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Charles River Ventures

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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.

Recent Milestones

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  Charles River Ventures invested in Pebble. (5/16/13)
  Posted 5/16/13 at 6:50pm via techcrunch.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in Qubole. (4/24/13)
  Posted 4/25/13 at 4:24am via finsmes.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in Crushpath. (3/12/13)
  Posted 3/12/13 at 5:18pm via techcrunch.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in Cheers. (3/5/13)
  Posted 3/5/13 at 3:39pm via techcrunch.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in Vurb. (2/20/13)
  Posted 2/20/13 at 7:16pm via techcrunch.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in DataGravity. (1/29/13)
  Posted 1/29/13 at 6:45pm via finsmes.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in TrueLens. (12/3/12)
  Posted 12/3/12 at 7:52pm via finsmes.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in Nantero. (11/28/12)
  Posted 11/28/12 at 9:32pm via masshightech.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in Affirmed Networks. (11/12/12)
  Posted 2/17/13 at 7:45pm via pandodaily.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in ToyTalk. (11/9/12)
  Posted 11/10/12 at 3:18am via venturebeat.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in Udacity. (10/25/12)
  Posted 10/25/12 at 9:33pm via techcrunch.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in GrabCAD. (10/16/12)
  Posted 10/15/12 at 8:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in SimpliVity. (9/24/12)
  Posted 9/24/12 at 4:45am via yahoo.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in Zendesk. (9/12/12)
  Posted 9/12/12 at 6:49pm via techcrunch.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in Xamarin. (7/24/12)
  Posted 7/24/12 at 5:17am via techcrunch.com
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  Charles River Ventures invested in Open Air Publishing. (7/12/12)
  Posted 7/12/12 at 8:19am via techcrunch.com

Investments

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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. Charles River Ventures Raises $375 Million For Its 15th Fund (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Pebble Nabs $15M In Funding, Outs PebbleKit SDK And Pebble Sports API To Spur Smartwatch App Development (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Qubole Completes $7M Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
6. Crushpath Raises $6M From The Social+Capital Partnership, CRV To Give Salespeople A Better Way To Pitch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Cheers Raises $2.5M Series A To Expand Its Positivity Network And Make The Case To Brands (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Contextual Content Engine Vurb Raises More Than $1.5M From Max Levchin And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. DataGravity Raises $30M in Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
10. TrueLens Raises $1.2M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
11. Nantero gets $10M to move product into commercialization (masshightech.com) [edit]
12. Affirmed Networks launches with $52 million in venture backing (pandodaily.com) [edit]
13. Talking teddy bears raise $11.5M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
14. Software Eats Education: With $15 Million In Series B Funding, Andreessen Horowitz Bets On Udacity (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. GrabCAD Raises $8.15M From Charles River Ventures, Yammer Co-Founder & Others For Its ‘GitHub For Mechanical Engineers’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. SimpliVity Readies for Hyper-Growth: Raises $25 Million in Series B Venture Capital Funding, Led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (in.finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
17. Preparing For An IPO, Online Customer Service Platform Zendesk Raises $60M From Redpoint, Goldman Sachs And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Microsoft .NET for Mobile Company Xamarin Gets $12 Million In Series A Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. How-To Publisher Open Air Raises $800K From SV Angel, Charles River, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. PokitDok Raises $1.3M in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
