Charles Rivers Ventures

24M Technologies

24M will commercialize a novel technology that originated with A123 and was further developed at MIT. This technological advance combines attributes of rechargeable batteries, fuel cells, and flow batteries to enable scalable cost-effective, high-energy storage systems for emerging markets, including transportation and the electric grid.

Carrier IQ

CarrierIQ develops analytic applications for wireless carriers and handset manufacturers that enables them to maximize service. Carrier IQ provides accurate, real-time data direct from the source—your customers’ handsets. Its powerful platform aggregates, analyzes and delivers that data via easy-to-use web applications that help wireless carriers make smart business decisions. The kind that can dramatically lower operating costs, increase customer satisfaction and reduce customer churn. Across every division—marketing, sales, development, customer service, operations, and executive management—and every business unit—device, network and application. Learn more at http://www.carrieriq.com.

ContextLogic

ContextLogic is a Silicon Valley startup building the next generation platform for online advertising and content discovery. We use state-of-the-art machine learning and natural language processing to help publishers better monetize their sites, advertisers reach their audiences more effectively, and content reach relevant users.

Crossbeam Systems

Crossbeam Systems secures the world’s largest networks with its market-leading, high performance security solutions. With the industry’s only open and extensible security hardware platform that supports best-in-class applications from the leading vendors, Crossbeam provides large organizations with unparalleled flexibility, performance and efficiency in securing their networks against constantly evolving threats. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., Crossbeam has offices in Europe and Asia Pacific. More information is available at: http://www.crossbeamsystems.com

DoubleDutch

DoubleDutch (http://www.doubledutch.me) is working to bring mobile, geosocial functionality to the enterprise.

Fiksu

Fiksu (http://www.fiksu.com) is a new marketing technology company. Fiksu for Mobile Apps is the company’s first solution designed to help mobile app brands achieve their business goals faster and more cost-effectively.

GreatCall

GreatCall was founded by Arlene Harris, a 45-year veteran in wireless and creator of the highly regarded SOS emergency phone, and Martin Cooper, the father of the first portable cellular phone. GreatCall’s vision is to connect people with family and friends when they are away from home by providing a simple phone and personalized service that works the way they want it to. The company’s support and systems are centered on simplicity, personalization and an emphasis on convenience and comfort. GreatCall is located in Del Mar, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.greatcall.com.

GupShup

GupShup is mobile group SMS service that allows users to create mobile communities and broadcast messages to them. GupShup is growing rapidly with thousands of groups on topics such as finance, entertainment, lifestyle, health, sports and technology.

http://www.smsgupshup.com

Heartland Robotics

Heartland Robotics is combining the power of computers - embodied in robots - and the extraordinary intelligence of the American workforce, to increase productivity and revitalize manufacturing. 

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.

InVisage Technologies

InVisage Technologies, Inc. is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company based in Menlo Park, Calif. that is developing QuantumFilm, a breakthrough imaging-sensing technology that will replace silicon. Its first product enables the high-fidelity, high resolution images from handheld devices like camera phones and PDAs.  Founded in 2006, InVisage Technologies is venture funded by RockPort Capital, Charles River Ventures, InterWest Partners, and OnPoint Technologies. More information is available at http://www.invisageinc.com.

Nantero

Nantero is a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices. Nantero’s main focus is the development of NRAM™. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology. More information on Nantero, Inc. is available in English and Japanese at http://www.nantero.com

openmile

We’ve created tools that power a smarter freight industry, automating much of the process, creating lower cost and better service for shippers while creating new customers and revenue opportunities for qualified carriers.

Optiwind

Founded in 2007, Optiwind is pioneering a new market in wind energy, placing medium sized wind turbines right where they’re needed most – on site at schools, businesses and government locations. By allowing customers to capture their own clean, renewable power right at their own locations, Optiwind frees customers from the risk of continuously rising grid rates and allows them to refocus all of their resources on what they do best.

http://www.optiwind.com/

Orchestra, Inc.

Orchestra helps you organize what needs doing and communicate with others to get it done.

Public Mobile

Public Mobile offers unlimited talk and text at the same low price for everybody.

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/

Samplify Systems, Inc.

