CRV (Charles River Ventures)
Venture capitalActively deployingBay Area · Seed–Series A · 34 people tracked
Also known as CRV · CRV, LLC
Investment thesis
CRV positions itself as an early-stage investor that emphasizes attention to individual founders rather than following patterns or playbooks. For over five decades, the firm has backed founders with depth, conviction, and unique insight before the broader market recognizes their opportunity. CRV works closely alongside founders through the company-building process, advising on hiring, customer reach, and strategic decisions, with the aim of turning early conviction into enduring companies. The firm focuses on leading seed and Series A rounds and highlights that more than 80 of its backed companies have reached public company status.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 34 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 157 of 192 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×89Enterprise Software ×79SaaS ×58Developer Tools ×37Cybersecurity ×27Data & Infrastructure ×26Cloud Computing ×22Healthtech ×15
HQs:United States×91Canada×1Switzerland×1Spain×1United Kingdom×1Israel×1
Investments · 192 tracked
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Datadog is a cloud-based monitoring and security platform that provides observability, analytics, and protection for infrastructure, applications, and data across enterprises.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureNew York, US
Olivier Pomel(Founder & CEO)inAlexis Le-Quoc(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Amit Agarwal(Executive Officer)Murat Bicer(Director)Dev Ittycheria(Director)Shardul Shah(Director)
DoorDash operates a restaurant delivery platform that connects customers with dining establishments across hundreds of cities in North America through a logistics network.
ConsumerE-commerceFoodTechMarketplacesSan Francisco, US
Tony Xu(Founder/CEO)inAndy Fang(Founder)inStanley Tang(Founder)in
Freenome develops early-stage cancer detection technology using blood tests to identify cancer in its earliest, most treatable phases.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesLondon
Riley Ennis(Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer)Stuart Lawson(Director)Charles Roberts(Director)Gabriel Otte(Director)
Legit Security provides an application security platform that helps organizations identify and manage software vulnerabilities and risks across their development environments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNot stated
Roni Fuchs(CEO & Co-Founder)inLiav Caspi(CTO & Co-Founder)inLior Barak(COO & Co-Founder)in
Los Angeles, US
Zachary Wise(Executive Officer, Director)Sabri Murat Bicer(Director)Brian Zatulove(Executive Officer, Director)Omar Hamoui(Director)
Board seatSabri Murat BicerMurat Bicer· per SEC Form D · $76.5M raise · filed Mar 2022
San Francisco, US
Eric Landau(Executive Officer, Director)Ulrik Hansen(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardT.J. Rylander(Director)Anna Khan(Director)
Board seatSabri Murat Bicer· per SEC Form D · $54M raise · filed Dec 2025
Cribl builds a vendor-agnostic telemetry platform for IT and Security teams at large enterprises to manage, route, and analyze data for investigations and AI-powered operations.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Clint Sharp(Executive Officer, Director)Dritan Bitincka(Executive Officer)Ledion Bitincka(Executive Officer, Director)Zachary Johnson(Executive Officer)Matthew Kelly(Executive Officer)
Board seatMax Gazor· per SEC Form D
Walnut, US
Sabri Murat Bicer(Director)Brian Vallelunga(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatSabri Murat Bicer· per SEC Form D · $20M raise · filed Aug 2022
San Francisco, US
Board seatReid Christian· per SEC Form D · $27.9M raise · filed Jul 2025
Denver, US
Rebecca Liu-Doyle(Director)Bo Pederson(Director)Ivan Osmak(Executive Officer, Director)Reid Christian(Director)
Board seatReid Christian· per SEC Form D · $115.6M raise · filed Dec 2021
Lokalise provides a localization platform that enables businesses to translate and adapt content for multiple markets and languages through automated workflows and integrations.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSDover, US
Peteris Antropovs(Director)Michael Chalfen(Director)Nikolajs Ustinovs(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)NickPetr
Board seatReid Christian· per SEC Form D
San Francisco, US
Immad Akhund(Executive Officer, Director)Jason Zhang(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardTom Brown(Director)Sonya Huang(Director)
Board seatSaar Gur· per SEC Form D · $200M raise · filed May 2026
