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.

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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. 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]
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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]