Katie Siegel is the co-founder and CEO of Flipturn, the New York software company building the control center for electric fleet and charger operations. An MIT-trained engineer who was among the first dozen builders at Samsara before its IPO and co-founded Impira (acquired by Figma), she now points her fleet-software expertise at the least glamorous, most consequential problem in electrification: keeping commercial EV chargers actually working. Flipturn has raised about $26.5M, including an $11M Series A led by CRV, and counts the City of Seattle, Purolator, Republic Services, and Swift Transportation among its customers.
Paulo Martins is the Brazilian-born founder and CEO of Arena (arena.im), a San Francisco-based AI-powered community engagement platform that lets brands embed live chat, live blogs, and audience interaction tools directly on their own websites with a single line of code. After stints at NASA, Ubisoft, and Hulu — where he helped grow the streaming company from 100K to 7 million paying subscribers — Martins founded Arena in 2017 with a clear thesis: businesses should own their audience, not rent it from social platforms. By 2022, Arena had grown to 25,000 customers across 150 countries and closed a $13.6M Series A led by CRV, with backing from heavyweights like David Sacks, Des Traynor, and Olivier Pomel.
Brittany Walker is a General Partner at CRV in San Francisco who writes first checks to technical founders in AI, infrastructure software, and frontier technology. She joined CRV in 2020, was promoted to General Partner in 2024, and co-founded The Table, a community for women building in enterprise.
James Green is a General Partner at CRV, one of the oldest early-stage venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, where he focuses on cybersecurity, fintech, developer tools, and B2B SaaS from pre-seed through Series B. A Harvard-educated cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary psychology graduate who rowed varsity crew for four years, Green grew up in Redditch, England, broke into venture capital through cold emails, and spent nearly five years at Insight Partners deploying ~$1B globally before joining CRV. Known for backing scrappy, conviction-driven founders, his portfolio includes Astrix Security, Legit Security, Finley Technologies, and Trail Security.
Jon Auerbach is a General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures), one of the oldest and most storied venture capital firms in the US. A former Pulitzer Prize-nominated technology journalist who covered conflict zones for The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal, Auerbach pivoted into venture capital in 2000, co-founding M-Qube (acquired by VeriSign for $275M) before joining CRV in 2004. Over two decades at CRV, he has backed transformative companies including Zendesk, DoorDash, and Affirmed Networks (acquired by Microsoft for $1.35B), earned a spot on the Forbes Midas List (ranked #16 in 2020), and now leads the firm's founder support operations spanning legal, finance, marketing, and talent.
Reid Christian is a General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures), one of the longest-running venture firms in Silicon Valley. A former college basketball captain who grew up on a dirt road in rural Maine, he joined CRV in 2017 after stints at Battery Ventures, Symmetric Capital, and startup Salsify. Reid focuses on early-stage B2B companies - particularly developer tools, security, infrastructure, and vertical SaaS - and has backed breakout companies including Vercel, Postman, Tailscale, Factorial, Squire, and Clerk. His investment thesis centers on founder-market fit and the expanding role of developers as enterprise buyers.
Daniel Bessonov is the co-founder and CEO of Avora, a Y Combinator- and CRV-backed AI platform that deploys intelligent agents for dental operations - automating clinical documentation, coaching providers on case acceptance, and following up with patients. Before Avora, he architected core payment features at Ramp, built UAV encryption at Anduril, and led product intelligence at Wispr AI. A Penn M&T graduate (CS + Finance), he became a Top 25 App Store developer at age 14 and has spent the decade since compressing complex AI problems into products clinicians actually use.
Arjun Mangla is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fulcrum, an AI-powered workflow automation platform that is quietly transforming how commercial insurance brokers operate. A Columbia-trained computer scientist turned McKinsey consultant, Mangla left a high-flying advisory career to tackle one of corporate America's most overlooked inefficiencies: the manual, error-prone drudgery of insurance policy checking and proposal generation. Under his leadership, Fulcrum has captured nearly a third of the top 50 U.S. insurance brokers as customers, raised $25M in total funding led by CRV, and grown revenue 5x in six months - all by making insurance brokers dramatically faster and more accurate without replacing the humans who know their clients.
