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Google Ventures

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Google Ventures is the financially motivated venture capital arm of Google Inc., founded in 2009.

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

They aim to invest about $100 million a year, with deal sizes ranging from seed to late-stage investments of tens of millions of dollars, depending on the stage of the opportunity and the company’s need for capital.

Google Ventures currently invests in the U.S. and has offices in Cambridge, Mountain View, New York, and Seattle.

Recent Milestones

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  Google Ventures invested in Luvocracy. (5/16/13)
  Posted 5/16/13 at 6:47pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Airware. (5/15/13)
  Posted 5/15/13 at 7:49pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in OpenCoin. (5/14/13)
  Posted 5/14/13 at 9:28pm via finsmes.com
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  Google Ventures invested in CircleUp. (5/7/13)
  Posted 5/8/13 at 6:14am via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Play-i. (5/1/13)
  Posted 5/14/13 at 2:58pm via allthingsd.com
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  Google Ventures invested in On Deck. (5/1/13)
  Posted 5/2/13 at 6:39am via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Moonfrye. (4/25/13)
  Posted 4/26/13 at 9:31pm via pandodaily.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Optimizely. (4/8/13)
  Posted 4/24/13 at 7:36am via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Sherpa App. (3/25/13)
  Posted 3/25/13 at 9:46am via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in MessageMe. (3/19/13)
  Posted 3/29/13 at 3:08am via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Crittercism. (3/12/13)
  Posted 3/12/13 at 2:30pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in CreativeLIVE. (3/11/13)
  Posted 3/11/13 at 6:54pm via creativelive.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Namo Media. (3/1/13)
  Posted 3/18/13 at 11:37am via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Rabbit. (2/28/13)
  Posted 2/28/13 at 6:06pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in Nextdoor. (2/12/13)
  Posted 2/12/13 at 6:27pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google Ventures invested in about.me. (2/5/13)
  Posted 2/5/13 at 9:09pm via dowjones.com