Samplify Systems, a Silicon Valley startup, provides the only real-time compression algorithm for high speed sampled data systems. Delivering simply the bits that matter™ Samplify`s Prism™ compression algorithm provides a cost-effective alternative to brute force hardware approaches to transport and store data within systems. Samplify targets real-time embedded applications in the medical, defense, communications, and industrial markets. Samplify`s Prism™ algorithm is available in netlist form for leading FPGA families, and as a Windows software application. Samplify Systems is a privately held company based in Silicon Valley, with funding from Charles River Ventures and Formative Ventures. For more information, visit http://www.samplifysystems.com.

Sensr.net

Setup a network camera and we’ll watch it for you. Check on it any time.

SpiderCloud Wireless

SpiderCloud Wireless is developing enterprise wireless solutions.

TerraPower

TerraPower is a clean energy company that originated from work at Intellectual Ventures.  TerraPower is focused on radically improving the design of nuclear reactors and is developing a new class of nuclear reactor called a Traveling-Wave Reactor.

http://www.intellectualventures.com/TerraPower.aspx

Vanu, Inc.

Vanu, Inc. (http://www.vanu.com) is the developer of the Anywave Software Radio solution for cellular operators, the wireless industry’s first technology to simultaneously operate multiple standar ds on a single platform. The Anywave system utilizes open standards architecture, with each wireless standard and all signal processing developed entirely in high level software running on Linux and general purpose servers. This eliminates the use of proprietary chip sets and delivers ongoing price-performance improvements throughout the life of the system. The Vanu solution also significantly reduces backhaul costs and enables new wireless standards and system capacity to be added through remote software downloads which substantially reduces operating costs. The Anywave Base Station in the first softwaredefined radio (SDR) to receive certification from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Vanu was founded in 1998 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Verenium

Today’s world faces mounting pressure arising from the end of the era of low-cost oil that fueled global prosperity in the 20th century. Diminishing oil supplies, growing concentration of petroleum in the hands of unstable or hostile political regimes, and the mounting threat of climate change all point toward the need for new ways to produce fuels and other chemical products in the 21st century. Verenium (Nasdaq: VRNM) is a new biofuels industry leader for the green millennium. The company formed as a result of a merger of publicly-held Diversa and Celunol, a CRV portfolio company.Verenium, a new biofuels industry leader for the green millennium.

vlingo

Vlingo is a voice-powered user interface that unlocks access to mobile phone wireless data services. Vlingo allows users to speak or type into any vlingo-enabled text box and get accurate, easy and consistent access to all the information, entertainment and communication made possible through today’s mobile applications. By giving consumers control of the mobile Internet with the power of their voices, vlingo provides a quantum leap in usability for mobile data services that are currently restricted by limited user interfaces. Vlingo secured its venture capital financing from Charles River Ventures and Sigma Partners. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Why tap when you can talk? http://www.vlingo.com.

Yammer, Inc.

Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: ‘What are you working on?’

Yammer was founded by former PayPal COO David O. Sacks and officially launched on September 8, 2008. Yammer’s management team includes seasoned industry veterans drawn from the ranks of PayPal, eBay, eGroups, Tribe, and other leaders in the software industry.

Altius Education

Altius Education helps academic institutions unlock the potential of their existing curricula by leveraging partnerships, capital, online learning capacity and marketing experience to create focused college programs serving unmet market needs.

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.

bni video

BNI empowers video service providers by giving them more control, functionality and flexibility in delivering new and next-generation services to their subscribers. BNI’s uniquely open, scalable video control plane software was designed from the ground up to enable the deployment of video and other next-generation services to any end point more rapidly, easily and reliably than ever before, allowing providers to achieve greater operational efficiencies and enhanced revenues, and end users to enjoy more personalized and rich media experiences.

CloudShare

CloudShare is a quick and easy way to share copies of your complex IT environments, online, so you can collaborate with customers, partners, and colleagues – for Demos, Proofs-of-Concept, Training, or other enterprise applications – without wasting time copying gigabytes of software or shipping machines and people. Going beyond basic webinar or “virtual lab” offerings, CloudShare’s solutions enables users’ extended interaction in dedicated “hands on” production-grade replicas of their existing IT, delivered as cloud-based SaaS – while centrally monitoring and managing it all. Leading solutions providers have adopted CloudShare as their vendor of choice to extend access to their virtual infrastructure from the Enterprise to the Cloud.

