INVEST
Investing in Visionary Entrepreneurs
At CRV, our approach to investing is simple: we seek out visionary entrepreneurs, and give them the support they need to build great companies from the ground up.
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BUILD
Great Entrepreneurs Build Great Companies
We focus on highly charged industry sectors which we believe are rich in opportunity. Take a look at our current portfolio of companies—ones we believe will define the future of these market categories:
- Communication & Technology
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Public Mobile
Public Mobile offers unlimited talk and text at the same low price for everybody.
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iControl Networks
Palo Alto-based iControl Networks is a venture-backed software and services company providing award-winning, mass-market solutions for the remote monitoring market, designed for residential and small-business use. iControl Networks partners with home security companies, Internet service providers and telecommunication companies to bring its award-winning solutions to market. Investors in iControl include Intel and Charles River Ventures. Visit http://www.icontrol.com.
06/21/2011
VentureBeat: Home energy network provider iControl raises $50M more
06/20/2011
TechCrunch: iControl Lands Over $50M For Broadband Home Management Software more
06/20/2011
peHUB: iControl Networks Inks $50M Series D more
06/20/2011
SF Business Times: IControl Networks raises $50M for energy management more
06/09/2011
GigaOM - The startup behind Comcast’s home service: iControl more
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Sensr.net
Setup a network camera and we’ll watch it for you. Check on it any time.
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Rive Technology
Rive Technology, Inc is a Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up and developer of an advanced catalyst technology that makes the oil-to-gasoline conversion process more efficient.
http://www.rivetechnology.com/
12/15/2010
Rive Technology on Xconomy: Rive Technology Raises $25M to Help…more
08/03/2010
Rive Technology and Grace Enter Joint Development and Commercialization Agreement more
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- Software & Services
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Progress Financial
Progress Financial Corporation is a consumer finance company that offers unsecured credit to Hispanics that lack established credit and banking relationships. Customers are hard working immigrants who have been in the US for 10 years and at the same job for 3.3 years. Under the brand name, Progreso Financiero, the company markets, sells and disburses $500 - $5000 loans in Spanish from a network of distribution points located inside large Hispanic supermarkets and high traffic malls. Currently locations are in the Bay Area, but the company has plans to expand rapidly to other parts of California and the United States. For more information, visit http://www.progressfin.com.
11/23/2010
Progress Financial in the LA Times: Start-up makes small loans…more
07/08/2010
Progreso Financiero Closes $28 Million in New Funding from Madrone…more
01/20/2010
Progress Financial in The Wall Street Journal: FDIC:Banks Not Regularly…more
01/20/2010
Progress Financial in San Francisco Chronicle: 25% of U.S. households…more
01/20/2010
Progress Financial in Bloomberg: Gutierrez Says Progreso Has Made Over…more
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Spool
Save articles and videos for later. Even offline. https://getspool.com/
01/30/2012
GigaOM: Spool’s next bet is on collaborative curation more
01/04/2012
Spool on AllThingsD: Spool Raises Funding to Help You Take…more
01/04/2012
Spool on TechCrunch: Spool Raises $1 Million To Let You…more
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Aveksa
Aveksa provides a comprehensive, enterprise-class, access governance, risk management and compliance solution. Aveksa automates the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements and roles; enables role discovery and lifecycle management; and delivers unmatched visibility into the true state of user access rights. With Aveksa, business, security and compliance teams can effectively collaborate and enforce accountability. Our growing customer base includes leading Fortune 200 organizations in financial services, healthcare, transportation and manufacturing. For more information, go to http://www.aveksa.com.
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HubSpot
HubSpot Inbound Marketing Software helps our 4,000+ customers generate traffic and leads through their websites, and convert more of those leads into customers.
HubSpot software includes tools for: blogging, landing pages, lead nurturing, marketing analytics, content management, social media, SEO, CRM integration, email marketing, and more.
