Google Ventures
Investor - Venture Capital
Overview
GV was one of the first venture capital firms to employ the venture capital services model. It provides portfolio companies with access to operational help after making a financial investment. Full-time partners at GV work with portfolio companies on design and product management, marketing, engineering, and recruiting.
Country: United States
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Investment Strategy
Geography
- North America
Sector Focus
- Institutional Investments and Trading
- WealthTech
- Payments and Remittances
- Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
- Data and Analytics
Investment Stage
- Seed
- Series A
- Series B
Summary
GV is the venture capital investment arm of Alphabet Inc. and provides seed, venture, and growth stage funding to technology companies. The firm operates independently from Google and makes financially driven investment decisions. GV seeks to invest in startup companies in a variety of fields ranging from Internet, software, and hardware to life science, healthcare, artificial intelligence, transportation, cyber security and agriculture.
Investments
Date
Name
Size
Round
Co-Investors
Sector
Country
CyberGRX
Series A
Rally Ventures, Blackstone, Allegis Capital, Blackstone,
Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
United States
Plaid
Series B
BoxGroup, Felicis Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Homebrew
Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
United States
LendUp
Series B
Bronze Investments, AFSquare, Eagle Cliff Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Marketplace Lending
United States
Granular
Series B
Khosla Ventures, H. Barton Asset Management, Tao Capital Partners, Felicis Ventures
Data & Analytics
United States
Panorama Education
Series A
A-Grade Investments, Mark Zuckerberg, Imagine K12
Data & Analytics
United States
PayRange
Series A
Nyca Partners, Matrix Partners, Max Levchin
Payments & Remittances
United States
Digit
Series A
General Catalyst Partners, Freestyle Capital, Financial Solutions Lab, Baseline Ventures,
WealthTech
United States
Rocana
Series B
Tobam Capital, General Catalyst Partners
Data & Analytics
United States
Gusto
Series B
Emergence Capital Partners, Altimeter Capital, Data Collective, General Catalyst Partners
Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
United States
Framed
Seed
Initialized Capital, Jotter Investment, NYU Innovation Venture Fund, Y Combinator,
Data & Analytics
United States
Poynt
Series A
Matrix Partners, Nyca Partners, Webb Investment Network
Payments & Remittances
United States
Robinhood
Seed
New Enterprise Associates, Machine Shop Ventures
Institutional Investment & Trading
United States
Datanyza
Seed
Flight Ventures, AngelList, Jeff Epstein, Marc Bell Ventures
Data & Analytics
United States
Turo
Series B
Expansion Venture Capital, August Capital, Canaan Partners, General Motors Ventures, Shasta Ventures
Marketplace Lending
United States
ClearStory Data
Series B
DAG Ventures, Khosla Ventures
Data & Analytics
United States
Funds Raised
Vintage
Fund Name
Amount
European Fund
$100M
Key Employees
Bill Maris
Co-Founder & CEO
Joe Kraus
General Partner
Krishna Yeshwant
General Partner
David Krane
Managing Partner
Karim Faris
General Partner
Lindsey Acharya
Administrative Business Partner