Investments

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1. Luvocracy Raises $11M From Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures And Others To Master Ecommerce And Social Recommendations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Airware Raises $10.7M From Andreessen Horowitz To Build Brains For Unmanned Drones (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. OpenCoin Closes Additional Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
4. CircleUp, An Investment Platform For Non-Techie Consumer Startups, Raises $7.5M Led By Union Square (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. One Robot Per Child? Former Googler, Apple Engineer Tackle Educational Bots. (allthingsd.com) [edit]
6. On Deck Adds $17M From Google Ventures And Peter Thiel To Help Small Businesses Connect With Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Punky Brewster’s Moonfrye raises $2.5 million to deliver DIY activities to parents and kids (pandodaily.com) [edit]
8. techcrunch.com [edit]
9. Sherpa Gets $1.1M From Google Ventures, A16Z, & More For Location-Aware Predictive Intelligence iOS App (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Facebook Isn’t Holding Back Their Growth: MessageMe Raises $1.9M And Grabs 1M Users (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Crittercism Lands $12M From Google Ventures & More To Help Mobile Developers Monitor App, Network Performance (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Star-Studded Leaders In Entertainment and Tech Join Greylock To Complete $8 Million In Funding For creativeLIVE (creativelive.com) [edit]
13. DrawChat Creator Launches His Mobile Ad Startup Namo Media, Raises $1.9M Round Led By Google Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Video Chat Startup Rabbit Raises $3.3 Million From Google Ventures, CrunchFund, And Bebo Founder Michael Birch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Nextdoor Closes $21.6 Million In New Series B Funding To Take Its Neighborhood-Focused Social Network Global (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. About.me Spins Back Out of AOL, Raises $5.7M (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
17. Smart thermostat maker Nest reportedly raises $80M with $800M valuation (venturebeat.com) [edit]
18. Flatiron Health Raises $8M From Google Ventures, First Round To Build An Intelligent Data Platform For Oncology (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. Disruptive Web Security Startup Shape Security Nabs $20M From Venrock, Google Ventures, Kleiner, Eric Schmidt (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. DeveloperAuction Raises $2.7M From NEA, Google Ventures To Change The Way Technical Talent Is Hired (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. FitStar Raises $1M From Floodgate, Google Ventures To Revolutionize Home Fitness From The iPad (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/19/mobile-game-recording-yc-alum-kamcord-raises-1-5-million-from-andreessen-horowitz-google-ventures-and-others/ (venturebeat.com) [edit]
23. ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Apptentive Scores $1.2M From Founder’s Co-Op, Google Ventures, To Help Mobile App Publishers Solicit Better Feedback (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. venturebeat.com [edit]
26. ClearStory Data Announces $9 Million Series A Investment Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, With Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures (freshnews.com) [edit]
27. Adelphic Mobile Raises $10M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
28. TrueLens Raises $1.2M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
29. HomeLight Raises $1.5M in Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
30. LocBox Raises $5.1M From InterWest, Google Ventures, Others To Help Local Businesses Master Online Deals And Marketing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Twilio For Education Data, Clever, Lands $3M From Kevin Rose, Mike Maples & Ashton Kutcher, Now In 2K Schools (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. TopFloor, Backed With $6M From Polaris, Google Ventures And Others, Debuts Video-Driven E-Commerce Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. LendUp Raises Cash From Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures And Others To Disrupt Payday Loans (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. Ride-Sharing Startup SideCar Raises $10 Million From Lightspeed And Google Ventures To Expand Into New Markets (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. Disrupt Battlefield Finalist Expect Labs Locks Up $2.4M In Funding For Its Real-Time Conversation Analyzer (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. Rent Management Startup Cozy Raises $1.5M From The Social + Capital Partnership, Google Ventures, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. Desmos Grabs Funding From Google Ventures To Make Math Fun (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. Foundation Medicine Closes $42.5M Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
39. Sports Analysis Startup Ubersense Raises $1.1M, Releases Updated Version Of Its iPad App (techcrunch.com) [edit]
40. Gyft Presented With $1.25M Led By Google Ventures (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
41. Predilytics Raises $6 Million to Pursue Healthcare Analytics (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
42. Republic Project Lands $1M From Google Ventures For Full Service Ad Campaign Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. Building a Home Online to Suit Electronic Music (nytimes.com) [edit]
44. Wantworthy Is Wanted: The “Instapaper For Shopping” Raises $1 Million From RRE, Google Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. Former Google Executive Dave Girouard Launches Crowdfunding Service Upstart, Raises $1.75M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
46. TuneIn grabs $16M from General Catalyst, Google Ventures, others to dominate radio apps (venturebeat.com) [edit]
