CRV

Founded in 1970, CRV is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. With nearly $1.5 billion under management, the firm focuses on seed to series B investments in technology, consumer goods, and healthcare companies across North America.

Ipshita Agarwal

Investor

Izhar Armony

General Partner

Jon Auerbach

General Partner

Caitlin Bolnick Rellas

General Partner

Chiraag Deora

Principal

Max Gazor

General Partner

James Green

General Partner

MayC Huang

Partner and Investor

Anna Khan

General Partner

Matan Lamdan

Investor

Veronica Orellana

Investor

Bruce Sachs

General Partner

Sachin Sood

CFO

Kristin Baker Spohn

General Partner

Brittany Walker

Principal

Brian Zhan

Investor

Past deals in Developer Tools

LocalStack

Series A in 2024
LocalStack is the leading cloud development platform for building cloud and serverless apps offline.

Browserbase

Series A in 2024
Browserbase is a cloud-based platform designed for developers to manage and monitor headless browsers. It offers a range of features including serverless infrastructure, session recording, logging, debugging, automated CAPTCHA solving, and stealth mode, enabling clients to efficiently run and oversee browser automation scripts.

Checkly

Series B in 2024
Checkly Inc. is a Berlin-based company that operates a monitoring and testing platform tailored for DevOps teams. Founded in 2018, Checkly provides a solution that allows users to monitor the status and performance of API endpoints and essential site transactions through a unified dashboard. The platform combines end-to-end testing and active monitoring, making it particularly suited for modern, cross-functional development environments. It emphasizes JavaScript-based open-source technology, ensuring ease of integration into existing development workflows. Checkly's features include transaction monitoring, expiry alerts, and the capability to take screenshots, enabling developers to gain immediate insights into application performance and user interactions. With an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts, Checkly embraces a remote-first approach, reflecting its commitment to flexibility and innovation in tech monitoring.

Meilisearch

Series A in 2022
Meilisearch develops an open-source search engine API platform. It offers fast, customizable searching and indexing capabilities, utilizing algorithms and natural language processing for relevant results.

Pipedream

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2018 by Jason Endo, Dan Hsiung, TJ Koblentz, and Tod Sacerdoti, Pipedream is a platform enabling developers to build workflows using triggers like HTTP requests or schedules. It offers code samples for integrated apps and automatically handles state management, authentication, observability, and error handling.

Sleuth

Series A in 2022
Sleuth provides mission control software for teams practicing Continuous Delivery. It offers centralized visibility into software delivery performance using DORA metrics, empowering developers with insights and automation to improve deployment efficiency and predictability.

Doppler

Series A in 2022
Doppler provides centralized secret management software that securely stores and manages sensitive data such as API keys, credentials, environment variables, and database URLs. The platform supports multiple languages and infrastructure, enabling developers and security teams to keep secrets and application configurations in sync across projects, environments, and teams. It references frequently used secrets and uses a command-line interface to fetch the correct secrets based on the current project directory, while delivering security alerts and visibility to help prevent configuration issues. Founded in 2018, Doppler is headquartered in California and serves organizations seeking to improve developer productivity and security through centralized secret management.

Great Expectations

Series B in 2022
Great Expectations is a developer of an open-source data quality platform that aims to enhance the speed and integrity of data collaboration. The company focuses on establishing a shared data quality standard, facilitating easier testing of data pipelines to boost overall data quality. Its platform employs machine learning algorithms to validate, document, and profile data, addressing issues related to pipeline debt. By providing an integration library, Great Expectations enables organizations to uphold their data standards and improve communication regarding data across different teams.

Meilisearch

Seed Round in 2022
Meilisearch develops an open-source search engine API platform. It offers fast, customizable searching and indexing capabilities, utilizing algorithms and natural language processing for relevant results.

