CRV

CRV, established in 1970, is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with a 50-year history of investing in early-stage technology, consumer, and life science companies. With approximately $1.5 billion under management, CRV focuses on seed to series B investments, taking a hands-on, value-added approach to support its portfolio. The firm has backed nearly 400 startups, with half resulting in IPOs or acquisitions, including notable companies like Twitter and Zendesk. CRV has offices in Cambridge, MA, and Menlo Park, CA.

Izhar Armony

General Partner

Jon Auerbach

General Partner

Murat Bicer

General Partner

Chiraag Deora

Investor

Max Gazor

General Partner

James Green

General Partner

Saar Gur

General Partner

MayC Huang

Partner and Investor

Anna Khan

General Partner

Matan Lamdan

Investor

Justine Moore

Venture Investor

Veronica Orellana

Investor

Caitlin Bolnick Rellas

General Partner

Bruce Sachs

General Partner

Sachin Sood

CFO

Brittany Walker

General Partner

Devdutt Yellurkar

General Partner

George Zachary

General Partner

Brian Zhan

Investor

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Outtake

Series A in 2025
Outtake is a company specializing in AI-driven cyber defense solutions. It utilizes intelligent AI agents to automate responses, classify threats in real time, and detect advanced cyber threats. The company emphasizes combating fraud and impersonation through open-source intelligence, multi-surface anti-phishing techniques, and digital identity protection. Additionally, Outtake is developing an intelligence platform aimed at improving the creation, management, and optimization of content. Currently, the company operates in stealth mode, working on innovative approaches to enhance cybersecurity measures.

Trail Security

Series A in 2024
Trail Security, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in data loss prevention. It offers an AI-driven platform that safeguards sensitive data across cloud, endpoint, and network systems. The company employs real-time monitoring, automated classification, and machine learning to detect, block, and remediate potential data breaches, and to identify unusual user behavior. It provides real-time insights into data access and sharing, protecting data at rest, in use, and transit. Currently, Trail Security operates in stealth mode.

Cribl

Series E in 2024
Cribl, Inc. is a software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in managing and processing large volumes of data through its flagship product, Logstream. This software enables organizations to transform logs and metrics in real time, eliminate unnecessary data ingestion, and efficiently route relevant information to cost-effective destinations. Cribl's platform supports the implementation of observability pipelines that can handle data at Petabyte scale, with a centralized management console that oversees numerous worker nodes. By enhancing data management capabilities, Cribl empowers businesses to achieve greater visibility and control over their real-time data, aligning with compliance and privacy requirements while enriching data with business context.

Tinybird

Series B in 2024
Tinybird is a developer of data analytical software that empowers data teams to create scalable data products from analytical data. The platform transforms raw data into real-time insights and actions, enabling businesses to unlock its full potential. Tinybird's software facilitates the rapid development of low-latency, high-concurrency APIs, allowing developers to build applications efficiently using familiar tools such as SQL and APIs. It supports a wide range of users, from start-ups to global enterprises, by providing capabilities for analytics, data exploration, operational workflows, and product instrumentation. This enables teams to deliver real-time answers at scale through analytical API endpoints, streamlining the process of turning data into business value.

StarTree

Series B in 2022
StarTree is a cloud-based software company that specializes in providing advanced analytics solutions for business customers. Founded by the original engineering team behind Apache Pinot™, StarTree offers a platform that enables organizations to gain actionable insights from both real-time and historical data. The company's technology supports concurrent, scalable, and real-time analytics, allowing clients to make informed decisions efficiently. StarTree Cloud has been adopted by a diverse range of companies across various industries, facilitating the deployment and operation of real-time analytics at scale. Notable users include firms from technology, retail, and food delivery sectors, reflecting the platform's versatility and effectiveness in meeting the analytics needs of modern businesses.

Cribl

Series D in 2022
Cribl, Inc. is a software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in managing and processing large volumes of data through its flagship product, Logstream. This software enables organizations to transform logs and metrics in real time, eliminate unnecessary data ingestion, and efficiently route relevant information to cost-effective destinations. Cribl's platform supports the implementation of observability pipelines that can handle data at Petabyte scale, with a centralized management console that oversees numerous worker nodes. By enhancing data management capabilities, Cribl empowers businesses to achieve greater visibility and control over their real-time data, aligning with compliance and privacy requirements while enriching data with business context.

