The bi-coastal Charles River Venture company is a big believer in investing in people over ideas. Not to say they don’t look for winning ideas (13 IPOs and 86 acquisitions to date), but after being in the investment space for over 4 years now, they know a winner always starts with good leadership and a solid team.
CRV currently holds 357 investments over 222 companies and prefers seed and early stage growth investments in fresh and/or disruptive companies set on taking over their respective tech industry niche. This company is frequently ranked among the top performing funds in the United States and has a number of key investments under their belt. Investments to date include: Zendesk, 24M, BOP.FM, Amino, Airtable, Twitter, Yammer, DataGravity, DoorDash, Udacity, Symphony Commerce, HealthIQ, Cybereason, CloudGenix, Drift, Scribd, Wave, Magnetic, and several others.
Founded: 1970
Funds raised / currently managed: ~ $1.37 billion
Focus industries: Commercial services, Internet, mobile, communications and networking, media, computer hardware, IT services, software.
Other Offices:
Palo Alto
- Address: 300 Hamilton Avenue, 3rd Floor, Palo Alto, CA 94301
- Phone: 650 687 5600
- Fax: 650 687 5699
Boston
- Address: 855 Boylston Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02116
- Phone: 781 768 6000
- Fax: 781 768 6100