Release

Series A in 2021
Release is a company that specializes in simplifying the development process by providing a staging management toolkit. This toolkit allows users to define environments, resources, workflows, and hostnames, enabling the creation of development, staging, demo, and production environments based on templates automatically derived from docker-compose files. By eliminating the need to manage underlying infrastructure, Release enables businesses to automate the deployment process, ensuring that environments are automatically generated and updated with each code change or pull request. Additionally, users can manually deploy environments through the Release user interface. Founded in 2019 by Tommy, David, and Erik, Release aims to enhance collaborative development cycles by streamlining integration with existing tools and facilitating permanent production environments.

Postman

Series D in 2021
Postman is a software company that provides an API development and testing platform used by millions of developers and thousands of companies worldwide. The platform enables developers to build, test, and debug APIs by sending HTTP, REST, GraphQL, and SOAP requests, organizing requests into collections, and collaborating across teams with shared workspaces and built-in version control. It supports automated testing and integration with CI/CD pipelines, simulates API endpoints to communicate expected behavior, and generates machine-readable documentation. The platform also simplifies onboarding and collaboration among developers, testers, and product managers, helping teams design, build, and publish robust APIs. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco with a presence in Bengaluru, the company focuses on API-first development and streamlining the API lifecycle.

Checkly

Series A in 2021
Checkly Inc. is a Berlin-based company that operates a monitoring and testing platform tailored for DevOps teams. Founded in 2018, Checkly provides a solution that allows users to monitor the status and performance of API endpoints and essential site transactions through a unified dashboard. The platform combines end-to-end testing and active monitoring, making it particularly suited for modern, cross-functional development environments. It emphasizes JavaScript-based open-source technology, ensuring ease of integration into existing development workflows. Checkly's features include transaction monitoring, expiry alerts, and the capability to take screenshots, enabling developers to gain immediate insights into application performance and user interactions. With an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts, Checkly embraces a remote-first approach, reflecting its commitment to flexibility and innovation in tech monitoring.

Great Expectations

Series A in 2021
Great Expectations is a developer of an open-source data quality platform that aims to enhance the speed and integrity of data collaboration. The company focuses on establishing a shared data quality standard, facilitating easier testing of data pipelines to boost overall data quality. Its platform employs machine learning algorithms to validate, document, and profile data, addressing issues related to pipeline debt. By providing an integration library, Great Expectations enables organizations to uphold their data standards and improve communication regarding data across different teams.

Valist

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Valist is a developer of a secure software distribution platform tailored for the needs of developers and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). The company’s platform facilitates the secure publishing, fetching, and auto-updating of software and games, while also allowing for fair monetization. Utilizing a decentralized infrastructure, Valist provides essential services such as application code signing and access control, enabling users to manage product access and key management efficiently. The platform incorporates hardware security module (HSM) technology on mobile devices, which enhances the security of software signing and simplifies the management of access control and key rotations. Through these innovations, Valist aims to streamline the software distribution process while ensuring robust security measures are in place.

LocalStack

Seed Round in 2021
LocalStack is the leading cloud development platform for building cloud and serverless apps offline.

Tipe

Seed Round in 2020
Tipe Inc., founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in San Diego, Sacramento, and Austin, specializes in developing an open-source headless content management system (CMS) designed for teams. Their flagship product, Tipe, is a customizable CMS that allows users to create, update, preview, and publish content efficiently. The platform is particularly useful for developers as it generates an API-first CMS from a GraphQL schema, featuring offline prototyping and an inline editor. This tool enables non-developers to make content edits independently, streamlining the workflow and reducing the need for constant developer intervention.

Postman

Series C in 2020
Postman is a software company that provides an API development and testing platform used by millions of developers and thousands of companies worldwide. The platform enables developers to build, test, and debug APIs by sending HTTP, REST, GraphQL, and SOAP requests, organizing requests into collections, and collaborating across teams with shared workspaces and built-in version control. It supports automated testing and integration with CI/CD pipelines, simulates API endpoints to communicate expected behavior, and generates machine-readable documentation. The platform also simplifies onboarding and collaboration among developers, testers, and product managers, helping teams design, build, and publish robust APIs. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco with a presence in Bengaluru, the company focuses on API-first development and streamlining the API lifecycle.

