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.
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.
CodeRabbit
Series A in 2024
CodeRabbit is an AI company specializing in code review assistance. Its platform provides detailed, line-by-line code suggestions and reviews, aiming to improve code quality and efficiency by minimizing manual review time and resources. It offers real-time, in-line code suggestions and conversation capabilities for quick answers within the code.
Checkly
Series B in 2024
Checkly Inc. is a monitoring and testing platform designed for DevOps teams, focusing on the performance and status of API endpoints and essential website transactions. Founded in 2018 and based in Berlin, Germany, with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts, Checkly offers a code-first solution that integrates seamlessly into development workflows. The platform features tools for monitoring critical transactions, such as logins and shopping carts, and includes capabilities for setting expiry alerts and taking screenshots for immediate insights. Checkly's emphasis on JavaScript-based open-source technology makes it accessible for modern, cross-functional teams looking to enhance their reliability and testing processes from a single dashboard.
Vercel
Series E in 2024
Vercel Inc., established in 2015 and based in Walnut, California, specializes in developing a cloud platform for on-demand deployment of frontend applications. The company offers automated deployment solutions from pull requests via GitHub and Bitbucket, as well as merge requests through GitLab. Vercel's platform is designed to facilitate the development, previewing, and shipping of Jamstack sites, enabling efficient delivery of web pages through content delivery networks.
Meilisearch
Series A in 2022
Meilisearch is a developer of an open-source search engine API platform that offers a fast and customizable solution for users seeking an efficient search experience. The platform leverages advanced algorithms and natural language processing capabilities to deliver relevant search results, effectively managing challenges such as typos, synonyms, and n-grams. Its language-agnostic design ensures that clients can cater to diverse user needs, ultimately enhancing conversion rates and overall user experience. By providing a readily deployable alternative for businesses, Meilisearch positions itself as a valuable tool for those aiming to improve their search functionalities.
Pipedream
Series A in 2022
Pipedream is an online integration platform founded in 2018 by Jason Endo, Dan Hsiung, TJ Koblentz, and Tod Sacerdoti in San Francisco, California. It enables developers to connect APIs and create workflows by selecting triggers, such as HTTP requests and app events, and adding customizable steps. The platform generates production-ready code quickly and includes features like state management, authentication, observability, and error handling. By simplifying the workflow creation process, Pipedream allows developers to focus on building applications without the need to manage servers or cloud resources.
Sleuth
Series A in 2022
Sleuth Enterprises, Inc. specializes in deployment tracking software aimed at companies utilizing continuous delivery processes. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides a platform that enhances visibility into software delivery performance through the use of DORA metrics. Sleuth’s software allows developers to communicate effectively about changes in the delivery system and their impacts, promoting collaboration within teams. By integrating with various tools such as source control, CI, feature flags, and incident management systems, Sleuth tracks the entire deployment cycle from issue creation to production deployment. This comprehensive approach helps organizations identify inefficiencies, reduce deployment-related issues like downtime and bugs, and ultimately facilitates smoother and more frequent software releases.
Doppler
Series A in 2022
Doppler Technologies, Inc., established in 2018, specializes in developing and operating secret management software solutions. The company's flagship product, Doppler, is a secure software solution designed to store and manage software secrets such as API keys, credentials, environment variables, and database URLs. Doppler's platform is language, stack, and infrastructure agnostic, enhancing developer productivity while bolstering overall security. It securely stores and manages these secrets, enabling developers and security teams to maintain synchronization and security across various devices, environments, and team members.
Great Expectations
Series B in 2022
Great Expectations is a developer of an open-source data quality platform aimed at enhancing the speed and integrity of data collaboration. The platform facilitates testing of data pipelines, thereby improving overall data quality. By using machine learning algorithms, it provides tools for validating, documenting, and profiling data, which helps organizations eliminate pipeline debt. This approach enables clients to uphold their data standards and fosters better communication regarding data across different teams. Through its innovative solutions, Great Expectations seeks to establish a shared data quality standard in the industry.
Meilisearch
Seed Round in 2022
Meilisearch is a developer of an open-source search engine API platform that offers a fast and customizable solution for users seeking an efficient search experience. The platform leverages advanced algorithms and natural language processing capabilities to deliver relevant search results, effectively managing challenges such as typos, synonyms, and n-grams. Its language-agnostic design ensures that clients can cater to diverse user needs, ultimately enhancing conversion rates and overall user experience. By providing a readily deployable alternative for businesses, Meilisearch positions itself as a valuable tool for those aiming to improve their search functionalities.
Vercel
Series D in 2021
Vercel Inc., established in 2015 and based in Walnut, California, specializes in developing a cloud platform for on-demand deployment of frontend applications. The company offers automated deployment solutions from pull requests via GitHub and Bitbucket, as well as merge requests through GitLab. Vercel's platform is designed to facilitate the development, previewing, and shipping of Jamstack sites, enabling efficient delivery of web pages through content delivery networks.
