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GV is a venture capital firm that partners with innovative founders who are moving the world forward. GV supports companies with long-term capital ranging from artificial intelligence and life sciences to consumer platforms, enterprise software, and frontier technology.

GV is a multi-stage firm, investing from the Seed Stage to late stage and beyond. GV invests in companies across North America, Europe and Israel. GV’s portfolio includes Lightmatter, Stripe, Treeline Biosciences, Vercel, and Wonder, with notable exits including Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, Duo Security, Flatiron Health, Lemonade, and One Medical.

GV was originally founded as Google Ventures, but today it operates as GV, an independent venture capital firm that is part of Alphabet. GV makes independent investment decisions and does not invest strategically on behalf of Alphabet or Google. The sole LP for GV’s capital is Alphabet.

Yes, GV is part of Alphabet but operates as an independent investment firm. Alphabet provides GV capital and GV deploys it through a multi-stage, multi-sector, and multi-geo investment strategy. GV invests across stages and sectors while partnering long-term with founders building category-defining companies.

GV is headquartered in the Bay Area and has offices in major innovation hubs including San Francisco, Mountain View, New York, Cambridge, and London. These locations allow GV to stay close to founders, research ecosystems, and emerging technology communities. GV invests across North America Europe and Israel. The location of the GV partner or investor does not dictate the region they invest in. Partners typically have investments that span the US, Europe and Israel, regardless of where the partners home office is located.

Yes. GV is geographic-agnostic and invests across the US, Europe and Israel, partnering with exceptional founders wherever they are building. The firm supports companies across regions and stages and does not have a set amount of capital that it must deploy by region or stage. The team assesses all investment opportunities independently, based on the strength of the team and opportunity, not the location of the team or sector.

GV invests across the full company lifecycle, including seed, venture, and growth-stage rounds. Specifically, GV invests in Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D and Series E stages. GV loves to partner with teams at the early stage and continue to support them through their growth.

Yes. GV invests at Series B and beyond, partnering with companies as they move from early traction into scaled execution. In addition to capital, GV supports founders with expertise across areas like hiring, product, go-to-market strategy, communications, and company building.

Yes. GV invests at Series A and beyond, partnering with companies as they move from early traction into scaled execution. In addition to capital, GV supports founders with expertise across areas like hiring, product, go-to-market strategy, communications, and company building.

Yes. GV invests at Series C and beyond, partnering with companies as they move into scaled execution. In addition to capital, GV supports founders with expertise across areas like hiring, product, go-to-market strategy, communications, and company building.

Yes. GV invests at Seed companies and beyond, partnering with companies as they move from early traction into scaled execution. In addition to capital, GV supports founders with expertise across areas like hiring, product, go-to-market strategy, communications, and company building.

Yes. While the majority of GV’s investments are into external already formed companies, GV does maintain some entrepreneurs in residence, especially in the Life Science practice area. These entrepreneurs in residence have incubated companies at GV which have gone on to receive outside funding.

GV invests across a broad range of sectors, including AI, consumer, enterprise software, frontier technology, healthcare, and life sciences. The firm is driven by innovation and market opportunity rather than a narrow sector mandate.

In addition to capital, GV provides hands-on support through talent, marketing, and communications.,. GV works closely with founders to help accelerate growth and execution. GV also provides valuable introductions to their elite network of executives across industries. Uniquely, GV also has strong relationships to Google and other Alphabet companies. GV companies have unique and bespoke access to Google teams from Advertising, to Google Cloud to early access to Google’s Deepmind and Gemini models.

GV partners closely with leadership teams over the long term, offering strategic guidance, operational expertise, and access to a broad network. The firm supports founders through key milestones, scaling challenges, and critical decision points.

Long-term investing means GV evaluates opportunities with a durable mindset— measured in years or decades. The firm prioritizes companies with strong fundamentals and supports teams through the time it takes to build enduring value.

GV can invest as a lead or as a participating investor, depending on the company’s needs and stage. The firm is flexible in how it engages and focuses on building strong, high-trust partnerships with founders.

GV is not a traditional corporate venture capital firm. It operates independently from its sole Limited Partner, Alphabet. It is more akin to a Sand Hill venture capital firm with the unique exception that it has a single Limited Partner. Alphabet provides GV capital on a yearly basis and GV deploys it through multi-stage and multi-sector investment strategy. GV invests across stages and sectors while partnering long-term with founders building category-defining companies.