CRV specializes in early-stage seed and Series A startups. The firm has invested in over 750 companies including DoorDash, Mercury and Vercel.

Reid Christian is a general partner at CRV. Reid enjoys investing in founders who are motivated to remove the frustrations that come up in any job in any industry. He has been involved in several high profile companies like Vercel and also led investments in well known companies Browserbase, Carrot, Clerk, CodeRabbit, Factorial, Postman, Squire, Talon.One and Tailscale. He’s also presently involved with a number of exciting AI investments in spaces like agent infrastructure that are still in stealth. He enjoys investing in post-product companies, ones where the product is already being validated in the market.

Before CRV, Reid spent two years at Battery Ventures as a venture investor working on investments in companies like OpsGenie, Collibra and Cohesity. Prior to Battery, Reid spent three years at Symmetric Capital where he was a growth equity associate.

Reid obtained his BA from Bates College where he was involved in Bates Young Entrepreneurs and was also the basketball team captain. Reid predominantly invests in technical founders solving problems they’ve experienced firsthand.