Pipedream

Series A in 2022
Pipedream is an online integration platform founded in 2018 in San Francisco by Jason Endo, Dan Hsiung, TJ Koblentz, and Tod Sacerdoti. The platform allows users to build workflows by selecting triggers such as HTTP requests, schedules, and app events, and adding customizable steps. Pipedream simplifies the development process by providing code samples for various integrated applications, which can be tailored using API documentation. This enables developers to create workflows efficiently, as the platform generates production-ready code quickly while managing state, authentication, observability, and error handling. By eliminating the need for users to manage servers or cloud resources, Pipedream streamlines the integration of APIs and enhances workflow execution.

Tinybird

Series A in 2022
Tinybird is a developer of data analytical software that empowers data teams to create scalable data products from analytical data. The platform transforms raw data into real-time insights and actions, enabling businesses to unlock its full potential. Tinybird's software facilitates the rapid development of low-latency, high-concurrency APIs, allowing developers to build applications efficiently using familiar tools such as SQL and APIs. It supports a wide range of users, from start-ups to global enterprises, by providing capabilities for analytics, data exploration, operational workflows, and product instrumentation. This enables teams to deliver real-time answers at scale through analytical API endpoints, streamlining the process of turning data into business value.

Cribl

Series C in 2021
Cribl, Inc. is a software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in managing and processing large volumes of data through its flagship product, Logstream. This software enables organizations to transform logs and metrics in real time, eliminate unnecessary data ingestion, and efficiently route relevant information to cost-effective destinations. Cribl's platform supports the implementation of observability pipelines that can handle data at Petabyte scale, with a centralized management console that oversees numerous worker nodes. By enhancing data management capabilities, Cribl empowers businesses to achieve greater visibility and control over their real-time data, aligning with compliance and privacy requirements while enriching data with business context.

Agora

Seed Round in 2021
Agora is a compensation platform that helps companies figure out how to pay their employees by making data-driven decisions. It helps companies centralize their data, set their pay structure, benchmark themselves against similar companies in real-time, and communicate total rewards to their candidates and employees. Figure streamlines complicated manual compensation processes into simple, secure, and collaborative workflows. Agora's mission is to bring equity and transparency to compensation for companies, employees, and candidates.

StarTree

Series A in 2021
StarTree is a cloud-based software company that specializes in providing advanced analytics solutions for business customers. Founded by the original engineering team behind Apache Pinot™, StarTree offers a platform that enables organizations to gain actionable insights from both real-time and historical data. The company's technology supports concurrent, scalable, and real-time analytics, allowing clients to make informed decisions efficiently. StarTree Cloud has been adopted by a diverse range of companies across various industries, facilitating the deployment and operation of real-time analytics at scale. Notable users include firms from technology, retail, and food delivery sectors, reflecting the platform's versatility and effectiveness in meeting the analytics needs of modern businesses.

Parabol

Series A in 2021
Parabol, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an open-source meeting application tailored for remote and agile teams. Founded in 2015 and based in Alhambra, California, Parabol's platform facilitates effective communication and collaboration among distributed teams, allowing them to conduct retrospective meetings and evaluate their processes without the need for traditional tools like sticky notes. The application generates automatic insights about team performance by analyzing online collaboration activity and consolidating meeting notes and tasks into summaries. This information is shared in real time or asynchronously, ensuring all team members are on the same page, regardless of their location or time zone. Parabol also offers integration with popular project management tools, enabling teams to track progress and address roadblocks efficiently. By focusing on clarity and collaboration, Parabol aims to enhance team dynamics and unlock better performance.

Cribl

Series B in 2020
Cribl, Inc. is a software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in managing and processing large volumes of data through its flagship product, Logstream. This software enables organizations to transform logs and metrics in real time, eliminate unnecessary data ingestion, and efficiently route relevant information to cost-effective destinations. Cribl's platform supports the implementation of observability pipelines that can handle data at Petabyte scale, with a centralized management console that oversees numerous worker nodes. By enhancing data management capabilities, Cribl empowers businesses to achieve greater visibility and control over their real-time data, aligning with compliance and privacy requirements while enriching data with business context.

