Charles Rivers Ventures

Current Projects

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  CRV Team

  Izhar Armony

  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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  CRV Team

  Izhar Armony

  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.

  05/04/2011

  Intellectual Ventures on Xconomy: Charles River VC, a $300M Investor…more

  05/20/2010

  Charlie Rose hosts Nathan Myhrvold, who talks about TerraPower, the…more

  11/04/2009

  Intellectual Ventures on 20/20   more

  06/10/2009

  Intellectual Asset Management Magazine - IV Shifts Gear   more

  06/05/2009

  Intellectual Ventures in The Economist - Medical technology: Researchers are…more

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  CRV Team

  Izhar Armony

  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.

  06/30/2008

  Optaros Closes $12 Million in Series C Financing Co-Led by…more

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  CRV Team

  Izhar Armony

  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.

  06/30/2011

  VC Reaps Benefits From Intellectual Property Investing   more

  05/04/2011

  RPX on Xconomy: RPX, Defensive Patent Firm, Goes from Zero…more

  05/04/2011

  RPX Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering   more

  02/01/2010

  RPX in BusinessWeek: Tech Giants’ New Way to Thwart Patent…more

  07/23/2009

  Index Ventures Joins Kleiner Perkins and Charles River in RPX…more

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  CRV Team

  Izhar Armony

  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

  12/22/2011

  Terrapower in The Wall Street Journal: RIL Buys Minority Stake…more

  12/22/2011

  GigaOm: India’s Reliance backs nuclear startup TerraPower   more

  12/12/2011

  CNet: Gates-backed TerraPower pitching new nuclear tech   more

  12/08/2011

  GigaOM: Bill Gates says TerraPower is in discussions with China   more

  03/24/2011

  TerraPower in Fortune: What’s next for nuclear power: Nathan Myhrvold   more

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  CRV Team

  Izhar Armony

  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.

  12/20/2011

  Bloomberg: Nuance to Acquire Vlingo to Expand Voice-Command Technology   more

  07/15/2010

  Vlingo in TechCrunch: Vlingo’s SuperDialer For Android   more

  12/04/2008

  Vlingo on CNET: Vlingo one-ups Google with a better voice-powered…more

  09/26/2008

  Vlingo in New York Times: Don’t Make Your Fingers Do…more

  06/26/2008

  VentureBeat: Vlingo’s voice recognition for Blackberry officially outcools the iPhone…more

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  CRV Team

  Izhar Armony

  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.

  08/16/2010

  24M Technologies Launches Based on Technology from A123 Systems and…more

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  CRV Team

  Izhar Armony

  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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Press

• 12/22/2011

  Terrapower in The Wall Street Journal: RIL Buys Minority Stake in U.S. Nuclear Reactor Design…   more

• 12/20/2011

  Bloomberg: Nuance to Acquire Vlingo to Expand Voice-Command Technology   more

• 12/12/2011

  CNet: Gates-backed TerraPower pitching new nuclear tech   more

• 12/08/2011

  GigaOM: Bill Gates says TerraPower is in discussions with China   more

• 11/30/2011

  HubSpot #17 on Forbes List of Americas Most Promising Companies   more

• 09/21/2011

  CRV Partner Izhar Armony in The Boston Globe: What can an entrepreneur say in an…   more

• 06/30/2011

  VC Reaps Benefits From Intellectual Property Investing   more

• 06/16/2011

  MassHighTech: HubSpot expands with Performable acquisition   more

• 05/25/2011

  Millennial Media on TechCrunch: Millennial Media Acquires Mobile Data Startup Condaptive   more

• 05/04/2011

  RPX on Xconomy: RPX, Defensive Patent Firm, Goes from Zero to $160M IPO in Less…   more

• 05/04/2011

  Intellectual Ventures on Xconomy: Charles River VC, a $300M Investor in Intellectual Ventures, Says Patents…   more

• 03/24/2011

  TerraPower in Fortune: What’s next for nuclear power: Nathan Myhrvold   more

• 10/13/2010

  iSkoot on VentureBeat: Qualcomm scoots into mobile software with iSkoot acquisition   more

• 10/01/2010

  Izhar Armony makes Xconomy Boston’s Top 20 Stories of the Third Quarter: From A123 Expansion…   more

• 09/03/2010

  Izhar Armony on Xconomy:  Don’t Confuse Getting to Market with Building a Company: Charles River…   more

• 08/16/2010

  24M Technologies Launches Based on Technology from A123 Systems and MIT; Secures $10 Million in…   more

• 07/15/2010

  Vlingo in TechCrunch: Vlingo’s SuperDialer For Android   more

• 06/18/2010

  TerraPower in The New York Times:  Developer of Novel Reactor Wins $35 Million Infusion   more

• 06/18/2010

  TerraPower in the Wall Street Journal: TerraPower’s Multibillion-Dollar Nuclear Reactor Plan   more

• 06/14/2010

  Charles River Ventures Invests in $35 Million Series B Financing Round for TerraPower   more

• 06/14/2010

  Charles River Ventures Invests in $35 Million Series B Financing Round for TerraPower   more

• 05/20/2010

  Charlie Rose hosts Nathan Myhrvold, who talks about TerraPower, the ISF, and other things such…   more

• 02/22/2010

  TerraPower on TED: Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!   more

• 02/01/2010

  RPX in BusinessWeek: Tech Giants’ New Way to Thwart Patent Suits   more

• 11/04/2009

  Intellectual Ventures on 20/20   more

• 07/23/2009

  Index Ventures Joins Kleiner Perkins and Charles River in RPX Series B   more

• 02/02/2009

  Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick visits Conduit Labs   more

• 12/04/2008

  Vlingo on CNET: Vlingo one-ups Google with a better voice-powered iPhone app   more

• 09/26/2008

  Vlingo in New York Times: Don’t Make Your Fingers Do The Work. Talk To Your…   more

• 08/12/2008

  The Idea Factory   more

• 06/13/2008

  BusinessWeek demonstrates Yahoo’s oneSearch, a service powered by vlingo that searches the Web based on…   more

• 04/02/2008

  Vlingo Secures $20 Million in Series B Financing Led   more

• 04/02/2008

  Vlingo Provides Voice Recognition for the Yahoo! oneSearch Mobile Search Service   more

• 01/27/2008

  The Coming Wave of Gadgets That Listen and Obey - Vlingo in the New York…   more

• 08/03/2007

  Virtusa Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering   more

• 02/27/2007

  iSkoot Raises $7 Million in Series B Financing   more