orchestration layer that empowers organizations to build GenAI applications securely with their data. From a security perspective, Opsin includes enterprise-level security tools such as auditing and data lineage in GenAI models to meet security and compliance requirements from the outset. Our platformprevents sensitive data from being exposed or leaving the organization, safeguarding information at every step of the process. From a development perspective, our solution allows for the seamless integration of data from structured, unstructured, and CRM sources. This enables developers to create permission-aware GenAI applications that ensure only authorized users can access their permitted data. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Jun 05, 2024 | |
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Opsin
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Opsin provides a comprehensive security orchestration layer that empowers organizations to build GenAI applications securely with their data. From a security perspective, Opsin includes enterprise-level security tools such as auditing and data lineage in GenAI models to meet security and compliance requirements from the outset. Our platformprevents sensitive data from being exposed or leaving the organization, safeguarding information at every step of the process. From a development perspective, our solution allows for the seamless integration of data from structured, unstructured, and CRM sources. This enables developers to create permission-aware GenAI applications that ensure only authorized users can access their permitted data. | $7M / Seed / Jun 05, 2024 | |
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Co-Investors
About Race Capital
Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on all things infrastructure across Web2 and Web3. They are early investors in Databricks, Vectara, Zeet, RapidAPI, Agora.io, etc and have built a top notch team spanning across networks in terms of industry background and operating experience.
Race Capital Contacts
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Chris McCann
General Partner
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Edith Yeung
General Partner
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Phil Chen
General Partner
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Richard Lam
Partner
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Alfred Chuang
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Chris McCann invest in?
Chris McCann invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Chris McCann's check size?
Chris McCann typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$21M at Seed, $500k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$400M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chris McCann participates in.
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When did Chris McCann last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Chris McCann closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 42 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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