David Winer is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ciro (YC S22), an AI-powered go-to-market platform that automates sales prospecting from target identification to booked meetings. With roots in applied mathematics, a Berkeley EECS master's, and a Stanford MBA, he spent time at Bain, Pure Storage, and Google (where he served as PM for the Kotlin programming language and sat on the Kotlin Foundation board) before co-founding Ciro in 2022 with Brown University friends Richard Lee and Ross Geiger. Ciro raised $3.8M in seed funding from CRV, Y Combinator, and SV Angel, and runs on a stack anchored by Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and Elasticsearch. Outside the office, David self-identifies as an 'exceedingly obscure internet personality' and writes a personal blog mixing statistical deep-dives with essays on bike theft and vegetarianism.
Pramod Sharma is the Founder and CEO of Napkin AI, a generative-AI platform that converts plain text into editable business visuals - diagrams, flowcharts, infographics, and charts - in seconds. A farmer's son from Rajasthan who cracked IIT Delhi on self-study, he went on to earn a Master's from Stanford, architect Google Books' scanning machines, and then co-found Osmo, the award-winning educational-gaming company sold to Byju's for $120 million in 2019. In 2021 he and co-founder Jerome Scholler turned their frustration with corporate slide decks into Napkin AI, which emerged from stealth in August 2024 with $10 million in seed funding from Accel and CRV.
Devdutt Yellurkar is a General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures) and Co-founding Partner at Propeller VC, a $100M ocean-climate tech fund. A former early Infosys employee who helped sell the offshore software model, and co-founder/CEO of Yantra Corporation (acquired by Sterling Commerce/IBM), Yellurkar has spent 15+ years as a venture investor backing iconic companies including Zendesk (first institutional investor), Airtable, and Postman. He was named to the Forbes Midas List in 2020, 2021, and 2022. His investing style blends deep operator empathy with a team-first philosophy forged on cricket pitches in India.
George Zachary is a General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures) and one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capitalists, known for seed-stage bets on Twitter, Yammer, and PillPack. A Greek-American MIT graduate who once helped build the Nintendo 64 at Silicon Graphics, he pivoted from consumer internet to bioengineering after a near-miss cancer scare in 2015 - writing more diligence on his first biotech deal than in the prior decade combined. He deploys capital guided by a single question: does this founder need - not just want - to build something big?
Justine Moore is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) where she invests in AI-native consumer products and generative media, with a portfolio spanning companies like ElevenLabs and Viggle AI. A Stanford alum who co-founded Cardinal Ventures as a student, she launched the 'Accelerated' newsletter with her identical twin sister Olivia (also a partner at a16z), and together they are known as the 'Venture Twins.' Before a16z, Justine spent four years at CRV investing in DTC and consumer startups, and briefly took an operator role at Canal between VC stints. Her mother was a venture investor, making her something of VC royalty who grew up watching pitch meetings from a stroller.
Murat Bicer is a General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures), one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most storied early-stage venture firms. Born in Turkey and educated at Middle East Technical University and Babson College, he has spent two decades hunting for the next breakout enterprise software company. His signal achievement: backing Datadog at the seed stage in 2011 - before cloud monitoring was a recognized category - and riding it to a $30B+ public company that burned under $25M to get there. A five-time Forbes Midas List honoree (ranked #24 in 2024), Bicer is known for investing in developer-first companies, his contrarian willingness to back pre-product teams, and a portfolio that spans Datadog, Signal Sciences (acquired by Fastly for $775M), Iterable, Voyage AI (acquired by MongoDB), LanceDB, and Gorgias.
Saar Gur is a General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures), one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture firms, where he has backed some of the most iconic consumer and SMB software companies of the past decade. Before turning investor, he co-founded BrightRoll, the video ad network that Yahoo acquired for $640 million. Known for betting early on 'weird' ideas before the world caught up, his portfolio includes DoorDash (seed in 2013), Patreon, Ring, Dropbox, Airtable, Mercury, and Niantic. He has ranked on the Forbes Midas List (#22 in 2023), taught at Stanford's StartupGarage, and summits mountains with founders for fun.