Stages:

• Early
• Expansion
• Growth
• Seed

 

Industries:

Energy & Clean Tech

Information Technology

Life Sciences & Healthcare

Software & Internet

Storage & Hardware

 

Description:

Founded March of 2009, Google Ventures (GV) is broadly interested in startups in industries including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech, health care and others. Google Ventures aims to invest up to $200 million a year, with deal sizes ranging from seed investments as small as a hundred thousand dollars to late-stage investments of tens of millions of dollars. GV has invested in more than 300 companies that push the edge of what's possible. Google Ventures is limiting its investment activities to companies within North America at this time. The Partners consider a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care. Google Ventures also plans to start an incubator program called Startup Lab where companies that are just getting started or building a presence in Silicon Valley can work, surrounded by other Google Ventures entrepreneurs. The firm has 400 active portfolio companies.