F*CK TRUMP

Entrepreneurship begins and ends with a powerful immigrant spirit. It is about knocking down walls, moving people toward a common goal, and creating the unthinkable from scratch with small odds of winning. That is what makes the U.S. great and what drives meaningful innovation and change.

CRV Active Investment Theses

Here’s a list of our current investment theses, updated 2Q2018.

While we certainly invest outside of these areas, these spaces are some of the ideas that are top of mind right now for CRV. If you feel you engage with one of these theses, we encourage…

Thesis: The Next Great Consumer App/Network (Mobile or Web)

These days, it seems like everyone thinks consumer mobile and web is dead. This is likely from a combination of factors:

First, the biggest players — Facebook leading the charge — are ever more mindful…

Immigrants and Revolutionists

In 1938, a time of fear and division in Europe and the U.S., President Franklin D. Roosevelt told an American audience: “Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

Thesis: War-time/Peace-time Security

In the mid 2000’s, there was no urgency to buy security products; the threat was mostly…

Thesis: Subscriptions and the Future of Digital Media

It remains a widely held belief that media companies make poor businesses. Production costs for content remain high, and while distribution costs have certainly decreased from the days of newspapers on trucks, the final business model is…

Investor Thesis: Connected Devices

A new generation of connected devices will have a big impact on consumer lives. For example, we…

Thesis: Infrastructure As Code (“Scale or Die”)

The stakes for running an agile development & IT operations organization are higher than they have ever been. The confluence of public cloud adoption, the shift towards software-driven business front ends, and the microservice-based…