Gatsby

Series B in 2020
Gatsby, Inc. operates a platform that enables Fortune 500 companies to create websites and applications efficiently. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, the company specializes in a React-based static site generator (SSG) that revolutionizes web development by integrating best-practice techniques with dynamic data integration through a variety of plugins. This allows developers to leverage powerful features such as route-based code splitting, service workers, and offline support while maintaining user-friendly access for non-technical content creators. Gatsby's platform streamlines the development process, offering exceptional performance and simplifying deployment with one-click functionality. Its widespread adoption is evident, with tens of thousands of developers utilizing the platform, highlighting its significance in the modern web development landscape.

Sleuth

Seed Round in 2020
Sleuth provides mission control software for teams practicing Continuous Delivery. It offers centralized visibility into software delivery performance using DORA metrics, empowering developers with insights and automation to improve deployment efficiency and predictability.

Gatsby

Series A in 2019
Gatsby, Inc. operates a platform that enables Fortune 500 companies to create websites and applications efficiently. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, the company specializes in a React-based static site generator (SSG) that revolutionizes web development by integrating best-practice techniques with dynamic data integration through a variety of plugins. This allows developers to leverage powerful features such as route-based code splitting, service workers, and offline support while maintaining user-friendly access for non-technical content creators. Gatsby's platform streamlines the development process, offering exceptional performance and simplifying deployment with one-click functionality. Its widespread adoption is evident, with tens of thousands of developers utilizing the platform, highlighting its significance in the modern web development landscape.

Postman

Series B in 2019
Postman is a software company that provides an API development and testing platform used by millions of developers and thousands of companies worldwide. The platform enables developers to build, test, and debug APIs by sending HTTP, REST, GraphQL, and SOAP requests, organizing requests into collections, and collaborating across teams with shared workspaces and built-in version control. It supports automated testing and integration with CI/CD pipelines, simulates API endpoints to communicate expected behavior, and generates machine-readable documentation. The platform also simplifies onboarding and collaboration among developers, testers, and product managers, helping teams design, build, and publish robust APIs. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco with a presence in Bengaluru, the company focuses on API-first development and streamlining the API lifecycle.

Chromatic

Seed Round in 2018
Chromatic automates user interface feedback collection, visual testing, and documentation. It helps developers iterate faster by reducing manual work and integrates with devops tools to enhance workflows without adding extra tasks.

Xamarin

Series C in 2014
Xamarin is a company that specializes in providing development tools for building and testing native mobile applications. Its core offering includes a cross-platform development software that enables developers to create fully native applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, allowing for significant code sharing across platforms. Xamarin aims to simplify the mobile application creation process by allowing businesses to leverage their existing skills, teams, and tools to deliver high-quality applications efficiently. With a user base of over 700,000 developers, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, Xamarin is recognized as a leader in enterprise mobile development. Its products facilitate the rapid development of mission-critical consumer and enterprise applications, making it a valuable resource for organizations looking to enhance their mobile presence.

Xamarin

Series B in 2013
Xamarin is a company that specializes in providing development tools for building and testing native mobile applications. Its core offering includes a cross-platform development software that enables developers to create fully native applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, allowing for significant code sharing across platforms. Xamarin aims to simplify the mobile application creation process by allowing businesses to leverage their existing skills, teams, and tools to deliver high-quality applications efficiently. With a user base of over 700,000 developers, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, Xamarin is recognized as a leader in enterprise mobile development. Its products facilitate the rapid development of mission-critical consumer and enterprise applications, making it a valuable resource for organizations looking to enhance their mobile presence.

