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Max Gazor

Investor

Partner at Striker Venture Partners Β· General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures)

San Francisco, California, United States

Midas 2026 Β· #81Midas 2025 Β· #67Midas 2024 Β· #61Midas 2023 Β· #81Midas 2022 Β· #81

About

Max Gazor is Founder and Partner at Striker, where he invests in technical founders at inception across AI, cybersecurity, and infrastructure software. He previously spent over 14 years at CRV, where he remains a board partner, and earlier led acquisitions and investments at Cisco and Oracle. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS in EECS from MIT (Ph.D. candidate), and a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley.

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningBiotechConsumerCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Experience

  1. Striker Venture PartnersPartnercurrent2025 β€” present
  2. ReflectionAIBoard Directorcurrent2024 β€” present
  3. CriblBoard Directorcurrent2019 β€” present
  4. AirtableBoard Directorcurrent2015 β€” present
  5. InferactSeed Investorcurrent2025 β€” present
  6. Ricursive IntelligenceSeed Investorcurrent2025 β€” present
  7. Elorian AISeed Investorcurrent2026 β€” present
  8. Edison ScientificSeed Investorcurrent2025 β€” present
  9. Dyna RoboticsBoard Directorcurrent2024 β€” present
  10. StealthBoard Directorcurrent2026 β€” present
  11. ScannerBoard Directorcurrent2022 β€” present
  12. CRVBoard Partnercurrent2025 β€” present
  13. CRVGeneral Partner2011 β€” 2025Menlo Park, CA
  14. Deductive AIBoard Director2023 β€” 2026
  15. Lepton AIBoard Director2023 β€” 2025
  16. ResilienceBoard Partner2017 β€” 2025
  17. Respond Software Inc.Board Director2016 β€” 2020
  18. CloudGenix, a Palo Alto Networks CompanyBoard Director2013 β€” 2020
  19. HPE SimpliVityBoard Observer2011 β€” 2017
  20. XamarinBoard Observer2012 β€” 2016

Education

  1. Harvard Business SchoolMBA2008 β€” 2010
  2. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM.S. (Ph.D. Candidate), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science2003 β€” 2005
  3. University of California, BerkeleyB.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science1999 β€” 2003

Same school

Shared employers

Investments

Investor

AirtableCloudGenixCriblDyna RoboticsEdison ScientificElorian AIInferactLepton.aiReflection AIResilienceRespondRicursive IntelligenceScanner

Per the firm's website.

Colleagues at Striker Venture Partners