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Charles River Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in startup and early stage investments. It also seeks to participate in seed financings and can invest across all stages. The firm typically invests in companies engaged in the communications and technology, enterprise software and services, and media and entertainment sectors. It also focuses on renewable energy, networking, infrastructure, web services, digital media, consumer Internet, enabling technologies, big data, enterprise software, ad technologies and services, intellectual property, cloud, Saas, and mobile sectors. In the enterprise software and services industry, the firm seeks to focus on opportunities enabled by the...

Charles River Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in startup and early stage investments. It also seeks to participate in seed financings and can invest across all stages. The firm typically invests in companies engaged in the communications and technology, enterprise software and services, and media and entertainment sectors. It also focuses on renewable energy, networking, infrastructure, web services, digital media, consumer Internet, enabling technologies, big data, enterprise software, ad technologies and services, intellectual property, cloud, Saas, and mobile sectors. In the enterprise software and services industry, the firm seeks to focus on opportunities enabled by the Open Source movement. Additionally, it invests in new products and services enabled by the pervasive digital infrastructure in the media and entertainment sector. The firm seeks to make initial investments between $25000 and $5 million and invests between $3 million and $20 million over the life of the portfolio company. This typically results in a significant but non-controlling interest at the time of an initial public offering. It prefers to be the lead or first investor to acquire a minority stake in its portfolio companies. Additionally, through the QuickStart Seed Funding Program, the firm provides start-up entrepreneurs with convertible loans up to $250,000. These loans convert into equity when the company closes its next round of funding typically a Series A round, in which the firm may prefer to lead. It seeks to provide follow-on financing to its portfolio companies. Charles River Ventures was founded in 1970 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an additional office in Menlo Park, California.

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