GV (company)

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GV

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founding March 31, 2009
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management David Cranes
Branch Venture capital
Website www.gv.com

GV , formerly Google Ventures , is the venture capital investment arm of Alphabet Inc. providing seed , venture, and growth finance for technology companies. The company operates independently from Google and makes financially motivated investment decisions. GV seeks to invest in startup companies in a variety of areas ranging from the Internet , software and hardware, to life sciences , healthcare , artificial intelligence , transportation , cybersecurity and agriculture . GV was founded in 2009 as Google Ventures. GV has offices in Mountain View , San Francisco , New York City , Cambridge and London .

history

The group was founded on March 31, 2009 with a capital commitment of 100 million US dollars. In 2012 that commitment increased to $ 300 million annually and the fund manages $ 2 billion. In 2014, the group announced $ 125 million to invest in promising European startups. Until 2014 she invested in companies like Shape Security. In December 2015, the company was renamed GV and given a new logo. Since 2016 the GV has been less active as a seed investor , but has shifted its attention to more mature companies.

Service model

GV was one of the first venture capital firms to adopt the venture capital service model. It gives portfolio companies access to operational assistance after a financial investment. Full-time partners at GV work with portfolio companies in the areas of design and product management , marketing , engineering and recruiting .

GV has developed an intensive, five-day design process called the Design Sprint, which helps start-ups solve problems quickly.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GV . In: gv.com . Retrieved December 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ Press . In: GV . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $ 300 million a year . Reuters.
  4. ^ Oscar Williams-Grut: Bill Maris interview: Google Ventures into Europe . In: The Independent . October 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ Google Ventures invests in Europe .
  6. ^ Dan Primack: Deals of the day: Shape Security raises $ 40 million . In: Fortune . Fortune. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  7. ↑ Google Ventures Launches Rebranding Initiative . In: PYMNTS.com , December 7, 2015. Retrieved December 9, 2015. 
  8. ↑ Yuliya Chernova: Google Ventures Dials Down Seed Deals, Urges Mature Startups to Go Public ( en-US ) In: WSJ . December 6, 2015. Accessed April 11, 2018.
  9. ↑ Joon Ian Wong: Google's (Demokratie) not investing in young startups anymore ( en-US ) In: qz.com . Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  10. ↑ Will Google disrupt venture capital? . Fortune. Archived from the original on February 19, 2014. Retrieved on February 3, 2014.
  11. ↑ Farhad Manjoo: Google's Creative Destruction . Fast Company.
  12. ↑ How Google Ventures does rapid prototyping 'design sprints' with its 170 startups . VentureBeat.
  13. ↑ Inside A Google Ventures Design Sprint . TechCrunch.

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