“Hopefully, in the not-so-distant future, we can catch up and women’s health can be just health, in sync with other areas of medicine.” Mirvie CEO and co-founder Maneesh Jain shares how the provider aims to close critical knowledge gaps in women’s healthcare through its RNA platform — https://bit.ly/3D96Nno
GV (Google Ventures)
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Francisco Bay Area, CA 124,823 followers
Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.
About us
GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward. We invest across the life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology sectors. With Alphabet as a sole limited partner, GV operates on long time horizons and deals in decades, not rounds. Our operating partners help startups at the earliest stages of company-building across design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering. We also help startups interface with Google, providing unique access to the world’s best technology and talent. Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV has over $10 billion in assets under management and 400 active portfolio companies across North America and Europe. Notable investment outcomes include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, Duo Security, Flatiron Health, Verve Therapeutics, and One Medical. GV is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.
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https://www.gv.com/
External link for GV (Google Ventures)
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2009
- Specialties
- Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Seed Stage, Early Stage, Growth Stage, Consumer, Enterprise, Life Sciences, and Frontier Technology
Locations
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San Francisco Bay Area, CA 94043, US
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Cambridge, MA 02142, US
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London , UK EC1R 5EQ, GB
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New York, NY 10011, US
Employees at GV (Google Ventures)
Updates
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Congratulations to the GV portfolio companies highlighted in Modern Healthcare’s Best In Business 2024! 🎉 The list highlights the suppliers, services, and partners driving innovation across the healthcare industry — including… Oula — providing pre-, during-, and post-maternity care for new mothers. Medallion — supporting organizations in simplifying provider operations. View the full list — https://bit.ly/4gvvjgD
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Congratulations to the GV portfolio companies highlighted in CRN’s 10 Hottest Cloud And AI Security Startups Of 2024! The list recognizes organizations at the forefront of fortifying cloud security strategy for enterprises, including… ☁️ WitnessAI, which allows companies to build guardrails around the use of generative AI without sacrificing privacy or security. ☁️ dope.security, which provides companies with secure web gateways for employee use. Explore the full list — https://bit.ly/3ZMpkys
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"Cala’s kIQ system, worn around the wrist as a smartwatch, senses a patient’s tremor signature and personalizes a stimulation pattern to counteract it, then delivers the energy non-invasively through the skin." With its latest round of funding, Cala Health aims to expand updates to its tremor-reducing modality, combatting the effects of Parkinson’s disease and other essential tremors — https://bit.ly/3BhcdMx
Cala Health raises $50M to spark growth of its wearable hand tremor therapy
fiercebiotech.com
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GV Partner Vanessa Cho took the stage at Fortune Brainstorm Design to discuss the function of GV’s Design Team across the portfolio. She acts as a coach to founders "who are looking to leverage design and user research to mitigate risk and accelerate business decisions.” https://lnkd.in/gy49yXxd
Brainstorm Design 2024: Design At Scale
fortune.com
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GV Partner Vidu Shanmugarajah led our continued investment in London-based Lawhive. Their next step toward the mission of making the law accessible to everyone is expanding to the US in 2025. “Our vision is to combine AI and best-in-class lawyers to reduce the time and cost of providing high-quality legal support, increasing access for millions of people who need it,” says Lawhive CEO Pierre Proner. https://lnkd.in/gqtkS2dC
Google Ventures doubles down on AI startup Lawhive in $40m round
https://www.uktech.news
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Congratulations to GV’s Sherry Chao for landing on Business Insider’s Rising Stars of VC — a list highlighting the biggest up-and-coming investors in 2024 🎉 Explore the full list — https://bit.ly/3VnqL47
Meet 45 rising stars of the venture capital industry who stood out in 2024
businessinsider.com
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Congratulations to the GV portfolio companies named to Inc. Magazine’s Best In Business 2024! 💡 The list honors organizations innovating, inspiring, and operating at the very top of their sectors — including… 💡 Alethea — which combines AI with human oversight to identify misinformation within a company’s landscape, and provide effective mitigation strategies 💡Viz.ai — which fosters positive outcomes in healthcare for patients through an AI-powered platform View the full list — https://bit.ly/3D8JN7O
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Learning new skills in 2025 just got a lot… simpler. Simply has launched Simply Piano on Apple Vision Pro — bringing musical education to an augmented environment and making learning the piano easier than ever. Congratulations to Yuval Kaminka, Yigal Kaminka, Roey Izkovsky, and the team at Simply on their latest achievement! https://bit.ly/3CYyRK9
Simply Piano for Apple Vision Pro
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GV UX Research Partner Michael Margolis joined Lenny’s Podcast to discuss his book Learn More Faster: How to find your bullseye customer and their perfect product. We are thrilled that so many startups are finding value in this one day method for identifying your target customer and value prop. As Lenny Rachitsky said, "One of the biggest mistakes founders make and product teams make is not being very clear and very narrow with their initial target market. I’ve been looking for a book and a guide to help people figure this out. This book is that.” Listen or watch for a super actionable plan, and hear what Michael has learned from working with over 300 (!) startups. https://lnkd.in/gPb8kMMq
Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)
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