Also participating were existing investors August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
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Crazily, that the potential revenue stream is unknown actually makes Project Glass more appealing to Google Ventures.
Google Ventures gives money to companies that it can assist with internal technology resources, particularly around Web-based businesses.
It is backed by Google Ventures and a series of influential angel investors, including a senior executive at LinkedIn.
Luminate is backed by August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
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Desktop PC application platform Pokki announced that it is launching social games from Google Ventures-backed Kabam on its platform.
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In October, Rose spoke with Bill Maris and Kevin Rose of Google Ventures on their mission to find disruptive ideas.
Google Ventures is focused broadly on innovation and generating a financial return, and does not seek to otherwise benefit Google, Maris said.
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Others in this space include Pixazza, which is backed by August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures, Shasta Ventures, and Foundation Capital.
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Investors include Foundation Capital, Google Ventures, and Playdom founder Rick Thomson.
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The sale follows the departure of its most high profile exec, the aforementioned Rose, who is now in charge of Google Ventures.
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Google Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated in the round.
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Bill Maris, managing partner at Google Ventures, had seen Glass as it has created and wanted to invest in the developers building companies and applications for Glass.
The company wants to invest in innovation, and just generally likes to have entrepreneurs hanging around, said Google Ventures founding managing partner Bill Maris in an interview.
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Thanks to that, Google Ventures invests in between 50 to 100 salient startups annually, with a definition of "success" only somewhat less nebulous than the organization's founding principles.
Google Ventures (GV) is not a typical venture capital firm.
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Google Ventures has some auto experience, having backed RelayRides, which provides sharing of actual cars rather than rides, while its parent company Google has been active with auto-driving cars.
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If even extremely jaded Manhattanites are excited enough about it to stop a stranger on the street, Project Glass clearly has the potential to be Google Ventures' next success story.
There is a wall between Google and Google Ventures.
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He is now a venture capitalist with Google Ventures.
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One of its main competitors is Google Ventures-backed RelayRides.
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Onstage were Tom Ball of Austin Ventures, Joe Kraus of Google Ventures, Shervin Pishevar of Menlo Ventures, James Slavet of Greylock Partners, Rich Wong of Accel Partners, and George Zachary of Charles River Ventures.
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Trick Dog, a bar in the Mission District that opened in January, is backed by Tony Conrad, a partner at True Ventures, and Digg Inc. co-founder and Google Ventures venture capitalist Kevin Rose, among others.
Few people have seen the ups and downs of startups more up close and personally than Kevin Rose, partner at Google Ventures and cofounder of Digg, the social news site that could have been Reddit but faded and is now trying for a comeback under new owner Betaworks.
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The company has instead partnered with device manufacturers for ventures like Google TV or its Google-brand Nexus line of phones.
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Web ventures like Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Blogger and YouTube might not generate much revenue compared with Google's mammoth search business, but they're not mere side projects.
He was a biotech and healthcare portfolio manager for Investor AB and, later, an engineer in the startup arena before coming to Google to spin up Ventures, which formally launched in 2009 -- with some particularly abstract goals.
Glotzbach says the Priority Indexing is one of several email features Google is working on, along with other business computing ventures.
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