Venture Capital

CRV

CRV (formerly Charles River Ventures) is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the United States, founded in 1970 to commercialize research coming out of MIT. The firm invests early — primarily at the Seed and Series A stages, with occasional Series B — leading rounds in enterprise, consumer, developer tools, security, data infrastructure, AI, and bioengineering companies. CRV has backed more than 750 companies since inception across 18 funds, raising over $4.3 billion (including a recent $600M early-stage fund), and has seen 80-plus of its portfolio companies reach public-company status. Notable investments include DoorDash, Airtable, HubSpot, Datadog, Zendesk, Patreon, Mercury, Vercel, Cursor, Postman, Kong, Tailscale, Ring, and PillPack. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco (52 Zoe Street) with a long-standing Bay Area presence and offices in Menlo Park, CA and Cambridge, MA.

154 portfolio companies 153 publish APIs here 8 properties
Venture CapitalSeedSeries ADeveloper ToolsSecurityAIEnterpriseConsumerBiotechNorth America
Portfolio Strength across 153 profiled portfolio companies on the network
15 top-rated API companies 9 exemplar · 6 strong
46 agent-ready companies 2 agent-native · 44 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 31.8
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 20.0

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

CRV has 154 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 153 (99%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are HubSpot, Postman, Netezza, SignalFx, Airtable.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 9 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
HubSpot 93 APIs 77.6 Postman 39 APIs 75.8 Netezza 55 APIs 74.6 SignalFx 14 APIs 71.5 Airtable 12 APIs 70.9 Vercel 6 APIs 70.8 GreyNoise 10 APIs 70.2 Zendesk 150 APIs 68.8 Factorial 22 APIs 68.6
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
DoorDash 12 APIs 63.6 Loop 7 APIs 58.8 Iterable 23 APIs 57.2 Tinybird 10 APIs 57.1 Browserbase 4 APIs 56.2 Bettermode 1 API 56.1
Developing 40 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Fleet 1 API 55.9 StarTree 1 API 55.7 Ciena 6 APIs 55.6 Koala 5 APIs 55.2 ProjectDiscovery 20 APIs 55.2 Release 9 APIs 55.1 Flock Safety 10 APIs 54.8 Osmosis 3 APIs 54.3 Strapi 15 APIs 53.4 Axiom 15 APIs 53.3 Capy 12 APIs 52.5 Fulcrum 15 APIs 52.4 Parabol 1 API 52.2 Cribl 32 APIs 52.0 Flipturn 13 APIs 51.0 Meilisearch 8 APIs 50.9 Napkin 1 API 50.6 Cable 20 APIs 49.6 Collate 1 API 49.5 Sense 6 APIs 49.4 LanceDB 16 APIs 49.1 Datadog 8 APIs 48.4 Ring 1 API 48.1 Siro 4 APIs 47.8 Color 1 API 47.5 MileIQ 2 APIs 47.4 Clerk 24 APIs 47.2 Tavus 13 APIs 46.6 Scanner 6 APIs 46.3 Alice 7 APIs 45.5 Workstream 12 APIs 44.9 Bird 10 APIs 44.8 Cratejoy 2 APIs 44.6 Wish 21 APIs 43.6 Fauna 9 APIs 43.3 FlutterFlow 1 API 42.6 Cybereason 10 APIs 42.3 Mercury 16 APIs 42.3 Sleuth 5 APIs 42.3 Talon.One 13 APIs 42.3
Thin 29 Limited public surface area
Cursor 10 APIs 41.8 Luma AI 8 APIs 41.2 CodeRabbit 3 APIs 41.1 mabl 11 APIs 40.8 Arena 1 API 40.7 Wonderment 3 APIs 40.6 OneLogin 6 APIs 40.2 Blockchain.com 12 APIs 39.3 Gorgias 14 APIs 39.0 Checkly 17 APIs 38.8 Inworld AI 10 APIs 37.9 Cyera 1 API 37.8 Legit Security 37.6 Qubole 1 API 37.4 Patreon 2 APIs 37.0 Lokalise 4 APIs 36.6 Zip 1 API 36.5 Gupshup 6 APIs 35.4 Kong 38 APIs 34.8 Voyage AI 9 APIs 34.7 Aviatrix 34.0 Wave 1 API 33.6 Datum 1 API 33.1 Doppler 9 APIs 31.8 Pulley 1 API 30.7 Tailscale 7 APIs 30.5 Encord 2 APIs 29.5 Niantic 1 API 29.4 Zerto 1 API 28.8
Emerging 31 Early or largely undocumented
Proton 1 API 27.3 Taste 3 APIs 26.4 Impart Security 1 API 25.5 Eventual 23.6 Ketch 6 APIs 22.7 Scribd 20.7 ST Labs 19.2 RecappED 19.1 7AI 18.7 Hadrius 18.6 Thesis 18.5 Vega 18.5 Upstream Security 18.4 Ciro 18.2 Concourse 17.9 Wheel 17.9 Jeeves 17.7 Emotive 17.6 Northspyre 17.0 Signal Sciences 1 API 16.3 Squire 15.9 Kapwing 15.3 Pilot 15.2 Power 15.2 iBasis 15.0 Joyful 14.6 Carrot 14.5 Astrix Security 14.3 Juxta 13.7 Storyboard 13.7 Kodiak Robotics 13.1
Minimal 38 Almost no public developer surface
ClassPass 2 APIs 12.8 Nobl9 2 APIs 12.7 Shef 12.7 Viz.ai 12.6 Udacity 12.4 Outtake 12.3 Affirmed Networks 11.9 Freenome 11.6 Protege 11.6 3T Biosciences 11.3 Oportun 11.3 Careforce 10.8 Givers 10.8 Switch Therapeutics 10.8 ResortPass 10.5 Sales Patriot 10.2 Closure 10.0 Theker 9.9 Oak 9.7 Reflection AI 9.7 Virtusa 9.7 Wildtype 7.5 Dyna 6.3 PillPack 6.3 Lotus 6.1 Periodic 5.9 Viki 5.9 Standard AI 5.7 Exo Therapeutics 5.4 Recursion 5.4 Resilience 5.4 Skild AI 5.4 Accompany 5.0 Aerodome 5.0 Apex 5.0 Omen 5.0 RPX 5.0 Plexium 4.1