21. Fiksu Raises $10M From Qualcomm Ventures, Charles River To Help Mobile App Makers Get Users (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. CampusLive Rebrands as Dailybreak, With $5 Million In New Funding And A New CEO (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. TNW: Freshplum scores $1.4M in seed funding for its data-science driven analytics solution (thenextweb.com) [edit]
24. Tech vets launch NH startup with $12M (masshightech.com) [edit]
25. Heartland Robotics changes name, lands $30M (masshightech.com) [edit]
26. Crushpath Gets $2M To Help Salespeople Seal The Deal: Charles River Ventures And More Are Backing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
27. Magnetic Raises $10M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
28. Wave Accounting Raises $12M from Social+Capital Partnership, Charles River Ventures & OMERS Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. SessionM raises $20M Series B round (masshightech.com) [edit]
30. Ark Raised $4.2 Million Seed Round Instead Of Series A To "Keep Complete Control" Of Its People Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. SpiderCloud grabs $35M to improve mobile network coverage and capacity indoors (venturebeat.com) [edit]
32. Enterprise Social Networking Platform Yammer Raises $85M From DFJ Growth, Khosla, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Scan Gets $1.7M From Google Ventures And Shervin Pishevar To Make QR Codes Actually Useful (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. Can Google’s Thrun Create The First Real Online College Degree? (fastcoexist.com) [edit]
35. Venture Beat: Simplivity pulls in $18M to give your IT infrastructure a spring clean (venturebeat.com) [edit]
36. Virtual Goods Gaming Marketplace Live Gamer Raises $8.5M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. Chatty To-Do List App Orchestra Banks $5M From SV Angel And CRV For "Texting With A Purpose" (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. Sincerely Raises $3 Million To Deliver Real-World Postcards, Holiday Cards On The Way (techcrunch.com) [edit]
39. ViKi Closes $20M Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
40. Wave Accounting Raises $5 Million In Series A (techcrunch.com) [edit]
41. Game Closure Quietly Raises Seed Round From SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Greylock, And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
42. API market Mashape raises $1.5M seed from mega investors (gigaom.com) [edit]
43. SV Angel, True Ventures And Others Put $1 Million Into Interest-Based Connections App One (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. drchrono Raises Funding To Bring Medical Records To The iPad (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. MotherKnows Raises $1.7 Million For Online Health Record Service For Parents (techcrunch.com) [edit]
46. Sequoia And Others Put $10 Million In Cloud-Based Demo SaaS CloudShare (techcrunch.com) [edit]
47. techcrunch.com [edit]
48. techcrunch.com [edit]
49. iControl Lands Over $50 Million For Broadband Home Management Software (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
50. Earbits Snags $605K From Y Combinator, Charles River Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
51. Citation Needed [add]
52. Local Q&A Site Hipster Raises $1M From Google Ventures, Lightbank, 500 Startups And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. COLOURlovers Raises $1 Million To Make Everyone An Artist (techcrunch.com) [edit]
54. Lightbank Leads $1.2 Million Round In Enterprise Mobile Startup DoubleDutch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
55. Adaptly Raises $2.7 Million To Facilitate Cross Platform Social Ad Buys (techcrunch.com) [edit]
56. CampusLive Nabs $3M (xconomy.com) [edit]
57. Crowd-Sourced Design Startup Chirply Raises $1.1 Million, Launches Redesign (techcrunch.com) [edit]
58. Samplify raises $11.2M round for analog chips that can cut electronics costs (venturebeat.com) [edit]
59. Citation Needed [add]
60. Social Fundraising Site Fundly Raises $2 Million of its Own (techcrunch.com) [edit]
61. InVisage Secures Series C Venture Funding (invisage.com) [edit]
62. Massive Health Nabs $2.25M Seed (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
63. techcrunch.com [edit]
64. Wanderfly Raises $1 Million For Social Travel Recommendation Engin (techcrunch.com) [edit]
65. Storenvy Finds A Number Of Impressive Buyers For Its $1.5 Million Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
66. Sensr.net Raises $1.5M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
67. Scribd Raises $13 Million To Support Mobile Moves, Product Expansion (paidcontent.org) [edit]
68. Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Raises $27.5 Million; Tripled Revenue In 2010 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
