Google Ventures
Google Ventures, the long awaited venture capital fund of Google, finally opens its doors; http://tr.im/i1IC
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker 10:22 on 31. March 2009 Permalink |
Google: “At its core, Google Ventures is charged with finding and helping to develop exceptional start-ups. We’ll be focusing on early stage investments across a diverse range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, clean-tech, bio-tech, health care and, no doubt, other areas we haven’t thought of yet. Central to our effort will be our fellow Googlers, whom we view as a critically important resource to help educate us about potential investments areas and evaluate specific companies.”
pC: “Google’s venture capital arm will have $100 million at its disposal in its first year, WSJ reports.”
TC: “Is this a good investor for your startup? The cache of having Google behind you is great for marketing. But if you think you have the next new Google-killer search idea, you may want to bake it a while before showing the technology to these guys.”
NYT: “Google Ventures has already made two investments: Silver Spring Networks, a company that makes technology to help manage electric grids, and Pixazza, which links online images with related products that can be purchased. Google declined to say how much it invested in those companies.”
SEL: “Perhaps anticipating questions about the timing, Miner’s and Maris’ announcement says the current economic downturn is an ‘ideal time’ to launch Google Ventures: ‘Economically, times are tough, but great ideas come when they will.‘”