39 posts and columns on Charles River Ventures
Zendesk Releases New Help Center, Adds First Outside Director to Board
Betsey Nelson, former CFO of Macromedia, joins the board.As YouTube Stars Invent Their Own Ways to Get Paid, Patreon Raises $2.1M
Goodbye ads, hello automatic tip jars?Now Fully Kickstartered, Pebble Raises $15M in Venture Capital From CRV
Charles River Ventures backs the Kickstarter darling.Tophatter (A.K.A. Blippy 2.0) Gathers a Lively Crowd for Live Auctions
Blippy is now called Tophatter. It’s also a social shopping product, but it’s totally different.News Byte
Crushpath Raises $6M for Sales Pitch Tool
Crushpath, a $9-per-month service that helps people craft and keep track of pitches, has raised $6 million from investors including the Social+Capital Partnership and Charles River Ventures. You can see the pitch that the company sent me about their funding round here.Inside ToyTalk, the Startup That Wants to Bring Toys to Life
Look who’s talking now.DataGravity Lands $30 Million From Andreessen Horowitz; Levine Joins Board
Extracting intelligence from stored data is hard.News Byte
Google Ventures-Backed Start-Up TrueLens Nabs $1.2 Million
Social analytics start-up TrueLens announced Monday that it closed a $1.2 million round of funding led by Google Ventures. Other participants in the round include Charles River Ventures, Common Angels, 500 Startups and Boston Seed, as well as a handful of other angel investors. After compiling and analyzing data from multiple social networks, TrueLens offers more granular customer information to brands for marketing campaigns.News Byte