69. YC-backed Crowdbooster Launches Social Media Monitoring Dashboard That Does The Thinking For You (techcrunch.com) [edit]
70. Rive Technology Raises $25 Million in Series C Financing (eon.businesswire.com) [edit]
71. ViKi Raises $4.3 Million from VC All-Stars to Translate the World’s Video (techcrunch.com) [edit]
72. Help Desk Software Developer Zendesk Raises $19 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
73. Heartland Robotics Raises $20 Million in Series B Financing (marketwire.com) [edit]
74. Enterprise Social Networking Platform Yammer Grabs $25 Million In New Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
75. Citation Needed [add]
76. Altius Education Raises $18.6M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
77. AppMakr Raises $1 Million To Help You Build Custom iPhone Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
78. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
79. Unvarnished Becomes Honestly.com, Raises $1.2 Million And Opens The Floodgates (techcrunch.com) [edit]
80. BNI Video Raises $16M From Comcast, Time Warner And Others To Help Deliver Video Content (techcrunch.com) [edit]
81. A123 Systems Spinoff 24M Technologies Raises $16 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
82. Gmail Plugin Rapportive Raises Over $1 Million From Gmail Creator, Many Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
83. LearnBoost raises a VC and angel round (learnboost.com) [edit]
84. EnterpriseDB Raises $7.5 Million For Database Management Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
85. OneLogin Raises $1.5M For Enterprise Cloud-Based Identity Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
86. Funding Roundup: Affirmed Networks, Ace Metrix raise VC while HiSoft and Motricity IPO (venturebeat.com) [edit]
87. Ad Data's Magnetic Raises $4M (paidcontent.org) [edit]
88. Carrier IQ raises $12M to tell carriers how they’re doing (mobile.venturebeat.com) [edit]
89. Citation Needed [add]
90. techcrunch.com [edit]
91. RethinkDB Raises $1.2 Million For Its Database For Solid-State Drives (techcrunch.com) [edit]
92. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
93. PeerPong Raises $2.8M for an Aardvark for Twitter (gigaom.com) [edit]
94. Yammer Grabs $10 Million More in Funding, SEC (kara.allthingsd.com) [edit]
95. SpiderCloud Wireless Raises $25 Million, Total Funding Now $40 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
96. India, SMS GupShup Raises $12M in Venture Capital Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
97. Performable raises $3 million from Charles River Ventures to help sites retain visitors (boston.com) [edit]
98. techcrunch.com [edit]
99. SpiderCloud aims to alleviate wireless carriers’ network capacity problems (macdailynews.com) [edit]
100. CloudShare Lands $10 Million To Bring Software Demos To The Cloud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
101. Cedar Point pulls in $2M in debt funding (masshightech.com) [edit]
102. paidContent (paidcontent.org) [edit]
103. Loudcrowd Parent Conduit Labs Raises $3 Million Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
104. Company press release (rethinkrobotics.com) [edit]
105. New Products Announced as Peter Fenton joins Board (PR) (blog.zendesk.com) [edit]
106. Index Ventures Joins Kleiner Perkins and Charles River in RPX Series B [edit]
107. iControl Gets $23M for Home Security, Home Energy Management (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
108. No Mob Wars Here: WonderHill Nabs $7 Million To Build Wholesome Casual Games (techcrunch.com) [edit]
109. Announcing Series A, New Boston HQ and 1,000 Customers (PR) (blog.zendesk.com) [edit]
110. HELPING THE NEEDY (techcrunch.com) [edit]
111. Cap Report Index [edit]
112. Aveksa Inc receives a $10 million investment (dealipedia.com) [edit]
113. Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP, Others (techcrunch.com) []
114. Content Syndicator Mochila Raises C Round (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
115. Capital Funding Index [edit]
116. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
117. OneSeason Raises $3.5 Million For Its Sports Stock Market (techcrunch.com) [edit]
118. Yammer Raises $5 Million For Workgroup Micro-Messaging (techcrunch.com) [edit]
119. Geni Gets Another $5 Million for Social Networking and Genealogy Site: What About Yammer? (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
120. Scribd chalks up another $9 million (news.cnet.com) [edit]
121. Capital Report Index [edit]
122. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
123. Pocket Communications Northeast Gets $100M (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
124. Metaplace Raises $6.7 Million For Custom Virtual Worlds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
