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...Renamed GV, it now boasts more than 400 companies in its portfolio and has some $8bn in assets under management....
...Blake Byers has stepped down as a general partner at GV, a venture capital arm of Google, to start his own firm....
...Speaking of the investment from GV, Mr Takeuchi added: “We built a relationship over a very long time. Tom Hulme [general partner at GV] and I are friends....
The high valuation of the primary care provider requires a closer diagnosis
...In fact, GV invested in SpinLaunch....
...Freenome, a biotech company backed by venture capitalist Andreessen Horowitz and Alphabet’s GV, has raised $160m, as it prepares for larger scale trials of its early detection blood test for colorectal cancer...
...The departure is the latest for GV since the fund was set up as a dedicated fund in 2014 to target tech investments in Europe....
...Avid Larizadeh Duggan, a general partner at GV, the venture arm of Alphabet. She was a co-founder of Boticca, a marketplace for fashion accessories....
...Juicero had raised around $120m from investors including Google’s venture arm GV, Campbell Soup Company and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers — but its flagship product turned out to be a lemon....
...The investment by the GV unit, launched as Google Ventures in 2009, is the latest push into medicine by the group, as Silicon Valley technology companies attempt to use their experience in analysing vast...
Google knows so much about how humanity works and yet so little
...GV, which invests roughly $500m in high-growth tech companies globally, ws launched in 2009 with a deep tech and biosciences focus....
...Mr Maris’s role as chief executive of GV will be taken by David Krane, who was already the managing partner of the fund, in charge of day-to-day operations....
...Under Mr Maris, Google Ventures — which was renamed GV late last year to distance it more from the internet business — spread its money widely through the technology and healthcare sectors, backing more...
Technology companies must expect disquiet at their invasion of public spaces, writes James Crabtree
Five days of focusing will lead to faster answers, says Silicon Valley expert
The new billionaire-driven age of space exploration is inspiring
...GV will be as adventurous as its predecessor seems to be the message....
...“You’re going to go work for the algo,” an investor told a European executive before joining GV....
...Meanwhile, following the reorganisation of Google into tech holding company Alphabet, the investment arm is this week renaming itself GV....
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