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Google Capital is the late-stage growth capital fund financed by Google, and based in Mountain View, CA. Founded in 2013, it focuses on larger, growth stage technology companies, and invests for profit rather than strategically for Google. In addition to capital investment, Google Capital’s approach includes giving portfolio companies access to Google’s people, knowledge, and culture to support the companies’ growth and offer them guidance. This includes connecting them with a roster of advisors, such as David Drummond (Google’s SVP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer) and Sundar Pichai (Google’s SVP of Product).

Since 2013, Google Capital has invested in 12 companies, in areas such as big data, financial technology, security, and e-learning.

Team

Google Capital was started by partner David Lawee, formerly Google’s Vice President of Corporate Development, and before that, Google’s first Vice President of Marketing. Lawee was joined by partners Gene Frantz (formerly a partner at private equity firm TPG), Laela Sturdy (former Director of Sales & Business Operations at Google) and Gretchen Howard (former Managing Director in Sales & Business Operations at Google.)

Google Capital also comprises over 30 advisors from senior positions within Google, who offer portfolio companies guidance in business areas such as data science, engineering, marketing, and product management.

Investments

In 2013, Google Capital announced its first two investments in SurveyMonkey, a cloud-based online survey and questionnaire tool, and Lending Club, a peer-to-peer lending company based in San Francisco.

In 2014, Google Capital made private investments in an additional nine companies, including the Bangalore-based online real estate startup CommonFloor, Freshdesk, a San Francisco-based customer support platform, Credit Karma, a free credit and financial management platform, and China-based optical component company, Innolight.

In April 2015, Google Capital announced an investment in ZenPayroll.

Relationship to Google Ventures

Google Capital focuses on later stage and growth equity investments, while Google Ventures generally focuses predominantly on earlier stage investments. In addition, Google’s Corporate Development group does acquisitions and investments that are strategic for Google’s products and business.[12] All three investment groups are managed under David Drummond (SVP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer) at Google.

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ALTEC LANSING 6 Shdonna Bolden (talk) 16:32, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Edit request: investment table update

I have a COI related to Bedrock Robotics. I would like to request the addition to the existing investment table sourced by New York Times. As this appears to be a factual verifiable update, I am asking whether I may add it directly as a non-controversial edit, or if an independent editor could review and insert the addition.

Proposed change (my addition is marked with +):

{| class="wikitable"
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|August 2025
|Clay
|Sales automation
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Temkin |first=Marina |date=2025-08-05 |title=Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation |url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/clay-confirms-it-closed-100m-round-at-3-1b-valuation/ |access-date=2025-08-18 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref>
+|-
+|February 2026
+|Bedrock Robotics
+|Construction automation
+|<ref name="NYT_2026">{{cite news |last=de la Merced |first=Michael J. |title=Bedrock, an A.I. Start-Up for Construction, Raises $270 Million |work=The New York Times |date=February 4, 2026 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/dealbook/bedrock-robotics-ai-fundraise.html |archive-url=http://archive.is/0cOL4 |archive-date=February 4, 2026 |access-date=March 8, 2026 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
|}

Thank you for your time and consideration. Alexandra Goncharik ^-sms- 17:39, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

@Samuel Wiki: Would you have time to review the edit request above? You appear to be the most active editor of this article, so I thought it might be of interest. Thank you! Alexandra Goncharik ^-sms- 18:14, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Done Reviewed the source for validation. Agree this addition to table was appropriate and neutral. Made a small update changing "Construction automation" to "Vehicular automation" as this seemed more in line with the source and supported linking an existing, relevant wiki article. VacFiller (talk) 20:06, 13 April 2026 (UTC)