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: crv
name: CRV
description: >-
  CRV (formerly Charles River Ventures) is one of the oldest venture capital
  firms in the United States, founded in 1970 to commercialize research coming
  out of MIT. The firm invests early — primarily at the Seed and Series A stages,
  with occasional Series B — leading rounds in enterprise, consumer, developer
  tools, security, data infrastructure, AI, and bioengineering companies. CRV
  has backed more than 750 companies since inception across 18 funds, raising
  over $4.3 billion (including a recent $600M early-stage fund), and has seen
  80-plus of its portfolio companies reach public-company status. Notable
  investments include DoorDash, Airtable, HubSpot, Datadog, Zendesk, Patreon,
  Mercury, Vercel, Cursor, Postman, Kong, Tailscale, Ring, and PillPack. The
  firm is headquartered in San Francisco (52 Zoe Street) with a long-standing
  Bay Area presence and offices in Menlo Park, CA and Cambridge, MA.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.crv.com/favicon.ico
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Series A
  - Developer Tools
  - Security
  - AI
  - Enterprise
  - Consumer
  - Biotech
  - North America
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.crv.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.crv.com/companies
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/crv-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://www.crv.com/team
  - type: Team
    url: team/crv-team.yml
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crvvc
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/crvvc
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/crv
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Seed, Series A (occasional Series B)'
      - 'Sectors: enterprise, consumer, developer tools, security, data infrastructure, AI, bioengineering'
      - 'Geography: North America (Bay Area focus)'
      - 'Companies backed: 750+ since 1970'
      - 'Public companies: 80+'
      - 'Capital raised: $4.3B+ across 18 funds'
      - 'Latest fund: $600M early-stage'
      - 'Founded: 1970'
      - 'HQ: San Francisco, CA (offices in Menlo Park, CA and Cambridge, MA)'
    sources:
      - https://www.crv.com/
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRV_(venture_capital_firm)
      - https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/crv-closes-600m-early-stage-fund/
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: CRV
    url: https://www.crv.com/