Google (Alphabet)

YouTube

Google acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.7 Billion which seemed insane at the time, however its a significant replacement for TV among millenials today. Google was one of the few companies that could nourish the growth with its huge requirements for web servers, data centers and computer networks of bandwidth.

Google Advertising Networks

Read the Google Transparency Report

• Google Marketing Platform is the visual display ad network of banners is the new name for what was once Google DoubleClick
• Display & Video 360 was once DoubleClick Bid Manager
• Google AdMob
• Google Ads (formerly AdWords) is for advertisers
• Google AdSense is for website publishers

Google acquisitions

• Tenor 3/27/2018 United States Mobile Software & Services Cowboy Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Ventures
• Lytro 3/21/2018 United States Consumer Electronics Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners
• Redux 1/11/2018 United Kingdom Scientific & Engineering Erie Capital
• Just Dial 11/10/2017 India Internet Software & Services Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital India
• Banter 11/1/2017 California Mobile Software & Services Mistral Venture Partners
• 60 dB 10/11/2017 California Internet Software & Services Bloomberg Beta, Khosla Ventures and Rivet Ventures
• Relay Media 10/9/2017 California Internet Software & Services N/A
• Bitium 9/26/2017 California Internet Software & Services Double M Partners, Polaris Partners
• HTC - Pixel Smartphone Division 9/21/2017 Taiwan Consumer electronics N/A
• AIMatter 8/16/2017 Europe Software/AI Haxus Ventures
• Senosis Health 8/13/2017 United States Healthcare N/A
• Halli Labs 7/12/2017 India Software/AI N/A
• Owlchemy Labs 5/10/2017 Texas Software/Gaming Qualcomm Ventures, Capital Factory, Vive X
• AppBridge 3/9/2017 Canada Dev Tools/Cloud Platform N/A
• Kaggle 3/8/2017 California Business Intelligence, Analytics & Performance Mgmt Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Voyager Capital
• Fabric 1/18/2017 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform N/A
• Crashlytics 1/18/2017 Massachusetts Dev Tools/Cloud Platform Baseline Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners
• Limes Audio 1/5/2017 Sweden Media and Entertainment Fort Knox Förvaring, Inlandsinnovation, Partnerinvest Norr
• Cronologics 12/12/2016 California Consumer Electronics N/A
• Qwiklabs 11/21/2016 Massachusetts Dev Tools/Cloud Platform N/A
• Undecidable Labs 11/14/2016 California Search/Commerce N/A
• LeapDroid 11/8/2016 California Internet Software & Services N/A
• Eyefluence 10/24/2016 California Media & Entertainment Intel Capital, Jazz Venture Partners
• FameBit 10/11/2016 California Advertising 500 Startups, DeNA, Science Media
• Api.ai 9/19/2016 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform SAIC Capital, Intel Capital, Plug and Play Ventures
• Urban Engines 9/15/2016 California Internet Software & Services Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, SV Angel
• Apigee 9/8/2016 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform Norwest Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Wellington Management
• Apportable 8/18/2016 California Mobile Salesforce Ventures, Google Ventures, Y Combinator
• Orbitera 8/8/2016 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform Double M Partners, Resolute.vc
• LaunchKit 7/27/2016 California Mobile N/A
• Kifi 7/12/2016 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity SG VC, Wicklow Capital
• Anvato 7/8/2016 California Media & Entertainment Oxantium Ventures, New York Angels, Jeff Ballowe
• Moodstocks 7/6/2016 France Dev Tools/Cloud Platform N/A
• Webpass 6/23/2016 California Telecommunications N/A
• Synergyse 5/2/2016 Canada Enterprise Tools/Productivity N/A
• Pie 2/18/2016 Singapore Enterprise Tools/Productivity GREE Ventures, Wavemaker Partners, Publicis Group