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- Media & Entertainment
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LiveGamer
Live Gamer enables a complete marketplace solution for the player-to-player trading of virtual items. Through our partnerships with leading publishers and developers worldwide, players now have a convenient, secure, and reliable outlet to buy and sell virtual goods and objects. Only Live Gamer provides virtual trading the way it should be: Safe. Simple. In Game. For more information, visit http://www.livegamer.com.
11/14/2011
TechCrunch: Virtual Goods Gaming Marketplace Live Gamer Raises $8.5M more
10/08/2009
Live Gamer doubles down on virtual goods with Twofish acquisition more
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Millennial Media
Millennial Media is the industry’s leading mobile media networks company—leveraging our quality advertising networks and extensive reach of the lucrative ‘millennial’ audience to define the mobile advertising industry.
03/29/2012
Congratulations to Milennial Media on their IPO more
01/05/2012
Millennial Media on GigaOm: Mobile ad network Millennial Media files…more
05/25/2011
Millennial Media on TechCrunch: Millennial Media Acquires Mobile Data Startup…more
02/02/2011
Millennial Media Named Runner Up for Best Enterprise Application Crunchie more
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WonderHill
WonderHill creates social games for you to play with your friends and family online. When building games, we think of the kind, clean, unspoiled spot down deep inside every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget, and maybe our games can help to recall (paraphrasing Mr. Walt Disney). Our mission is to create the most happy and magical online games in the world.
10/22/2010
Wonderhill on VentureBeat: Kabam acquires social game developer WonderHill more
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Glyde
Glyde has developed a next-generation ecommerce site that provides an easy and cheap way to buy, sell, and organize DVD movies, music CDs, video games, and books. http://www.glyde.com
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EMERGE
We Back Emerging Industry Leaders
- RPX
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SpotlightOn: RPX
RPX invests in broad patent portfolios to protect their large and small technology clients against lawsuits from patent trolling firms. The result of such a rational solution? Patent-holders are fairly compensated, while the technology industry spends more time innovating and less time litigating.
- ZenDesk
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SpotlightOn: ZenDesk
Ever had a moment of Zen courtesy of customer service? Didn’t think so. Zendesk aims to change that. CEO Mikkel Svane believes that by enabling companies to easily track all customer service interactions, they’re creating a simpler and more intimate relationship between company and customer that results in… well, moments of Zen.
- SpiderCloud Wireless
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SpotlightOn: SpiderCloud Wireless
The reason your indoor wireless coverage can be so spotty is because your carrier doesn’t want to spend the money to create a signal robust enough to reach indoors with the same data and voice reliability. SpiderCloud Wireless takes your carriers existing architecture, and extends its reach to your indoor area, making spotty indoor coverage a thing of the past.
- Scribd
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SpotlightOn: Scribd
From start-up to world’s largest online library of original writing, Scribd has turned reading and publishing into an online social experience. With over 50-million users, co-founders Trip Adler and Jared Friedman are well on their way to achieving their goal of making Scribd a top 20 website.
- Rive Technology
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SpotlightOn: Rive Technology
They may look like ordinary grains of sand to the average eye, but Rive sees piles of cash in its revolutionary oil refining catalyst. By helping oil refineries produce more gasoline and less asphalt from their crude, Rive increases refinery profits, while reducing their environmental impact.
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05/16/2012
TecCrunch: Wave Accounting Raises $12M from Social+Capital Partnership, Charles River Ventures & OMERS Ventures more
05/08/2012
TechCrunch: Gamification Startup SessionM Raises $20M Led By Charles River Ventures more
05/08/2012
SessionM in the WSJ: Quattro Founder In Search Of Mobile Users’ Attention With New Start-Up SessionM more
05/08/2012
Mobile Engagement Platform SessionM Raises $20 Million more
04/27/2012
Ark on AllThingsD: People-Search Engine Ark Raises Biggest Y Combinator Seed Round in Memory more

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