Charles River Ventures

Type	Private
Founded	1970
Headquarters	Waltham, Massachusetts
Industry	Private equity
Products	Venture capital
Total assets	$2.1+ billion
Employees	20+
Website	www.crv.com

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 Waltham, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California, was founded in 1970. The firm has raised over $2.1 billion since inception across 13 funds. The firm's most recent fund, Charles River Partnership XIII, closed in April 2007 with $285 million of investor commitments.^[1] CRV's 12th fund raised $250 million of commitments.^[2]

Among CRV's portfolio companies are Cascade Communications, Ciena Corporation, Continental Cablevision, ChipCom, iBasis, Netezza, Parametric Technology Corporation, Sonus Networks, SpeechWorks, Stratus Technologies, Sybase^[3], Twitter and Vignette Corporation.

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