Nobl9 provides a software reliability platform that helps developers and DevOps teams deliver reliable features faster using software-defined Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to connect monitoring and observability data to business outcomes.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Marcin Kurc(Co-Founder / CEO)in
Board seatSabri Murat Bicer· per SEC Form D
Seattle, US
Board seatSaar Gur· per SEC Form D · $15M raise · filed Dec 2025
Cambridge, US
Izhar Armony(Director)Gabriel Kra(Director)Christopher M. Micali(Executive Officer)Matthew Nordan(Director)Michael Phillips(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatIzhar Armony· per SEC Form D · $4M raise · filed Apr 2015
Atlanta, US
Ted Dintersmith(Director)Rebecca Kaden(Director)Garrett W. Smiley(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Lynton(Director)Indra Sofian(Director)Wesley Samples(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatTed Dintersmith· per SEC Form D · $7M raise · filed Dec 2025
San Jose, US
Thomas Scott(Executive Officer)Carl Showalter(Director)Michael Gallagher(Executive Officer, Director)Cyrus Hadidi(Director)Peter Wexler(Director)Bruce Sachs(Director)
Board seatBruce Sachs· per SEC Form D · $30M raise · filed Jan 2015
New York, US
Gerta Sheganaku(Executive Officer, Director)Reid Christian(Director)Waldemar Hummer(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatReid Christian· per SEC Form D · $3.2M raise · filed Aug 2021
StarTree provides a real-time analytics platform built on Apache Pinot that enables organizations to query petabyte-scale data at speed and cost efficiency.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Kishore Gopalakrishna(Executive Officer, Director)in
Board seatMax Gazor· per SEC Form D
Strapi is a headless content management system that enables content teams to create, update, and publish website and app content without developer assistance.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSParis
Jim Laurie(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Pierre Burgy(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Aurelien Georget(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatReid Christian· per SEC Form D
Cottonwood Heights, US
James Campbell(Executive Officer, Director)Ben Castleton(Executive Officer)Abe Gong(Executive Officer, Director)Bryan Offutt(Director)Elizabeth Immen(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatMax Gazor· per SEC Form D · $40M raise · filed Mar 2022
San Francisco, US
Henry Kim(Executive Officer, Director)Harish Abbott(Director)Richard Heitzmann(Director)Devdutt Yellurkar(Director)Ajay Agarwal(Director)Ken Fine(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatDevdutt Yellurkar· per SEC Form D · $15.7M raise · filed Dec 2016
Vercel is an infrastructure platform for building and deploying applications, with emerging support for agentic capabilities that allow AI agents and humans to collaborate in software development.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Guillermo Rauch(Founder)Geoff Lewis(Director)Daniel Levine(Director)Reid Christian(Director)
Board seatReid Christian· per SEC Form D
Virtusa provides IT and software services for enterprise clients, supporting digital transformation and technology development across multiple industries.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSector AgnosticWestborough, US
Barry R. Nearhos(Director)Vikram S. Pandit(Director)Al-Noor Ramji(Director)Robert E. Davoli(Director)Izhar Armony(Director)Roger Keith Modder(Executive Officer)
Board seatIzhar Armony· per SEC Form D
Palo Alto, US
Tengyu Ma(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatSabri Murat Bicer· per SEC Form D · $28M raise · filed Oct 2024
Toronto
Rebecca Skvorc(Vice President, Finance)Mamoon Hamid(Director)Kevin Kimsa(Director)Devdutt Yellurkar(Director)James Lochrie(Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Director)Kirk Simpson(President, CEO and Director)
Board seatDevdutt Yellurkar· per SEC Form D · $14M raise · filed May 2015
Columbus, US
David Wardell(Director)Kyle Hency(Director)Matthew Gartland(Director)Jonathan Poma(Director)Corbett Morgan(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatSabri Murat Bicer· per SEC Form D · $125M raise · filed Jan 2023
3T Biosciences develops TCR-based immunotherapies for cancer using a proprietary platform that combines machine-learning algorithms with immunological research to identify and validate T cell receptor targets.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtechMedical DevicesSouth San Francisco, US
K. Christopher Garcia
7AI develops AI agents for cybersecurity teams to automate alert triage and response, reducing manual work and improving security outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareBoston, US
