Google Ventures - A Venture Fund For All Kinds Of Startups

Google Ventures.

By the looks of it Google ventures has a very broad investment philosophy.

The google ventures site states and I quote “We’re studying a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care.

We invest anywhere from seed to mezzanine stage and embrace the challenge of

helping young companies grow from the garage to global relevance.”



There is no minimum amount of funding outlined and also no geographies mentioned.

But rest assured given that this fund is lead by Bill Maris who was the founder

of Burlee.com, which he sold to Web.com its almost certain that this fund would

be initially focused on the US markets. Also as their contact address suggests

there is no presence in India.

Google has been known for acquiring startups around the world and has done

very few direct investments. It has though been an investor in the Seedfund

and Ventureast a seed stage venture fund in India. But this new launch of a

venture fund should not affect that engagement as Google ventures clearly

looks like a US focused fund.

Fund to acquire strategy?

Startups looking towards google as a prospective investor might be concerned

on one issue is that Google may be the kind of investor that might fund to acquire.

After all thats what it has been doing the last decade as acquitions have been

the way google has taken to grow its multi billion dollar empire. Its very possible

that google would have an affinity towards investing in startups and technologies

that it wants to acquire at a later date.