“Rapid customer discovery is like a blind spot detector,” says GV's UX Research Partner Michael Margolis. At the center of his new book, Learn More Faster, is the Bullseye Customer Sprint — a shortcut to finding your ideal customer and unique value proposition. Explore the full framework on the latest episode of StartOut — https://bit.ly/4hbdHYN
GV (Google Ventures)
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Francisco Bay Area, CA 122,377 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/
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- 51-200 employees
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- San Francisco Bay Area, CA
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- 2009
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- Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Seed Stage, Early Stage, Growth Stage, Consumer, Enterprise, Life Sciences, and Frontier Technology
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Employees at GV (Google Ventures)
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Attending TechCrunch Disrupt this year? GV’s Sangeen Zeb will join the #StartupBattlefield on October 29! Check out this year’s exciting lineup 👉 https://tcrn.ch/4h7ILZn
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“Explore, be curious, and convey more conviction.” Snyk and Tessl founder Guy Podjarny recalls early conversations with GV Managing Partner Tom Hulme, and lessons in startup fundraising. Check out the full podcast on The Peel with Turner Novak 📺 https://bit.ly/3NxlhiE
Snyk Founder on AI, Lessons Building Three Companies | Guy Podjarny
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Save The Date 📅 GV General Partner Frederique Dame and Executive Venture Partner Cathy Friedman will take the stage at HLTH USA 2024, beginning this Sunday, October 20th! Frederique and Cathy will discuss trends in women’s health and consumer wellness with an incredible lineup of healthcare providers and experts — check out the full agenda below ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4f6chwF
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“Everything we build… [is] built with a view that customers around the world will want that product,” says Monzo Bank CEO TS Anil. Monzo shares the latest on its new expense cards for small- to medium-sized businesses — https://bloom.bg/48eJwvS
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GV (Google Ventures) has invested in every round for Lightmatter since the Series A, and we're huge believers in Nicholas Harris and the team. We continue to be impressed by their vision to reinvent AI infrastructure and their ability to meet the demands of today's AI workloads with silicon photonics. Huge congrats to Nick and the team on the Series D! https://lnkd.in/eBw7qCs9
Photonic startup Lightmatter raises $400 million amid AI datacenter boom, eyes IPO next
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“We see a future where most of the high-performance computing and AI chips very soon are going to be based on Lightmatter technology," shared Lightmatter CEO Nicholas Harris. Nick and GV’s Erik Nordlander spoke with Reuters about Lightmatter’s vision to reinvent AI data center infrastructure. Congratulations to the entire Lightmatter team on today’s news! https://reut.rs/406FovR
Photonic startup Lightmatter raises $400 million amid AI datacenter boom, eyes IPO next
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“These earbuds are nearly perfect.” ZDNET sounds off on Nothing’s Ear Open — a minimal, open-ear device designed to comfortably deliver surround sound to users in high-energy spaces — https://zd.net/4h2YXLn
I replaced my Bose with the Nothing Ear Open - and that was a sound decision
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📣 Congratulations to Sarika Garg, Brian Zotter, and the Cacheflow team! Cacheflow announces its next chapter: HubSpot will acquire the company to bring B2B billing management and CPQ solutions to more customers. Learn more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/geu-v5kB
Building the most loved CRM with our Billing and unCPQ
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“The future of development will put greater emphasis on building code securely and efficiently,” says Snyk’s Chief Product Officer Manoj Nair. The cybersecurity platform has introduced new, AI-powered features to enable cross-functional efforts between developer and security teams, and streamline risk management. Read the latest — https://bit.ly/3Y8LObg
Snyk enhances platform with AI-powered tools for risk-based application security - SiliconANGLE
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