Brian(CEO & Co-Founder)inShardul Shah(Director)Asheem Chandna(Director)Lior Div Cohen(Executive Officer, Director)Yonatan Striem Amit(Executive Officer, Director)in
Abacus Insights provides a unified data infrastructure platform that standardizes healthcare data across silos, enabling analytics and cost reduction for healthcare organizations.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechBoston, US
Minalkumar Patel(Executive Officer, Director)Mike Spadafore(Director)
BoardGraham Brooks(Director)Matthew Downs(Director)Dale White(Director)William McIvor(Director)
Accompany was a relationship intelligence and business insights platform that has been acquired by Cisco and integrated into their collaboration products suite.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaS
ActiveFence (trading as Alice) provides AI safety and security research, red teaming services, and governance tools for organizations deploying generative AI and agentic systems.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Apex manufactures productized satellite bus platforms at scale for constellation deployment and critical missions.
Advanced ManufacturingDefense TechHardwareSpace TechLos Angeles, US
Arena is a real-time engagement platform that enables organizations to create immersive interactive experiences, engage audiences through live updates, and personalize customer interactions across news, gaming, and ecommerce industries.
Marketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaSSan Francisco, US
Cybersecurity company using ML to secure non-human identities and app integrations; CRV led its 2023 Series A.
Astrix provides security solutions for AI agents and non-human identities (NHIs) in enterprise cloud environments, helping organizations discover, secure, and govern API keys, OAuth tokens, and service accounts across their infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Alon Jackson(CEO & co-founder)in
Bettermode is a no-code community platform that enables teams to build, manage, and measure community engagement.
Marketing TechSaaS
Bird operates a shared electric scooter and e-bike service designed to reduce car trips and emissions in urban environments across multiple continents.
CleantechMobility & TransportationSanta Monica, US
Blockchain.com is a global infrastructure platform for digital assets that provides cryptocurrency trading, DeFi wallet services, and blockchain exploration tools to millions of users worldwide.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Browserbase provides a browser automation platform that enables AI agents to interact with websites reliably, handling authentication, navigation, and complex actions to automate web-based workflows and data collection.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Construction finance platform, starting with construction loans for banks, to manage risk, boost productivity and improve customer experience.
Capy is a development environment that orchestrates multiple AI agents working in parallel to write and ship software.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Nalin Semwal(Founder)inJustin Sun(Founder)inManabu Juichiya(Director)Michihiro Anesaki(Director)Mitsuo Okada(Executive Officer, Director)
Careforce provides software solutions for preventive care coordination and patient engagement, enabling healthcare organizations to automate appointment scheduling, referral management, and care workflows while improving clinical outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Huzaifa Sial(Founder)inOr Perluk(Director)Benjamin Robert Kuhn(Executive Officer, Director)Ashish Singh(Director)
Carrot is a global fertility and family-building platform that provides access to fertility care, maternity support, and family-building guidance for individuals and families.
FemTechHealthtechSan Francisco, US
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does CRV (Charles River Ventures) invest at?
- CRV (Charles River Ventures) invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What is CRV (Charles River Ventures)'s typical check size?
- CRV (Charles River Ventures) typically writes checks of $250K – $5M.
- What sectors does CRV (Charles River Ventures) focus on?
- CRV (Charles River Ventures) focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Robotics, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is CRV (Charles River Ventures) located?
- CRV (Charles River Ventures) is headquartered in Bay Area, US.
- Does CRV (Charles River Ventures) lead rounds?
- Yes, CRV (Charles River Ventures) leads investment rounds.
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