Charles Rives Ventures

Launch your ideas more quickly and efficiently

Behind every great company is an entrepreneur with a great idea. Yet getting a big idea off the ground takes more than just innovative thinking. Time, resources and capital are also required. All too often, the process of raising seed capital can consume precious time that can be better spent actually building out your idea. Often, that capital can also come at a high price in the form of painful dilution which translates into the founders getting less than their fair share.

CRV has created an innovative program to eliminate these issues and help entrepreneurs get up and running quickly - the CRV QuickStart Seed Funding Program. CRV QuickStart explores opportunities in the communications & technology, software & services, and new media sectors. CRV QuickStart provides select entrepreneurs with a loan to fund the work needed to build out your idea, enabling you to explore its potential in its earliest stage before you raise a round of formal equity financing. By offering up to $250,000 in the form of a loan (also referred to as a "convertible note"), we're providing the capital to fuel ideas without that painful seed-stage dilution.