CRCM Ventures is a venture capital firm in California that focuses on investing in companies operating in the consumer, media, health, wellness, frontier and blockchain technology sectors. Founded 2006 in San Francisco, California, United States by Chun Ding, it invests in early stage ventures, seed, series A, series B, and series C rounds. Its portfolio companies include humm, FanAI, Wescover, GameClub, PikPik, Gerostate Alpha, Blockdaemon, Taali Foods, Sandbox VR, and 9 Count. As of April 2020, CRCM Ventures has made 123 investments. Their most recent investment was on December 19, 2019, when humm raised $2.6M. CRCM Ventures has had 21 exits, the most notable of which include Musical.ly, Spin, and Turning Point Therapeutics. CRCM Ventures has raised five funds, their latest being CRCM Frontier Technology Fund. This fund was announced on April 15, 2016 and raised a total of $66M.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Company developing a machine learning platform for creating real-time special visual effects during live video capture
Agent IQ is a company that develops AI software for digitizing banking operations.
Company manufacturing 3d printed pharmaceuticals based in San Francisco, CA
42 Technologies Inc. is a cloud-based business-to-business predictive analytics platform for retailers. It consolidates point of sale data to allow retailers to leverage data across various platforms and more easily identify key trends among customers and sales.
A company that uses virtual reality for entertainment purposes. It was founded in 2016 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Mylk Guys is a vegan grocery online store that delivers in San Francisco Bay Area. It participated in the S18 cohort of Y Combinator.
FanAI is an AI-driven audience monetization platform focusing on esports, its sponsor ecosystem, increasing sponsorship revenues, and making fan data actionable
Vivid Vision Clinical is a lazy eye treatment system. It is designed to let an optometrist have absolute control over a patients treatment and allow the patient to track progress.
TrueVault is a data security company focused on protecting personally identifiable information.
Spin provides your community with dockless scooter rental options to get you where you need to go
People
Ahn Le
VP
Bing Feng
President of Incubator
Chun Ding
Managing Partner
Jessica Ngo
Partner
Kenson Chen
Finance and Operations Analyst
Toby Zhang
Partner
Xiaqing Bai
Associate
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
FanAI
GameClub
humm
PikPik
Wescover