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, Inc. is a leading provider of a comprehensive API development and testing solution that serves nearly six million developers and over 200,000 companies globally. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Postman offers a platform that facilitates the creation, testing, and debugging of application programming interfaces (APIs). Its features allow users to send REST, SOAP, and GraphQL requests, automate manual tests, simulate endpoints, and generate machine-readable documentation, all while enhancing collaboration among development, testing, and product management teams. By simplifying the API development process, Postman enables organizations to build connected software more efficiently and accurately, thereby improving overall developer productivity. The company, originally known as Postdot Technologies, Inc., rebranded to Postman, Inc. in September 2018.
Checkly
Series A in 2021
Checkly Inc. is a monitoring and testing platform designed for DevOps teams, focusing on the performance and status of API endpoints and essential website transactions. Founded in 2018 and based in Berlin, Germany, with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts, Checkly offers a code-first solution that integrates seamlessly into development workflows. The platform features tools for monitoring critical transactions, such as logins and shopping carts, and includes capabilities for setting expiry alerts and taking screenshots for immediate insights. Checkly's emphasis on JavaScript-based open-source technology makes it accessible for modern, cross-functional teams looking to enhance their reliability and testing processes from a single dashboard.
Vercel
Series C in 2021
Vercel Inc., established in 2015 and based in Walnut, California, specializes in developing a cloud platform for on-demand deployment of frontend applications. The company offers automated deployment solutions from pull requests via GitHub and Bitbucket, as well as merge requests through GitLab. Vercel's platform is designed to facilitate the development, previewing, and shipping of Jamstack sites, enabling efficient delivery of web pages through content delivery networks.
Great Expectations
Series A in 2021
Great Expectations is a developer of an open-source data quality platform aimed at enhancing the speed and integrity of data collaboration. The platform facilitates testing of data pipelines, thereby improving overall data quality. By using machine learning algorithms, it provides tools for validating, documenting, and profiling data, which helps organizations eliminate pipeline debt. This approach enables clients to uphold their data standards and fosters better communication regarding data across different teams. Through its innovative solutions, Great Expectations seeks to establish a shared data quality standard in the industry.
Valist
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Valist is a developer of a secure software distribution platform that focuses on web3-native solutions for developers and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). The platform enables users to securely publish, fetch, and auto-update software and games while also facilitating fair monetization. Valist's infrastructure incorporates robust application code signing and access control services, allowing for secure code signing and global software distribution. It empowers users with product access control and key management capabilities, utilizing hardware security modules (HSM) on mobile devices for efficient software signing and management of access controls and key rotations.
LocalStack
Seed Round in 2021
LocalStack is the leading cloud development platform for building cloud and serverless apps offline.
Vercel
Series B in 2020
Vercel Inc., established in 2015 and based in Walnut, California, specializes in developing a cloud platform for on-demand deployment of frontend applications. The company offers automated deployment solutions from pull requests via GitHub and Bitbucket, as well as merge requests through GitLab. Vercel's platform is designed to facilitate the development, previewing, and shipping of Jamstack sites, enabling efficient delivery of web pages through content delivery networks.
Tipe
Seed Round in 2020
Tipe Inc. is a company that develops an open-source headless content management system (CMS) designed for teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in San Diego, Sacramento, and Austin, Tipe provides a customizable platform that allows users to create, update, preview, and publish content efficiently. The system is particularly beneficial for developers, as it generates an API-first CMS from a GraphQL schema, facilitating offline prototyping and featuring an inline editor. This functionality empowers non-developers to make content changes independently, reducing the need for developers to handle constant content edits, thereby streamlining the workflow for both technical and marketing teams.
Fauna
Series A in 2020
Fauna, Inc. offers a cloud-based data application programming interface (API) designed for serverless applications, primarily through its product, FaunaDB. This NoSQL database combines a distributed transactional query engine with robust scalability and policy-based security features. FaunaDB provides a web-native GraphQL API that can be accessed from browsers, mobile clients, or serverless functions, while its serverless query language (FQL) enhances development by allowing complex queries that integrate various data types. The platform supports a wide array of programming languages and frameworks, including JavaScript, Python, and Ruby, facilitating seamless connections for developers. Fauna's database solutions emphasize unified capabilities across relational, temporal, and graph data, ensuring consistent performance and strong security measures. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Fauna has garnered trust from notable clients like Nextdoor and NVIDIA and is supported by prominent venture capital investors.