Cribl

Venture Round in 2020
Cribl, Inc. is a software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in managing and processing large volumes of data through its flagship product, Logstream. This software enables organizations to transform logs and metrics in real time, eliminate unnecessary data ingestion, and efficiently route relevant information to cost-effective destinations. Cribl's platform supports the implementation of observability pipelines that can handle data at Petabyte scale, with a centralized management console that oversees numerous worker nodes. By enhancing data management capabilities, Cribl empowers businesses to achieve greater visibility and control over their real-time data, aligning with compliance and privacy requirements while enriching data with business context.

Parabol

Seed Round in 2019
Parabol, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an open-source meeting application tailored for remote and agile teams. Founded in 2015 and based in Alhambra, California, Parabol's platform facilitates effective communication and collaboration among distributed teams, allowing them to conduct retrospective meetings and evaluate their processes without the need for traditional tools like sticky notes. The application generates automatic insights about team performance by analyzing online collaboration activity and consolidating meeting notes and tasks into summaries. This information is shared in real time or asynchronously, ensuring all team members are on the same page, regardless of their location or time zone. Parabol also offers integration with popular project management tools, enabling teams to track progress and address roadblocks efficiently. By focusing on clarity and collaboration, Parabol aims to enhance team dynamics and unlock better performance.

StarTree

Seed Round in 2019
StarTree is a cloud-based software company that specializes in providing advanced analytics solutions for business customers. Founded by the original engineering team behind Apache Pinot™, StarTree offers a platform that enables organizations to gain actionable insights from both real-time and historical data. The company's technology supports concurrent, scalable, and real-time analytics, allowing clients to make informed decisions efficiently. StarTree Cloud has been adopted by a diverse range of companies across various industries, facilitating the deployment and operation of real-time analytics at scale. Notable users include firms from technology, retail, and food delivery sectors, reflecting the platform's versatility and effectiveness in meeting the analytics needs of modern businesses.

Cybereason

Series E in 2019
Cybereason Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in endpoint protection, offering a comprehensive platform for endpoint detection and response, next-generation antivirus, and anti-ransomware solutions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo, Cybereason's platform is distinguished by its custom-built in-memory graph, an automated hunting engine that identifies behavioral patterns across endpoints and reveals malicious operations. The platform includes various products designed to detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats in real time, such as Deep Detect & Respond, Deep Prevent, Deep Investigate, and Deep Respond. Among its offerings is RansomFree, which protects against ransomware attacks. The company also provides managed monitoring services, surveillance, investigation, and training to bolster enterprise security against advanced cyber adversaries.

Drift

Series C in 2018
Drift is a revenue acceleration platform that leverages conversational marketing and sales techniques to enhance business growth and customer lifetime value. The platform is utilized by over 50,000 companies to synchronize sales and marketing efforts, providing a cohesive customer experience. Drift enables businesses to engage website visitors in real-time through the use of bots and artificial intelligence, facilitating live chat sessions that gather immediate customer feedback. This functionality allows clients to convert website traffic into qualified sales meetings, streamline the sales cycle, and create a contemporary buying experience for potential customers.

Cribl

Seed Round in 2018
Cribl, Inc. is a software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in managing and processing large volumes of data through its flagship product, Logstream. This software enables organizations to transform logs and metrics in real time, eliminate unnecessary data ingestion, and efficiently route relevant information to cost-effective destinations. Cribl's platform supports the implementation of observability pipelines that can handle data at Petabyte scale, with a centralized management console that oversees numerous worker nodes. By enhancing data management capabilities, Cribl empowers businesses to achieve greater visibility and control over their real-time data, aligning with compliance and privacy requirements while enriching data with business context.

Drift

Series B in 2017
Drift is a revenue acceleration platform that leverages conversational marketing and sales techniques to enhance business growth and customer lifetime value. The platform is utilized by over 50,000 companies to synchronize sales and marketing efforts, providing a cohesive customer experience. Drift enables businesses to engage website visitors in real-time through the use of bots and artificial intelligence, facilitating live chat sessions that gather immediate customer feedback. This functionality allows clients to convert website traffic into qualified sales meetings, streamline the sales cycle, and create a contemporary buying experience for potential customers.