• BandPage 2/12/2016 California Media and Entertainment GGV Capital, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Northgate Capital
• bebop 11/20/2015 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform N/A
• Fly Labs 11/6/2015 New York Media and Entertainment Slow Ventures
• Digisfera 10/18/2015 Portugal Maps/Automobiles N/A
• Divshot 10/13/2015 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform 500 Startups, Floodlight Ventures, Drummond Road Capital
• Jibe Mobile 9/30/2015 California Telecommunications Vodafone Ventures, MTI Group
• Oyster 9/22/2015 New York Media and Entertainment BoxGroup, Founders Fund, Founder Collective
• Pixate 7/21/2015 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform Accel Partners
• Pulse.io 5/29/2015 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform Plug and Play Ventures, Camp One Ventures
• Timeful 5/4/2015 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity Data Collective, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures
• Thrive Audio 4/16/2015 Ireland Media and Entertainment N/A
• Skillman & Hacket 4/16/2015 California Media and Entertainment N/A
• Red Hot Labs 2/24/2015 California Advertising Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners, SV Angel
• Softcard 2/23/2015 New York Mobile & Telecommunications AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom
• Odysee 2/8/2015 California Social/Photos N/A
• Launchpad Toys 2/4/2015 California Media and Entertainment Y Combinator, TEEC Angel Fund
• Granata Decision Systems 1/23/2015 Canada Enterprise Tools/Productivity N/A
• Vidmaker 12/18/2014 Wisconsin Media and Entertainment Techstars
• RelativeWave 11/19/2014 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform N/A
• Lumedyne Technologies 11/2/2014 California Maps/Automobiles Space Angels Network
• Revolv 10/25/2014 Colorado Smart Home Foundry Group, SK Ventures, American Family Ventures
• Firebase 10/21/2014 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform Union Square Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Greylock Partners
• Agawi 10/1/2014 California Mobile N/A
• Input Factory 9/11/2014 California Social/Photos Battery Ventures
• Lift Labs 9/10/2014 California Healthcare Rock Health
• Zync 8/26/2014 Massachusetts Dev Tools/Cloud Platform N/A
• Gecko Design 8/22/2014 California Wearables N/A
• Jetpac 8/16/2014 California Social/Photos Khosla Ventures, Morado Venture Partners
• Directr 8/7/2014 Massachusetts Media and Entertainment NextView Ventures, Boston Seed Capital, Advancit Capital
• Emu 8/6/2014 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Menlo Ventures, KPCB
• drawElements 7/23/2014 Finland Mobile N/A
• Songza 7/1/2014 New York Music Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, Metamorphic Ventures
• Appurify 6/25/2014 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform Data Collective, Felicis Ventures, Foundation Capital
• Baarzo 6/24/2014 California Search Plug and Play Ventures
• Dropcam 6/20/2014 California Smart Home Menlo Ventures, Accel Partners, Kapor Capital
• mDialog 6/20/2014 Canada Advertising Relay Ventures
• Alpental Technologies 6/19/2014 Washington Telecommunications N/A
• Terra Bella 6/10/2014 California Aerospace & Defenses Khosla Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners
• Divide 5/19/2014 New York Mobile Comcast Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Genacast Ventures
• Quest Visual 5/16/2014 California Mobile N/A
• Stackdriver 5/7/2014 Massachusetts Dev Tools/Cloud Platform Bain Capital Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners
• Appetas 5/7/2014 California Commerce N/A
• Adometry (fka Click Forensics) 5/6/2014 Texas Business Intelligence, Analytics & Performance Mgmt Austin Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Sierra Ventures
• Gridcentric 5/6/2014 California Computer Software & Services Rogers Venture Partners, Citrix Startup Accelerator
