How Google Has Invested in These Hot Start-Ups

By Travis Hoium – Mar 10, 2023 at 7:00AM

NASDAQ: GOOG

Alphabet

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$1,964B

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(1.43%) $2.23

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$157.95

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A quiet venture fund has brought billions of dollars in value to Google and Alphabet.

An underappreciated piece of Alphabet's (GOOG 1.43%) (GOOGL 1.42%) portfolio of assets is its venture investments. Alphabet has invested in over 1,000 companies and generated profits from dozens of them that are now public. This may be one of the most successful venture funds of all time, and it drives value for Alphabet in a number of ways. Travis Hoium digs into this $8 billion fund in the video below.

*Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of March 7, 2023. The video was published on March 10, 2023.

Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Travis Hoium has positions in Airbnb and Alphabet. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Airbnb, Alphabet, CrowdStrike, DocuSign, Lemonade, and Uber Technologies. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2024 $60 calls on DocuSign. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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