Carbide Ventures Competitors

GV supports innovative founders across multiple stages and sectors, from artificial intelligence and life sciences to consumer platforms, enterprise software, and frontier technology. Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV oversees more than $13 billion in assets under management. Our operating partners support founding teams at every stage of company-building across executive talent, communications, and marketing. GV is a non-strategic venture capital firm that invests independently from its sole limited partner, Alphabet. We connect startups with Google and Alphabet companies, providing unique access to the world’s best technology and talent. GV has 400 active portfolio companies spanning North America, Europe, and Israel. Our portfolio includes Harvey, Isomorphic Labs, Lightmatter, OpenEvidence, Revolution Medicines, Sierra, Stripe, Treeline Biosciences, Vercel, and Wonder, with notable exits including Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, Duo Security, Flatiron Health, Lemonade, Q, Metsera, Modular, Verve Therapeutics, and One Medical. The firm is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.

Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $4.2B in assets. Crosslink partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage, across highly dynamic enterprise and consumer technology sectors. Over its history, Crosslink has had the opportunity to partner with defining companies such as Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), BuildingConnected (acquired by ADSK), Chime, Coupa (COUP), DataStax, Molekule, Omniture (acquired by ADBE), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Postmates (acquired by UBER), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Verodin (acquired by FEYE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone) and Weave (IPO NYSE: WEAV).

USV is a small collegial partnership that manages over $1B across seven funds. Our portfolio companies create services that have the potential to fundamentally transform important markets.