Postman
Series C in 2020
Postman, Inc. is a leading provider of a comprehensive API development and testing solution that serves nearly six million developers and over 200,000 companies globally. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Postman offers a platform that facilitates the creation, testing, and debugging of application programming interfaces (APIs). Its features allow users to send REST, SOAP, and GraphQL requests, automate manual tests, simulate endpoints, and generate machine-readable documentation, all while enhancing collaboration among development, testing, and product management teams. By simplifying the API development process, Postman enables organizations to build connected software more efficiently and accurately, thereby improving overall developer productivity. The company, originally known as Postdot Technologies, Inc., rebranded to Postman, Inc. in September 2018.
Gatsby
Series B in 2020
Gatsby, Inc. operates a platform designed for building websites and applications tailored to the needs of Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, Gatsby combines content and data integration with advanced front-end development techniques. Its React-based Static Site Generator (SSG) allows developers to create high-performance applications using a robust set of plugins that facilitate dynamic data integration from various content management systems, including WordPress and Drupal. This approach enables both developers and non-technical users to manage content seamlessly, leading to widespread adoption among developers, with the platform being downloaded nearly 500,000 times each month. By streamlining the application development process, Gatsby provides an efficient solution for organizations looking to enhance their online presence.
Sleuth
Seed Round in 2020
Sleuth Enterprises, Inc. specializes in deployment tracking software aimed at companies utilizing continuous delivery processes. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides a platform that enhances visibility into software delivery performance through the use of DORA metrics. Sleuth’s software allows developers to communicate effectively about changes in the delivery system and their impacts, promoting collaboration within teams. By integrating with various tools such as source control, CI, feature flags, and incident management systems, Sleuth tracks the entire deployment cycle from issue creation to production deployment. This comprehensive approach helps organizations identify inefficiencies, reduce deployment-related issues like downtime and bugs, and ultimately facilitates smoother and more frequent software releases.
Vercel
Series A in 2020
Vercel Inc., established in 2015 and based in Walnut, California, specializes in developing a cloud platform for on-demand deployment of frontend applications. The company offers automated deployment solutions from pull requests via GitHub and Bitbucket, as well as merge requests through GitLab. Vercel's platform is designed to facilitate the development, previewing, and shipping of Jamstack sites, enabling efficient delivery of web pages through content delivery networks.
Gatsby
Series A in 2019
Gatsby, Inc. operates a platform designed for building websites and applications tailored to the needs of Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, Gatsby combines content and data integration with advanced front-end development techniques. Its React-based Static Site Generator (SSG) allows developers to create high-performance applications using a robust set of plugins that facilitate dynamic data integration from various content management systems, including WordPress and Drupal. This approach enables both developers and non-technical users to manage content seamlessly, leading to widespread adoption among developers, with the platform being downloaded nearly 500,000 times each month. By streamlining the application development process, Gatsby provides an efficient solution for organizations looking to enhance their online presence.
Postman
Series B in 2019
Postman, Inc. is a leading provider of a comprehensive API development and testing solution that serves nearly six million developers and over 200,000 companies globally. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Postman offers a platform that facilitates the creation, testing, and debugging of application programming interfaces (APIs). Its features allow users to send REST, SOAP, and GraphQL requests, automate manual tests, simulate endpoints, and generate machine-readable documentation, all while enhancing collaboration among development, testing, and product management teams. By simplifying the API development process, Postman enables organizations to build connected software more efficiently and accurately, thereby improving overall developer productivity. The company, originally known as Postdot Technologies, Inc., rebranded to Postman, Inc. in September 2018.
Chromatic
Seed Round in 2018
Chromatic is a developer of visual testing software that streamlines the process of user interface component development. The company's platform automates workflows related to UI feedback, visual regression testing, and documentation, allowing developers to work more efficiently and reduce manual tasks. By integrating with existing DevOps tools, Chromatic enhances workflow productivity without increasing workload, enabling customers to iterate on their projects more rapidly and effectively.
Fauna
Series A in 2017
Fauna, Inc. offers a cloud-based data application programming interface (API) designed for serverless applications, primarily through its product, FaunaDB. This NoSQL database combines a distributed transactional query engine with robust scalability and policy-based security features. FaunaDB provides a web-native GraphQL API that can be accessed from browsers, mobile clients, or serverless functions, while its serverless query language (FQL) enhances development by allowing complex queries that integrate various data types. The platform supports a wide array of programming languages and frameworks, including JavaScript, Python, and Ruby, facilitating seamless connections for developers. Fauna's database solutions emphasize unified capabilities across relational, temporal, and graph data, ensuring consistent performance and strong security measures. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Fauna has garnered trust from notable clients like Nextdoor and NVIDIA and is supported by prominent venture capital investors.
