GV

GV Management Company, LLC, established in 2009 as the venture capital arm of Alphabet Inc., specializes in investments across various stages, including seed, early, and late-stage funding. Based in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in Boston, New York, Seattle, Cambridge, and London, GV focuses on sectors such as life sciences, healthcare, artificial intelligence, robotics, transportation, cybersecurity, and agriculture. The firm has invested in over 300 companies, aiming to drive innovation and improve lives. GV seeks to make investments of up to $50 million, while offering early-stage startups funding of up to $250,000, typically taking minority stakes in these companies. Through its extensive network, GV provides startups with unique access to technology and talent, enhancing their potential for success.

Karim Faris

General Partner

Crystal Huang

Partner

Rick Klau

Partner

David Krane

Managing Partner

David P. Schenkein

General Partner

KJ Sidberry

Principal

Krishna Yeshwant

General Partner

Sangeen Zeb

General Partner

Past deals in Cloud Services

MemSQL

Series F in 2022
MemSQL, now known as SingleStore, provides a real-time data warehouse solution that enables businesses to manage and operationalize diverse data across various platforms. The company focuses on facilitating faster adaptation to changing business needs and accelerating digital innovation by offering a unified platform for data management. SingleStore's services are available through major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as through customized deployments. This flexibility allows organizations to run SingleStore's capabilities in environments that best suit their operational requirements.

Scandit

Series D in 2022
Scandit AG, established in 2009 and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, specializes in mobile computer vision and augmented reality solutions, focusing on barcode scanning software. Its offerings include the Scandit Keyboard Wedge, which enables enterprise-grade barcode scanning on mobile devices, and the Barcode Scanner SDK, which allows for barcode scanning integration in web applications. The MatrixScan technology enhances the speed of barcode and text recognition, making it valuable for industries such as retail, logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and government. Scandit's solutions are designed to improve operational efficiency by enabling mobile shopping, self-checkout, inventory management, and asset tracking, while also facilitating patient and medication tracking in healthcare settings. The company serves a diverse clientele, including well-known organizations like 7-Eleven, Carrefour, and Toyota, among others, and has additional offices in San Francisco, Boston, London, and Warsaw.

Upbound

Series B in 2021
Upbound, Inc. develops and offers a multi-cloud platform that enables organizations to treat multiple disparate cloud environments as one. The company's platform allows organizations to build scalable multi-cloud services. Its platform allows for automation, cost optimization, capacity overflow, failover, policy enforcement, and portability across cloud environments. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Vercel

Series D in 2021
Vercel Inc. is a cloud platform that specializes in on-demand deployment, hosting, and sharing services for frontend applications. Founded in 2015 and based in Walnut, California, the company provides automated deployment solutions integrated with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab, allowing projects to be deployed seamlessly from pull requests and merge requests. Vercel's platform is designed to enhance the development and deployment experience for frontend teams by hosting static websites and serverless functions that align with the Jamstack deployment model. This model ensures that web pages are pre-rendered and can be efficiently served by a content delivery network, delivering optimal performance for developers. Vercel was formerly known as ZEIT, Inc. before rebranding in April 2020.

MemSQL

Series F in 2021
MemSQL, now known as SingleStore, provides a real-time data warehouse solution that enables businesses to manage and operationalize diverse data across various platforms. The company focuses on facilitating faster adaptation to changing business needs and accelerating digital innovation by offering a unified platform for data management. SingleStore's services are available through major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as through customized deployments. This flexibility allows organizations to run SingleStore's capabilities in environments that best suit their operational requirements.

Vercel

Series C in 2021
Vercel is a video production company that produces high quality video content for brands like Netflix, Amgen, Willis Towers Watson and UCLA. We have produces videos for a wide array of applications including TV commercials, for websites, trainings, social media, trade shows and sales meetings.

Vercel

Series B in 2020
Vercel is a video production company that produces high quality video content for brands like Netflix, Amgen, Willis Towers Watson and UCLA. We have produces videos for a wide array of applications including TV commercials, for websites, trainings, social media, trade shows and sales meetings.

Ursa Computing

Seed Round in 2020
Ursa Computing specializes in developing data-science tools aimed at enhancing productivity and performance in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The company focuses on creating enterprise products and services that empower data teams by providing open-source developer tools. These tools are designed to improve various aspects of the data science lifecycle, including data access, preparation, cleaning, analytics, and feature engineering. By advancing the state of the art in high-performance, cross-language software, Ursa Computing seeks to facilitate the work of data scientists and accelerate their projects.

MemSQL

Series E in 2020
MemSQL, now known as SingleStore, provides a real-time data warehouse solution that enables businesses to manage and operationalize diverse data across various platforms. The company focuses on facilitating faster adaptation to changing business needs and accelerating digital innovation by offering a unified platform for data management. SingleStore's services are available through major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as through customized deployments. This flexibility allows organizations to run SingleStore's capabilities in environments that best suit their operational requirements.

