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Financial Express
April 11, 2018
Learning platform, Udacity, has initiated a series of Foundation Nanodegree Programs. These Programs are designed for the Indian audiences, enable working professionals and freshers with or without a technical background to gain a fundamental understanding of emerging technologies. Udacity'sÃâà...
TheStreet.com
April 9, 2018
"It is still at an early stage," said Justine Moore, a recent Stanford graduate who, along with her twin sister Olivia, is exploring investment opportunities in the co-living sector for Charles River Ventures, or CRV. "We think this is not just a coastal elite trend but something that could work in a much broaderÃâà...
PitchBook News & Analysis
April 6, 2018
Redpoint Ventures has announced that Annie Kadavy will join the firm as a general partner from Uber, where she was head of strategic operations at Uber Freight. Prior to Uber, Kadavy was a general partner at Charles River Ventures, leading investments in companies including ClassPass and DoorDash.
Markets Insider
March 13, 2018
“SignalFx is a cloud trailblazer,” said Devdutt Yellurkar, general partner at Charles River Ventures. “We look forward to seeing how the company continues to expand its technology offerings and operations as it delivers premier real-time operational intelligence for next-generation infrastructure.” The uniqueÃâà...
EdSurge
March 13, 2018
Rather, meet Ted Dintersmith, who has spent nearly 20 years as a partner at Charles River Ventures, an early-stage investment firm. These days, he's no longer spending time in company boardrooms, but rather in schools and classrooms. Look at the enormous amounts of money, effort and energy thatÃâà...
CNBC
March 3, 2018
Ring previously raised $209 million in venture funding from investors including Charles River Ventures, DFJ Growth Fund, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Amazon's Alexa fund. Credit Suisse says Amazon's acquisition of Ring will help its Amazon Key in-home deliveryÃâà...
Read IT Quik
February 23, 2018
mabl, a SaaS-based automated software test automation service, announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A round of funding from Amplify Partners and Charles River Ventures. The company also announced the official launch of its mabl QA automation product as part of a public beta program.
Education Week (blog)
February 21, 2018
Your 20 years at Charles River Ventures spanned much of the information age. Do you have the sense that it was a rather opportune period in history to be an investor? I feel fortunate beyond words. In high school, I had time to invent and play around. College was cheap and there were lots of jobs forÃâà...
VentureBeat
February 21, 2018
The Boston-based startup raised $10 million shortly after it was founded last year, in a series A round from Charles River Ventures and Amplify Partners, though Mabl only announced this funding today. After a short limited alpha period, the company is also officially launching its Mabl QA automation productÃâà...
Boston Business Journal
February 20, 2018
The company now has more than 65 customers and more than 400 employees, about half of which are in the Acton office. Affirmed Networks has raised more than $163 million to date. Investors include venture capital firms Charles River Ventures, Matrix Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, KCK GroupÃâà...
CNBC
February 8, 2018
After graduating from Stanford in 2010, Muira-Ko worked at Boston-based Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company before launching Floodgate. In the earliest stages of her career, she had a hard time envisioning herself achieving the kind of success she has now. There weren't women sheÃâà...
TechCrunch
February 6, 2018
Slab today announce it has raised $2.2 million in a new financing round from NEA, Charles River Ventures and Matrix Partners. “That's one example of the problem where the information's actually available, but it's kept in silos,” Chen said. “Even the products themselves have primitive search capabilities.
CNBC
September 20, 2017
Even if you're skeptical about cryptocurrencies, the ICO, or initial coin offering, has been one of the hottest trends in tech this year. Startups that raised money through ICOs have accumulated a record $2.2 billion this year alone, according to Coinschedule.com. Unlike a stock IPO, where companies sellÃâà...
CNBC
June 9, 2017
Charles River Ventures is known for taking big bets in social networking companies, like Yammer and Twitter. Now, it's the latest technology firm to get serious about health care. On Friday, it formerly announced its new bioengineering practice and a new investor: Dylan Morris, who joined the fund from EricÃâà...
Boston Business Journal
May 26, 2017
CRV, the investment firm formerly known as Charles River Ventures, is looking to raise its first fund dedicated to investing in growth-stage companies, according to a report from Axios. Axios reports that CRV is targeting a $400 million growth equity fund at the same time it raises its next early-stage fund, alsoÃâà...
CTech
December 31, 1999
Long known as a hotbed for innovative quick-to-sell startups, Israel is now home to over 200 growth stage companies that bring in revenues of over $10 million a year, employing dozens of people. A smaller group of Israeli private companies now bring in revenues of over $100 million, in some casesÃâà...
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