• Rangespan 5/2/2014 United Kingdom Commerce Octopus Ventures
• Titan Aerospace 4/14/2014 New Mexico Telecommunications N/A
• Green Throttle Games 3/11/2014 California Media and Entertainment DCM Ventures, Trinity Ventures
• Spider.io 2/21/2014 United Kingdom Cybersecurity N/A
• SlickLogin 2/17/2014 Israel Cybersecurity N/A
• Nest Labs 2/12/2014 California Smart Home Venrock, Shasta Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners
• DeepMind Technologies 1/27/2014 United Kingdom Dev Tools/Cloud Platform Founders Fund, Horizons Ventures
• Impermium 1/16/2014 California Cybersecurity Social Capital, Accel Partners, Highland Capital Partners
• BitSpin 1/5/2014 Switzerland Mobile N/A
• Boston Dynamics 12/13/2013 Massachusetts Robotics Department of Defense
• FlexyCore 10/22/2013 France Mobile N/A
• Flutter 10/3/2013 California Wearables New Enterprise Associates, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator
• Calico Life Sciences 9/19/2013 California Consumer Products & Services Arthur Levinson
• Hattery 9/19/2013 California Other N/A
• Bump Technologies 9/16/2013 California Mobile Felicis Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Sherpalo Ventures
• Waze 6/11/2013 California Maps/Automobiles Horizons Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Magma Venture Partners
• Makani Power 5/22/2013 California Energy Google.org
• Wavii 4/23/2013 Washington Social/Photos SV Angel, Battery Ventures, CrunchFund
• Behavio 4/17/2013 Pennsylvania Mobile Knight Foundation
• Talaria Technologies 3/15/2013 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform N/A
• DNNresearch 3/13/2013 Canada Social/Photos N/A
• Channel Intelligence 3/11/2013 Florida Commerce Actua Corporation, Aweida Venture Partners
• Holomni 1/1/2013 California Robotics N/A
• Autofuss 1/1/2013 California Advertising N/A
• Bot & Dolly 1/1/2013 California Robotics N/A
• Redwood Robotics 1/1/2013 California Robotics N/A
• Meka Robotics 1/1/2013 California Robotics N/A
• Industrial Perception 1/1/2013 California Robotics N/A
• SCHAFT 1/1/2013 Japan Robotics N/A
• WIMM Labs 12/1/2012 California Wearables N/A
• BufferBox 11/30/2012 Canada Commerce Y Combinator, Google Ventures, iNovia Capital
• Incentive Targeting 11/28/2012 Massachusetts Advertising LaunchCapital, MassVentures, Northeast Angels
• Nik Software 9/17/2012 California Social/Photos N/A
• VirusTotal 9/9/2012 Ireland Cybersecurity N/A
• Frommer's (now owned by Wiley) August 13, 2012 New Jersey Media and Entertainment N/A
• Sparrow 7/21/2012 France Enterprise Tools/Productivity Kima Ventures
• WildFire 7/17/2012 California Advertising Felicis Ventures, SoftTech VC, Summit Partners
• Cuban Council 7/17/2012 California Advertising N/A
• Quickoffice 6/5/2012 Texas Enterprise Tools/Productivity Mayfield Fund, Sheperd Ventures, Advantage Capital Partners
• Meebo 6/5/2012 California Social/Photos Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
• Interactive Security Group 6/3/2012 DC Commerce N/A
• Motorola Mobility 5/7/2012 Illinois Mobile N/A
• TxVia 4/2/2012 New York Payments Bain Capital Ventures, Oak Investment Partners, Village Ventures
• Milk 3/16/2012 California Social/Photos Lowercase Capital, Slow Ventures, SV Angel
• Flowing Media 2/13/2012 Massachusetts Enterprise Tools/Productivity N/A
• CleverSense 12/14/2011 California Search Signatures Capital
• RightsFlow 12/9/2011 New York Media and Entertainment Originate Ventures
• Katango 11/10/2011 California Social/Photos KPCB
• Apture 11/10/2011 California Media and Entertainment Clearstone Venture Partners
• SocialGrapple 10/11/2011 California Social/Photos N/A
• DailyDeal 9/19/2011 Germany Commerce Stefan Glaenzer
• Zagat Sept 8, 2011 New York Media and Entertainment KPCB, General Atlantic
• Zave Networks 9/3/2011 Kansas Commerce Razorback Capital, Stark Investments
• Sparkbuy 8/8/2011 Washington Commerce Benaroya Capital, Founder Co-op
