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Google

Google was founded in 1998 in Mountain View, USA by Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, Larry Page, Lars Rasmussen, Omar Hamoui and Sergey Brin. It is a Software & IT company.

Internet company known for its search engine and advertising business.

Public Founded 1998 Mountain View USA Software & IT
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Google founders & co-founders

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Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen
Co-founder
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Larry Page
Co-founder
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Lars Rasmussen
Co-founder
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Omar Hamoui
Co-founder
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Sergey Brin
Co-founder

What happened to Google’s founders and alumni

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People who worked at or founded Google and went on to start their own companies.

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The Google lineage graph — click any node to keep exploring.
A 1 founded
Skydio 2014
A 1 founded
Skydio 2014
A 1 founded
Nextstop 2008
A 1 founded
Cohere 2019
A 1 founded
MightyText 2012
A 1 founded
OpenAI 2015
A 1 founded
Iterable 2013
A 1 founded
Verily 2015
A 1 founded
Airtable 2012
A 5 founded
Google Brain 2011 Coursera 2012 Priime 2015 Landing AI 2017 DeepLearning.AI 2017
A 2 founded
Bump Technologies 2008 Bump 2009
A 3 founded
Android 2003 Essential Products 2015 Essential 2015
A 3 founded
Cuil 2008 Gradient Ventures 2017 Ceramic
A 1 founded
Perplexity AI 2022
A 1 founded
Calico 2013
A 1 founded
Mistral AI 2023
A 2 founded
Rubrik 2014 Glean 2019
A 4 founded
Adept 2022 Adept AI 2022 EssentialAI 2023 Essential AI 2023
A 2 founded
Tailscale 2019 Tailscale Inc. 2019
B 1 founded
Thinking Machines Lab 2025
B 2 founded
Ooyala 2007 Cerby
B 1 founded
Cockroach Labs 2015
B 1 founded
BitGo 2013
B 1 founded
World Labs 2024

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Acquisitions

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Aardvark
Social · USA
AcquiredFounded 2007
A
AdMob
Marketing & Advertising · USA
AcquiredFounded 2006
A
Android
Software & IT · USA
AcquiredFounded 2003
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Blogger
Media & Entertainment · USA
AcquiredFounded 1999
B
Bump Technologies
USA
AcquiredFounded 2008
D
DeepMind
Artificial Intelligence · UK
AcquiredFounded 2010
D
Dodgeball
Enterprise Software · USA
AcquiredFounded 2000
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Emu
USA
AcquiredFounded 2011
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Kaggle
Data & Analytics · USA
AcquiredFounded 2010
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Keyhole
USA
AcquiredFounded 2001
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Meebo
Social · USA
AcquiredFounded 2005
M
Metaweb
USA
AcquiredFounded 2005
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Slide
Media & Entertainment · USA
AcquiredFounded 2005
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Waze
Israel
AcquiredFounded 2008
W
Wildfire Interactive
Marketing & Advertising · USA
AcquiredFounded 2008
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YouTube
Media & Entertainment · USA
AcquiredFounded 2005

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