125. Webaroo raises $11 million for Group Text Messaging (startup.wirememe.com) [edit]
126. Press release (rpxcorp.com) [edit]
127. MarketWatch (marketwatch.com) [edit]
128. Jambool Focused on Payments Platform for Virtual Goods, Launches Payments Widget for Facebook Applications (insidefacebook.com) [edit]
129. EDGAR [edit]
130. Parascale Secures $11.37 Million in Series a Funding (biz.yahoo.com) [edit]
131. Rive Raises $14M For Its Catalysts For Efficient Oil Refining (nthpower.com) [edit]
132. equity help desk (equityhelpdesk.com) [edit]
133. Rosum raises $15 million for mobile GPS alternatives (venturebeat.com) [edit]
134. forbes.com [edit]
135. techcrunch.com [edit]
136. IControl, a home security service, raises $15.5 million from Kleiner Perkins (venturebeat.com) [edit]
137. enterprisedb.com [edit]
138. P2P Firm Skyrider Raises $5 Million; Changes CEOs (paidcontent.org) [edit]
139. Reed Hundt Invests in Facebook Ad-Platform Lookery (techcrunch.com) [edit]
140. Dizzywood Takes $1 Million Series A (techcrunch.com) [edit]
141. Aveksa Closes $12 Million in Series B Expansion Funding (reuters.com) [edit]
142. livegamer.com [edit]
143. Silicon Clocks raises $8M more for chip timing. (venturebeat.com) [edit]
144. Millennial Media (millennialmedia.com) [edit]
145. Staccato Achieves WiMedia Platform Certification and Secures Additional Funding (staccatocommunications.com) [edit]
146. techcrunch.com [edit]
147. orglex.com (orglex.com) [edit]
148. Active Network raises $65M for sports community site (venturebeat.com) [edit]
149. venturebeat.com [edit]
150. VCs still investing in improving gasoline production, despite global warming (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
151. Qlusters Raises Third Round (linux.sys-con.com) [edit]
152. thealarmclock.com [edit]
153. techcrunch.com [edit]
154. pehub.com [edit]
155. EDGAR [edit]
156. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
157. Top Research Firm Ranks Crossbeam Systems No. 1 In High-End Unified Threat Management For The Eighth Consecutive Quarter (crossbeamsystems.com) [edit]
158. Handipoints Receives $800k from Charles Rivers and Angels (virtualworldsnews.com) [edit]
159. paidcontent.org [edit]
160. Compression's Samplify Raises $6.5M 1st Round (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
161. 100 Million Valuation for Geni (techcrunch.com) [edit]
162. sanjose.bizjournals.com [edit]
163. iskoot press release (iskoot.com) [edit]
164. Citation Needed [add]
165. Business Week (businessweek.com) [edit]
166. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
167. SkyRider gets $12M more for aggressive P2P search engine (venturebeat.com) [edit]
168. EDGAR [edit]
169. Liquid Engines raises additional $5.5 Million from Carlyle et al. (venturebeat.com) [edit]
170. EnterpriseDB Closes $20 Million Financing (enterprisedb.com) [edit]
171. EDGAR [edit]
172. Acopia Networks Closes Record Quarter; Secures Additional $20 Million in Venture Funding. (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
173. Aveksa Launches to Improve the Way Companies Meet Regulatory Requirements (aveksa.com) [edit]
174. MEMS clock maker reportedly raises $11 million (eetimes.com) [edit]
175. EDGAR [edit]
176. Cswitch Closes $30 Million Second Round Investment (cswitch.com) [edit]
177. iControl Networks Secures Series A Funding; Charles River and Intel Capital Co-Invest. (goliath.ecnext.com) [edit]
178. paidcontent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
179. EDGAR [edit]
180. Staccato Communications Closes $18 Million In Third Round Venture Capital Financing (staccatocommunications.com) [edit]
181. EDGAR [edit]
182. Automation ware-maker MValent raises $6M in VC cash Read more: Automation ware-maker MValent raises $6M in VC cash (bizjournals.com) [edit]
183. EnterpriseDB Corporation Announces $7 Million in Venture Capital Financing (enterprisedb.com) [edit]
184. EDGAR [edit]
185. EDGAR [edit]
186. Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...) (odeo.com) [edit]
187. Cedar Point adds $15 M to coffers (cedmagazine.com) [edit]
188. EDGAR [edit]
189. Nantero Announces $15mm in Funding (nantero.com) [edit]
190. thealarmclock.com (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
191. Secure Software Adds $9.25 Million in Funding; New Investor Updata Partners Joins Charles River. (allbusiness.com) [edit]
192. Revivio Secures $25 Million in Series C Funding Round (flagshipventures.com) [edit]
193. Nantero Announces $10.5MM in Funding (nantero.com) [edit]
194. Rosum Corporation Closes $16M Preferred Stock Financing (rosum.com) [edit]
195. activenetworks.com (activenetwork.com) [edit]
196. ITI funding (itic.org) [edit]