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Websitecrv.com
Phone781.768.6000
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Founded1/70

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Total$605M
Charles River Partnership XIV, 3/09 $320M
Charles River Partnership XIII, 4/07 $285M

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Menlo Park, USA
2800 Sand Hill Road, Suite 150
Menlo Park, CA, 94025
USA
Waltham, USA
1000 Winter Street
Suite 3300
Waltham, MA, 02451
USA

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Charles River Ventures

Founded in 1970, Charles River Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that takes a value-added, hands-on approach to support its portfolio companies.

Charles River Ventures is one of the nation’s oldest and most successful early-stage venture capital firms with approximately $2.1 billion under management. CRV is dedicated to helping exceptional entrepreneurs turn their ideas into the next category leaders in high growth technology and media sectors. Since its founding in 1970, CRV funds have been ranked among the industry’s top performers. CRV has offices in Boston, MA and Menlo Park, CA. For more information, visit www.crv.com.

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Conduit Labs 9/09Series B$3M2
Zendesk 8/09Series B$6M2
iControl 7/09Series C$23M5
RPX 7/09Series B3
WonderHill 5/09Series A$7M2
Zendesk 5/09Series A1
Home-Account 4/09Series A$1M1
Reva Systems 4/09Unattributed$5M2
Aveksa 2/09Series C$10M3
Twitter 2/09Series C$35M6
Mochila 2/09Series C3
Social Media Networks 1/09Series B$6M2
SocialMedia.com 1/09Series B$6M2
One Season 1/09Series A$3.5M1
Geni 1/09Series C$5M2
Yammer 1/09Series A$5M2
Scribd 12/08Series B$9M3
Staccato Communications 11/08Unattributed$20M11
iSkoot 11/08Series C$19M5
Pocket Communications Northeast 11/08Series A$100M3
Metaplace 10/08Series B$6.7M4
Webaroo 10/08Series A$11M2
RPX 9/08Series A2
Vanu 9/08Unattributed$32M3
Jambool 8/08Series A$1M3
GreatCall 6/08Series C$38M5
Parascale 6/08Series A$11.4M2
Rive Technology 6/08Series C$14M3
Optaros 6/08Series C$12M4
Rosum 4/08Series B$15M5
Gridstone Research 4/08Series B$10M3
Vlingo 4/08Series B$20M3
iControl 4/08Series B$15.5M3
EnterpriseDB 3/08Series C$10M4
Skyrider 3/08Series C$5M3
Dizzywood 2/08Series A$1M2
Lookery 2/08Seed$900k21
Live Gamer 12/07Series A$24M3
Silicon Clocks 11/07Unattributed$8M4
Staccato Communications 10/07Unattributed$17.5M6
WangYou 10/07Series B$6.12M4
SocialMedia.com 10/07Series A$3.5M3
The Active Network 9/07Unattributed$65M8
SocialMedia.com 9/07Seed$500k1
Rive Technology 8/07Series A$8.37M2
GreatCall 8/07Series A$36.6M3
Compete 8/07Series C$10M4
Conduit Labs 8/07Series A$5.5M2
Twitter 7/07Series A$5M8
Handipoints 5/07Seed$250k1
BuddyTV 5/07Angel$250k1
Samplify 4/07Series A$6.5M2
BigBand Networks 3/07Unattributed$139M5
Geni 3/07Series B$10M1
Eons 3/07Series B$22M5
iSkoot 2/07Series B$7M4
Mochila 1/07Series B$8M4
Vlingo 2007Series A$6.5M2
Liquid Engines 9/06Series C$5.5M4
EnterpriseDB 8/06Series B$20M3
iControl 4/06Series A$5M2
WangYou 4/06Series A$5M1
EnterpriseDB 9/05Series A$7M2
Odeo 8/05Series A16
Nantero 3/05Series C$15M4
GoTV 3/05Series A$15M2
Nantero 9/03Series B$10.5M3
Rosum 5/03Series A$16M4
The Active Network 12/01Series D$11.2M8

