# Clancey Stahr

> Clancey Stahr is a seed investor at GoAhead Ventures backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [GoAhead Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goahead-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 86%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clanceystahr/
- Website: http://www.clanceystahr.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clancey.stahr

Clancey Stahr is a seed investor at GoAhead Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Clancey Stahr is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the Managing Partner of GoAhead Ventures. Clancey previously worked at ZenShin Capital as a Managing Partner. Clancey Stahr attended the Stanford University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Grocery | 1 | 14% |
| Medical | 1 | 14% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 71% |
| Canada | 2 | 29% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Butler | Streamline your workflow with AI-powered summaries, contextual chat, a native meeting bot and more, all in one place. | $867.6K | Pre-Seed | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Butler | Streamline your workflow with agentic automations, contextual chat, lightning-fast search and a native meeting bot, all in one place. | $850K | Pre-Seed | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| ZenPrivata | ZenPrivata is a privacy-focused startup that has launched a privacy platform. The company was founded by George Wrenn and Scott Schlimmer. |  | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| Vistim Labs | Vistim Labs is a MedTech diagnostic company that helps to detect, treat, and track neurological disorders. The company offers a brain scan for high-precision measurement of cognition function and treatment efficacy. | $807K | Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Lyrid | Lyrid is a Kubernetes-based managed cloud platform that helps our customers build and scale their solutions on any infrastructure data center.We create a developer-friendly cloud platform that is to start developing their solution and none of our cloud developers need to have any cloud experience or even Kubernetes experience to start buildingwith us. We also enables the ability to consume resources and partner with regional data centers that effectively create an AirBnB-like business model and ecosystem that saves our users up to 60% off their cloud cost without sacrificing reliability or performance and no additional headcount. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 17, 2022 |  |
| Duffl | Duffl is a 10-minute grocery delivery service for college students. It currently operating at UCLA, USC, UCSB, and UC Berkeley. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $1.1M | Seed | Jun 25, 2020 |  |
| Liist | Liist is a social consumer tool to save places that users discover on Instagram and TikTok. It works like a bookmark that allows its users to create playlists of places they find on social media. The company makes it simple for people to save and curate locations they see online. Liist permanently shut down in 2022. | $420K | Seed | Apr 03, 2020 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Script Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/122-west-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [1984 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1984-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Audeo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/audeo-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beresford Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beresford-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Expert Dojo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expert-dojo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About GoAhead Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

GoAhead Ventures is an early stage Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley. As a startup ourselves, we are always looking to innovate and break the Venture Capital mold. We are a people-first fund and as such we like to cover a lot of ground and meet talented founders from across the globe. Check out our website to submit your pitch to ourmanaging partners, this is the first step for all founders that we meet. All 3 of our managing partners review every submission, and from there we give founders a NEXT DAY decision after a partner pitch! We have begun deploying from our new fund and we lead ~40 deals per year.

3 contacts available at GoAhead Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clancey Stahr | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clancey-stahr |
| Philip Brady | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phil-brady |
| Takeshi Mori | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takeshi-mori |

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## FAQ

### What does Clancey Stahr invest in?

Clancey Stahr invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Clancey Stahr last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Clancey Stahr closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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