Terms of Use

Effective date: April 22, 2026

Please read on to learn the rules and restrictions that govern your use of the crv.com website and service (the “Services”). If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding these terms or the Services, please contact us at privacy@crv.com.

These Terms of Use and Privacy Policy (the “Terms”) are a binding contract between you and Charles River Ventures (“CRV,” “we,” “us,” “our”). The Services may change, so these Terms may need to change as well. We reserve the right to change the Terms at any time. If you don’t agree with the new Terms, you are free to reject them, but you will no longer be able to use the Services. If you use the Services in any way after a change to the Terms is effective, you are indicating your agreement to all of the changes.

Restrictions

You represent and warrant that you are an individual and are at least 18 years old. You will only use the Services for your own internal, personal, non-commercial use, and only in a manner that complies with all laws that apply to you.

You will not use the Services or interact with the Services (including by contributing any Content or User Submission (as defined below)) in a manner that:

1. Infringes or violates the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone else (including CRV);
2. Violates any agreement you have with any third party (including any confidentiality agreement);
3. Violates any law or regulation, including any applicable export control laws and laws regarding the disclosure and use of material non-public information regarding publicly traded companies;
4. Is harmful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable;
5. Attempts, in any manner, to obtain the password, account, or other security information from any other user;
6. Violates the security of any computer network, or cracks any passwords or security encryption codes;
7. Runs Maillist, Listserv, any form of auto-responder or “spam” on the Services, or any processes that run or are activated while you are not logged into the Services, or that otherwise interfere with the proper working of the Services (including by placing an unreasonable load on the Services’ infrastructure);
8. “Crawls,” “scrapes,” or “spiders” any page, data, or portion of or relating to the Services or Content (through use of manual or automated means);
9. Copies or stores any significant portion of the Content;
10. Decompiles, reverse engineers, or otherwise attempts to obtain the source code or underlying ideas or information of or relating to the Services.

Licenses

Anything you post, upload, share, store, or otherwise provide through the Services is your “User Submission.” In order to display your User Submissions on the Services, and to allow other users to view them, you grant us and other users certain rights in those User Submissions. You hereby grant CRV a license to translate, modify (for technical purposes, for example making sure your content is viewable on an iPhone as well as a computer) and reproduce and otherwise act with respect to such User Submissions, in each case to enable us to operate the Services. This is a license only – your ownership in User Submissions is not affected.

Subject to our Privacy Policy, you also hereby grant CRV a license to display, perform, and distribute your User Submissions for the purpose of making that User Submission accessible to all CRV users and providing the Services necessary to do so, as well as all other rights necessary to use and exercise all rights in that User Submission in connection with the Services and/or otherwise in connection with CRV’s business. Also, you grant all other users of the Services a license to access any User Submission that is displayed to them on the Services, and to use and exercise all rights in it.

You agree that the licenses you grant are royalty-free, perpetual, sublicenseable, irrevocable, and worldwide.

In performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users (including you), CRV may need to make changes to your User Submissions to conform and adapt those User Submissions to the technical requirements of connection networks, devices, services, or media, and the foregoing licenses include the rights to do so.

The materials displayed or performed or available on or through the Services, including, but not limited to, text, data, photos, and User Submissions (all of the foregoing, the “Content”) are protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property laws. You will abide by all copyright notices, trademark rules, information, and restrictions contained in any Content you access through the Services, and you won’t use or exploit for any purpose any Content not owned by you, (i) without the prior consent of the owner of that Content or (ii) in a way that violates someone else’s (including CRV’s) rights.

You understand that CRV owns the Services. Except as expressly allowed by these Terms, you won’t modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works of, or otherwise exploit any of the Services.

The Services may allow you to copy or download certain Content; please remember that just because this functionality exists, doesn’t mean that all the restrictions above don’t apply.

Disclaimers

You access the Services and all Content at your own risk. Any information or content posted or transmitted on or through the Services is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such content originated. You are responsible for all Content you contribute to the Services, and you represent and warrant you have all rights necessary to contribute it in the manner in which you contribute it.

No Content can or should be construed as professional advice of any kind (including business, investment, accounting, tax, and/or legal advice). Granting you access to the Services is not an indication that CRV or any CRV affiliate will invest in any business you are associated with, nor is it an invitation to invest in any CRV entity or business or CRV affiliate. You acknowledge and agree that CRV is not in any way obligated to invest or offer the opportunity to invest or to consider an investment or opportunity to invest.

We are not liable for any errors or omissions in the Content or for any damages or loss you might suffer in connection with it. We cannot control and have no duty to take any action regarding how you may interpret and use the Content or what actions you may take as a result of having been exposed to the Content, and you hereby release us from all liability for you having acquired or not acquired Content through the Services. We can’t guarantee the identity of any users with whom you interact in using the Services and we are not responsible for which users gain access to the Services. CRV has no duty nor obligation to update any information contained in the Content. Without limiting any of the foregoing, some Content may contain forward-looking statements based on assumptions; CRV is not responsible for forward-looking statements, and there can be no assurance that actual results may not differ from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements.

Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals found on or through the Services are solely between you and such organizations and/or individuals, and CRV is not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred in connection with your dealings therewith.

The Services may contain links or connections to third party websites or services that are not controlled by CRV. There are risks in accessing such sites and services, and CRV is not responsible for such risks.

If there is a dispute between participants on this site, or between users and any third party, you agree that CRV is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you release CRV, its officers, employees, agents, and successors from claims, demands, and damages of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and/or our Services. If you are a California resident, you shall and hereby do waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him or her must have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor.”

Services Modifications

We reserve the right to suspend or discontinue any part of the Services, introduce new features, impose limits on certain features or restrict access to parts or all of the Services, or remove any Content from the Services, in each case at any time, for any reason and without notice.

Termination

CRV is free to terminate (or suspend access to) your use of the Services, for any reason in our discretion, including your breach of these Terms. Provisions that, by their nature, should survive termination of these Terms shall survive termination. By way of example, all of the following will survive termination: any liability arising from your use of the Services, any limitations on our liability, any terms regarding ownership or intellectual property rights, terms regarding disputes, and the “Miscellaneous” section.

Miscellaneous

Warranty Disclaimer. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED BY CRV (AND ITS LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS) ON AN “AS-IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON INFRINGEMENT, OR THAT USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.

Limitation of Liability. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY SHALL CRV (OR ITS LICENSORS, SUPPLIERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS) BE LIABLE TO YOU OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES FOR (A) ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, ACCURACY OF RESULTS, OR COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR (B) ANY AMOUNT, IN THE AGGREGATE, IN EXCESS OF $100, OR (III) ANY MATTER BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL.

Etc. You may not assign, delegate or transfer these Terms or your rights or obligations hereunder, in any way (by operation of law or otherwise) without CRV’s prior written consent. We may transfer, assign, or delegate these Terms and our rights and obligations without consent. These Terms are governed by and will be construed under the laws of the State of California, without regard to the conflicts of laws provisions thereof. For all purposes of this Agreement, the parties consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state or federal courts located in, respectively, Santa Clara County or San Francisco County, California, or the Northern District of California. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated, to the minimum extent necessary, so that these Terms shall otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable. There are no third party beneficiaries intended under these Terms. These Terms are the only agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter herein; provided, however, that these Terms do not supersede any other agreements we may have with you with respect to different subject matter.