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CRV stages, portfolio and investment profile
Cambridge, MA early-stage firm founded in 1970 (formerly Charles River Ventures). Refocused on seed and Series A with its $750M CRV XX fund; backed DoorDash at seed and led Series A rounds in companies like Mercury and Vercel.
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Stage-based planning range
$1M–$10M
This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.
Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.
No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.
Investment stages
Leads: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Participates: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+
Sector focus
Not recorded
Geography
Cambridge, MA
Founded 1970
Fund size / AUM
Not recorded
A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.
Portfolio in our directory
21
Linked startup profiles
Latest fund vehicle
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Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.
Recent tracked investment
Not recorded
No dated round explicitly links this fund.
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Last verified: 2025-09-28T14:39:14.324Z. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list CRV as an investor (21 total).
- Aerodome Drone-as-first-responder platform for police — automated aerial response to 911 calls.
- Alice AI trust, safety, and security for frontier labs and enterprises — formerly ActiveFence.
- Apex Space Productized satellite bus manufacturer (Aries, Nova, and Comet platforms).
- Capriza Enterprise mobility platform that auto-converts web apps to mobile (legacy).
- Clerk Drop-in authentication, user management, and session handling for web and mobile apps.
- CodeRabbit AI-native control layer for software change — independent code review plus agentic triage, explainability, and post-merge security.
- Concourse Enterprise AI agents connected to ERPs and finance systems for corporate teams.
- DoorDash U.S. delivery logistics platform — public on NYSE as DASH since December 2020.
- Dyno Therapeutics AI-designed AAV capsids for gene therapy — CapsidMap platform with Novartis, Sarepta, Roche.
- HumanAPI Human API aggregated consumer health records from EHRs and wearables before LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquired it in 2023.
- Jeeves Global corporate cards and expense management for startups operating across borders.
- Kong Cloud API gateway and connectivity platform built on open-source Kong.
- Lighter zk-rollup perpetual futures DEX with on-chain order matching.
- Mercury Startup banking — checking, treasury, cards, and financial workflows for tech companies.
- Protege Governed marketplace licensing real-world multimodal data for AI training.
- Recursion Techbio company using automated labs and ML for drug discovery at scale.
- Rundoo AI-first system of record and POS for independent hardware, paint, lumber, farm, and garden supply stores.
- Shef Marketplace connecting vetted home cooks with local buyers for homemade meal delivery.
- SignalFx Cloud-native monitoring platform using streaming analytics.
- Theker Barcelona-based full-stack generalist robots for industrial manipulation — deployed live under a Robot-as-a-Service model.
- Zenefits SMB HR, benefits, and payroll SaaS — acquired by TriNet in 2022, now TriNet HR Plus.
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