Google’s investment arm has quietly bought the internet
Dec07
on December 7, 2015
at 12:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Bloom, Google, Google Ventures, Impossible, Lost My Name, medium, product hunt, Secret Escapes, tunein
Google Ventures will close the year with $2.4bn of investment under management in many of the companies we all use every single day. From Uber to Medium, Product Hunt to TuneIn, Google has via its independent investment arm put funding behind or acquired hundreds of your favorite digital brands since it launched back in 2009. Google Ventures has already made 55 investments this year according to Crunchbase figures, including backing the likes of Lost My Name for the first time, as well as returning to put more money in Medium and Slack. According to the company’s 2015 year in review, life science and health startups represent the largest…
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