MEET THE CRV TEAM
Izhar Armony
781.768.6000
Areas of greatest interest
Mobility (software, services, media)
SaaS
Intellectual property
Energy
Track Record
iSkoot - acquired by Qualcomm, 2010
Conduit Labs - acquired by Zynga, 2010
Virtusa – IPO, 2007 (NASDAQ: VRTU)
iPhrase - acquired by IBM, 2005
ThinQ - acquired by Saba Software, 2005
Yantra - acquired by Sterling Commerce, 2005
Guardent - acquired by Verisign, 2004
Oberon - acquired by OnDisplay, 2000
iBasis - IPO, 1999, (Nasdaq: IBAS)
Past Lives
VP Marketing, Onyx Interactive, a computer-based training company in Israel
Captain, Israeli Army
What he does for fun
Compete in long-range, off-road rally races in places like the Atacama desert and the Sahara
Joined CRV
1997Education
MBA, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania
MA, Cognitive Psychology, University of Tel Aviv
Updates
Blog
Links
Press
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12/22/2011
Terrapower in The Wall Street Journal: RIL Buys Minority Stake in U.S. Nuclear Reactor Design… more
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12/20/2011
Bloomberg: Nuance to Acquire Vlingo to Expand Voice-Command Technology more
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12/12/2011
CNet: Gates-backed TerraPower pitching new nuclear tech more
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12/08/2011
GigaOM: Bill Gates says TerraPower is in discussions with China more
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11/30/2011
HubSpot #17 on Forbes List of Americas Most Promising Companies more
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09/21/2011
CRV Partner Izhar Armony in The Boston Globe: What can an entrepreneur say in an… more
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06/30/2011
VC Reaps Benefits From Intellectual Property Investing more
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06/16/2011
MassHighTech: HubSpot expands with Performable acquisition more
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05/25/2011
Millennial Media on TechCrunch: Millennial Media Acquires Mobile Data Startup Condaptive more
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05/04/2011
RPX on Xconomy: RPX, Defensive Patent Firm, Goes from Zero to $160M IPO in Less… more
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05/04/2011
Intellectual Ventures on Xconomy: Charles River VC, a $300M Investor in Intellectual Ventures, Says Patents… more
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03/24/2011
TerraPower in Fortune: What’s next for nuclear power: Nathan Myhrvold more
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10/13/2010
iSkoot on VentureBeat: Qualcomm scoots into mobile software with iSkoot acquisition more
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10/01/2010
Izhar Armony makes Xconomy Boston’s Top 20 Stories of the Third Quarter: From A123 Expansion… more
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09/03/2010
Izhar Armony on Xconomy: Don’t Confuse Getting to Market with Building a Company: Charles River… more
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08/16/2010
24M Technologies Launches Based on Technology from A123 Systems and MIT; Secures $10 Million in… more
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07/15/2010
Vlingo in TechCrunch: Vlingo’s SuperDialer For Android more
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06/18/2010
TerraPower in The New York Times: Developer of Novel Reactor Wins $35 Million Infusion more
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06/18/2010
TerraPower in the Wall Street Journal: TerraPower’s Multibillion-Dollar Nuclear Reactor Plan more
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06/14/2010
Charles River Ventures Invests in $35 Million Series B Financing Round for TerraPower more
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06/14/2010
Charles River Ventures Invests in $35 Million Series B Financing Round for TerraPower more
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05/20/2010
Charlie Rose hosts Nathan Myhrvold, who talks about TerraPower, the ISF, and other things such… more
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02/22/2010
TerraPower on TED: Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! more
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02/01/2010
RPX in BusinessWeek: Tech Giants’ New Way to Thwart Patent Suits more
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11/04/2009
Intellectual Ventures on 20/20 more
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07/23/2009
Index Ventures Joins Kleiner Perkins and Charles River in RPX Series B more
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02/02/2009
Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick visits Conduit Labs more
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12/04/2008
Vlingo on CNET: Vlingo one-ups Google with a better voice-powered iPhone app more
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09/26/2008
Vlingo in New York Times: Don’t Make Your Fingers Do The Work. Talk To Your… more
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08/12/2008
The Idea Factory more
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06/13/2008
BusinessWeek demonstrates Yahoo’s oneSearch, a service powered by vlingo that searches the Web based on… more
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04/02/2008
Vlingo Secures $20 Million in Series B Financing Led more
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04/02/2008
Vlingo Provides Voice Recognition for the Yahoo! oneSearch Mobile Search Service more
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01/27/2008
The Coming Wave of Gadgets That Listen and Obey - Vlingo in the New York… more
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08/03/2007
Virtusa Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering more
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02/27/2007
iSkoot Raises $7 Million in Series B Financing more
Events
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02/23/2010
Izhar will be on a panel “Investing in the IP Marketplace” at IBF’s Corporate Venturing & Innovation Partnering Conference (Newport Beach, CA) more






















