Charles River Ventures

Address: 1000 Winter Street, Suite 3300, Waltham, MA 02451
Phone: 781-768-6000

Website: http://www.crv.com

A Brilliant Track Record Isn’t Everything. But it’s the Perfect Place to Start.
Since 1970, Charles River Ventures has helped startups turn their ideas into real, viable businesses. Companies like Cascade, CIENA, ChipCom, NetGenesis, Parametric Technology, Sonus, Speechworks, Stratus Computer, Sybase, Vignette and dozens more have realized stunning success with the backing and support of CRV.
In addition to having one of the longest resumes among venture capital firms, CRV’s investment returns are consistently among the best in our industry.
Our contribution to your idea is more than just dollars.
Charles River Ventures takes a value-added approach to early stage investing. That means we go beyond simply holding the purse strings.
In fact, CRV partners have personal experience as entrepreneurs, CEOs and senior executives of emerging companies. We know what kind of help you need. We’ve been there.
CRV supports our entrepreneurs with innovative capital strategies, while also bringing the best resources and business contacts to bear.
The contact network we’ve built over four decades assures that CRV-backed entrepreneurs will have access to the top players needed to bring their great idea to its fullest fruition.
Four decades later, and we’re still finding new ground to break.
As time goes on, we only grow more excited about the possibilities ahead.
Every day we’re looking for – and finding – ideas that can change the world. Along with the bright, energetic people that champion those ideas.
Our greatest successes, we believe, are the ones that lie ahead.
We Don’t Jump on the Latest Trends. We Help Define them.
No venture or idea is too early for us. We take great pride in serving as deal leaders, helping our startups face down controversy or face up to courageous decisions.
Plus, we bring expertise in tackling critical startup issues: follow-on financings, hiring senior executives and developers, shaping business strategy, creating new product categories, and forming solid partnerships.
We Make the Numbers Work. To Everyone’s Advantage.
Our initial investment can be as small as $25,000, or as large as $5 million.
We expect to invest between $3 and $20 million over the lifetime of a project. This typically results in a significant but non-controlling interest at the time of an IPO.
In addition to initial seed funding, we generally provide leadership on second round financing as well. This ongoing commitment from CRV and depth of capital ensures that follow-on financings are done quickly and on favorable terms.
We offer proven experience and top-drawer contacts in these industries:
* Communications & Technology: Broadband, wireless and enabling chip technologies
* Enterprise Software & Services: Opportunities enabled by the Open Source movement
* Media & Entertainment: New products & services enabled by the pervasive digital infrastructure

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