EnterpriseDB

EnterpriseDB develops and supports EnterpriseDB Advanced Server, the world’s leading Oracle-compatible relational database management system (RDBMS). EnterpriseDB Advanced Server runs most applications written for Oracle unchanged and at a small fraction of Oracle’s cost. Built on PostgreSQL, the world’s most advanced open source database, EnterpriseDB Advanced Server has the reliability and scalability necessary for high-volume, mission-critical enterprise use. The company is also the world’s leading provider of enterprise-class, PostgreSQL-based products and services, including the EnterpriseDB Postgres distribution. EnterpriseDB has offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded in March 2004 and is headquartered in Edison, N.J. For more information, please contact +44 (0) 207 269 2750 or visit http://www.enterprisedb.com.

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.

Intellectual Ventures

Intellectual Ventures is an invention company. We conceive and patent our own inventions in-house through a world-renowned staff of internal and external scientists and engineers. We also acquire and license patented inventions from other inventors around the world. Our network of invention sources includes: large and small businesses, governments, academia, and individual inventors. These inventions span a diverse range of technologies including: software, semiconductors, wireless, consumer electronics, networking, lasers, biotechnology, and medical devices. Our current focus is on developing our invention portfolio. Over time, we intend to market our portfolio on a broad and non-exclusive basis through a variety of channels including spin-out companies.

Learnboost

LearnBoost’s product allows teachers to manage their classroom by offering an amazing gradebook and software for managing and creating lesson plans, tracking attendance, maintaining schedules, integrating calendars including Google calendars, seamless tagging of Common Core State Standards, and so much more.

Magnetic

Magnetic™ makes search re-targeting easy. The Magnetic data marketplace empowers advertisers and publishers to use search data as the key indicator of intent and re-target campaigns to the most relevant audience online. With more than 270 million search profiles, Magnetic significantly lifts the value of media and improves campaign performance. Magnetic’s advanced technology provides the largest payment to search data providers. It is the search data partner of choice for more than 90 leading agencies, ad networks and DSPs. Magnetic is headquartered in New York.

Maxthon

The Maxthon browser was awarded the Red Herring Asia 100 prize in 2005 and was named as one of the best 100 products by PC World. Equipped with features and tools not found on any other browser, Maxthon is the favorite of 30 percent of Internet users in China and is rapidly increasing its market share in the rest of the world. Since the launch of version 2.0 in 2006, it has been downloaded 40 million times, increasing its cumulative total to more than 140 million downloads. These accomplishments were achieved without marketing or advertising, attesting to the growing number of fans who have spread the word about Maxthon’s abilities. Being publicly endorsed by Microsoft and leading Wall Street Internet analysts, Maxthon (http://www.maxthon.com) also has working arrangements with Google and Skype.

OneLogin

OneLogin’s mission is to democratize identity management; making it available to any organization, regardless of size. Historically, identity management has been available only to large enterprises who had the means to purchase expensive software and undertake a complex project. OneLogin gets enterprises up and running in minutes – literally.

Optaros

Optaros, an international consulting and systems integration firm, assembles fully supported, Next Generation Internet (NGI) solutions for superior business performance. Optaros Assembly Methodology (OptAM) assembles solutions faster and more flexibly than traditional build, buy or rent options. Optaros serves over 70 clients including ABB, Biogen, Gtech, Movielink, Serono, Swisscom, Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, The New York Times, and many others. For more about Optaros, go to http://www.optaros.com.

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.

RPX

RPX Corporation is a patent acquisition services company for technology and e-commerce company’s Intellectual Property and Litigation Counsels and CFOs who want to reduce their patent assertion and litigation costs and risks. Funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Charles Rivers Ventures, the company has acquired over $30 million in patent rights to date and is on track to acquire $100 million in its first year. The company was founded by patent industry professionals with over $2 billion in patent transactions in their careers. RPX will not enforce the patents that it purchases. RPX headquarters is in San Francisco, CA.

Scribd

Scribd began with a simple observation – that there’s a writer in all of us. And that even more fundamental than our desire for self-expression is our need to learn and be inspired.

