# Build what only you can.

Most investors chase patterns and playbooks. CRV pays attention. For 55 years, we’ve backed founders who see something real before the rest of the world catches up: founders with depth, conviction and an insight that feels almost unfair.

We know that company building doesn’t follow a script. There’s no right way, no shortcut, no formula that turns early traction into something enduring. The work is the work. And every decision shapes the next decade.

CRV sits beside founders in that stretch. We listen. We think. We help them make the calls that turn that conviction into an enduring company: who to hire, how to reach customers, what to protect and what needs to evolve.

More than 80 CRV backed companies have achieved public company status.

Most investors chase patterns and playbooks. CRV pays attention. For 55 years, we've backed founders who see something real before the rest of the world catches up: founders with depth, conviction and an insight that feels almost unfair.

CRV was founded in 1970 and the firm has been in the Bay Area for decades.

There is no
playbook.

We know that company building doesn't follow a script. There's no right way, no shortcut, no formula that turns early traction into something enduring. The work is the work. And every decision shapes the next decade.

The rhombus shape also informs the variations allowed for the CRV reconfigurations. These should be used as framing elements in digital and physical ads, social and other contained instances in order to provide variety to our minimal wordmark.

The Bay Area in the 1990s.

### [DoorDash](https://www.crv.com/companies?company=doordash#doordash)
#### Team Members:
- Tony Xu

### [Mercury](https://www.crv.com/companies?company=mercury#mercury)
#### Team Members:
- Immad Akhund

Leading Seed and Series A Rounds Since 1970

Most investors chase patterns and playbooks. CRV pays attention. For 55 years, we've backed founders who see something real before the rest of the world catches up: founders with depth, conviction and an insight that feels almost unfair.

Founders with Conviction

### [Vercel](https://www.crv.com/companies?company=vercel#vercel)
#### Team Members:
- Guillermo Rauch

## Build what lasts.

## Recent Thoughts

### [CRV Risk Takers Ep. 1: Anuj Kothari with Veronica Orellana & Nadine Fattah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH8WIvPE3do)
- CRV's Veronica Orellana and Nadine Fattah sit down with Anuj, one of Mercor's first 10 employees and now a General Manager on the operations team.
- Discussion
- 29 min

### [ Raindrop's CEO Zubin Koticha sits down with CRV's Reid Christian and Brittany Walker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4O92DPK09g)
- Raindrop co-founder and CEO Zubin Koticha shares how the company is building the safety net for AI agents in production, why agent observability is fundamentally different from traditional monitoring, and how self-healing agents are already reshaping the way teams ship fixes, with CRV General Partners Reid Christian and Brittany Walker.
- Discussion
- 19 min

### [Vercel’s CTO of Security, Talha Tariq, Chats With CRV’s James Green](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyagFrMacZw&list=PLQwfjRetpufAh28-OPwVtsZQcbvJ96rVG)
- Vercel’s CTO of Security, Talha Tariq, shares his take on the modern security stack, how the CISO role is evolving and the importance of founders meeting where the market is with CRV general partner James Green. CRV led Vercel's Series A, sits on the board and backed Vercel during its B, C, D and E rounds.
- Discussion
- 39 min

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