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| Born | William J. Maris |
| Alma mater | Middlebury College |
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Bill Maris (born William J. Maris) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist focused on technology and the life sciences. Bill Maris's investments have to date resulted in over 150 exits and more than 50 companies that have grown to over $1B in value, including: Nest (acquired by Google), Uber (NASDAQ: UBER), Crowdstrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), 23andme, Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche), Foundation Medicine (acquired by Roche), The Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto), Vir (NASDAQ: VIR) and Auris (acquired by JNJ).[1][2] He is the founder and first CEO of Google Ventures (GV)[3][4] and also served as VP of Special Projects at Google/Alphabet.[5][6] He is the creator of Google's Calico project, a company created to treat aging as a disease, and cure it.[7] He is the founder of early web hosting pioneer Burlee.com, now part of Web.com, and the founder of S32, a California-based venture fund focused on frontier technology.[8][9][10]
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- ^ "On again, ex-Google superstar Bill Maris is said to bankroll a $100M biotech fund". endpts.com. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
- ^ "Google Ventures founder Bill Maris: 'I'm leaving because everything is great.'". Recode. 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2017-03-30.