Cybereason

Series C in 2015
Cybereason Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in endpoint protection, offering a comprehensive platform for endpoint detection and response, next-generation antivirus, and anti-ransomware solutions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo, Cybereason's platform is distinguished by its custom-built in-memory graph, an automated hunting engine that identifies behavioral patterns across endpoints and reveals malicious operations. The platform includes various products designed to detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats in real time, such as Deep Detect & Respond, Deep Prevent, Deep Investigate, and Deep Respond. Among its offerings is RansomFree, which protects against ransomware attacks. The company also provides managed monitoring services, surveillance, investigation, and training to bolster enterprise security against advanced cyber adversaries.

Cybereason

Series B in 2015
Cybereason Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in endpoint protection, offering a comprehensive platform for endpoint detection and response, next-generation antivirus, and anti-ransomware solutions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo, Cybereason's platform is distinguished by its custom-built in-memory graph, an automated hunting engine that identifies behavioral patterns across endpoints and reveals malicious operations. The platform includes various products designed to detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats in real time, such as Deep Detect & Respond, Deep Prevent, Deep Investigate, and Deep Respond. Among its offerings is RansomFree, which protects against ransomware attacks. The company also provides managed monitoring services, surveillance, investigation, and training to bolster enterprise security against advanced cyber adversaries.

Drift

Series A in 2015
Drift is a revenue acceleration platform that leverages conversational marketing and sales techniques to enhance business growth and customer lifetime value. The platform is utilized by over 50,000 companies to synchronize sales and marketing efforts, providing a cohesive customer experience. Drift enables businesses to engage website visitors in real-time through the use of bots and artificial intelligence, facilitating live chat sessions that gather immediate customer feedback. This functionality allows clients to convert website traffic into qualified sales meetings, streamline the sales cycle, and create a contemporary buying experience for potential customers.

Cybereason

Series A in 2014
Cybereason Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in endpoint protection, offering a comprehensive platform for endpoint detection and response, next-generation antivirus, and anti-ransomware solutions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo, Cybereason's platform is distinguished by its custom-built in-memory graph, an automated hunting engine that identifies behavioral patterns across endpoints and reveals malicious operations. The platform includes various products designed to detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats in real time, such as Deep Detect & Respond, Deep Prevent, Deep Investigate, and Deep Respond. Among its offerings is RansomFree, which protects against ransomware attacks. The company also provides managed monitoring services, surveillance, investigation, and training to bolster enterprise security against advanced cyber adversaries.

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.

Impermium

Seed Round in 2011
Impermium is a cybersecurity technology startup that specializes in protecting online platforms from cybercrime. The company offers a risk-evaluation platform designed to monitor the web in real-time, effectively addressing issues such as user-generated spam, account hacking, and fraudulent interactions. With a focus on enhancing account management, Impermium successfully identifies fraudulent registrations, compromised logins, and risky transactions. Its advanced technology employs a combination of machine learning, statistical anomaly detection, and a proprietary database of known malicious actors, enabling it to stop fraudulent user account registrations in real-time. Over its three-year history, Impermium has protected more than 1.5 million websites and processed over 8 billion transactions, serving many of the largest consumer Internet companies.

Samplify Systems

Series B in 2011
Samplify Systems, Inc. is a Silicon Valley fabless semiconductor company that combines high-performance analog with sophisticated digital processing to deliver a new class of intelligent data converters. Samplify provides the only real-time compression algorithm for high speed sampled data systems. Now, with the introduction of the SAM1600 family of Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC), Samplify provides the world’s only true 16-channel, 12-bit, 65 Msample/sec ADC ICs with integrated data compression technology. Samplify Systems, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Sensr.net

Venture Round in 2011
Sensr.net, Inc. is a company based in Incline Village, Nevada, that specializes in cloud-based video monitoring services for Internet-accessible cameras. Founded in 2009, it offers a platform that continuously monitors and archives footage from users' cameras, detecting suspicious or unusual activities. Users receive instant notifications via text message or email when such activity is detected. Additionally, Sensr.net enables users to create and share videos of significant moments through its website and other social networking platforms. This service empowers individuals to monitor their properties remotely, enhancing security and peace of mind.

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.

