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The biggest shift since GV established its London base in 2014 has been in human, rather than financial, capital.

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Amy is a talent partner at GV who builds the firm's network across AI research and engineering to help portfolio companies scale.

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GV launched as Google Ventures in 2009 and supports founders.

Kevin Mandia’s startup Armadin raises $255.5 million in a Series B at a valuation above $2.5 billion. Andreessen Horowitz and Accel lead the financing, alongside Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint, 8VC, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Kleiner Perkins, and Menlo Ventures. Armadin’s platform runs always-on agentic swarms that chain vulnerabilities to test enterprise defenses, offering an alternative to traditional penetration tests. Its $190 million Series A in March brings total funding to more than $445 million.

Oct 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

Armadin raises $255.5 million in a Series B at a valuation above $2.5 billion to expand its AI-driven cybersecurity platform. Founded by Kevin Mandia, the company uses sandboxed AI-agent swarms to map organizations’ systems, scan for vulnerabilities, link weaknesses into attack paths, and recommend fixes; Andreessen Horowitz and Accel co-lead the round. In one customer assessment, 26,000 agents scan more than 25,000 assets and identify 38 verified attack paths, and the funding supports research, AI training, and go-to-market programs.

Oct 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article

Metaview raises $60 million in Series C funding to expand its AI recruiting platform, bringing its total funding to $110 million. Led by Insight Partners, the round includes GV, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Intrepid Growth Partners, Plural and Garuda Ventures. The company says its agents have conducted more than 6 million interviews and serve over 7,000 companies; it also launches Fillmore, a Slack-based agent for candidate research, outreach and scheduling.

Oct 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article

Snorkel AI raises $350 million in Series E funding led by Insight and S32, with Alphabet’s GV among the participating investors. The company now provides ready-to-use training datasets, reinforcement-learning tasks, evaluation rubrics, and training sandboxes. Co-founder and CEO Alex Ratner says the data-as-a-service business has grown more than 18 times and crossed a $375 million annualized revenue run rate; Snorkel AI plans to hire engineers and invest in AI safety and open-source evaluation benchmarks.

Sep 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article