GV (Google Ventures)

Congratulations to all the companies who made the Fast Company's 2025 Most Innovative Companies list! We are proud to those pushing the boundaries in our portfolio: Robinhood, Wonder, Snorkel AI, Harvey, Osmo, Synthesia, Midi Health, Infinitus Systems, Inc., Slack, Alethea, Gusto, Cala Health, SambaNova Systems, Partiful. #FCMostInnovative

The winners in every industry today are thinking about how to build their relationship with AI. This week Tom Hulme and Lemonade COO, Adina Eckstein spoke about how it's evolving in the Insurance Industry and beyond, in their conversation at Insurtech Insights, "Humans & AI: A Modern Love Story."

If you're curious about how Lip-Bu Tan will lead at Intel Corporation, look no further than how he has served SambaNova Systems as our full-time Executive Chairman over the past 12 months (and as Chairman of the Board since inception). His service-oriented, deeply-technical, risk-on leadership style has landed SambaNova at the center of an exciting shift in the next-gen AI compute market. We are ecstatic that Lip-Bu will continue to serve as Samba's Chairman going forward, in addition to his new role at Intel. It has been an honor to learn from him on our journey together over the last 6+ years. At the time we co-led SambaNova's Series A together (shortly before the attached picture), it seemed wild to many to think of spinning up an alternative to the GPU and TPU — a contrarian and ambitious plan dreamt up by Chris Ré and Kunle Olukotun, in collaboration with Rodrigo Liang and Lip-Bu Tan — to pioneer purpose-built compute for AI workloads and use-cases that did not yet exist. They were skating to where the puck was headed in AI and, as a result, have positioned the company as one of the fastest and most efficient AI chip companies in the market. Lip-Bu Tan is known for his willingness to take big, bold risks and for his deep care and compassion for those around him. Huge congrats to Lip-Bu on this new chapter -- we're excited for the company's future and to see even more AI innovation and leadership coming from the U.S. and Silicon Valley! 

Incredible story behind the success of Bolt.new. We've been proud to have StackBlitz CEO Eric Simons as part of the GV portfolio since 2020 and to be along for the ride as they continue to grow massively 🚀

Today our portfolio company, Typeface released their AI-Native Content Lifecycle. This tool helps marketing teams increase the reach and personalization of their messages through AI. It's an amazing example of how marketers can collaborate with AI to save time, and improve results and customer experience. Congrats on this milestone Abhay Parasnis, Vishal Sood and the whole team!

After investing in their Series A 3 years ago, we're excited to back Omni in their Series B today. In this short time Omni has developed an enterprise platform for next-generation business intelligence and data analytics that is trusted by hundreds of companies. In a market with many options, CEO Colin Zima explains why Omni stands out: “It’s simple enough for anyone to get started quickly with exploration and dashboards, but flexible enough to handle deep customization and sophisticated data models as your needs evolve.”

It's awesome to see 23 of our portfolio companies on the Forbes America's Best Startup Employers of 2025 list— and to see Cribl be named #1! This recognition evaluates companies according to company reputation, employee satisfaction, and growth trajectory. Congratulations to all these remarkable founders and teams. It's one thing to have an incredible idea, and entirely another to build a successful company and culture. We're proud to support founders who are moving the world forward, while creating environments where people do their best work! Congrats StockX, Modular, Cockroach Labs, Sardine, Fabric, Fathom, Snorkl, Snyk, Firefly, Censys, insitro, Brightline, Mill, Harness, Lovevery, Vercel, Chronosphere, Homebound, Lightmatter, Alkira, Inc., Veza and Viz.ai!

We started the week with an influx of optimism when we hosted a Founders and Builders Happy Hour with the current W24 Y Combinator batch at our SF office. It's always incredible to witness the diversity of problems YC teams are solving— from enabling AI to control the browser, to an OS for smart glasses, to GPS navigation for the moon! With over 100 attendees, our space was buzzing with innovation, ambition, and new connections. Thanks to all for joining and good luck at Demo Day tomorrow!

It was awesome to host portfolio company Wealth.com and their customers last week for the kickoff of their Connect tour! Wealth.com is the only tech-led end-to-end estate planning solution that brings together AI and the expertise of seasoned estate planning lawyers; and it's built specifically for financial advisors. GV Partner Elena Sakach spoke about the unmatched energy the Wealth.com team brings to their mission to a packed house at our SF office. 🌉

Great feature on Kevin Marks CEO of Delphia Therapeutics. Their approach looks at an entirely new way of targeting cancer cells called activation lethality which forces cancer cells to overactivate and ultimately die. We're grateful that GV could play a small part in getting this exciting company off the ground, and hopeful it will change lives of cancer patients in the future. “Delphia Therapeutics was born in a challenging time for biotech fundraises, but Marks said the connection to GV helped get the company off the ground maybe a little easier than its peers. It was almost like “starting off on second base,” he said. “That’s a privilege that we had,” the CEO continued. “We certainly don’t take [it] for granted, but it made that first financing a really, really successful and fast process.” - Annalee Armstrong for BioSpace