Google Ventures (GV)
GV is the venture capital arm of Alphabet; per Wikipedia (secondary) it was founded in 2009 as Google Ventures. It invests across sectors including enterprise software, AI and life sciences (per its website, not re-checked).
Overview
- Leadership: David Krane is listed as CEO and managing partner by secondary sources (not verified).
- Scale: reported as about 800 investments and more than $10B under management (aggregator profiles, unverified).
- Focus: AI-related companies are among its investments; the claimed shift since 2023 is not verified.
Notable investments
- Older (reported): Uber, Nest, Flatiron Health.
- AI era (reported): Harvey, Synthesia, Attio (see attio) and Vercel, per third-party profiles; round, lead and date details not verified.
Open items
- No GV-published 2026 fund size or new-fund announcement was found.
- Portfolio list is from third-party profiles, not gv.com.
Sources (fetched 2026-10-05)
- https://www.gv.com/ (team: https://www.gv.com/team)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GV_(company) (secondary)
- https://signal.nfx.com/investors/david-krane (secondary)