Founded in 2009 by Bill Maris as Google Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Google (now Alphabet). It operates independently from Google's strategic interests, investing purely for financial return with Alphabet as its sole LP.
Multi-stage financial investor (not strategic): seed to growth, backed by a large in-house team of engineers, designers and scientists who support portfolio companies.
Life sciences and health, AI, enterprise software, consumer, frontier tech
Uber, Nest, Slack, Stripe, Flatiron Health, Duolingo, GitLab, Verve Therapeutics
Nest ($3.2B to Google), Uber IPO, Slack ($27.7B to Salesforce), Duolingo IPO, GitLab IPO
GV's design team invented the five-day "Design Sprint" methodology, later published as a bestselling book and adopted by product teams worldwide.
| Company | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Isomorphic Labs Biotech | 1 round | $2.1B |
| SambaNova Systems Hardware | 1 round | $676M |
| Vercel DevTools | 2 rounds | $550M |
| Recursive Superintelligence AI | 1 round, 1 led | $500M |
| Flourish DeepTech | 1 round | $500M |
| Synthesia AI | 3 rounds, 2 led | $483.2M |
| Humans& AI | 1 round | $480M |
| OpenEvidence Healthtech | 2 rounds, 1 led | $450M |
| Monzo fintech | 1 round | $430M |
| Nothing Consumer | 5 rounds, 1 led | $424.4M |
| Harvey LegalTech | 2 rounds, 1 led | $400M |
| Lightmatter DeepTech | 1 round | $400M |
| Multiverse EdTech | 2 rounds | $264M |
| Neuralink DeepTech | 1 round | $205M |
| Genesis Global DevTools | 1 round | $176M |
| Leyden Labs Biotech | 2 rounds, 2 led | $164.2M |
| Midi Health Healthtech | 2 rounds, 1 led | $160M |
| Scandit AI | 1 round | $150M |
| Found Healthtech | 2 rounds, 1 led | $124M |
| Blockchain.com Web3 | 1 round | $120M |
| Lawhive LegalTech | 3 rounds, 2 led | $112M |
| EnduroSat SpaceTech | 1 round | $104M |
| Typeface AI | 1 round | $100M |
| Basis SaaS B2B | 1 round | $100M |
| DualEntry SaaS B2B | 1 round | $90M |
| Ultromics Healthtech | 2 rounds | $88M |
| UJET SaaS B2B | 1 round | $76M |
| Buena PropTech | 1 round, 1 led | $58M |
| Again climate | 2 rounds, 1 led | $53M |
| Attio SaaS B2B | 1 round, 1 led | $52M |
| SolveAI SaaS B2B | 1 round, 1 led | $45M |
| FarmWise Robotics | 1 round | $45M |
| Gravity Sketch DevTools | 1 round | $30.5M |
| wealth.com Fintech | 1 round, 1 led | $30M |
| Sesame Healthtech | 1 round, 1 led | $27M |
| Resistant AI Fintech | 1 round | $25M |
| Carrick Therapeutics Biotech | 1 round | $25M |
| Vareto Fintech | 1 round, 1 led | $20M |
| Complyance LegalTech | 1 round, 1 led | $20M |
| Climate X Climate | 1 round, 1 led | $18M |
| Genie AI LegalTech | 1 round, 1 led | $17.3M |
| dope.security Cybersecurity | 1 round, 1 led | $16M |
| Dope Security Cybersecurity | 1 round, 1 led | $16M |
| MokN Cybersecurity | 1 round, 1 led | $15M |
| MOTHER.tech Media | 1 round, 1 led | $15M |
| Deepset AI | 1 round, 1 led | $14M |
| SideQuest Gaming | 1 round, 1 led | $12M |
| Lapse Consumer | 1 round, 1 led | $11M |
| Distance Technologies DeepTech | 1 round, 1 led | $10.8M |
| Distance Technologies deeptech | 1 round, 1 led | $10.5M |
| Again Bio Climate | 1 round | $10M |
| Continua AI | 1 round, 1 led | $8M |
| Roger Healthtech | 1 round, 1 led | $7.6M |
| Polar Signals DevTools | 1 round | $6.8M |
| Bonnet Energy | 1 round | $5.5M |
| Vocode AI | 1 round | $3.2M |