Investments
1331Portfolio Exits
291Funds
6Partners & Customers
4Service Providers
2About Google Ventures
Google Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in various sectors, including life sciences, consumer, enterprise, cryptocurrency, climate, and frontier technology. The firm provides financial backing and resources to startups and connects them with Google. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.
Expert Collections containing Google Ventures
Expert Collections are analyst-curated lists that highlight the companies you need to know in the most important technology spaces.
Find Google Ventures in 13 Expert Collections, including Direct-To-Consumer Brands (Non-Food).
Direct-To-Consumer Brands (Non-Food)
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Startups selling their own branded products directly to consumers via online/mobile channels, rather than relying on department stores or big online marketplaces.
Restaurant Tech
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Hardware and software for restaurant management, bookings, staffing, mobile restaurant payments, inventory management, and more.
AR/VR
33 items
Store tech (In-store retail tech)
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Startups aiming work with retailers to improve brick-and-mortar retail operations.
Agriculture Technology (Agtech)
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Companies that are using technology to make farms more efficient
Synthetic Biology
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Research containing Google Ventures
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CB Insights Intelligence Analysts have mentioned Google Ventures in 17 CB Insights research briefs, most recently on Apr 29, 2025.
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Latest Google Ventures News
Aug 20, 2025
Google Ventures co-leads £12.6m investment in Phoebe The startup has developed an 'AI immune system' for software AI Wed 20 Aug 2025 Bookmark Share this Share link Phoebe, an agentic AI startup that acts as an ‘immune system’ for software, has secured a $17m (£12.6m) investment co-led by Google Ventures. Based in London, Phoebe was founded by former executives of Stripe and Google to develop AI agents to remove software downtime. According to the company, its agents continuously monitor and react to live system data, diagnosing issues as they appear and generating code and infrastructure changes to resolve them. Software downtime can be quite costly, with research published last year by Splunk and Oxford Economics putting the cost at $400bn annually. Co-founders Matt Henderson and James Summerfield, the former chief executive officer and chief innovation officer of Strip Europe, sold their first startup, Rangespan, to Google in 2014. The pair was inspired to create their latest venture by, as Henderson explains, experiencing the frustration of software failures in past roles. “High-severity incidents can make or break big customer relationships, and numerous smaller problems drain engineering productivity,” he said. “Software monitoring tools exist, but they aren’t very intelligent and require people to spend a lot of time working out what’s wrong and what to do about it.” Cherry Ventures co-led the investment round alongside Google Ventures. “AI has transformed how code is written, but software reliability has not kept pace,” said Roni Hiranand of Google Ventures. “Phoebe is building a missing layer of contextual intelligence that can help both human and AI engineers avoid software failures. We love the boldness of the team’s vision for a software immune system that preemptively fixes problems.” The funding round, announced on Wednesday, coincides with the public launch of its platform, currently live with engineering times from a handful of early access customers including Trainline. “Phoebe has already had a real impact on how we investigate and remediate incidents at Trainline,” said Trainline’s head of engineering for reliability and operations Jay Davies. “Work that used to take us hours to piece together can now take minutes and that matters when you’re running critical services at our scale. We’re excited to see Phoebe progress and help us operate efficiently.” Topics
Google Ventures Investments
1,331 Investments
Google Ventures has made 1,331 investments. Their latest investment was in Blue Water Autonomy as part of their Series A on August 26, 2025.
Google Ventures Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8/26/2025 | Series A | Blue Water Autonomy | $50M | Yes | Eclipse, Impatient Ventures, Riot Ventures, and Undisclosed Investors | 3 |
8/26/2025 | Series B - II | Attio | $19M | Yes | 3 | |
8/20/2025 | Seed VC | Phoebe | $17M | Yes | 4 | |
8/18/2025 | Series D | |||||
8/12/2025 | Series C - II |
Date | 8/26/2025 | 8/26/2025 | 8/20/2025 | 8/18/2025 | 8/12/2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Series A | Series B - II | Seed VC | Series D | Series C - II |
Company | Blue Water Autonomy | Attio | Phoebe | ||
Amount | $50M | $19M | $17M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | Eclipse, Impatient Ventures, Riot Ventures, and Undisclosed Investors | ||||
Sources | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Google Ventures Portfolio Exits
291 Portfolio Exits
Google Ventures has 291 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Waltz Health on August 26, 2025.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8/26/2025 | Merger | 7 | |||
8/22/2025 | Acquired | 7 | |||
8/14/2025 | Acq - Pending | Bleichroeder Acquisition | 4 | ||
Date | 8/26/2025 | 8/22/2025 | 8/14/2025 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Exit | Merger | Acquired | Acq - Pending | ||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | Bleichroeder Acquisition | ||||
Sources | 7 | 7 | 4 |
Google Ventures Fund History
6 Fund Histories
Google Ventures has 6 funds, including Google Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10/22/2015 | Google Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund | UNKNOWN | Closed | $170M | 1 |
9/12/2014 | Google Cloud Platform for Startups | ||||
7/9/2014 | Google Ventures Europe | ||||
Google Ventures Fund LP | |||||
Google Ventures London Fund |
Closing Date | 10/22/2015 | 9/12/2014 | 7/9/2014 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fund | Google Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund | Google Cloud Platform for Startups | Google Ventures Europe | Google Ventures Fund LP | Google Ventures London Fund |
Fund Type | UNKNOWN | ||||
Status | Closed | ||||
Amount | $170M | ||||
Sources | 1 |
Google Ventures Partners & Customers
4 Partners and customers
Google Ventures has 4 strategic partners and customers. Google Ventures recently partnered with Metabiota on September 9, 2015.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9/24/2015 | Client | United States | Google Ventures Backs Metabiota to Forecast Disease Outbreaks Google Ventures will also partner with Metabiota Inc , offering its big-data expertise to help the company serve its customers -- insurers , government agencies and other organizations -- by offering them forecasting and risk-management tools , Metabiota Inc founder Dr. Nathan Wolfe said ... Document DJFVW00120150924eb9oallz9 | 3 | |
6/14/2011 | Partner | ||||
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Partner |
Date | 9/24/2015 | 6/14/2011 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Client | Partner | Vendor | Partner |
Business Partner | ||||
Country | United States | |||
News Snippet | Google Ventures Backs Metabiota to Forecast Disease Outbreaks Google Ventures will also partner with Metabiota Inc , offering its big-data expertise to help the company serve its customers -- insurers , government agencies and other organizations -- by offering them forecasting and risk-management tools , Metabiota Inc founder Dr. Nathan Wolfe said ... Document DJFVW00120150924eb9oallz9 | |||
Sources | 3 |
Google Ventures Service Providers
2 Service Providers
Google Ventures has 2 service provider relationships
Service Provider | Associated Rounds | Provider Type | Service Type |
|---|---|---|---|
Counsel | General Counsel | ||
Service Provider | ||
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Associated Rounds | ||
Provider Type | Counsel | |
Service Type | General Counsel |
Partnership data by VentureSource
Google Ventures Team
28 Team Members
Google Ventures has 28 team members, including current Chief Executive Officer, Managing Partner, David Krane.
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