Organization · Corporate Venture Capital
GV (Google Ventures)
GV, formerly Google Ventures, is a corporate venture capital firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, investing in innovative startups across various sectors including AI, healthcare, and consumer technology.
Overview
What GV (Google Ventures) does
What GV (Google Ventures) is
GV, formerly Google Ventures, is a corporate venture capital firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, investing in innovative startups across various sectors including AI, healthcare, and consumer technology.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports funder capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Corporate Venture Capital
- Founded
- Founded in 2009
- Approximate age
- About 17 years
- Structured capabilities
- Funder
- Last reviewed
- February 26, 2026
Official channels
Find GV (Google Ventures) elsewhere
Open the official website or a supported primary organization account.
Capability profile
GV (Google Ventures) as a funder
Investment thesis
Financially driven VC with Alphabet as sole LP, explicitly not a strategic corporate fund. Heavy AI-native focus since 2023 across applications, infrastructure, and healthcare AI. Evergreen capital with long time horizons. Unique Google/Alphabet access for portfolio companies.
Focus narrative
AI-native applications and infrastructure (50+ companies), life sciences and healthcare (20+ AI healthcare companies), enterprise software, consumer internet, climate/sustainability, crypto/web3, frontier technology, and developer tools. Sees healthcare AI as the most profound AI unlock.
Value beyond capital
Unique Google/Alphabet access for technology, talent, and infrastructure. Operating partners support design, talent, communications, marketing, and engineering. Evergreen fund structure eliminates lifecycle pressure. Financially driven mandate means no Alphabet acquisition pressure on founders.
Terms and economics
- Typical check
- $5,000,000–$100,000,000
- Sweet spot
- $10,000,000
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Seed · Series A · Series B · Series C · Growth Equity
- Regions
- EuropeIsraelNorth America
Availability
- Currently deploying
- Yes
Portfolio and track record
- Recorded portfolio count
- 745
- Investments in the last 12 months
- 62
- Last recorded investment
- February 11, 2026
- Recorded notable exits
- sharing, DevOps platform, and Insurtech
Portfolio context
Category-defining portfolio: Uber, Slack, Nest, GitLab, Duo Security, Flatiron Health, One Medical, Lemonade, Harvey, Synthesia, Lightmatter, Vercel, PostHog. 64 unicorns and 306 exits. Recent: GoCardless/Mollie $1.22B acquisition, EpiBiologics $107M Series B.
Common questions
What to know about GV (Google Ventures)
Upseed classifies GV (Google Ventures) under the Corporate Venture Capital organization type. Its current public profile includes funder capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
February 26, 2026
Known limits
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