CRV (Charles River Ventures) — 2024 Investments

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

LDLior Div(Founder)inYSYonatan Striem Amit(CTO & Co-Founder)inBMBrian McDonough(Chief Revenue Officer)inALAllen Lieberman(Chief Product Officer)inIBIsrael Barak(CISO)inNBNathan Burke(Chief Marketing Officer)in

Co-investorsBLBlackstoneGRGreylock PartnersINIndex VenturesSPSpark Capital

Aerodome, part of Flock Safety, provides a Drone as First Responder (DFR) system that remotely deploys docked drones to 911 calls, license-plate hits, and gunshot alerts, streaming live HD, thermal, and night-vision video to first responders and dispatch.

Defense TechGovTechHardwareRobotics

Kenaniah Cerny(Founder)Rahul Sidhu(Founder)

Co-investors202048 VenturesANAndreessen HorowitzANAntiEVEverywhere VenturesPRPreston-Werner VenturesFOFord Street Ventures+2 more

Apex provides agentless security and governance for enterprise AI usage, giving organizations visibility into AI activity, detecting threats like prompt injection and data leakage, and enforcing policies across tools such as ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and code assistants.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Matan Derman(CEO)inTYTomer Y. Avni(CPO)inOmer Katz(CTO)in

Co-investorsSASam AltmanINIndex VenturesSESequoia CapitalVIVillage GlobalGLGlade Brook Capital PartnersINInterlagos

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

Paul Klein(Founder)Paul Klein IV(Founder)

Co-investorsAVavraKLKleiner PerkinsNONotable CapitalOUOutset CapitalWAWayfinder VenturesBABase Case Capital+4 more

Clerk provides user management and authentication infrastructure for developers, enabling quick integration of complete user management systems into applications.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Braden Sidoti(Founder)inCSColin Sidoti(Founder)inJames Perkins(Founder)

BoardShvetank Jain(Director)KMKaran Mehandru(Director)in

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzAVavraMAMadrona Venture GroupMAMango CapitalMAMaximilian StoiberMEMenlo Ventures+7 more

Depot is a cloud-based build platform that accelerates software compilation and integration with container tools to reduce developer wait times.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

KGKyle Galbraith(Founder)inJGJacob Gillespie(Founder)inTori Elstrom(Head of Developer Marketing)Pedro Guerra(Enterprise Support Lead)

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorAVAviso VenturesFEFelicis VenturesKIKima VenturesPIPioneerAFAfore Capital+7 more

Flipturn provides an EV charging management platform for electric fleets and commercial charging operators to manage charging operations, minimize utility costs, and improve charger uptime.

EnergyIoTSaaSNew York, US

KSKatie Siegel(Founder)inSSSashko Stubailo(Founder)inKathryn Siegel(Executive Officer, Director)Caitlin Bolnick(Director)Oleksandr Stubailo(Director)

Co-investorsACAccel

Gorgias offers a voice/phone support product that centralizes calls, emails, and SMS into one helpdesk, with features like interactive voice response, call routing, and transfers.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing TechSaaS

RLRomain Lapeyre(Founder)in

Co-investorsSHShopifyKIKima VenturesALAlvenGRGreycroftSASaaStr FundSASapphire Ventures+1 more

LanceDB is an AI-native multimodal lakehouse platform that unifies training data across multiple systems to accelerate model development and dataset creation at scale.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

CSChang She(Founder)inLXLei Xu(Founder)in

Co-investorsANAngel Collective Opportunity FundESEssence Venture CapitalINInvest In DataRORogue CapitalSKSky9 CapitalSOSoma Capital+13 more

LocalStack for Snowflake is a local emulator of the Snowflake data platform, letting developers run and test Snowflake features such as tables, tasks, streams, stored procedures, and API integrations on their own machines.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS

Gerta Sheganaku(Founder)Thomas Rausch(Founder)Waldemar Hummer(Founder)

Co-investorsHEHeavybitNONotable Capital

Napkin is an AI tool that converts text into visuals to help users create compelling diagrams and presentations for business communication.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

PSPramod Sharma(Founder)inJSJerome Scholler(CTO / Founder)inJérôme Scholler(Founder)

Co-investorsACAccel

Oak provides identity management solutions for enterprise organizations, with implementation support for Fortune 500 companies.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareBrunswick, US

Thomas Law(Manager & Member)inShai Morag(Founder)Tal Marom(Founder)

Co-investorsACAccelALAlphaDriveHEHetz VenturesTRTrue VenturesGRGreylock Partners

Skild develops AI software and robotics systems that enable robots to operate autonomously in unstructured, real-world environments, performing tasks like navigation, grasping, and inspection without constant human intervention.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsPittsburgh, US

DPDeepak Pathak(Founder)inAbhinav Gupta(Founder)inDeepak Pathak Abhinav Gupta(Founder)

Co-investors4949 Palms VenturesACAccess Ventures (New York)ALAlpha Square GroupBEBerkeley FrontierCOCoatue ManagementDGDG Daiwa Ventures+30 more

Voyage AI provides embedding models and reranker technologies for unstructured data retrieval, enabling semantic search and improved contextual information retrieval with optimized performance for specialized domains.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

HLHong Liu(Founder)inKaidi Cao(Founder)Tengyu Ma(Founder)

Co-investorsFUFusionPEPear VCRWRWT HorizonsTETectonic VenturesWIWingDADatabricks Ventures

World Class Health operates a Center of Excellence platform that coordinates specialty surgical and procedural care for self-insured employers.

Digital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMedical DevicesNew York City, US

SNSiddharth Nambiar(Founder)in

Co-investorsALAlleyCorpCICity LightJOJoyance PartnersLILifeX VenturesTRTRANSFORMATION CAPITALWOWormhole Capital+1 more