Alkira

Series B in 2020
Alkira, Inc. is a provider of a network cloud platform that enables businesses to establish multi-cloud network connectivity quickly and efficiently. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Alkira offers a pay-as-you-go service that allows customers to connect their local systems and cloud workloads to its Cloud Exchange Points (CXP). The platform supports on-demand activation of security and other services, which can automatically scale based on usage. Alkira's Network Cloud integrates network and security services, provides comprehensive operational visibility, and features advanced controls for governance. Users can easily design their network across various users, sites, and clouds using an intuitive digital canvas, enabling rapid provisioning and deployment. Alkira's solutions are utilized by Fortune 100 companies, prominent system integrators, and managed service providers, marking its significant presence in the network-as-a-service sector.

Scandit

Series C in 2020
Scandit AG, established in 2009 and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, specializes in mobile computer vision and augmented reality solutions, focusing on barcode scanning software. Its offerings include the Scandit Keyboard Wedge, which enables enterprise-grade barcode scanning on mobile devices, and the Barcode Scanner SDK, which allows for barcode scanning integration in web applications. The MatrixScan technology enhances the speed of barcode and text recognition, making it valuable for industries such as retail, logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and government. Scandit's solutions are designed to improve operational efficiency by enabling mobile shopping, self-checkout, inventory management, and asset tracking, while also facilitating patient and medication tracking in healthcare settings. The company serves a diverse clientele, including well-known organizations like 7-Eleven, Carrefour, and Toyota, among others, and has additional offices in San Francisco, Boston, London, and Warsaw.

Alkira

Series A in 2020
Alkira, Inc. is a provider of a network cloud platform that enables businesses to establish multi-cloud network connectivity quickly and efficiently. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Alkira offers a pay-as-you-go service that allows customers to connect their local systems and cloud workloads to its Cloud Exchange Points (CXP). The platform supports on-demand activation of security and other services, which can automatically scale based on usage. Alkira's Network Cloud integrates network and security services, provides comprehensive operational visibility, and features advanced controls for governance. Users can easily design their network across various users, sites, and clouds using an intuitive digital canvas, enabling rapid provisioning and deployment. Alkira's solutions are utilized by Fortune 100 companies, prominent system integrators, and managed service providers, marking its significant presence in the network-as-a-service sector.

Scandit

Series B in 2018
Scandit AG, established in 2009 and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, specializes in mobile computer vision and augmented reality solutions, focusing on barcode scanning software. Its offerings include the Scandit Keyboard Wedge, which enables enterprise-grade barcode scanning on mobile devices, and the Barcode Scanner SDK, which allows for barcode scanning integration in web applications. The MatrixScan technology enhances the speed of barcode and text recognition, making it valuable for industries such as retail, logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and government. Scandit's solutions are designed to improve operational efficiency by enabling mobile shopping, self-checkout, inventory management, and asset tracking, while also facilitating patient and medication tracking in healthcare settings. The company serves a diverse clientele, including well-known organizations like 7-Eleven, Carrefour, and Toyota, among others, and has additional offices in San Francisco, Boston, London, and Warsaw.

MemSQL

Series D in 2018
MemSQL, now known as SingleStore, provides a real-time data warehouse solution that enables businesses to manage and operationalize diverse data across various platforms. The company focuses on facilitating faster adaptation to changing business needs and accelerating digital innovation by offering a unified platform for data management. SingleStore's services are available through major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as through customized deployments. This flexibility allows organizations to run SingleStore's capabilities in environments that best suit their operational requirements.

Upbound

Series A in 2018
Upbound, Inc. develops and offers a multi-cloud platform that enables organizations to treat multiple disparate cloud environments as one. The company's platform allows organizations to build scalable multi-cloud services. Its platform allows for automation, cost optimization, capacity overflow, failover, policy enforcement, and portability across cloud environments. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Mist Systems

Series C in 2018
Mist Systems, born in the mobile and cloud era, delivers the world’s first intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning. Using Mist, enterprises can provide amazing user experiences not possible before, and IT can proactively manage the network at any scale. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Cupertino, California.

Cohesity

Series C in 2017
Cohesity, Inc. specializes in hyper-converged secondary storage solutions designed to consolidate, protect, and share non-mission-critical data for large organizations. Its primary offering, DataPlatform, serves as a web-scale platform that integrates secondary data and workflows while removing storage silos. The company's product suite includes DataProtect for data protection infrastructure, which encompasses backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Additionally, Cohesity Orion 5.0 combines data protection with big data storage on a distributed architecture. The firm also offers Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based management solution that facilitates oversight and management of secondary data and applications. Cohesity's solutions cater to various needs, including backup and recovery, long-term retention, scale-out storage, and support for diverse environments such as virtual, cloud, physical, databases, and applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with a presence in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cohesity operates across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, serving a growing clientele that includes many Global 1000 companies.