• The Dealmap 8/1/2011 California Commerce Keynote Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners,
• PittPatt 7/22/2011 Pennsylvania Social/Photos N/A
• Fridge 7/21/2011 New York Social/Photos Y Combinator
• Punchd 7/8/2011 California Commerce 500 Startups
• Scoopler 7/1/2011 California Search Y Combinator, Avalon Ventures, XG Ventures
• SageTV 6/18/2011 California Media and Entertainment N/A
• Admeld 6/9/2011 New York Advertising Spark Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Foundry Group
• PostRank 6/3/2011 Canada Social/Photos Tech Capital Partners
• 510 Systems 5/10/2011 California Software N/A
• TalkBin 4/26/2011 California Commerce Y Combinator
• PushLife 4/9/2011 Canada Media and Entertainment Mantella Venture Partners
• ITA Software 4/5/2011 Massachusetts Other Battery Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Sequoia Capital
• Green Parrot Pictures 3/15/2011 Ireland Media and Entertainment N/A
• Beatthatquote.com 3/7/2011 United Kingdom Search N/A
• Next New Networks 3/7/2011 New York Media and Entertainment Spark Capital, Balderton Capital, Goldman Sachs
• Zynamics 3/2/2011 Germany Cybersecurity N/A
• fflick 1/25/2011 California Social/Photos N/A
• Say Now 1/25/2011 California Social/Photos Shasta Venture, Felicis Ventures, Tugboat Ventures
• eBook Technologies 1/13/2011 California Media and Entertainment N/A
• Zetawire 12/13/2010 Canada Payments N/A
• Phonetic Arts 12/4/2010 United Kingdom Other N/A
• Widevine Technologies 12/3/2010 Washington Cybersecurity Samsung Ventures, Cisco Systems, Phoenix Partners
• BlindType 10/15/2010 California Mobile N/A
• MentorWave Technologies 9/13/2010 Israel Multimedia & Graphics Ofer Hi Tech, Docor International Management
• Quiksee 9/10/2010 Israel Social/Photos N/A
• Plannr 9/8/2010 Washington Social/Photos N/A
• Slide (now Google Slides) 8/30/2010 California Media and Entertainment BlueRun Ventures, Fidelity Investments, Khosla Ventures
• SocialDeck 8/30/2010 Canada Media and Entertainment Relay Ventures
• Angstro 8/27/2010 California Social/Photos TechCrunch50, CommerceNet
• Like.com 8/21/2010 California Search Crosslink Capital, Menlo Ventures, LeapFrog Ventures
• Jambool 8/9/2010 California Payments CRV, Madrona Venture Group, Bay Partners
• MetaWeb 7/8/2010 California Search Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Goldman Sachs
• Instantiations 6/14/2010 Oregon Dev Tools/Cloud Platform N/A
• Invite Media 6/7/2010 Pennsylvania Advertising First Round Capital, Genacast Ventures, Grape Arbor VC
• Simplify Media 5/24/2010 California Media and Entertainment Sierra Ventures
• Ruba 5/14/2010 California Search Benchmark Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
• PlinkArt 4/22/2010 United Kingdom Search N/A
• LabPixies 4/16/2010 Israel Media and Entertainment Fabrice Grinda, Auren Hoffman, Christopher Michel
• Agnilux 4/15/2010 California Other N/A
• BumpTop 4/14/2010 Canada Mobile Extreme Venture Partners, GrowthWorks
• Crystal Voice 4/13/2010 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform Band of Angels, Kistefos Venture Capital AS
• Episodic 3/12/2010 California Advertising Granite Ventures
• Picnik 3/8/2010 Washington Social/Photos N/A
• DocVerse 3/6/2010 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity Baseline Ventures, Harrison Metal
• ReMail 2/9/2010 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity Sanjeev Singh, Y Combinator
• Aardvark 2/5/2010 California Search August Capital, Baseline Ventures, Harrison Metal
• Appjet 11/23/2009 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, Paul Graham
• Teracent Corporation 11/18/2009 California Advertising New Enterprise Associates, KPG Ventures
• gizmo5 11/5/2009 California Mobile Dawntreader Ventures
• AdMob 11/5/2009 California Advertising Accel Partners, Northgate Capital, Sequoia Capital
• reCAPTCHA 8/6/2009 Pennsylvania Cybersecurity N/A
