GV (Google Ventures)

Venture Capital Corporate VC Est. 2009

Also known as GV.

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≈USD 13B
Firm FUM
Assets under management, stated by GV website · source
Type
Venture Capital
HQ
Mountain View, CA, United States
Founded
2009
Focus
Consumer · Education & Workforce · Financial Services · Food & Agriculture · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Industrials & Manufacturing · Media & Entertainment · Technology

About

GV is an independent venture capital firm launched as Google Ventures in 2009, with Alphabet as its sole limited partner. It invests from seed to growth in technology and life sciences and provides operating-partner support to founding teams.

Strategies

Venture Capital
Growth Equity
Sources

Profile sources

  1. gv.com — Consumer, Education & Workforce, Financial Services, Food & Agriculture, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Industrials & Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Technology

Locations & investment markets

Capital and location details checked 2026-10-12.

Investment Criteria

Investment size
USD 2M - USD 30M

Reported investment size. Actual commitments may vary by stage, ownership and follow-on participation.

Investment Stages
Stages
Seed Series A Series B Growth
Investment Geographies
Primary Markets
United States United Kingdom
Coverage
Global
Regions
North America Europe

Coverage is a guide only.

Location

Headquarters
Mountain View, CA, United States
More investors with offices in Silicon Valley
Office Presence
2 countries
United States United Kingdom
4 known offices
Mountain View, CA, United States (HQ)
London, England, United Kingdom
New York, NY, United States
Cambridge, MA, United States

Fundraising

Google Ventures Europe
2014
USD 125M
source

Deals & Activity

Tracked Deals
6
Most common deal types
Unknown (2) Series F (1) Series A (1) Seed (1) Growth (1)
Recent tracked deals
Encoded Therapeutics
Series F - 2026
$275M
Translucent
Series A - 2026
$27M
Lawhive
2026
$60M
Complyance
2026
$20M
Synthesia
Growth - 2026
$4B
Nebex
Seed - 2026
$30M

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