Clancey Stahr

Founding Partner, GoAhead Ventures

📍 Stanford, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2021
Angel investor🌍 United States
6
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12y
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Oct 2021
Making extinction a thing of the past. Colossal is a breakthrough bioscience and genetic engineering company that builds radical new technologies to advance the field of genomics. Colossal creates disruptive technologies for extinct species restoration, critically endangered species protection and the repopulation of critical ecosystems that support the continuation of life on Earth. The company is the first to apply CRISPR technology for the purposes of species de-extinction. Colossal is accepting humanity’s duty to restore Earth to a healthier state, while also solving for the future economies and biological necessities of the human condition through cutting-edge science and technologies.
Board Observer
Aug 2019
Base allows you to tap into your company’s most powerful growth engine - your customers. Pioneers of the Customer-Led Growth (CLG) evolution, we deliver a complete customer marketing solution to enable any B2B organization to achieve an optimally engaged customer base, and turn that base into its primary growth engine. Our unified, centralized, fully-integrated engagement and advocacy automation platform gives you the tools you need to unlock the full marketing potential of your entire customer base—building deep, meaningful connections with every user. By analyzing each customer’s individual journey, you’re able to engage with your user base with the right message, at the right moment—helping to increase brand advocacy, cross-sell and upsell, retention, and feedback at scale.
Board Member
Apr 2017
Imagine if before every cold call and email you had insight into the pains, projects, and priorities of your target accounts? What if you had the intel to craft powerful, relevant messaging without spending hours doing manual research? Detective's Signal-based Prospecting platform empowers sellers to drive relevance and authentic personalization in their outreach at scale. Unlike most sales intelligence platforms that focus on static attributes like size and industry, Detective casts a wider net and sifts through the mountains of unstructured data found in your prospects' websites, press releases, financials, job posts, etc to surface sales triggers and intent signals that you can use to capture your buyer's attention with a compelling business case.
Investor
Nov 2014
VideoAmp is a software and data company creating a more sophisticated data-driven advertising ecosystem that redefines how media is valued, bought and sold. The VideoAmp platform provides measurement and optimization tools that unify audiences across the disparate systems of traditional TV, streaming video and digital media. Unlocking new value for those currently operating within a siloed view of their audiences, VideoAmp creates efficiencies for the entire industry. VideoAmp is transforming a 100-year old industry by powering a more effective three-way value exchange that results in advertisers increasing their return on investment, publishers increasing their revenues and improving the viewing experience for consumers.
Investor
2014
HackerRank is a technology hiring platform that is the standard for assessing developer skills for 2500+ companies around the world. HackerRank helps companies hire skilled developers and innovate faster by enabling tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate talent at every stage of the recruiting process.
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2021
Investor
Oct 2021
Making extinction a thing of the past. Colossal is a breakthrough bioscience and genetic engineering company that builds radical new technologies to advance the field of genomics. Colossal creates disruptive technologies for extinct species restoration, critically endangered species protection and the repopulation of critical ecosystems that support the continuation of life on Earth. The company is the first to apply CRISPR technology for the purposes of species de-extinction. Colossal is accepting humanity’s duty to restore Earth to a healthier state, while also solving for the future economies and biological necessities of the human condition through cutting-edge science and technologies.
2019
Board Observer
Aug 2019
Base allows you to tap into your company’s most powerful growth engine - your customers. Pioneers of the Customer-Led Growth (CLG) evolution, we deliver a complete customer marketing solution to enable any B2B organization to achieve an optimally engaged customer base, and turn that base into its primary growth engine. Our unified, centralized, fully-integrated engagement and advocacy automation platform gives you the tools you need to unlock the full marketing potential of your entire customer base—building deep, meaningful connections with every user. By analyzing each customer’s individual journey, you’re able to engage with your user base with the right message, at the right moment—helping to increase brand advocacy, cross-sell and upsell, retention, and feedback at scale.
2017
Board Member
Apr 2017
Imagine if before every cold call and email you had insight into the pains, projects, and priorities of your target accounts? What if you had the intel to craft powerful, relevant messaging without spending hours doing manual research? Detective's Signal-based Prospecting platform empowers sellers to drive relevance and authentic personalization in their outreach at scale. Unlike most sales intelligence platforms that focus on static attributes like size and industry, Detective casts a wider net and sifts through the mountains of unstructured data found in your prospects' websites, press releases, financials, job posts, etc to surface sales triggers and intent signals that you can use to capture your buyer's attention with a compelling business case.
2015
Managing Partner
Jan 2015
GoAhead Ventures is a Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley managing over $250M in AUM. At GoAhead Ventures our mission is to work with entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of their company. We have developed a streamlined process for founders to pitch their company via our website. The "GoAhead Process" allows founders from around the world to get in front of our partners and get a RAPID decision the day after a partner pitch. Check out our website to submit your pitch to our managing partners; all 3 of our managing partners review every submission!
2014
Investor
Nov 2014
VideoAmp is a software and data company creating a more sophisticated data-driven advertising ecosystem that redefines how media is valued, bought and sold. The VideoAmp platform provides measurement and optimization tools that unify audiences across the disparate systems of traditional TV, streaming video and digital media. Unlocking new value for those currently operating within a siloed view of their audiences, VideoAmp creates efficiencies for the entire industry. VideoAmp is transforming a 100-year old industry by powering a more effective three-way value exchange that results in advertisers increasing their return on investment, publishers increasing their revenues and improving the viewing experience for consumers.
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