Rich Miner to Co-Lead Google Ventures from Cambridge
On the official Google blog, they explain:
At its core, Google Ventures is charged with finding and helping to develop exceptional start-ups. We'll be focusing on early stage investments across a diverse range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, clean-tech, bio-tech, health care and, no doubt, other areas we haven't thought of yet. Central to our effort will be our fellow Googlers, whom we view as a critically important resource to help educate us about potential investments areas and evaluate specific companies.
Rich Miner has been an R&D exec at Avid Technology, Wildfire Communications, and Orange. He then co-founded Android, which Google acquired in 2005 -- and which led Google into the mobile phone business.
While Miner is extremely well-networked in town, it's not clear whether he's done any investing before (I never hear his name mentioned as a local angel, for instance.)
Labels: Bill Maris, Google, Google Ventures, Rich Miner, venture capital