Xamarin

Series A in 2012
Xamarin is a company that specializes in providing development tools for building and testing native mobile applications. Its core offering includes a cross-platform development software that enables developers to create fully native applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, allowing for significant code sharing across platforms. Xamarin aims to simplify the mobile application creation process by allowing businesses to leverage their existing skills, teams, and tools to deliver high-quality applications efficiently. With a user base of over 700,000 developers, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, Xamarin is recognized as a leader in enterprise mobile development. Its products facilitate the rapid development of mission-critical consumer and enterprise applications, making it a valuable resource for organizations looking to enhance their mobile presence.

Game Closure

Seed Round in 2011
Game Closure is a company that offers an HTML-based multiplayer game development platform designed to simplify the creation and distribution of games for developers. Its software development kit (SDK) allows users to leverage familiar Web APIs to produce high-quality games that can be published across both iOS and Android ecosystems. By streamlining the processes of debugging, hosting, and development, Game Closure enables game studios to overcome traditional barriers associated with multiplayer game creation. Additionally, the platform compiles games into hardware-accelerated native applications, facilitating immediate distribution on various devices. This approach provides developers with a cost-effective means to enter the competitive multiplayer and multiplatform gaming markets.

CloudShare

Venture Round in 2011
CloudShare Ltd. is a cloud computing company that provides a platform for developing, testing, and managing IT applications and systems. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a range of solutions tailored for various users, including enterprises, developers, and IT professionals. Its primary offerings include CloudShare Enterprise for large teams and organizations, CloudShare Labs for developers and consultants, and CloudShare ProPlus for individuals seeking on-demand access to templates and multi-machine environments. The platform supports virtual training, demos, proof-of-concept evaluations, and sales enablement, allowing users to build, copy, and share IT environments efficiently. CloudShare's solutions facilitate collaboration and productivity among technology vendors and enterprises, leveraging partnerships with industry leaders such as IBM and VMware.

Verious

Seed Round in 2011
Verious is the world's first marketplace for mobile app components, enabling developers to license pre-built, pre-tested libraries to accelerate time-to-market, access 3rd party content and increase in-app monetization. Verious serves as a lens on the Mobile App Development category so mobile app developers can find all the resources they need to accelerate their development efforts, in one place. Verious lists mobile application components for iOS, Android, HTML5 and Windows Phone; mobile SDKs; mobile app development tools and services; major open source projects; and freelance and outsourced mobile app service providers. Verious serves independent app developers, enterprise developers and service providers so they can find, discover and license software libraries to accelerate the development of their mobile apps and incorporate 3rd party services that they would not be able to develop on their own (including components for in-app monetization). The company's patent-pending MobileCode Wrapper allows a developer who is listing a component to publish libraries that are both copy-protected and metered, enabling Verous to enforce various licensing models (annual fee, perpetual fee, volume-based tiered pricing, source code buyout). For buyers, Verious also features the ability to post and follow a component request so that a component developer can see which components are most in demand to meet the needs of the market.

RethinkDB

Seed Round in 2010
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform specifically designed for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications efficiently by allowing the database to continuously push updated query results to applications, eliminating the need for polling. RethinkDB supports storage of data in JSON documents and features a powerful query language that includes advanced functionalities like table joins and groupBy. The platform is built with a highly parallelized architecture, ensuring reliability across various workloads and edge cases. Additionally, it offers web-based tools for managing clusters, providing users with live statistics and complete visibility into ongoing operations.

CloudShare

Series B in 2009
CloudShare Ltd. is a cloud computing company that provides a platform for developing, testing, and managing IT applications and systems. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a range of solutions tailored for various users, including enterprises, developers, and IT professionals. Its primary offerings include CloudShare Enterprise for large teams and organizations, CloudShare Labs for developers and consultants, and CloudShare ProPlus for individuals seeking on-demand access to templates and multi-machine environments. The platform supports virtual training, demos, proof-of-concept evaluations, and sales enablement, allowing users to build, copy, and share IT environments efficiently. CloudShare's solutions facilitate collaboration and productivity among technology vendors and enterprises, leveraging partnerships with industry leaders such as IBM and VMware.
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