• Eluceon Research 4/27/2009 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform N/A
• Anteros 11/2/2008 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity N/A
• On2.com 8/18/2008 New York Media and Entertainment Edelson Technology Partners
• Omnisio 7/21/2008 California Media and Entertainment Y Combinator, Lowercase Capital
• TNC (Tatter and Company) 7/14/2008 South Korea Media and Entertainment Softbank Capital
• Postini 9/10/2007 California Cybersecurity August Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Sigma Partners
• Jaiku 9/5/2007 Finland Social/Photos N/A
• Image America 7/24/2007 Missouri Maps/Automobiles N/A
• GrandCentral Communications 7/19/2007 California Mobile Benchmark Capital, Cargill Ventures, Court Square Ventures
• Zingku 7/19/2007 Massachusetts Mobile Flagship Ventures
• Feedburner 6/20/2007 Illinois Media and Entertainment Union Square Ventures, Portage Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures
• Zenter 6/8/2007 Georgia Enterprise Tools/Productivity Y Combinator
• PeakStream 6/5/2007 California Dev Tools/Cloud Platform Sequoia Capital, KPCB, Foundation Capital
• Panoramio 5/10/2007 Spain Social/Photos N/A
• GreenBorder Technologies 5/10/2007 California Cybersecurity Labrador Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds, TPG Growth
• DoubleClick 4/23/2007 New York Advertising Bain Capital Ventures, Venrock, Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Marratech 4/23/2007 Sweden Enterprise Tools/Productivity Slottsbacken Venture Capital, Sixth AP Fund
• Tonic Systems 3/23/2007 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity N/A
• Adscape Media 3/19/2007 California Advertising H.I.G Ventures
• Trendalyzer 2/5/2007 Sweden Enterprise Tools/Productivity The Gapminder Foundation
• Endoxon 10/11/2006 Switzerland Maps/Automobiles N/a
• JotSpot 10/9/2006 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity Redpoint Ventures, Mayfield Fund
• YouTube 8/10/2006 California Media and Entertainment Sequoia Capital, Artis Capital Management
• Neven Vision 6/12/2006 California Social/Photos Zone Ventures, Kuwait National Technology Enterprises Corporation
• 2Web Technologies 4/17/2006 New York Enterprise Tools/Productivity N/A
• @Last Software 3/10/2006 Colorado Enterprise Tools/Productivity In-Q-Tel, Village Ventures, Borealis Ventures
• Orion 3/8/2006 Israel Search N/A
• Measure Map 2/17/2006 Australia Enterprise Tools/Productivity N/A
• Writely 2/17/2006 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity N/A
• bruNET 12/21/2005 Germany Mobile N/A
• dMarc Broadcasting 12/19/2005 California Advertising N/A
• Phatbits 12/12/2005 California Media and Entertainment N/A
• allPAY 12/9/2005 Germany Mobile N/A
• Akwan 11/24/2005 Brazil Search Fir Capital
• Skia 11/15/2005 North Carolina Dev Tools/Cloud Platform N/A
• Android 8/11/2005 California Mobile N/A
• Reqwireless 7/22/2005 Canada Mobile N/A
• Dodgeball 5/13/2005 New York Social/Photos N/A
• Urchin Software 3/15/2005 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity Green Thumb Venture, JMI Ventures, InnoCal Venture Capital
• Keyhole 10/18/2004 California Maps/Automobiles N/A
• Where2 10/13/2004 Australia Maps/Automobiles N/A
• ZipDash 9/17/2004 California Maps/Automobiles N/A
• Picasa 7/16/2004 California Social/Photos N/A
• Ignite Logic 5/11/2004 California Commerce N/A
• Sprinks 10/20/2003 Canada Advertising N/A
• Kaltix 9/22/2003 California Search N/A
• Applied Semantics 4/17/2003 California Advertising Zero Gravity Partners, Ridgestone Corporation
• Neotonic Software 4/15/2003 California Enterprise Tools/Productivity N/A
• Pyra Labs 2/18/2003 California Social/Photos N/A
• Outride 9/21/2001 California Search Dawntreader Ventures, Ridgewood Capital
• Deja.com 2/8/2001 New York Social/Photos Austin Ventures, Comcast Interactive Capital, Actua Corporation

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