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 57 publish APIs here 8 properties
Venture CapitalSeedSeries ADeveloper ToolsSecurityAIEnterpriseConsumerBiotechNorth America

CRV has 154 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 57 (37%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are HubSpot, Postman, Vercel, Zendesk, 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 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
HubSpot 63 APIs 78.6 Postman 17 APIs 75.3 Vercel 5 APIs 71.2
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Zendesk 145 APIs 69.7 Airtable 6 APIs 67.7 SignalFx 13 APIs 67.0 Netezza 56 APIs 66.9 Loop 1 API 61.5
Developing 14 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
DoorDash 5 APIs 58.5 Sense 2 APIs 57.2 Iterable 6 APIs 55.8 Strapi 4 APIs 54.9 Browserbase 1 API 54.1 Ciena 3 APIs 53.3 Tinybird 1 API 52.1 Cribl 6 APIs 52.0 LanceDB 11 APIs 49.0 Fulcrum 1 API 48.8 Axiom 1 API 47.6 Blockchain.com 5 APIs 47.5 Clerk 18 APIs 45.9 Meilisearch 1 API 45.2
Thin 24 Limited public surface area
Bird 4 APIs 44.6 Fauna 7 APIs 42.6 Zip 1 API 41.0 Koala 5 APIs 40.4 Sleuth 5 APIs 40.4 Talon.One 5 APIs 40.1 Gorgias 2 APIs 39.5 Mercury 8 APIs 39.4 CodeRabbit 3 APIs 39.2 Tavus 1 API 38.9 Cursor 4 APIs 38.8 Gupshup 6 APIs 38.6 Datadog 5 APIs 37.7 ProjectDiscovery 2 APIs 37.2 Cyera 1 API 36.8 Cybereason 1 API 36.7 mabl 1 API 35.3 OneLogin 1 API 34.2 Pulley 1 API 33.6 Voyage AI 6 APIs 32.9 Encord 2 APIs 32.2 Patreon 1 API 32.0 Luma AI 2 APIs 31.7 Checkly 1 API 31.5
Emerging 8 Early or largely undocumented
Lokalise 1 API 29.0 Wave 1 API 28.3 Kong 15 APIs 26.7 Doppler 1 API 25.5 Ketch 6 APIs 25.0 Inworld AI 4 APIs 24.9 Tailscale 1 API 24.1 Nobl9 2 APIs 15.1
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface
ClassPass 2 APIs 14.8 Scribd 5 APIs 12.6 Color 5 APIs 11.0

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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.
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/