Charles River Ventures

CRV
Type	Private
Industry	Private equity
Founded	1970
Headquarters	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Products	Venture capital
Total assets	$2.1+ billion
Number of employees	20+
Website	www.crv.com

CRV (aka Charles River Ventures) is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in technology and new media companies. The firm, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California, was founded in 1970 to commercialise research that came out of MIT. (Its name comes from the Charles River that runs through Boston.)

The firm has raised over $2.1 billion since inception across 16 funds. Upon closing of the 16th fund, the firm rebranded to CRV.^[1] Prior to that, the firm's most recent fund, CRV XV, closed in February 2012 with $375 million of investor commitments.^[2] CRV's 14th fund raised $320 million of commitments.^[3]

Among CRV's portfolio companies are Aveksa,^[4] Blippy, Cascade Communications, ChipCom, Ciena Corporation, Continental Cablevision, Crushpath, Earbits, Fiksu, iBasis, Netezza, OneLogin,^[5] Parametric Technology Corporation, SimpliVity, Sonus Networks, SpeechWorks, Stella,^[6] Stratus Technologies, Sybase,^[7] Twitter, Udacity, Vignette Corporation, Yammer,^[8] and Zendesk.^[9]

References

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

Venture Firm Is Giving Loans a Try. New York Times, November 1, 2006
Why Venture Funds Don't Want Your Cash. New York Times, July 12, 2004

External links

Charles River Ventures (company website)

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