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CapitalG (formerly Google Capital ) is a venture capital company and a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in 2013, the company focuses on larger technology companies in the growth phase and invests more profitably than strategically for Google .

In addition to investing in capital, CapitalG's approach includes giving the companies in the portfolio access to Google's people, knowledge and culture to help grow the companies and guide them.

Since 2013, CapitalG has invested in over 25 companies, including in the areas of Big Data , FinTech , security and e-learning .

history

The mutual fund started operations in 2013 but was not officially launched until February 19, 2014. The company operates out of the Googleplex in Mountain View and has an annual investment target of approximately $ 300 million. Following the restructuring of Google LLC by Alphabet Inc. , Google Capital was renamed CapitalG on November 4, 2016.

Investments

date Companies Branch
NN MultiPlan Healthcare
January 2013 SurveyMonkey Opinion polling
May 2013 Lending Club Finances
February 2014 Renaissance learning education
March 2014 Auction.com property
March 2014 Credit karma Finances
June 2014 Freshdesk Enterprise software
July 2014 MapR Enterprise software
August 2014 Thumbtack Marketplace for services
September 2014 InnoLight Optical transceivers
January 2015 Glassdoor Job platform
January 2015 CommonFloor property
April 2015 ZenPayroll Employee administration
April 2015 Freshdesk Enterprise software
June 2015 Duolingo Foreign language teaching
July 2015 Crowd strike Information security
July 2015 FanDuel Fantasy sport
August 2015 Practo Healthcare
September 2015 Oscar Health Health insurance
September 2015 Zscaler Information security
2016 Snap Inc. Social media
January 2016 Pindrop Security Information security
March 2016 CarDekho Car marketplace
June 2016 Care.com Care service provider platform
September 2016 Airbnb Overnight marketplace
November 2016 Stripe Online payment service
January 2017 Cuemath Education
March 2017 Looker Data analytics
October 2017 Lyft Transportation
March 2018 UiPath Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
April 2018 Manbang Transportation
May 2018 Robinhood Finances
June 2018 Aye Finance Finances
July 2018 Freshworks Enterprise software
September 2018 Convoy Truck transport software
October 2018 Applied Insurance software
January 2019 Collibra Data management
January 2019 CarDekho Car marketplace
March 2019 Cloudflare CDN and Internet security service
October 2019 Unqork Software development
October 2019 Convoy Transport software
November 2019 Freshworks Enterprise software
December 2019 Duolingo Foreign language teaching
December 2019 Dataiku Data science software

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jens Minor: Alphabet: Google Capital is now called Capital G and invests in Snapchat - GWB. In: googlewatchblog.de. November 5, 2016, accessed December 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b c Mark Bergen: Meet Google Capital, the Investing Arm With the Keys to the Googleplex Kingdom. In: vox.com. December 21, 2015, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ CapitalG - Overview. In: Crunchbase . Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Zach Miners: Google launching new fund for later-stage tech investments. In: pcworld.com. May 22, 2013, accessed December 23, 2019 .
  5. ^ Paul Sawers: Google Capital Officially Launches Today. In: thenextweb.com. February 19, 2014, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ MultiPlan - CapitalG. In: capitalg.com. Accessed December 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Kara Swisher: Exclusive: SurveyMonkey Raises $ 800 Million in Debt and Equity for Tender Offer - Including New Investment From Google's New Late-Stage Unit. In: allthingsd.com. January 16, 2013, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b Michael J. de la Merced: Renaissance Learning Draws $ 40 Million Investment From Google Capital. In: dealbook.nytimes.com. February 19, 2014, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Many Google millions for Swiss Duolingo. In: inside-it.ch. June 10, 2015, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b Google Capital joins Snapchat - what's behind it? ›Sales economy. In: absatzwirtschaft.de. November 14, 2016, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Rita Deutschbein: Between Uber and Lyft: Alphabet is two-pronged. In: teltarif.de. October 20, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2019 .
  12. ↑ UiPath Raises $ 225M with Series C, led by CapitalG and Sequoia. In: onvista.de. September 18, 2018, accessed January 10, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Full Size: Convoy Raises $ 185 Million Led by CapitalG to Reinvent the $ 800B Trucking Industry. In: businesswire.com. September 21, 2018, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Cloudflare raises $ 150 million and adds to the board. In: businesswire.com. March 12, 2019, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Unqork Closes $ 80 Million Series B Funding Round Led by CapitalG, Driving the No-Code Enterprise Revolution. In: prnewswire.com. October 3, 2019, accessed on January 6, 2020 .
  16. ↑ $ 150 million new funding: Freshworks' market valuation rises to $ 3.5 billion - Lead investors are Sequoia, CapitalG and Accel, Freshw. In: pressebox.de. November 13, 2019, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Swiss Duolingo is worth billions. In: inside-it.ch. December 4, 2019, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Florian Douetteau: Dataiku Partners with CapitalG and Becomes a Unicorn. In: blog.dataiku.com. April 4, 2019, accessed December 25, 2019 .