# CRV

> CRV is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Information Technology. See 627 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 627
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Fund size: $1B
- Last fund: Oct 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/charles-river-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/CRV
- Website: http://www.crv.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CharlesRiverVentures

CRV is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Information Technology. CRV has been an investor in technology companies for almost half a century. The firm has backed nearly 400 startups in its 47-year history, including foundational companies like Twitter, Zendesk, Amgen, Hubspot, Parametric Technologies, Yammer, EqualLogic, and Sonus Networks. Half of the companies CRV has backed have gone public or been acquired.The firm focuses on enterprise, consumer, and deep-insight bioengineering.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$16M |
| Series A | $5M–$35M |
| Series B | $10M–$74M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 136 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 63 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 63 | 10% |
| Enterprise Software | 39 | 6% |
| SaaS | 35 | 6% |

314 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 148 | 24% |
| Series B | 136 | 22% |
| Seed | 119 | 19% |
| Series C | 88 | 14% |
| Series D | 36 | 6% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 316 | 50% |
| Israel | 7 | 1% |
| Canada | 4 | 1% |
| Spain | 3 | 0% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 0% |

17 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Devdutt Yellurkar | Non-Investing Partner | 60 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/devdutt-yellurkar |
| James Green | General Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-green-9cda |
| Matthew Garratt | General Partner | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-garratt |
| Veronica Orellana | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/veronica-orellana |
| Amit Agarwal | Venture Partner | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-agarwal-8 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maximum | Maximum is a boutique agency that likes to remain small and agile. There are sixty of us, all specialists, and our advanced digital solutions are 100% generated in-house. We have a knowledgeable and sophisticated research presence, especially in the digital arena and with regard to social recruitment. This means we can make things happen for youthat other agencies can't. Giving your organization the edge takes serious research, heavyweight strategy, considered creativity and intelligent use of the digital space. This is why we've developed the Social Recruitment Monitor™ for you, the definitive index on the use of social media for recruitment purposes. | $30M | Seed | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| Oak | Oak is an AI-native cybersecurity startup that helps enterprises secure and manage identities for human users, non-human machines, and AI agents. | $60M | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Hadrius | Hadrius develops compliance management software for financial services firms that helps organizations oversee regulatory requirements through a unified platform. Its platform supports functions such as marketing review, communications archiving, trade surveillance, employee oversight, code of ethics management, and compliance programadministration. The software uses artificial intelligence to automate compliance workflows, monitor communications and trading activity, and generate documentation for regulatory reviews. It is designed for broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, private funds, and compliance consulting firms that are subject to SEC and FINRA regulations. Hadrius also provides centralized tools that help organizations manage policies, supervision activities, risk monitoring, and audit records within a single system. | $22M | Series A | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Omen AI | Omen AI develops an AI-powered asset intelligence platform that monitors equipment health through real-time fluid analysis and predictive diagnostics. The company provides sensor technology and portable testing systems that analyze fluids in machinery to identify wear, contamination, and potential equipment issues before failures occur. Omen AIcombines hardware sensors with AI-driven data analysis to help organizations monitor industrial machines and infrastructure systems. The platform supports applications such as industrial equipment maintenance and data center fluid monitoring by providing continuous insights into machine conditions. | $31M | Series A | Jun 29, 2026 |  |
| Sail Research | Infrastructure for long-horizon agents. Efficient inference and sandboxes optimized for throughput. | $80M | Series A | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Mercury | Mercury Technologies is a technology-enabled company that provides banking services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company services provide bank accounts designed specifically for startups, combining FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts with tech tools. Immad Akhund, Max Tagher, and Jason Zhang founded the company. | $200M | Series D | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Joyful Health | Joyful Health provides revenue intelligence software and services for healthcare practices and related organizations. The platform unifies claims, remittances, contracts, appointments, and payments into a single financial command center. It ingests data from EHR systems, eligibility checks, ERAs, payer contracts, and bank accounts to surfacemissing revenue and denial issues. The company also offers managed services to handle ongoing denials, unpaid claims, historical and aged accounts receivable, and upcoming EOB reconciliation. Joyful Health serves healthcare practitioners, billing companies, digital health organizations, and practice management groups that want clearer visibility into financial performance and recovered revenue. | $17M | Series A | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Thesis Care | Trovo Health uses AI technology to provide comprehensive healthcare solutions, combining smart algorithms with professional human coaching to deliver personalized patient care. | $45M | Series A | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Standard Template Labs | Standard Template Labs provides an AI-native ITSM platform that replaces legacy ticketing with autonomous automation to resolve IT issues. | $49M | Seed | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Scanner.dev | Scanner is a SIEM companion that enables teams to augment tools like Splunk, Datadog, Sumo Logic, and Elastic for high volume log data, saving up to 90% per log source. After directly indexing your data, teams can find IP addresses and other IOCs in petabytes of logs in seconds.Teams can also leverage features like dashboards, detections-as-code,threat intelligence, and an API to connect with Scanner for Splunk, Grafana, SOARs like Tines or Torq, our library of Jupyter Notebooks for advanced threat hunting, Slack, Jira, or anything else with a custom webhook. | $22M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |

10 of 627 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does CRV invest in?

CRV invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 627 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is CRV's check size?

CRV typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$16M at Seed, $5M–$35M at Series A and $10M–$74M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds CRV participates in.

### How do I contact CRV?

Public channels for CRV include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at CRV?

The team at CRV includes Devdutt Yellurkar (Non-Investing Partner), James Green (General Partner) and Matthew Garratt (General Partner), among 24 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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