Tag Archives: Charles River Ventures

March 12, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Crushpath Picks up $6M and Launches Tailored Pitch Sites

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Crushpath, the startup founded by ex-Jive marketing wunderkind Sam Lawrence. As I said when I first covered there slightly stealthy launch, the premise of Crushpath is that traditional CRM, where salespeople have to record deals, introduces a barrier to entry – salespeople simply want to get

Tagged Aaron Levie, Charles River Ventures, crushpath, Customer relationship management, McAfee, Phil Fernandez, Phil Libin, TriNet |

June 19, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Ex Jive CMO Comes Back with Awesome Sales Tool–Crushpath

By Ben Kepes

Three or years ago I went out on a limb criticizing the new startup of ex Jive CMO Sam Lawrence – Blackbox Republic was a site that was going to reinvent online relationships for “sex positive” individuals. I was dismissive, and took some heat for being so. What I wasn’t

Tagged Aaron Levie, Blackbox Republic, Charles River Ventures, crushpath, Customer relationship management, Facebook, Phil Fernandez, Salesforce.com, Sam Lawrence |

October 26, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

By Ben Kepes

The other day SaaS Accounting vendor Wave announced that it had just closed $5 million in funding led by well respected VC, Charles River Ventures. While yet another vendor raising a series A wouldn’t usually be cause for comment, this is an interesting case in that Wave, as I’ve written

Tagged Charles River Ventures, cloud computing, FreeAgent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, SaaS, Software as a Service, wave accounting, Xero |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.