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CRV

Venture capital firm · Founded 1970 · Active in 2026

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52 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #49 · Global · 52 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 32% 5y
45
Decacorns → 0% 5y
5
Thoroughbreds ↑ 76% 5y
37

CRV is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 1970. The page below shows 52 Power Law outcomes from CRV's portfolio — 45 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Fintech · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · Spain · Canada. CRV ranks #49 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 52 CRV Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA48
  2. Spain1
  3. Canada1
  4. Finland1
  5. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software10
  2. Fintech7
  3. Marketing5
  4. Biotech & Life Sciences5
  5. Other4
  6. eCommerce & Marketplaces4
  7. Transportation4
  8. Cybersecurity4
  9. AI3
  10. Health Tech & Medtech2
  11. Robotics1
  12. Energy1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+18
  2. Series A23
  3. Seed10
01 · Portfolio market map

CRV's 52 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
52 of 52 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where CRV's founders come from — and where they study.

133 founders across the 52 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States80
India14
United Kingdom9
Israel4
South Africa4
Australia3
Denmark3
Canada3
Morocco3
Finland2
+6 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology9
Stanford University Graduate School of Business5
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani3
Tel Aviv University3
University of California, San Diego3
New York University3
Berkeley3
Carnegie Mellon University3
University of Helsinki2
+45 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google16
Meta7
Yahoo!7
Microsoft5
Mollie3
Splunk3
SimilarWeb3
AppNexus2
PayPal2
Etsy2
+74 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
04 · Compare with peers

How does CRV stack up?

CRV in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about CRV

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about CRV on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about CRV

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning CRV — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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