Charles Rivers Ventures

Current Projects

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  CRV Team

  Mike Zak

  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

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  CRV Team

  Mike Zak

  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/

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  CRV Team

  Mike Zak

  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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  CRV Team

  Mike Zak

  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.

  06/20/2007

  Diversa and Celunol Complete Merger to Create Verenium Corporation, a…more

Updates

Press

• 12/15/2010

  Rive Technology on Xconomy: Rive Technology Raises $25M to Help Refineries Squeeze More Fuel Out…   more

• 08/03/2010

  Rive Technology and Grace Enter Joint Development and Commercialization Agreement   more

• 10/22/2007

  Reva Wins 2007 Technology Leadership Award   more