Google Ventures

Summary

In 2008 was created GV, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. GV appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main department of described VC is located in the Mountain View.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the GV, startups are often financed by Third Rock Ventures, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Paul Buchheit. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venrock, Union Square Ventures, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Temasek Holdings, SharesPost Investment Management, In-Q-Tel.

This organization was formed by Bill Maris. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The average startup value when the investment from GV is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This GV works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in more than 49 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Internet. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Slack Technologies, Robinhood.