private equity founded 1970 headquarters cambridge massachusetts united states products venture capital total assets 2.1 billion number of employees 20 website www.crv.com crv aka charles river ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in technology and new media companies . the firm which is based in cambridge massachusetts and menlo park california was founded in 1970 to commercialise research that came out of mit . its name comes from the charles river that runs through boston . the firm has raised over 2.1 billion since inception across 16 funds . upon closing of the 16th fund the firm rebranded to crv . 1 prior to that the firm s most recent fund crv xv closed in february 2012 with 375 million of investor commitments . 2 crv s 14th fund raised 320 million of commitments . 3 among crv s portfolio companies are aveksa 4 blippy cascade communications chipcom ciena corporation continental cablevision crushpath earbits fiksu ibasis netezza onelogin 5 parametric technology corporation simplivity sonus networks speechworks stella 6 stratus technologies sybase 7 twitter udacity vignette corporation yammer 8 and zendesk . 9 references edit lawler ryan . now that charles river ventures has closed its 16th fund it wants to be called crv . techcrunch . retrieved 2016 07 15 . charles river raises a 375m fifteenth fund for early stage investing . pehub february 28 2012 charles river ventures raises 320 million for its fourteenth fund . techcrunch march 30 2009 mcbride ryan . investors back growing bay state software firms aveksa and apparent networks in pair of series c financings . xconomy . retrieved 5 april 2013 . gage deborah october 3 2013 . onelogin picks up 13 million to manage online corporate identities . wall street journal . this week in n.y.c. funding news ellevest ripple keyme new york business journal . retrieved 2016 09 16 . sybase president gains the confidence of apple . new york times august 25 1987 geron tomio . before 1.2 billion deal yammer was side project largest investor george zachary . www.forbes.com . konrad alex. charles river ventures wins big on zendesk s ipo but for boston venture it s bittersweet . www.forbes.com . venture firm is giving loans a try . new york times november 1 2006 why venture funds don t want your cash . new york times july 12 2004 external links edit charles river ventures company website v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies this article about a private equity or venture capital firm based in the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title charles river ventures & oldid 739779604 categories venture capital firms of the united statescompanies established in 1970united states private equity firm stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 september 2016 at 23 17 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view