GV (Google Ventures)

Congratulations to Mimic on their Series A! We're excited to back CEO Derek Smith for the second time as he builds a solution to protect enterprises from ransomware-based attacks. "We believe Mimic’s capabilities, combined with their use of AI, will become part of every CISO’s minimum required defense strategy. Having backed Derek Smith at Shape Security and seeing its success in the market, we're thrilled to partner with him again and support Mimic's rise as a leader in cybersecurity," said General Partner Karim Faris.

Michael Margolis, UX Research Partner, discusses the benefits of having a team observe user research together, live. Learn more about how he guides teams through a process of understanding their bullseye customers in the latest podcast from User Interviews.

Awesome to see these four portfolio companies featured by Business Insider as "Startups to bet your career on." We couldn't agree more-- and all are hiring. Check out the fantastic teams at Synthesia, Rox, MIDI Health and Harvey! https://lnkd.in/gGFfZgCV

General Partner Crystal Huang joined investment leaders to contribute to Google Cloud's 'Future of AI: Perspectives for Startups 2025.' Here's her take: 'It's exciting that the 2025 landscape will look nothing like last year, and while generative AI is obviously exciting territory for investors, the standard valuation framework still applies. Here’s what I’ll be looking for: 1️⃣ Stickiness as a metric: If your product is easy to implement, it’s just as easy to uninstall. Products need to be stickier to create lasting value, which means being both indispensable and deeply integrated into the user’s workflow. And while the enterprise is driving all the urgency in AI, it often requires mutual effort between the platforms and enterprises—working together to create automation or workflows, and gaining difficult access to enterprise data to significantly boost performance. The fastest growth is stemming from individuals who are willing to experiment with something new for $15 a month, rather than an enterprise investing in a legacy system for $20m a year. But while financially accessible entry points can lead to more rapid consumer adoption, this can make it equally challenging to keep them from trying something new. 2️⃣ Hyperpersonalization: We’ve been hearing about a future where every consumer will get AI-powered marketing campaigns or tutoring or healthcare services that are highly personalized and generated on-the-fly, but that hasn’t happened yet. The high costs of training and inference for AI models were major obstacles, but these are rapidly decreasing at a rate that I think is quite magical. Training expenses are dropping as smaller and more domain-specific models are emerging, and inference costs are plummeting across the board—making personalized reasoning and decision making not only economically viable but potentially differentiator for AI companies looking to retain users over time.'

We're excited to announce GV Partner, Elena Sakach secured our investment in Blockaid, a pioneering force in blockchain security alongside Ribbit Capital, Variant and Cyberstarts. Crypto threats are increasingly sophisticated and Blockaid's real-time transaction security is setting new standards. Their technology integrates seamlessly with wallets and decentralized applications to protect users from malicious actors before damage occurs. The numbers speak for themselves: In 2024, Blockaid scanned over 2.4B transactions and prevented 71M potential attacks. Major players like Coinbase, MetaMask and Uniswap trust Blockaid's security network to protect their users. We're excited to partner with this NYC and Tel Aviv- based team as they continue building the security infrastructure for web3's future! Read more in Bloomberg.

Huge congrats to Sardine on their Series C-- we're proud to support the team for the second time and support in this next phase of growth. Fraud, scams and risk are a tax on every business. Point solutions can't keep up. Teams drown in manual reviews. And real-time payments means milliseconds to spot threats. To deal with this compounding challenge, Sardine is building AI agents that make risk teams 10x more effective. Congrats Soups Ranjan, Adi G.,  Zahid Shaikh, and team — you are rebuilding trust in financial services when it matters most!

We're proud to announce our continued support of the Harvey team! Below is Sangeen Zeb's commentary on what makes this team super special. Their success in 42 countries and many of the top US law firms is incredible, and we're excited to continue to be part of their journey.

"This is a market that has not yet been explored by an entrepreneur as fearless and fierce as he is," said GV Managing Partner Dave Munichiello of Wonder founder Marc Lore. Dave Munichiello met Marc Lore over 15 years ago after he started Diapers.com. Five years later, he led GV's investment in Marc's next start-up, Jet.com. And since 2019, we've backed Marc's ambitious vision to transform mealtime with Wonder. We're proud to have supported him for over a decade and look forward to what the next decade holds for Wonder! https://lnkd.in/gFhgu_bj

Congratulations to Caraway Health on joining Summer Health! ☀️ Summer Health and Caraway Health will continue their shared vision of transforming how healthcare is delivered to children, teens, and young adults. https://lnkd.in/gdeXRfuB

I'm unclear if Henric Meinhardt is 25 years old or if he's spent 25 years working in construction; he and his cofounders at comstruct have consistently impressed me with their deep understanding of the industry. They have pinpointed critical pain points for a massive market and offer a seamless solution to move the construction industry from manual processes to modern workflows. Roni and I are thrilled to announce that we at GV (Google Ventures) are co-leading comstruct's €12.5m fundraise along with Paul Bonnet at 20VC. We're also excited to get to work with our friends Gloria Baeuerlein from Puzzle Ventures and Felix Plapperer from BOOOM💥who've doubled down for the next chapter of the journey