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About CRCM Ventures
CRCM Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2006. It is primarily based out of San Francisco, United States. As of Aug 2023, CRCM Ventures has invested in 192 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Venteur Overall, CRCM Ventures portfolio has seen 4 unicorns, 6 IPOs and 35 acquisitions including key companies like BitGo, Ginkgo Bioworks and Eight Sleep. A lot of funds co-invest with CRCM Ventures, with names like TSVC sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. CRCM Ventures has team of 3 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 3 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Unicorns
Portfolio Soonicorns
CRCM Ventures' List of Top Investments
CRCM Ventures has a portfolio of 192 companies, including 4 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in SPACES and Fan AI.Their portfolio spans across United States, China, Canada and 8 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Consumer and 32 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 3 more. Here is the list of top investments by CRCM Ventures:1. BitGo
Platform that offers crypto based financial services. It offers custody, trading, and lending solutions to institutional investors and crypto platforms. It provides regulated and insured custody for digital assets, with a cold storage to manage counterparty risk. Its solutions include features like whitelisting, user level permissions, and velocity controls.
Key facts about BitGo
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $170M
- Employee Count: 200 - 499 as on Mar 01, 2026
- Investors: K2 Global, Goldman Sachs and 39 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jan 24, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Public
Autonomous labs for biotechnology, empowering scientists to design the living world. They provide autonomous labs and cloud lab services, enabling scientists to automate experimental work and focus on insight and creativity. The company offers solutions and datapoints services to design experiments and address research goals. Their autonomous systems lift the burden of manual lab work, empowering scientists to ask critical questions. They provide hardware, software, support, and cloud lab resources. The company's vision is to enable programming biology, curing diseases, and growing everything imaginable. This is a B2B tech company offering SaaS solutions for biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
Key facts about Ginkgo Bioworks
- Founded Year: 2008
- Location: Boston (United States)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $796M
- Employee Count: 638 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Allen & Company, T. Rowe Price and 53 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Dec 13, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Public
3. Ripple
Provider of blockchain and financial infrastructure solutions for cross-border payments and digital asset custody. The company offers payments, custody, and stablecoin solutions. These solutions enable the integration of blockchain and digital assets. The company aims to provide a simple, secure, and compliant way to modernize financial infrastructure.
Key facts about Ripple
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $853M
- Employee Count: 2,227 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: 2020 Ventures, 27th Street Capital and 104 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Aug 18, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Eight Sleep
Provider of AI-based internet-first brand of mattress and smart mattress covers. It provides an AI-based internet-first brand of thermoregulated mattress, carbon air pillow, and smart mattress cover that is controlled via smartphone. It allows the user to set the temperature of the mattress independently and monitor the body vitals such as breathing and heart-rate variability. This control allows the user to fall asleep faster and improves the quality of sleep. The app can be connected with other smart devices to monitor sleep activity.
Key facts about Eight Sleep
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $323M
- Employee Count: 259 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: SoftBank Group, StartX and 88 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Mar 04, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Agora
Cloud based customer engagement platform. It enables users to connect through video, voice, and interactive broadcasting. It provides developers with APIs, to embed real time voice, video, interactive streaming, chat, and artificial intelligence capabilities into applications. It helps businesses and developers create engaging and interactive experiences.
Key facts about Agora
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Guangzhou (China)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $55M
- Employee Count: 940 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: HTIF, Access Industries and 16 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, May 07, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Public
CRCM Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
CRCM Ventures has invested in 192 companies over the last 13 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Venteur and most recent follow-on round was in Copper Cow Coffee.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2022 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2021 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2020 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2019 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
2018 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
2017 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
CRCM Ventures' Investments by Stage
CRCM Ventures has made 32 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.59M, 24 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $9.79M, 4 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $13.4M, 2 investments in Angel stage with an average round size of $1.5M and 1 investment in Venture Debt stage with an average round size of $1.47M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 32 |
Series A | 24 |
Series B | 4 |
Angel | 2 |
Venture Debt | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
CRCM Ventures' Investments by Sector
CRCM Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Consumer, Life Sciences and HealthTech. Notably, it has invested in 160 Tech companies, 106 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 88 Software companies and at least 85 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 21 |
High Tech | 21 |
Consumer | 18 |
Life Sciences | 9 |
HealthTech | 7 |
Others | 78 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
CRCM Ventures' Investments by Geography
CRCM Ventures has made most investments in United States (51), followed by China where it has made 8 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 51 |
China | 8 |
Canada | 2 |
Australia | 1 |
Croatia | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
CRCM Ventures' recent investments
CRCM Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by CRCM Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Aug 18, 2023 | United States | Seed | 4734 | [+5] | |
Mar 21, 2023 | Canada | Series A | 3258 | ||
Apr 21, 2022 | United States | Seed | 7599 | [+5] | |
Feb 25, 2022 | United States | Seed | 2605 | [+3] | |
Feb 22, 2022 | United States | Seed | 2354 | [+6] |
Unicorns in CRCM Ventures' Portfolio
CRCM Ventures has 4 unicorns in its portfolio - Eight Sleep, Apollo, Blockdaemon and others. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Eight Sleep. It became a unicorn in 2026.Here is a list of unicorns in CRCM Ventures' portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
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80 | Provider of AI-based internet-first brand of mattress and smart mattress covers | 2014 | New York City | Series D | hdrppxu | ||
75 | Provider of AI-driven B2B sales intelligence and engagement platform | 2015 | San Francisco | Series D | vtrvwjy | ||
66 | Blockchain-based infrastructure for node deployment and management | 2017 | Los Angeles | Series C | avgrkai | ||
71 | Cloud based omnichannel personalized marketing platform | 2013 | San Francisco | Series E | bmhxnjl |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in CRCM Ventures' Portfolio
6 of CRCM Ventures' portfolio companies have become public. BitGo got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in Jan 2026 at marketcap of $1.92B and Ginkgo Bioworks got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).Here are CRCM Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 22, 2026 | - | - | 3003 | |
Sep 17, 2021 | Jul 16, 2014 | Seed | 5065 | |
Jun 26, 2020 | - | - | 5979 | |
Jul 20, 2018 | - | - | 5699 | |
Jun 08, 2007 | - | - | 7100 |
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Acquired companies in CRCM Ventures' Portfolio
35 companies from CRCM Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was EquityZen in Oct 2025 by Morgan Stanley for $*****.Here are CRCM Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 30, 2025 | - | - | 8334 | |
Apr 08, 2025 | - | - | 7866 | |
Feb 19, 2025 | - | - | 4016 | |
Aug 28, 2024 | - | - | 5307 | |
Apr 23, 2024 | Mar 31, 2017 | Series B | 3224 |
Team profile of CRCM Ventures
CRCM Ventures has a team of 3 members including 2 Partners located in United States. CRCM Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of CRCM Ventures
Over the past 13 years, 475 investors have co-invested in CRCM Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before CRCM Ventures: Y Combinator, HHS and 63 others have invested in rounds before CRCM Ventures. There are 4 companies where Y Combinator has invested before CRCM Ventures and 3 companies where HHS has invested before CRCM Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of CRCM Ventures: 246 investors entered a company along with CRCM Ventures. These include investors like TSVC (4 companies).
- Invested after CRCM Ventures: A total of 164 investors have invested in CRCM Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Viking Global Investors (2 companies), Gates (2 companies) and HHS (2 companies).
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