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Google

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Big TechCloud providerAI LabPlatform company
Google Inc.Big GGoogle AIGoogle DeepMindGoogle LLC

Google LLC is an American technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California, operating as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Its products include a web search engine, advertising services, Google Cloud, Android and ChromeOS operating systems, Gemini AI models, and various consumer products.

Founded1998United States
HQMountain ViewUnited States
Total funding$1695100B4 · 1998–2004
Valuationok. $2,27 bln🦄market_cap · 2026
01 · About

Google

Founded 1998 · Mountain View, United States

Google LLC is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in September 1998 in Menlo Park, California (now headquartered in Mountain View). The company went public on NASDAQ in August 2004. In October 2015, Google was reorganized under the holding company Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL/GOOG on NASDAQ), with Google LLC becoming its principal subsidiary. Google operates across internet search, online advertising, cloud computing services (Google Cloud), operating systems (Android, ChromeOS), consumer devices (Pixel, Nest), and artificial intelligence. The internal research and deployment unit Google DeepMind — formed by the merger of Google Brain and DeepMind in 2023 — is responsible for the Gemini and Gemma model families. Vertex AI is a cloud platform enabling enterprises and developers to build and deploy applications based on Gemini and other generative AI models. Alphabet Inc. employed 183,323 people as of the end of 2024, according to its 10-K filing with the SEC.

  • Larry Page

    Co-founder

    American computer scientist who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin at Stanford in 1998; co-creator of the PageRank algorithm.

  • Sergey Brin

    Co-founder

    Russian-born American computer scientist, co-founder of Google; co-creator of the PageRank algorithm.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

2 areas · 13 technologies · 8 industries
What they do2Areas
  • Agent systems
  • Simulation & training environments
How they do it13Technologies
  • LLM
  • Generative AI
  • Multimodal AI
  • Foundation Models
  • Agentic AI
  • Robotics
  • Computer vision
  • Embodied AI
  • NLP
  • Speech AI
  • AI accelerators
  • World models
  • Reinforcement Learning
Who for8Industries
  • Media & entertainment
  • Telecommunications
  • Retail
  • Education
  • Automotive
  • Healthcare
  • Finance & banking
  • Research & science
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Mountain View · 7 offices · 1 regions
Global
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 1998 · IPO
1998founded
183,323employees
$1.7Btotal funding
IPOlatest round
maturedevelopment stage
Publiclisted
activestatus
$1.7B
total funding
4 · 1998–2004
Angel investmentAugust 1998Andy BechtolsheimThe first investment in Google – a $100,000 check from Andy Bechtolsheim (co-founder of Sun Microsystems), handed over before the company was formally incorporated.
$100,000
Angel investmentsDecember 1998Ram Shriram, Jeff Bezos, David Cheriton, Andy BechtolsheimA total of approximately $1M raised in 1998 from a group of angel investors and friends (including Ram Shriram – $250K, David Cheriton – ~$200K, Jeff Bezos), enabling the opening of the first office in Menlo Park.
approx. $1M (total)
Series AJune 1999Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia CapitalFunding round announced on June 7, 1999, in which Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital each invested $12.5M.
$25 mln
IPOAugust 2004Google's initial public offering (IPO) on NASDAQ in August 2004 at $85 per share, giving the company a valuation of approximately $23B.
ok. $1,67 mld
05 · Portfolio

Products & solutions

10 ai models · 2 ai platforms
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

1 strategic relations · 4 brands · 1 subsidiaries

Strategic relations

1
  • Investment
    Google (via CapitalG) has invested over $3B in Anthropic in total. Some Claude models are trained on Google TPUs. The partnership was announced in 2023.
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 8 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagemature
  • Listed onYesGOOGGOOGL
  • Organization typeBig Tech+ Cloud provider, + AI Lab, + Platform company
08 · Related content

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