Bill Maris

Google Ventures Sows Seed Funding With New Start-Up Lab (Video Tour)

Liz Gannes in Social on February 12, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

As incoming CEO Larry Page seeks to recapture Google’s entrepreneurial spirit, Google Ventures thinks it’s in for a year of expansion and support from its corporate parent.

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur (and Google Exec) Joe Kraus Moves to Google Ventures

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2009 at 5:14 am PT

Joe Kraus–the longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who sold his most recent start-up, JotSpot, to Google in 2006 and has been a director of product management since–has moved to its Google Ventures unit as a partner, said several sources. Sources added that Kraus is likely to be the first of several well-known appointments at the relatively new venture arm of the search giant.

Google's Mission: To Organize the World's Start-Ups and Make Them Universally Acquirable

John Paczkowski in News on March 31, 2009 at 10:10 am PT

Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz often says that the best time to invest is when people are cowering under their desks. Google appears to have taken that message to heart because it’s launching a new venture fund at a time when the VC industry is busy practicing its duck-for-cover exercises.

Google’s Mission: To Organize the World’s Start-Ups and Make Them Universally Acquirable

John Paczkowski in News on March 31, 2009 at 10:10 am PT

Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz often says that the best time to invest is when people are cowering under their desks. Google appears to have taken that message to heart because it’s launching a new venture fund at a time when the VC industry is busy practicing its duck-for-cover exercises.