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Rick Burnes is a founding member and longtime General Partner of Charles River Ventures, which he co-founded in 1970. Public bios describe him as a venture capitalist since 1965 who helped develop CRV into a major U.S. venture firm. His recent investment focus has been communications and information services, and he has served as a director of companies including Cayman Systems, Concord Communications, InteQ, Passport Corp., Taqua Systems, SpeechWorks and Voter.com.
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