47. Firespotter Labs, Makers Of UberConference, Raise $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
48. Pocket Raises $5M Series B; Plans To Bring Its ‘Save For Later’ App To More Devices And Platforms (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. Egnyte Raises $16 Million From Google Ventures For Cloud File Storage Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
50. Google-backed Objective Logistics gets $900K fundraise (masshightech.com) [edit]
51. Copious Raises $5 Million Series A To Build Out The eBay With A Social Backbone (techcrunch.com) [edit]
52. Google Ventures Joins DocuSign’s New Funding, Round Grows To $55.7M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. P2P Storage Startup Space Monkey Raises $2.25M Led By Google Ventures And Venture51 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
54. Google Ventures Leads $5M Investment In Virtual Currency Startup Pocket Change (techcrunch.com) [edit]
55. techcrunch.com [edit]
56. TNW: Freshplum scores $1.4M in seed funding for its data-science driven analytics solution (thenextweb.com) [edit]
57. Social Fundraising Platform, Rally.org, Raises $7.9 Million to Rally the World (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
58. Yesware’s Email Platform For Salespeople Raises $4 Million From IDG, Google Ventures, Foundry Group & Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
59. The Climate Corporation Raises $50M For Big Data Driven Weather Insurance (techcrunch.com) [edit]
60. Roqbot Raises $1.2M From Google Ventures & More To Turn Your Smartphone Into A Social Jukebox (techcrunch.com) [edit]
61. LevelUp Grabs $12M From Highland, Google Ventures To Take Its Mobile Payment Solution National (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. No Resumes, Just Skills: Smarterer Grabs $1.75M From True, Google Ventures; Tony Conrad Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
63. Citation Needed [add]
64. With $5.5M From Google Ventures, Opus, Crittercism Launches An App Performance Management Solution (techcrunch.com) [edit]
65. Airtime Acquires Former Hulu CTO’s Startup Erly, Raises $25M Series B Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
66. Vungle Hustles Its Way Into $2M All-Star Seed Round For Mobile App Video Trailers Network (techcrunch.com) [edit]
67. Marketplace For Customized Goods CustomMade Raises $4M From Google Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
68. AVOS Systems Secures Series A Funding From New Enterprise Associates, Google Ventures, Madrone Capital, and Innovation Works (nea.com) [edit]
69. Wander Wins $1.2M From Rob Go, SV Angel, Google Ventures, SoftTech And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
70. Wingu Raises Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
71. 13 APRIL 2012. INVESTMENT IN ASTRID (tmtinvestments.com) [edit]
72. Wittlebee Raises $2.5M in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
73. Google contributes to $14M round for fast-growing Adimab (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
74. circuithub.com [edit]
75. Mobile Ad Optimization Startup AppStack Raises $1.5M From Eric Schmidt, Google Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
76. We're Out To Trace Everything: Behind The Series A Funding (tracelytics.com) [edit]
77. ClearStory Data Raises Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
78. Triptrotting Raises $1M To Combat Clueless Tourism (techcrunch.com) [edit]
79. Corporate America’s next creative consultants? College kids on MindSumo (gigaom.com) [edit]
80. Google Ventures And Others Put $5M In Enterprise Mobile Security Company Duo (techcrunch.com) [edit]
81. Scan Gets $1.7M From Google Ventures And Shervin Pishevar To Make QR Codes Actually Useful (techcrunch.com) [edit]
82. Nokia, Google Ventures And Others Put $10.7M In ‘AdSense For Images,’ Luminate (techcrunch.com) [edit]
83. Lady Gaga-Backed Backplane Raises Over $4M From Sequoia & More; Acquires Sharing Platform Cortex (techcrunch.com) [edit]
84. Cool Planet BioFuels, Inc.: Series B $17.7M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
85. Profitable and Scaling, Optimizely Closes Series A Round (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
86. Bionic Panda raises seed funding for Android mobile games (venturebeat.com) [edit]
87. Google Ventures And Foundry Group Put $9M In Crowdsourced Search Advertising Marketplace Trada (techcrunch.com) [edit]
88. Google Ventures, Mark Cuban And Others Invest $1M In Social CRM Startup Nimble (techcrunch.com) [edit]
89. techcrunch.com [edit]
90. BP, Shea Ventures, Google Ventures And Others Invest in Cool Planet’s C Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
91. Boulder startup Skedul.me raises nearly $1.5M (dailycamera.com) [edit]
92. Miso Raises $4M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
93. Rumble To Build and Publish Games Using $15M Series A From Google Ventures and Khosla (techcrunch.com) [edit]
94. Objective Logistics Raises $1.5M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
95. Cisco, Google Ventures, VMware Put $8.5M In Data Center Automation Startup Puppet Labs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
96. Mobile Game Monetization Platform Lunch Money Raises $1M From Google Ventures; Rebrands As Pocket Change (techcrunch.com) [edit]
97. Google Ventures And First Round Drop $2.1 Million Into Custom Marketplace CustomMade (techcrunch.com) [edit]
98. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
99. Web App Performance Solution Tracelytics Raises $600K From Google Ventures, Battery & Flybridge (techcrunch.com) [edit]
100. Subtext Raises $3 Million From Google Ventures & More To Make eBook Reading Social (techcrunch.com) [edit]
101. Ordr.in Raises Seed Funding From Google Ventures For Its Food API (techcrunch.com) [edit]
102. Foundation Medicine Closes $33.5M Expanded Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
103. Mobile Learning Platform Stickery Raises $325K From Google Ventures, 500 Startups And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
