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

Principal

Matthew Garratt

General Partner

Max Gazor

General Partner

Anna Khan

General Partner

Songe LaRon

Co-Founder

Matan Lamdan

Investor

Justine Moore

Venture Investor

Veronica Orellana

Investor

Caitlin Bolnick Rellas

General Partner

Bruce Sachs

General Partner

Sachin Sood

CFO

Kristin Baker Spohn

General Partner

Brittany Walker

General Partner

Devdutt Yellurkar

General Partner

Brian Zhan

Investor

Past deals in Open Source

Outtake

Series A in 2025
Outtake is a company specializing in AI-driven cyber defense solutions. It utilizes AI agents to automate responses, classify threats in real-time, and detect advanced security risks. The company's primary focus is on combating fraud and impersonation by leveraging open-source intelligence, implementing multi-surface anti-phishing strategies, and providing digital identity protection. Currently operating in stealth mode, Outtake is also developing an intelligence platform aimed at improving the creation, management, and optimization of content.

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.

LanceDB

Seed Round in 2024
LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open source database for AI. From hyper scalable vector search to advanced retrieval for RAG, from streaming training data to interactive exploration of large scale AI datasets, LanceDB is the best foundation for your AI application.

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.

Strapi

Series B in 2022
Strapi is an open-source software company based in Paris, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing a headless content management system (CMS) that enables developers to efficiently build, deploy, and manage application backends with minimal effort. By decoupling the frontend from the CMS, Strapi allows developers to utilize their preferred front-end tools and frameworks while offering a robust API for content delivery across various devices. The platform features a powerful dashboard and tools for API prototyping and management, streamlining the content distribution process for editors. This flexibility and user-friendly approach position Strapi as a valuable resource for developers seeking to create dynamic and scalable applications.

Fleet Device Management

Series A in 2022
Fleet is an open-source platform for IT and endpoint security teams with lots of computers (macOS, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, OT, data centers). The company is dedicated to making IT more accessible with an open API for every endpoint, while maintaining privacy, transparency, and trust through open-source software. Organizations like Fastly and Gusto use Fleet for device management, device health ("zero trust"), posture assessment, endpoint operations, and more.

Superconductive

Series B in 2022
Superconductive is the creator of Great Expectations, an open-source tool for data testing, documentation, and profiling. Great Expectations has a vibrant community where both core contributors and community members provide each other support through channels like Slack and Discuss. They offer paid consulting services to organizations that would benefit from closer collaboration with the core Great Expectations engineering team. It was created in 2017 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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.

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.

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.

Superconductive

Series A in 2021
Superconductive is the creator of Great Expectations, an open-source tool for data testing, documentation, and profiling. Great Expectations has a vibrant community where both core contributors and community members provide each other support through channels like Slack and Discuss. They offer paid consulting services to organizations that would benefit from closer collaboration with the core Great Expectations engineering team. It was created in 2017 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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.

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.

EDB

Venture Round in 2010
EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud, anywhere. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs and scale efficiently for a data and AI led world. Serving more than 1,500 customers globally and as the leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing PostgreSQL community, EDB supports major government organizations, financial services, media and information technology companies. EDB’s data-driven solutions enable customers to modernize legacy systems and break data silos while leveraging enterprise-grade open source technologies. EDB delivers the confidence of up to 99.999% high availability with mission critical capabilities built in such as security, compliance controls, and observability. For more information, visit www.enterprisedb.com.

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.

Optaros

Series C in 2008
Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm specializing in eCommerce solutions. Founded by Bob Gett, the company assists enterprises in addressing IT business challenges by leveraging open source software. Optaros focuses on designing, assembling, and supporting Internet applications, delivering tailored online solutions to its clients. Through its expertise, the firm aims to enhance the operational efficiency and effectiveness of businesses in the digital landscape.

EDB

Series C in 2008
EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud, anywhere. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs and scale efficiently for a data and AI led world. Serving more than 1,500 customers globally and as the leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing PostgreSQL community, EDB supports major government organizations, financial services, media and information technology companies. EDB’s data-driven solutions enable customers to modernize legacy systems and break data silos while leveraging enterprise-grade open source technologies. EDB delivers the confidence of up to 99.999% high availability with mission critical capabilities built in such as security, compliance controls, and observability. For more information, visit www.enterprisedb.com.

Qlusters

Series C in 2007
Qlusters, Inc. was a technology company that specialized in data center solutions, focusing on software provisioning and management of virtual environments. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York, the company developed openQRM, a software tool designed to streamline data center operations. Despite its innovative offerings, Qlusters ceased operations in July 2008.

Optaros

Series B in 2006
Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm specializing in eCommerce solutions. Founded by Bob Gett, the company assists enterprises in addressing IT business challenges by leveraging open source software. Optaros focuses on designing, assembling, and supporting Internet applications, delivering tailored online solutions to its clients. Through its expertise, the firm aims to enhance the operational efficiency and effectiveness of businesses in the digital landscape.

EDB

Series B in 2006
EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud, anywhere. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs and scale efficiently for a data and AI led world. Serving more than 1,500 customers globally and as the leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing PostgreSQL community, EDB supports major government organizations, financial services, media and information technology companies. EDB’s data-driven solutions enable customers to modernize legacy systems and break data silos while leveraging enterprise-grade open source technologies. EDB delivers the confidence of up to 99.999% high availability with mission critical capabilities built in such as security, compliance controls, and observability. For more information, visit www.enterprisedb.com.

EDB

Series A in 2005
EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud, anywhere. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs and scale efficiently for a data and AI led world. Serving more than 1,500 customers globally and as the leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing PostgreSQL community, EDB supports major government organizations, financial services, media and information technology companies. EDB’s data-driven solutions enable customers to modernize legacy systems and break data silos while leveraging enterprise-grade open source technologies. EDB delivers the confidence of up to 99.999% high availability with mission critical capabilities built in such as security, compliance controls, and observability. For more information, visit www.enterprisedb.com.

Optaros

Series A in 2005
Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm specializing in eCommerce solutions. Founded by Bob Gett, the company assists enterprises in addressing IT business challenges by leveraging open source software. Optaros focuses on designing, assembling, and supporting Internet applications, delivering tailored online solutions to its clients. Through its expertise, the firm aims to enhance the operational efficiency and effectiveness of businesses in the digital landscape.

Qlusters

Series B in 2004
Qlusters, Inc. was a technology company that specialized in data center solutions, focusing on software provisioning and management of virtual environments. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York, the company developed openQRM, a software tool designed to streamline data center operations. Despite its innovative offerings, Qlusters ceased operations in July 2008.
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