Business Insider September 10, 2017
- GV is the venture capital arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, and used to be called Google Ventures.
- The investment firm has backed over 50 healthcare and life science startups looking to reduce human suffering and help people live longer.
- The size of GV’s cheques range from $100,000 to hundreds of millions.
Google became one of the biggest companies in the world after it launched a search engine in 1998 that surpassed the abilities of market leaders Ask Jeeves and Yahoo.
But the $650 billion (£497 billion) business, which today sits under parent company Alphabet, is now looking to cash in on the success of companies operating far beyond the realm of software and search engines — with...
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