Videos

Sources

  1. Charles River Ventures Raises $320 Million For Its Fourteenth Fund (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Charles River Ventures Raises $320 Million For Its Fourteenth Fund (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Loudcrowd Parent Conduit Labs Raises $3 Million Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  4. New Products Announced as Peter Fenton joins Board (PR) (blog.zendesk.com) [edit]
  5. iControl Gets $23M for Home Security, Home Energy Management (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
  6. Index Ventures Joins Kleiner Perkins and Charles River in RPX Series B [edit]
  7. No Mob Wars Here: WonderHill Nabs $7 Million To Build Wholesome Casual Games (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Announcing Series A, New Boston HQ and 1,000 Customers (PR) (blog.zendesk.com) [edit]
  9. HELPING THE NEEDY (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Cap Report Index [edit]
  11. Aveksa Inc receives a $10 million investment (dealipedia.com) [edit]
  12. Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP, Others (techcrunch.com) []
  13. Content Syndicator Mochila Raises C Round (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
  14. Capital Funding Index [edit]
  15. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  16. OneSeason Raises $3.5 Million For Its Sports Stock Market (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. Geni Gets Another $5 Million for Social Networking and Genealogy Site: What About Yammer? (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
  18. Yammer Raises $5 Million For Workgroup Micro-Messaging (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  19. Scribd chalks up another $9 million (news.cnet.com) [edit]
  20. Capital Report Index [edit]
  21. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. Citation Needed [add]
  23. Metaplace Raises $6.7 Million For Custom Virtual Worlds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  24. Webaroo raises $11 million for Group Text Messaging (startup.wirememe.com) [edit]
  25. Press release (rpxcorp.com) [edit]
  26. MarketWatch (marketwatch.com) [edit]
  27. Jambool Focused on Payments Platform for Virtual Goods, Launches Payments Widget for Facebook Applications (insidefacebook.com) [edit]
  28. Cap Funding Report [edit]
  29. Parascale Secures $11.37 Million in Series a Funding (biz.yahoo.com) [edit]
  30. Rive Raises $14M For Its Catalysts For Efficient Oil Refining (nthpower.com) [edit]
  31. equity help desk (equityhelpdesk.com) [edit]
  32. Rosum raises $15 million for mobile GPS alternatives (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  33. forbes.com [edit]
  34. techcrunch.com [edit]
  35. IControl, a home security service, raises $15.5 million from Kleiner Perkins (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  36. enterprisedb.com [edit]
  37. P2P Firm Skyrider Raises $5 Million; Changes CEOs (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  38. Dizzywood Takes $1 Million Series A (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  39. Reed Hundt Invests in Facebook Ad-Platform Lookery (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  40. livegamer.com [edit]
  41. Silicon Clocks raises $8M more for chip timing (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  42. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  43. orglex.com (orglex.com) [edit]
  44. techcrunch.com [edit]
  45. Active Network raises $65M for sports community site (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  46. venturebeat.com [edit]
  47. VCs still investing in improving gasoline production, despite global warming (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  48. pehub.com [edit]
  49. thealarmclock.com [edit]
  50. techcrunch.com [edit]
  51. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
  52. Handipoints Receives $800k from Charles Rivers and Angels (virtualworldsnews.com) [edit]
  53. paidcontent.org [edit]
  54. Alarm:Clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  55. BigBand Networks prices IPO shares at $13, to start trading today (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  56. 100 Million Valuation for Geni (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  57. sanjose.bizjournals.com [edit]
  58. iskoot press release (iskoot.com) [edit]
  59. Citation Needed [add]
  60. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  61. Liquid Engines raises additional $5.5 Million from Carlyle et al. (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  62. Citation Needed [add]
  63. iControl Networks Secures Series A Funding; Charles River and Intel Capital Co-Invest. (goliath.ecnext.com) [edit]
  64. paidcontent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  65. Citation Needed [add]
  66. Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...) (odeo.com) [edit]
  67. Nantero Announces $15mm in Funding (nantero.com) [edit]
  68. thealarmclock.com (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  69. Nantero Announces $10.5MM in Funding (nantero.com) [edit]
  70. Rosum Corporation Closes $16M Preferred Stock Financing (rosum.com) [edit]
  71. activenetworks.com (activenetwork.com) [edit]

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