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Google Ventures

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Google Ventures was founded in March 2009.

Google Ventures is broadly interested in startups in industries including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech, health care and others.

They invest amounts ranging from seed funding to tens of millions of dollars, depending on the stage of the opportunity and the company’s need for capital.

Milestones

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  Google Ventures invested in CoolPlanet Energy Systems. (2/9/12)
  Posted 2/9/12 at 4:08am via onbiovc.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Nimble CRM. (1/4/12)
  Posted 1/4/12 at 8:59pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Bionic Panda Games. (1/17/12)
  Posted 1/18/12 at 8:00pm via venturebeat.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Trada. (1/5/12)
  Posted 1/5/12 at 7:00pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in CoolPlanet Energy Systems. (12/30/11)
  Posted 12/30/11 at 9:57pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Miso. (12/1/11)
  Posted 12/1/11 at 7:11pm via finsmes.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Rumble. (12/1/11)
  Posted 12/1/11 at 12:40pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Objective Logistics. (11/30/11)
  Posted 11/30/11 at 1:58am via finsmes.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Puppet Labs. (11/29/11)
  Posted 11/29/11 at 5:56pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Pocket Change. (11/23/11)
  Posted 11/23/11 at 6:41pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in CustomMade.com. (11/17/11)
  Posted 9/28/11 at 8:59pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Milk. (11/7/11)
  Posted 11/7/11 at 11:57am via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Tracelytics. (11/3/11)
  Posted 11/3/11 at 5:50pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Humanoid. (12/1/10)
  Posted 2/9/11 at 10:28am via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in RelayRides. (8/17/11)
  Posted 10/25/11 at 2:55pm via finsmes.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Subtext. (10/24/11)
  Posted 10/25/11 at 1:54am via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. Cool Planet BioFuels, Inc.: Series B $17.7M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
2. Bionic Panda raises seed funding for Android mobile games (venturebeat.com) [edit]
3. Google Ventures And Foundry Group Put $9M In Crowdsourced Search Advertising Marketplace Trada (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Google Ventures, Mark Cuban And Others Invest $1M In Social CRM Startup Nimble (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. BP, Shea Ventures, Google Ventures And Others Invest in Cool Planet’s C Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Rumble To Build and Publish Games Using $15M Series A From Google Ventures and Khosla (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Miso Raises $4M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
8. Objective Logistics Raises $1.5M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
9. Cisco, Google Ventures, VMware Put $8.5M In Data Center Automation Startup Puppet Labs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Mobile Game Monetization Platform Lunch Money Raises $1M From Google Ventures; Rebrands As Pocket Change (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Google Ventures And First Round Drop $2.1 Million Into Custom Marketplace CustomMade (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Web App Performance Solution Tracelytics Raises $600K From Google Ventures, Battery & Flybridge (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Subtext Raises $3 Million From Google Ventures & More To Make eBook Reading Social (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Foundation Medicine Closes $33.5M Expanded Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
16. Ordr.in Raises Seed Funding From Google Ventures For Its Food API (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. DNAnexus Raises $15 Million, Teams With Google To Host Massive DNA Database (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Mobile Learning Platform Stickery Raises $325K From Google Ventures, 500 Startups And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. Enterprise Mobile Computing Platform Enterproid Raises $11M From Google Ventures, Comcast And Qualcomm (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. SweetLabs Raises $13 Million From Intel, Google And Others For Pokki App Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Google Ventures, Foundry Group Put $1M In Yesware, Email Tracking And Productivity Platform For Salespeople (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. Echoecho raises $750K from Google Ventures, lets you find your friends (venturebeat.com) [edit]
23. Clean Power Finance Receives $25 Million Investment Led By Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Nat Kreamer Joins as New CEO (cleanpowerfinance.com) [edit]
24. RelayRides Closes $10M Series A.2 Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
25. ThinkNear Closes $1.6M Seed Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
26. Rocket Lawyer Raises $18.5 Million to Fund Rapidly Growing Online Legal Service (marketwire.com) [edit]
27. YC-Funded Parse: A Heroku For Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Social Learning Game Developer Airy Labs Raises $1.5M From Google Ventures, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. techcrunch.com [edit]
30. Stealth Social Mobile Startup just.me Raises $600K From Google Ventures, SV Angel And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Read It Later Raises $2.5 Million, Wants To Become The Dropbox Of Content (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. AngelPad's Crittercism Raises $1.2M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
33. Astrid Raises Seed Round for Mobile Productivity Applications (blog.astrid.com) [edit]
34. Google Invests In Stealth Startup That Aims To ‘Accelerate Science’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. Transphorm Completes $25M Series D Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
36. Price Tracking Service Shopobot Raises Funding From Google Ventures, AOL And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You’re Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. KABAM RAISES $85 MILLION TO DRIVE CONTINUED GROWTH AS PIONEER AND LEADER OF HARDCORE SOCIAL GAMING (freshnews.com) [edit]
39. Local Q&A Site Hipster Raises $1M From Google Ventures, Lightbank, 500 Startups And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
40. techcrunch.com [edit]
41. techcrunch.com [edit]
42. Google’s first biofuel investment: CoolPlanetBiofuels (reuters.com) [edit]
43. VigLink Raises Another $5.4 Million To Help Publishers Monetize Outbound Clicks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. techcrunch.com [edit]
45. WeatherBill Brings in $42M From Google, Khosla (gigaom.com) [edit]
46. Energy Efficiency Startup Transphorm Emerges From Stealth, Raises $20 Million From Google Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
47. SCVNGR Raises $15 Million At $100MM Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
48. TV Content Check-In App Miso Lands $1.5M From Google Ventures And Hearst (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. Miso Media Tunes Up With Seed Funding From Google (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
50. Google Ventures Leads $600K Investment In LawPivot, A Quora For Startup Legal Advice (techcrunch.com) [edit]
51. Zipcar competitor RelayRides comes to S.F. (articles.sfgate.com) [edit]
52. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. Personal Genetics Startup 23andMe Raises $22 Million More From Google, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
54. Signpost Raises Capital from Google Ventures (caipssvumlwq.com) [edit]
55. techcrunch.com [edit]
56. IPierian Announces Second Close Of Series B Financing At $28M (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
57. Google Ventures Invests In iPhone Game Developer ngmoco (techcrunch.com) [edit]
58. VigLink Grabs Wheel at DrivingRevenue (xconomy.com) [edit]
59. techcrunch.com [edit]
60. Trada Raises $5.75M From Google Ventures To Crowdsource Search Engine Marketing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
61. Google Ventures-Backed Pixazza Raises $12 Million For Crowdsourced ‘AdSense For Images’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. Google makes further investment in Chinese music site (networkworld.com) [edit]
63. Miso raises undisclosed about from Angels including several x-Googlers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
64. Google Ventures Invests in Mobile Payments Startup Corduro (techcrunch.com) [edit]
65. OpenCandy Raises $5 Million Series B For Bundled Software You Might Actually Want Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/21/opencandy-raises-5-million-series-b-for-bundled-software-you-might-actually-want/#ixzz0ln2Z4Y8C (techcrunch.com) [edit]
66. Adimab, Inc.: Series D $8.2M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
67. Geo-Gamer Scvngr Tracks Down $4M From Google Ventures, Highland (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
68. Silver Spring Networks Raises Another $100M (earth2tech.com) [edit]
69. Google Ventures Invests In English Language Learning Startup EnglishCentral (paidcontent.org) [edit]
70. VigLink Raises $800K To Take Hassle Out Of Affiliate Programs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
71. Pixazza Raises $5.75 Million In First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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73. Google Venture Portfolio (google.com) [edit]