🎯 Five Bullseye Customers. 🧪 Three Prototypes. 📅 One Day. That’s the basis of the Bullseye Customer Sprint. Early-stage founders are under pressure to accelerate customer discovery — and knowing where to start is often the biggest hurdle. The Bullseye Customer Sprint uses the 5 and 3 in 1 approach to address these problems — making it easier for teams to spot patterns and align around big takeaways and next steps. Here’s how it works: 5️⃣ Founders specify the details that precisely define their bullseye customers, and recruit five of those bullseye customers for interviews. 3️⃣ After recruitment, teams prepare three mock landing pages that highlight distinct value propositions that speak to the customer. 1️⃣ Finally, teams interview the five bullseye customers about the pros and cons of each landing page over the course of one day, while the whole team observes remotely. GV’s UX Research Partner Michael Margolis breaks it down further in Learn More Faster — explore the resource for yourself by visiting LearnMoreFaster.com.
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.
About us
GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward. We invest across the life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology sectors. With Alphabet as a sole limited partner, GV operates on long time horizons and deals in decades, not rounds. Our operating partners help startups at the earliest stages of company-building across design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering. We also help startups interface with Google, providing unique access to the world’s best technology and talent. Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV has over $10 billion in assets under management and 400 active portfolio companies across North America and Europe. Notable investment outcomes include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, Duo Security, Flatiron Health, Verve Therapeutics, and One Medical. GV is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.
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Welcome to the GV portfolio, Tessl and Guy Podjarny! 🎊 The newest venture from Snyk’s founder aims to create the software development platform of the future in which AI is built-in, not bolted on. “The AI tools we use for development today are novel and powerful, and we should all invest in embracing them – but they are only the beginning,” says Podjarny — https://bit.ly/3xNVbUw
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Welcome to the GV portfolio, Odyssey, Oliver Cameron, and Jeff Hawke! Founded by two veterans of self-driving car companies, Odyssey is bringing generative AI to Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. Learn more about how their platform will provide professional filmmakers and animators with tools to create professional quality films, while maintaining complete creative control over the final output, something that isn’t possible with current text-to-video AI models — https://bit.ly/4cNnNMg
Can these two self-driving car vets upend Hollywood and beat out OpenAI?
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"Understanding how you're going to promote and distribute your product — and get people excited about it — matters." GV General Partner Erik Nordlander joins Gregor Vand on the Software Engineering Daily podcast to share his insight on how early-stage founders should approach innovation across evolving technical landscapes. Listen now — https://bit.ly/3XOiHvc
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Welcome to GV, Climate X, Lukky A., and 🚀 Kamil Kluza! 🎉 Climate X's financial climate risk solutions help organizations understand the impact of climate change across their portfolios. “We're excited to support the Climate X team as they work towards a vision of becoming the backbone for all climate risk-related decision-making within financial organizations,” GV’s Roni Hiranand said. — http://tcrn.ch/3zslW0Z
Climate X's founders mortgaged their house to stay afloat — now they've raised an $18M Series A | TechCrunch
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Welcome to the GV portfolio Sift, Karthik Gollapudi and Austin Spiegel! Founded by former SpaceX engineers, Sift provides an observability platform for complex machine development. “Sift’s observability platform is the missing piece that leading machine builders need to turn troves of sensor data into actionable insights and accelerate development. We're excited to partner with the team as they set a new standard for how groundbreaking hardware is developed and operated,” said GV’s Crystal Huang. Learn more about the company’s mission to further hardware innovation in TechCrunch 🚀 — http://tcrn.ch/4cxDU0v
Sift is building a better platform for analyzing hardware telemetry data | TechCrunch
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At GV (Google Ventures), we love to team with deeply technical founders with the ambition to disrupt under-served markets. When we met Karthik Gollapudi and Austin Spiegel, we were immediately struck by their deep understanding of the thorny challenges involved in observing complex machines, rooted in their close collaboration at SpaceX. We were immediately drawn to their opinionated but thoughtful approach to building a full stack solution for hardware telemetry, which we believe is a massive opportunity in the coming decade. I'm delighted to be joining them, and friends at Fika Ventures and Riot Ventures for the adventure ahead.
At Sift, we've always believed that the pace of innovation shouldn't be throttled by the tools at our disposal. Today I’m humbled and excited to announce our latest round of funding. 🚀 Read more…
Sift's Next Horizon: Our Series A, and the Future of Machine Innovation
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Stoked to kick it with Madison McIlwain and Claudia Laurie this summer for Inside Summit, which aims to bring together the next-generation of builders. Looking forward to sharing more about my journey into venture, trends I'm currently doubling down on, and being in the room! The Room Podcast. Hope to see some friendly faces July 17th! https://lnkd.in/eCxFyazR
Inside Summit 2024 by The Room Podcast
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“We have experimented a lot, and we have found out the right use cases for these technologies that have lasting business value,” Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli told CNBC. Learn more about the launch of Synthesia 2.0 — an extensive suite of AI-based tools designed to streamline creative output. Read more — https://cnb.cx/3zdhOlr
Nvidia-backed AI startup Synthesia now lets you make multilingual video presentations using just your phone or webcam
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We’re excited to welcome Daydream and Julie Bornstein to the GV portfolio! ✨ Led by e-commerce, technology, and retail veterans, Daydream is creating a new era for online shopping through AI-powered search and discovery. GV’s Frederique Dame shares, "We believe the winners in this new technology chapter will be those who deeply understand consumer Al and search trends, and the Daydream team has unparalleled domain expertise in this area. We're thrilled to partner with Julie Bornstein and the team as they build a category-defining Al platform that changes how people shop online.” Learn more — http://tcrn.ch/3RC3R6S
Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce | TechCrunch
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