Charles Rives Ventures

Have an idea you would like to share with us?

First, we ask that you identify the partner whose investing interests are in line with your proposed venture. Then, send that partner a one page executive summary in PDF format that includes the following information:

• Your company's mission or vision
• Brief bios of your team
• What problem are you solving? What is your solution?
• How is your solution differentiated from your competitors?
• What is your sustainable unfair advantage?
• How do you propose spending your CRV QuickStart capital?
• What milestones do you plan on reaching with your capital?
• List of 3 references

If you also have a more detailed PowerPoint presentation or a link to a demo/prototype/beta product, that will only help us in visualizing what you are building.

We will contact you if there is positive interest. We regret that we can't contact each of you individually due to the volume of submissions we receive.

Assuming we like your materials and want to move forward, we would schedule you to come in and meet with us so that we can quickly make a decision.

Our lawyers made us do this…

See the QuickStart FAQ for further details, terms and conditions of the CRV QuickStart program. Our marketplace is dynamic and we expect that the CRV QuickStart program will evolve; CRV reserves the right to terminate, suspend, or modify the QuickStart program at any time, without prior notice. All decisions of CRV are final.