CRV

Originally named 'Charles River Ventures' and based in greater Boston, this VC firm was rebranded as 'CRV' in 2014, a move in part aimed at bringing focus on its Silicon Valley practice. Among CRV's portfolio companies are Airtable, Amgen, Aveksa, Blippy, Cascade Communications, ChipCom, Ciena Corporation, ClassPass, Continental Cablevision, Crushpath, DoorDash, Drift, Earbits, Fiksu, iBasis, mabl,Netezza, OneLogin, Parametric Technology Corporation, PillPack, Ring, SimpliVity, Sonus Networks, SpeechWorks, Stella, Stratus Technologies, Sybase,Twitter, Udacity, Vignette Corporation, Yammer, and Zendesk.