104. DNAnexus Raises $15 Million, Teams With Google To Host Massive DNA Database (techcrunch.com) [edit]
105. Enterprise Mobile Computing Platform Enterproid Raises $11M From Google Ventures, Comcast And Qualcomm (techcrunch.com) [edit]
106. SweetLabs Raises $13 Million From Intel, Google And Others For Pokki App Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
107. Google Ventures, Foundry Group Put $1M In Yesware, Email Tracking And Productivity Platform For Salespeople (techcrunch.com) [edit]
108. Echoecho raises $750K from Google Ventures, lets you find your friends (venturebeat.com) [edit]
109. Clean Power Finance Receives $25 Million Investment Led By Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Nat Kreamer Joins as New CEO (cleanpowerfinance.com) [edit]
110. RelayRides Closes $10M Series A.2 Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
111. Eric Schmidt, Tomorrow Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund / Angel Fund, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Vast Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, WGI Group, Harbor Pacific Capital Partners (techcrunch.com) [edit]
112. ThinkNear Closes $1.6M Seed Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
113. Stealthy App Maker Nettle Has Raised Funding (allthingsd.com) [edit]
114. Rocket Lawyer Raises $18.5 Million to Fund Rapidly Growing Online Legal Service (marketwire.com) [edit]
115. YC-Funded Parse: A Heroku For Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
116. Social Learning Game Developer Airy Labs Raises $1.5M From Google Ventures, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
117. Ex-Apple Leaders Push the Humble Thermostat Into the Digital Age (nytimes.com) [edit]
118. techcrunch.com [edit]
119. Stealth Social Mobile Startup just.me Raises $600K From Google Ventures, SV Angel And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
120. Read It Later Raises $2.5 Million, Wants To Become The Dropbox Of Content (techcrunch.com) [edit]
121. AngelPad's Crittercism Raises $1.2M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
122. Google Invests In Stealth Startup That Aims To ‘Accelerate Science’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
123. Transphorm Completes $25M Series D Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
124. Price Tracking Service Shopobot Raises Funding From Google Ventures, AOL And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
125. Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You’re Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less (techcrunch.com) [edit]
126. Citation Needed [add]
127. KABAM RAISES $85 MILLION TO DRIVE CONTINUED GROWTH AS PIONEER AND LEADER OF HARDCORE SOCIAL GAMING (freshnews.com) [edit]
128. Local Q&A Site Hipster Raises $1M From Google Ventures, Lightbank, 500 Startups And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
129. techcrunch.com [edit]
130. techcrunch.com [edit]
131. Google's first biofuel investment: CoolPlanetBiofuels (reuters.com) [edit]
132. VigLink Raises Another $5.4 Million To Help Publishers Monetize Outbound Clicks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
133. techcrunch.com [edit]
134. Google-Backed Kibits Lets You Share With Real-World Micro-Networks, Raises $1M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
135. WeatherBill Brings in $42M From Google, Khosla (gigaom.com) [edit]
136. Energy Efficiency Startup Transphorm Emerges From Stealth, Raises $20 Million From Google Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
137. SCVNGR Raises $15 Million At $100MM Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
138. TV Content Check-In App Miso Lands $1.5M From Google Ventures And Hearst (techcrunch.com) [edit]
139. Miso Media Tunes Up With Seed Funding From Google (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
140. Zipcar competitor RelayRides comes to S.F. (articles.sfgate.com) [edit]
141. Google Ventures Leads $600K Investment In LawPivot, A Quora For Startup Legal Advice (techcrunch.com) [edit]
142. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
143. Personal Genetics Startup 23andMe Raises $22 Million More From Google, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
144. Signpost Raises Capital from Google Ventures (finsmes.com) [edit]
145. techcrunch.com [edit]
146. IPierian Announces Second Close Of Series B Financing At $28M (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
147. Google Ventures Invests In iPhone Game Developer ngmoco (techcrunch.com) [edit]
148. VigLink Grabs Wheel at DrivingRevenue (xconomy.com) [edit]
149. techcrunch.com [edit]
150. Trada Raises $5.75M From Google Ventures To Crowdsource Search Engine Marketing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
151. Google Ventures-Backed Pixazza Raises $12 Million For Crowdsourced ‘AdSense For Images’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
152. Google makes further investment in Chinese music site (networkworld.com) [edit]
153. Never announced [edit]
154. Miso raises undisclosed about from Angels including several x-Googlers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
155. Google Ventures Invests in Mobile Payments Startup Corduro (techcrunch.com) [edit]
156. 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]
157. OpenCandy Raises $5 Million Series B For Bundled Software You Might Actually Want (techcrunch.com) [edit]
158. Adimab, Inc.: Series D $8.2M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
159. Geo-Gamer Scvngr Tracks Down $4M From Google Ventures, Highland (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
160. Silver Spring Networks Raises Another $100M (earth2tech.com) [edit]
161. Google Ventures Invests In English Language Learning Startup EnglishCentral (paidcontent.org) [edit]
162. Google Venture Portfolio (googleventures.com) [edit]
163. VigLink Raises $800K To Take Hassle Out Of Affiliate Programs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
164. Pixazza Raises $5.75 Million In First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]