Charles River Ventures (CRV) is an American venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California.
History
In February 2014, CRV invested $4.6 million in Cybereason, an Israeli cybersecurity company.[1]
In May 2015, CRV participated in a $25 million Series B funding round for Cybereason with fellow investors Spark Capital and Lockheed Martin.[2]
Organization
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Rick Burnes | Founder and Partner Emeritus[3] | Cayman Systems, Concord Communications, InteQ, Passport Corporation, Taqua Systems, Speechworks, Voter.com, Museum of Science, Sea Education Association (SEA), de Beaumont Foundation[4] |
| Ted Dintersmith | Partner Emeritus[5] | United States Mission to the United Nations, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) |
| Bruce Sachs | Partner Emeritus[3:1] | Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Ascend Communications, Stratus Computer, Bay Networks, Xylogics[6] |
| Michael Zak | Partner Emeritus[3:2] | Center for a New American Security (CNAS), United States Marine Corps (USMC), Cornell University, WBUR, Marine Corps University, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft[7] |
Portfolio
Companies in CRV's portfolio include:[8]
- 3T Biosciences
- Abacus Insights
- ActiveFence
- Aerodome
- Affirmed Networks
- Agora
- Airtable
- Apex
- Arena
- Astrix
- Atrium
- Automox
- Aveska
- Aviatrix Systems
- Bbot
- Bird Rides
- Blockchain.com
- Cable Tech
- Candu
- Carrot Fertility
- Checkly
- Ciena
- Ciro
- Clarent
- ClassPass
- Clerk
- CloudGenix
- Color Genomics
- Concord
- Cradlewise
- Cratejoy
- Cribl
- Curtsy
- Cybereason[2:1][1:1]
- Datadog
- Deciduous Therapeutics
- DoorDash
- Doppler
- Drift
- Dropbox
- Dyno Therapeutics
- Exo Therapeutics
- Emotive
- Encord
- EqualLogic
- Factorial
- Fauna
- Finley
- Fleet Device Management
- Freenome
- Givers
- Glympse Bio
- Gorgias
- GrabCAD
- Great Expectations
- GreyNoise
- Gtmhub
- Gupshup
- HubSpot
- iBASIS
- Impart Security
- Inworld AI
- Iterable
- Jeeves
- Kapwing
- Karat
- Ketch
- Kodiak Robotics
- Kong
- LanceDB
- Latú Seguros
- Legit Security
- Little Otter
- Lokalise
- Lola
- Loop Returns
- Mabl
- Marley Medical
- MeiliSearch
- Mercury Banking
- MileIQ
- Millennial Media
- Netezza
- Niantic
- Nobl9
- Northspyre
- OneLogin
- Oportun
- Ordway
- Parabol
- Patreon
- Payable
- Performable
- PillPack
- Pilot
- Plexium
- Postman
- Power
- Power Finance
- ProjectDiscovery
- Proton
- Qubole
- RPX
- Recapped
- Recursion Pharmaceuticals
- Release Technologies
- Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions
- ResortPass
- Respond Software
- Ring
- Scribd
- Sense
- SessionM
- Seven AI
- Shef
- Signal Sciences
- SignalFx
- SimpliVity
- Siro
- Sleuth
- Snipfeed
- Sonus Networks
- Speechworks
- Squire
- Standard AI
- StarTree
- Stella Jobs
- Storyboard
- Strapi
- Switch Therapeutics
- Sybase
- Tailscale
- Tinybird
- Udacity
- Upstream Security
- Vercel
- Vergo
- Viki
- Virtusa
- Viz.ai
- Vlingo
- Voyage Auto
- Waitwhile
- Wave Financial
- Wheel Health
- Wildtype
- Wish
- Wonderment
- Workstream
- Xamarin
- Yammer
- Zendesk
- Zerto
- Zip
- Zoba
External links
Dorbian, I. (2014, February 13). Charles River Ventures invests $4.6 mln in Cybereason. Venture Capital Journal. https://www.venturecapitaljournal.com/charles-river-ventures-invests-4-6-mln-in-cybereason/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Magee, C. (2015, May 6). Cybereason Raises $25M Because Corporate Security Is Broken. TechCrunch. https://web.archive.org/web/20150508233002/http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/06/cybereason-raises-25m-because-corporate-security-is-broken ↩︎ ↩︎
Team. Charles River Ventures. Retrieved July 11, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240711003743/https://www.crv.com/team ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Richard M. Burnes, Jr., MBA. De Beaumont Foundation. Retrieved July 11, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240711003917/https://debeaumont.org/about-us/board/richard-m-burnes-jr/ ↩︎
Experience | Ted Dintersmith. LinkedIn. Retrieved July 10, 2024, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-dintersmith-0211985a/details/experience/ ↩︎
Bruce Sachs. Vertex. Retrieved July 11, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240711004552/https://www.vrtx.com/our-company/leadership/bruce-sachs/ ↩︎
Michael J. Zak. Center for a New American Security. Retrieved July 11, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240711004934/https://www.cnas.org/people/michael-j-zak ↩︎
Companies. Charles River Ventures. Retrieved July 10, 2024, from https://www.crv.com/companies ↩︎