Today, Scribd is the place where you publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents. More than 50 million people each month are finding or sharing fun, functional or fantastical writings and documents on Scribd.com and tens of thousands of other websites that have embedded Scribd’s document reader.

We built a technology that’s broken all barriers to traditional publishing and in the process also built one of the largest readerships in the world.

SimpliVity, Inc.

SimpliVity is a stealth mode technology company led by a team of veterans with proven track records of introducing innovative products and building successful companies.

Sincerely

Sincerely is focused on making it easy to send real photos in the mail from your phone. We believe printed photos are meaningful & a photo sent to a friend is the most ubiquitously appreciated gift on the planet. http://www.sincerely.com

Spool

Save articles and videos for later. Even offline. https://getspool.com/

Udacity

Udacity believes that university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we’ve connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world.

Wanderfly

Wanderfly answers this basic question: “Where can I go?” We are a personalized recommendation engine that helps you discover new and exciting experiences, based on your budget and interests. We suggest more than 1,200 destinations worldwide, and match them with thousands of activities. We help you find, organize, share and book your travel – all in one place – so you can get going and start discovering new places.

Wave Accounting

Wave is a free online accounting application for small businesses.

Zendesk

Zendesk is inspiring the help desk 2.0 movement through a focus on enlightened customer support. By leveraging the benefits of Web-based communications and social media, Zendesk extends good help desk karma to any company looking to offer professional-grade support service with very little effort. Backed by Charles River Ventures, Zendesk was founded in 2007 and has more than 1,000 customers including John Lewis, MSNBC and Twitter.  To learn more, go to www.zendesk.com or follow @zendesk on Twitter.

Active Network, Inc.

The Active Network, Inc., based in San Diego, Calif., provides application services technology and marketing access to community service organizations, and is a leading online community for active lifestyles. The company’s solutions help sports and community service organizations improve customer service capabilities, increase revenues, and reduce the cost and complexity of managing and marketing activities and events. Its full service marketing and promotions agency, Active Marketing Group, brings direct knowledge, insight and access to active and on-the-go consumers. Through its Web properties, http://www.Active.com, http://www.eteamz.com and http://www.ActiveGolf.com, The Active Network provides consumer services and resources that support participation in healthy lifestyles. For more information, please visit http://www.TheActiveNetwork.com or call 1-888-543-7223.

CampusLive

CampusLIVE is a platform that enables students to connect to brands in fun and exciting ways. We create “engagement” campaigns for sponsors like Ace Ticket, Peter Pan Bus Lines, Comcast, HotelPlanner.com and Big Y Supermarkets. These campaigns offer students the opportunity to win awesome prizes, exclusive trips and huge discounts in exchange for playing social games. These games might include polls, surveys, scavenger hunts, team matches and more.

Geni

Geni is a tool for understanding and staying in touch with your family. Geni lets you create a family tree through our fun simple interface. You can expand your tree by adding relatives’ email addresses. They will be invited to join your tree and can add other relatives. Your tree will continue to grow as relatives invite other relatives.Each family member has a profile which can be viewed by clicking their name in the tree. This helps family members learn more about each other and stay in touch. Family members can also share photos and work together to build profiles for common ancestors. Geni was founded by former executives and early employees of PayPal, Yahoo! Groups, Ebay, and Tribe. It is backed by venture capital firms Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures. Learn more at http://www.geni.com.

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

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.

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.

Soundtracking

Share the soundtrack to your life from wherever you are!

Storenvy

Storenvy is a social marketplace for discovering awesome stuff from real people. We provide sellers with a completely free and easy way to create fully customizable and feature-rich online stores, while allowing shoppers to interact with sellers and each other through an awesome marketplace.

Twitter

Twitter is a social utility for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected. Time Magazine says, “Twitter is well on its way to becoming the next killer app,” while the New York Times says, “It’s one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet.” Twitter is all about the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Find out more at http://www.twitter.com

ViKi

Our dream is a world without language barriers, where everyone can communicate with anyone. Thanks to you, our amazing community and content partners, we are bringing down these barriers and sharing each others’ cultures through the best of world TV, movies and pop culture.

WangYou

WangYou, based in China, is developing a cross-media user-generated content community through its internet-based wireless platform.

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.