Fauna
Seed Round in 2016
Fauna, Inc. offers a cloud-based data application programming interface (API) designed for serverless applications, primarily through its product, FaunaDB. This NoSQL database combines a distributed transactional query engine with robust scalability and policy-based security features. FaunaDB provides a web-native GraphQL API that can be accessed from browsers, mobile clients, or serverless functions, while its serverless query language (FQL) enhances development by allowing complex queries that integrate various data types. The platform supports a wide array of programming languages and frameworks, including JavaScript, Python, and Ruby, facilitating seamless connections for developers. Fauna's database solutions emphasize unified capabilities across relational, temporal, and graph data, ensuring consistent performance and strong security measures. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Fauna has garnered trust from notable clients like Nextdoor and NVIDIA and is supported by prominent venture capital investors.
Flatiron School
Series B in 2015
Flatiron School is an educational institution that specializes in training individuals in web application development and other in-demand tech skills such as software engineering, data science, and cybersecurity. Their curriculum covers best practices in Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Object-Oriented Design, Git, SQL, and Test-Driven Development. The learning environment emphasizes pair programming, project-based discovery, and teamwork. Students complete a 12-week program involving at least 500 hours of hands-on, intensive coding experience, solving real problems and working on actual projects.
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.
Flatiron School
Series A in 2014
Flatiron School is an educational institution that specializes in training individuals in web application development and other in-demand tech skills such as software engineering, data science, and cybersecurity. Their curriculum covers best practices in Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Object-Oriented Design, Git, SQL, and Test-Driven Development. The learning environment emphasizes pair programming, project-based discovery, and teamwork. Students complete a 12-week program involving at least 500 hours of hands-on, intensive coding experience, solving real problems and working on actual projects.
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 offers a development platform that facilitates the creation of multiplayer games across web and mobile environments. Its SDK is HTML-based, allowing developers to utilize familiar Web APIs to produce high-quality games. The platform simplifies the complexities associated with game development, including debugging and hosting, while also enabling compilation into hardware-accelerated native applications for distribution on various devices. By streamlining the development process, Game Closure empowers game studios to efficiently publish games on both iOS and Android ecosystems, making it easier and more cost-effective for developers to enter the multiplayer, multiplatform gaming market.
CloudShare
Venture Round in 2011
CloudShare Ltd. is a cloud computing company that provides a platform for developing and testing IT applications, software, and systems. Established in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, CloudShare offers various solutions tailored to different user needs, including CloudShare Enterprise for large teams and enterprises, CloudShare Labs for developers and IT professionals, and CloudShare ProPlus for individual users. These solutions enable users to build, manage, and share multiple environments on-demand, facilitating tasks such as virtual training, demos, and proofs-of-concept. The company's platform supports the migration of virtual machines and allows on-premise solutions and SaaS applications to leverage cloud capabilities seamlessly. CloudShare's offerings enhance productivity and collaboration for technology vendors, enterprises, and IT professionals. The company has established strategic partnerships with major industry players, further extending its reach and capabilities.
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.
AppMakr
Seed Round in 2010
AppMakr is a leading online platform that enables individuals and businesses to create mobile applications without needing programming skills. It caters primarily to non-developers, allowing them to build native apps for iPhone and Android devices at no cost. Since its inception, AppMakr has facilitated the creation of over 1% of all mobile apps across various operating systems, including iOS and Android. The platform has garnered recognition from major media outlets such as USA Today, The Washington Post, and TechCrunch. As a division of Socialize, Inc., every app built through AppMakr integrates the Socialize drop-in social platform, enhancing user engagement. In 2013, AppMakr was acquired by ShareThis, further expanding its reach and capabilities in the mobile application development space.
RethinkDB
Seed Round in 2010
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform designed specifically for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications more efficiently by allowing the database to push updated query results directly to applications, eliminating the need for constant polling. RethinkDB supports data storage in JSON documents and features a user-friendly query language that includes capabilities such as table joins and groupBy. The platform is built for reliability across various workloads and edge cases, providing users with the tools to manage clusters effectively, monitor production environments with live statistics, and gain complete visibility into ongoing tasks. This combination of features allows RethinkDB to facilitate the rapid development of realtime applications while maintaining simplicity and scalability.
CloudShare
Series B in 2009
CloudShare Ltd. is a cloud computing company that provides a platform for developing and testing IT applications, software, and systems. Established in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, CloudShare offers various solutions tailored to different user needs, including CloudShare Enterprise for large teams and enterprises, CloudShare Labs for developers and IT professionals, and CloudShare ProPlus for individual users. These solutions enable users to build, manage, and share multiple environments on-demand, facilitating tasks such as virtual training, demos, and proofs-of-concept. The company's platform supports the migration of virtual machines and allows on-premise solutions and SaaS applications to leverage cloud capabilities seamlessly. CloudShare's offerings enhance productivity and collaboration for technology vendors, enterprises, and IT professionals. The company has established strategic partnerships with major industry players, further extending its reach and capabilities.
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