# Alex Craciun

> Alex Craciun is a San Francisco-based product manager at DoorDash, angel investor and early-stage advisor. He co-founded and served as co-CEO of Prive, the subscription commerce platform acquired by Recurly in May 2025 and renamed Recurly Commerce. Before founding Prive, he worked in product management at Uber and studied commerce and computing at Queen’s University.

- **Role:** Product Manager at DoorDash
- **Organizations:** DoorDash, Prive (now Recurly Commerce), Uber
- **Education:** Bachelor of Commerce; Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science), Queen’s University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Prive and served as co-CEO before its May 2025 acquisition by Recurly., Prive raised $1.7 million in pre-seed financing in 2021., Reported Prive had supported over $400 million in payment volume, more than 1 million subscribers and over 100 brands at acquisition.

## Career timeline

- **High school; exact year unconfirmed** — Started a grocery-delivery service aimed at college students.
- **Before 2021** — Worked as a product manager at Uber on marketplace and rider-experience initiatives, including subscriptions.
- **2021** — Co-founded Prive with Claudia Laurie; $1.7 million pre-seed financing was announced.
- **2023** — Appeared on Product Talk and discussed fundraising and pitch decks with Stanford’s student entrepreneurship community.
- **2024** — Attended Xfund’s Experiment Assembly at Harvard with Claudia Laurie.
- **2025** — Recurly acquired Prive; the co-founders were announced as integration advisors. Craciun joined DoorDash.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Prive and served as co-CEO before its May 2025 acquisition by Recurly.
- Prive raised $1.7 million in pre-seed financing in 2021.
- Reported Prive had supported over $400 million in payment volume, more than 1 million subscribers and over 100 brands at acquisition.
- His LinkedIn education lists First Class Honours, the D.I. McLeod Dean’s List Scholarship with Distinction, and the Ross W. Nicol Award.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — In a public reflection on 2025, described joining DoorDash to build new B2B SaaS offerings for merchants, angel investing, advising, and AI side projects; said Prive had been scaling profitably before its acquisition.
- **2025-06** — A June 16 interview confirmed he had joined DoorDash following the Prive acquisition.
- **2025-05** — Recurly announced the Prive acquisition and rebrand to Recurly Commerce, with Craciun and Laurie serving as integration advisors.

## Links

- Website: https://www.alexcraciun.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craciunalex/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/alexcraciunx
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsalexcraciun/

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Last updated: 2026-10-23