By Reid Christian and Chiraag Deora Technology works in cycles. Right now we are seeing an overreaction to the public cloud, the pendulum swung too far and is swinging back. Mass underlying platform changes — including the movement from on premises to cloud to AI — drive new software paradigms…

By Anna Khan The outside sales market is a more than $6 billion industry in the United States alone, larger than the software sales market today. According to United States Census data, there are 13 million people employed in sales jobs. Of those, roughly 56 percent are in face-to-face sales…

By James Green There is no doubt that with the rapid growth and transformational impact it will have on all aspects of society that artificial intelligence will be subject to some kind of government oversight. While regulation in the U.S. is currently being managed voluntarily, in Europe, proposed legislation through…

By Team CRV Summer typically serves up long days and a more relaxed pace. For Team CRV, the last few months have been anything but breezy. In fact, they’ve been action packed. Our blockbuster summer began with welcoming a number of new companies to the CRV family including two amazing…

By Team CRV Since CRV was founded in 1970, we’ve invested in over 500 companies. This month our firm, which specializes in backing early-stage seed and Series A startups, brought together founders and senior level executives from four of our powerhouse companies (which employ well over two thousand people) under…

By Team CRV As we gear up to celebrate the one year anniversaries of three of CRV’s newest investors, we thought it would be a good opportunity to share their perspectives. …

By James Green and Chiraag Deora This week we had the privilege of hosting a dozen outstanding early stage cybersecurity founders in the heart of San Francisco including CRV backed Impart Security’s co-founder and CEO Jonathan DiVincenzo and ProjectDiscovery’s CCO Andy Cao. It was an evening filled with thought provoking…

By Vivian Cheng A few weeks ago, Google unveiled a new version of their flagship Search product utilizing generative AI. This revamped Search experience offers AI-generated text summations of search queries and the ability to ask follow-up questions, with responses powered by Google’s proprietary LLM, PaLM 2. In other words…

Survey: Open-Source Distribution of AI-Native Products by Reid Christian and Chiraag Deora If AI is the thing, open-source software (OSS) can be how. …