# Chris DiBona

> Chris DiBona is a angel investor at Google (Mountain View) backing Computer and Internet. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Google](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google)
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cdibona
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/cdibona
- Website: https://x.com/cdibona
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chris-DiBona/103283619725940

Chris DiBona is a angel investor at Google in Mountain View focused on Computer and Internet. Chris DiBona is the director of open source for Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches. In the public sector space, Chris looks after Google Moderator and Google Elections.Chris is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He occasionally appears on the This Week in Tech and the This Week in Google podcasts. He is a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a master's in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves on a number of technical advisory boards.Before joining Google, Chris was an editor and author for the website Slashdot.org. Additionally, he co-edited the award-winning essay compilations Open Sources and Open Sources 2.0.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Computer | 1 | 100% |
| Internet | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Search Engine | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SparkToro | SparkToro™ is a new software company from Moz founder, Rand Fishkin. Their mission is to make it easier to discover the websites, blogs, podcasts, social accounts, and publications that reach your audience.They created SparkToro to help people do better marketing. Specifically, they want to assist organizations of all kinds to quickly andaccurately identify where their audience spends time and pays attention, so marketing efforts can be better targeted and more effective. They think it sucks that so much of web marketing today is “buy ads on Facebook and Google.” That duopoly makes marketing less creative, less interesting, and less fruitful. It’s great for Google and Facebook’s bottom line, but that’s where the benefit ends. | $1.3M | Angel | Jun 07, 2018 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Union Bay Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/union-bay-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Google

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Google provides the Android operating system, the Chrome web browser, and a search engine to support global connectivity. Its software suite includes productivity tools such as Gmail, Docs, and Calendar, alongside media platforms like YouTube and Google Play. The firm designs hardware, including the Pixel line of smartphones, tablets, and wearabledevices integrated with Wear OS. Through its research divisions, the company creates generative models and tools such as Gemini 3.1 and Veo 3.1 for image creation, video generation, and conversational assistance. Current features include Agentic Vision for visual reasoning and Personal Intelligence, which utilizes Google Photos for contextual content creation.

5 contacts available at Google.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aashima Gupta | Global Head - Healthcare Solutions, Google Cloud Platform | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aashima-gupta |
| Addy Osmani | Senior Staff Software Engineer (Manager) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/addy-osmani |
| Alex Okosi | Managing Director, Africa | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-okosi |
| Andrew Golding | Senior research scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-golding-2 |
| Andy Volk | Head of Sub-Saharan Africa Ecosystem | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-volk |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris DiBona invest in?

Chris DiBona invests primarily in Computer, Internet and Software startups, most often at Angel stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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