Reva Systems

Series C in 2009
Reva Systems specializes in developing radio-frequency identification (RFID) network infrastructure products designed to help customers deploy scalable RFID solutions across various environments. The company’s flagship product, the standards-based Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) appliances, enhances system performance, manageability, and security while reducing implementation time and complexity. Additionally, Reva Systems offers a comprehensive Reva Management System, which includes the Reva Multi-site Manager for web-based enterprise-wide management of RFID devices and operations, the Reva Management Console for graphical site configuration and monitoring, and the Reva Scripting Tool that automates bulk operations such as upgrading TAPs. Through these innovations, Reva Systems enables effective management and deployment of RFID technology for its clients.

Rosum

Series B in 2008
Rosum is a technology company that specializes in mobile positioning solutions, utilizing broadcast television signals as an alternative to traditional GPS. Founded by a team that includes one of the architects of the GPS system, Rosum has developed a hybrid positioning module designed for tracking and navigation devices. This innovative mobile positioning system addresses the limitations of conventional location services, particularly in urban and indoor environments where GPS may struggle to deliver accurate results. By leveraging television signals, Rosum aims to enhance location accuracy and reliability for various applications.

Reva Systems

Series B in 2007
Reva Systems specializes in developing radio-frequency identification (RFID) network infrastructure products designed to help customers deploy scalable RFID solutions across various environments. The company’s flagship product, the standards-based Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) appliances, enhances system performance, manageability, and security while reducing implementation time and complexity. Additionally, Reva Systems offers a comprehensive Reva Management System, which includes the Reva Multi-site Manager for web-based enterprise-wide management of RFID devices and operations, the Reva Management Console for graphical site configuration and monitoring, and the Reva Scripting Tool that automates bulk operations such as upgrading TAPs. Through these innovations, Reva Systems enables effective management and deployment of RFID technology for its clients.

Samplify Systems

Series A in 2007
Samplify Systems, Inc. is a Silicon Valley fabless semiconductor company that combines high-performance analog with sophisticated digital processing to deliver a new class of intelligent data converters. Samplify provides the only real-time compression algorithm for high speed sampled data systems. Now, with the introduction of the SAM1600 family of Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC), Samplify provides the world’s only true 16-channel, 12-bit, 65 Msample/sec ADC ICs with integrated data compression technology. Samplify Systems, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Bus Radio

Series B in 2007
BusRadio produces a national radio show for broadcast on school buses. The service transmits music, original programming, public service announcements and paid commercials to school children travelling on school buses in selected school districts. Programming was broadcast to the buses via a proprietary radio unit, which downloads BusRadio programming. Other features on the radio unit include GPS, driver panic buttons connected to local emergency services, and internal and external PA systems. BusRadio was founded in 2004 and is based in Needham, Massachusetts.

Reva Systems

Series B in 2006
Reva Systems specializes in developing radio-frequency identification (RFID) network infrastructure products designed to help customers deploy scalable RFID solutions across various environments. The company’s flagship product, the standards-based Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) appliances, enhances system performance, manageability, and security while reducing implementation time and complexity. Additionally, Reva Systems offers a comprehensive Reva Management System, which includes the Reva Multi-site Manager for web-based enterprise-wide management of RFID devices and operations, the Reva Management Console for graphical site configuration and monitoring, and the Reva Scripting Tool that automates bulk operations such as upgrading TAPs. Through these innovations, Reva Systems enables effective management and deployment of RFID technology for its clients.

Samplify Systems

Seed Round in 2006
Samplify Systems, Inc. is a Silicon Valley fabless semiconductor company that combines high-performance analog with sophisticated digital processing to deliver a new class of intelligent data converters. Samplify provides the only real-time compression algorithm for high speed sampled data systems. Now, with the introduction of the SAM1600 family of Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC), Samplify provides the world’s only true 16-channel, 12-bit, 65 Msample/sec ADC ICs with integrated data compression technology. Samplify Systems, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Rosum

Series A in 2003
Rosum is a technology company that specializes in mobile positioning solutions, utilizing broadcast television signals as an alternative to traditional GPS. Founded by a team that includes one of the architects of the GPS system, Rosum has developed a hybrid positioning module designed for tracking and navigation devices. This innovative mobile positioning system addresses the limitations of conventional location services, particularly in urban and indoor environments where GPS may struggle to deliver accurate results. By leveraging television signals, Rosum aims to enhance location accuracy and reliability for various applications.
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