Google Ventures "We help entrepreneurs change the world"
Google Ventures also known as "GV" provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to the best companies — not strategic investments for Google. They have invested in more than 250 companies, including Uber, Flatiron Health, Homejoy, Cloudera and DocuSign. GV provide these companies unparalleled support in design, recruiting, marketing, and more. They are invest in the U.S. and Europe. Headquartered in Mountain View, California and they have offices in San Francisco, Boston, New York, and London. Google Ventures only have one limited partner, so they’re fully focused on helping your portfolio companies succeed. And since they operate annual funds, GV have the resources to continue investing and stay engaged with companies as they grow.
Google Ventures relationship with Google means unique access for portfolio companies — to some of the world’s best engineers, scientists, and technology. GV help companies interface with Google. Their workshops offer practical training and intimate discussions about the real skills startups need to succeed — from hiring, to user research, to engineering, and much more. And since the events are open to portfolio employees at any level, they companies can build core capabilities and help their teams grow.
GV team works directly with portfolio on everything from product design to copywriting to system architecture. GV have more than 15 partners focused full-time on design, recruiting, marketing, product management, and engineering. They started Google Ventures in 2009 with a mission to help entrepreneurs make the world better. They have already invested in more than 250 companies working on problems like cancer treatment, urban transportation, and energy use.
On February 11th, 2015 Bill Maris, founding partner at Google Ventures gave a keynote address to the Startup Grind 2015 global conference in Redwood City about the future of health. Mr. Maris has become a conduit through which Google has made strategically important investments in companies Google has gone on to acquire (Nest Labs), may partner with (Uber Technologies) or build from scratch (Calico). Last year, Mr. Maris, who has a degree in neuroscience, convinced Google CEO Larry Page to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to create a biotech company to fight human aging. During a recent and wide-ranging interview at Google Ventures’ headquarters in Mountain View, California. He says he came up with the idea for the company, called Calico, and helped lure former Genentech CEO Art Levinson to run it.
This is statements about Google Ventures:
- “Google Ventures has given us an enormous amount of expertise and help with online marketing that has directly led to increased traffic to our site.” Matt Rogers — Co-founder, Nest
- “The reception to Pocket has been phenomenal. Without help from Google Ventures, it’s safe to say we never would have completed our rebranding.” Nate Weiner — CEO, Pocket
- “Working with Google Ventures has been fantastic. Their team is incredibly smart and focused on making our business better. We couldn’t be happier.” Cotter Cunningham — CEO, RetailMeNot
- “GV is amazingly proactive in helping their portfolio across every aspect of building a successful company. They are the kind of partner every entrepreneur loves to have.”
- “Foundation Medicine has a broad array of great of investors, and I have been fortunate enough to raise a lot of money over the years, but GV has gone above and beyond anything I have ever seen from an investor.”
- “I can't imagine where we’d be without GV’s help — both the design work and also in helping us hire a designer in the nick of time.”
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