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CRV (venture capital firm)

CRV (venture capital firm)

American venture capital firm focused on early-stage tech investments

CRV is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in technology. The firm was founded in 1970 to commercialize research that came out of MIT. Its name comes from the Boston area Charles River.

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History

The firm has raised over $4.3 billion since inception across 18 funds. Upon closing of the 16th fund, the firm rebranded to CRV.[1] Prior to that, CRV's 15th fund closed in February 2012 with $375 million of investor commitments.[2] CRV's 14th fund raised $320 million of commitments.[3]

In 2013, it purchased a large portion of Pebble Technology for 15 million dollars and is credited as the primary reason why Pebble was sold to Fitbit in December 2016. This netted CRV nearly 40 million dollars.[4]

Among CRV's portfolio companies are Airtable, Amgen, Aveksa,[5] Blippy, Cascade Communications, ChipCom, Ciena Corporation, ClassPass, Continental Cablevision, Crushpath, DoorDash, Drift, Earbits, Fiksu, iBasis, mabl,[6] Netezza, OneLogin,[7] Parametric Technology Corporation, PillPack, Ring, SimpliVity, Sonus Networks, SpeechWorks, Stella,[8] Stratus Technologies, Sybase,[9] Twitter, Udacity, Vignette Corporation, Yammer,[10] and Zendesk.[11]

References

  1. [1]
    Lawler, Ryan (14 July 2014). "Now That Charles River Ventures Has Closed Its 16th Fund, It Wants To Be Called CRV". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
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    Charles River Raises A $375M Fifteenth Fund For Early Stage Investing. peHUB, February 28, 2012
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    Charles River Ventures Raises $320 Million For Its Fourteenth Fund. TechCrunch, March 30, 2009
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    Orlowski, Andrew. "Who killed Pebble? Easy: The vulture capitalists". www.theregister.co.uk.
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    McBride, Ryan. "Investors Back Growing Bay State Software Firms Aveksa and Apparent Networks in Pair of Series C Financings". xconomy. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
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    Lardinois, Frederic (February 21, 2018). "With $10M in funding, Mabl brings machine learning to software testing". TechCrunch.
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    Gage, Deborah (October 3, 2013). "OneLogin Picks Up $13 Million to Manage Online Corporate Identities". Wall Street Journal.
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    "This week in N.Y.C. funding news: Ellevest, Ripple, KeyMe - New York Business Journal". Retrieved 2016-09-16.
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    Sybase President Gains The Confidence of Apple. The New York Times, August 25, 1987
  10. [10]
    Geron, Tomio. "Before $1.2 Billion Deal, Yammer Was Side Project: Largest Investor George Zachary". www.forbes.com.
  11. [11]
    Konrad, Alex. "Charles River Ventures Wins Big On Zendesk's IPO, But For Boston Venture It's Bittersweet". www.forbes.com.
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