Cohesity

Series C in 2017
Cohesity, Inc. specializes in hyper-converged secondary storage solutions designed to consolidate, protect, and share non-mission-critical data for large organizations. Its primary offering, DataPlatform, serves as a web-scale platform that integrates secondary data and workflows while removing storage silos. The company's product suite includes DataProtect for data protection infrastructure, which encompasses backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Additionally, Cohesity Orion 5.0 combines data protection with big data storage on a distributed architecture. The firm also offers Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based management solution that facilitates oversight and management of secondary data and applications. Cohesity's solutions cater to various needs, including backup and recovery, long-term retention, scale-out storage, and support for diverse environments such as virtual, cloud, physical, databases, and applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with a presence in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cohesity operates across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, serving a growing clientele that includes many Global 1000 companies.

Mist Systems

Series B in 2016
Mist Systems, born in the mobile and cloud era, delivers the world’s first intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning. Using Mist, enterprises can provide amazing user experiences not possible before, and IT can proactively manage the network at any scale. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Cupertino, California.

Upthere

Venture Round in 2016
Upthere, Inc. is a cloud computing company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2011. The company specializes in offering a platform that serves as a centralized home for personal data, including photos, videos, music, and documents. With its flagship product, Upthere Home, users can save, view, search, organize, and share their digital content seamlessly. As of August 2017, Upthere operates as a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation, further enhancing its capabilities in the cloud storage and data management space.

Cohesity

Series B in 2015
Cohesity, Inc. specializes in hyper-converged secondary storage solutions designed to consolidate, protect, and share non-mission-critical data for large organizations. Its primary offering, DataPlatform, serves as a web-scale platform that integrates secondary data and workflows while removing storage silos. The company's product suite includes DataProtect for data protection infrastructure, which encompasses backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Additionally, Cohesity Orion 5.0 combines data protection with big data storage on a distributed architecture. The firm also offers Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based management solution that facilitates oversight and management of secondary data and applications. Cohesity's solutions cater to various needs, including backup and recovery, long-term retention, scale-out storage, and support for diverse environments such as virtual, cloud, physical, databases, and applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with a presence in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cohesity operates across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, serving a growing clientele that includes many Global 1000 companies.

CliQr Technologies

Series C in 2015
CliQr Technologies, Inc. develops a single platform for modeling, deploying, and managing applications across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It offers CliQr CloudCenter, an application-defined management platform that provides infrastructure resources and deploys application components and data across datacenter, private, and public cloud environments. The also provides solutions for application migration, IT-as-a-Service, capacity augmentation, DevOps automation, and service providers. It offers its solutions through reseller partners worldwide. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, California. As of April 15, 2016, CliQr Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Insieme Networks, Inc.

Cloudera

Series F in 2014
Cloudera, Inc. is a data analytics and management company that offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to help organizations manage and analyze data efficiently. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Cloudera operates through two main segments: Subscription and Services. Its key offerings include the Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub, which enables analytic functions on secure data across public and private clouds; Cloudera Data Warehouse for self-service analytics; Cloudera Data Science and Engineering, which streamlines big data processing; and Cloudera Operational DB for real-time analytics. The company also provides Hortonworks Data Platform, Cloudera DataFlow, and Cloudera Altus, among others. Cloudera serves a diverse clientele, including corporate enterprises and public sector organizations, primarily through direct sales. With over 1,600 employees and a presence in 24 countries, Cloudera aims to deliver an Enterprise Data Cloud that supports data management from edge to AI.

CliQr Technologies

Series B in 2014
CliQr Technologies, Inc. develops a single platform for modeling, deploying, and managing applications across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It offers CliQr CloudCenter, an application-defined management platform that provides infrastructure resources and deploys application components and data across datacenter, private, and public cloud environments. The also provides solutions for application migration, IT-as-a-Service, capacity augmentation, DevOps automation, and service providers. It offers its solutions through reseller partners worldwide. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, California. As of April 15, 2016, CliQr Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Insieme Networks, Inc.

CliQr Technologies

Series A in 2012
CliQr Technologies, Inc. develops a single platform for modeling, deploying, and managing applications across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It offers CliQr CloudCenter, an application-defined management platform that provides infrastructure resources and deploys application components and data across datacenter, private, and public cloud environments. The also provides solutions for application migration, IT-as-a-Service, capacity augmentation, DevOps automation, and service providers. It offers its solutions through reseller partners worldwide. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, California. As of April 15, 2016, CliQr Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Insieme Networks, Inc.