# CapitalG

> CapitalG is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 171 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 171
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 48%
- Fund size: $3B
- Last fund: Feb 2014
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/capitalg/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/capitalgtweets
- Website: https://www.capitalg.com/

CapitalG is a VC fund in Mountain View focused on Software and Information Technology. CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, invests in remarkable companies transforming the fields of consumer products and services, enterprise tech, cybersecurity, fintech, cryptocurrency, and transportation tech. CapitalG partners with growth-stage companies in their transition from startup to scale-up through hands-on assistance fromits in-house growth team and connections to Google's engineering, product, marketing, sales, and people operations experts worldwide. More than 2,500 Googlers and Alphabet leaders have already engaged with CapitalG portfolio companies, including Airbnb, Collibra, CrowdStrike, Curated, DCG, Duolingo, Freshworks, Gusto, ID.me, Lyft, Robinhood, Stripe, UiPath, Whatnot, among others.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 21 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 9% |
| Financial Services | 13 | 8% |
| FinTech | 12 | 7% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 7% |

141 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 29 | 17% |
| Series C | 28 | 16% |
| Series E | 16 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 16 | 9% |
| Series B | 14 | 8% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 62 | 36% |
| India | 6 | 4% |
| China | 4 | 2% |
| Belgium | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Nichols | Vice President on the Investment Team | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-nichols |
| Derek Zanutto | General Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derek-zanutto |
| Gene Frantz | General Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gene-frantz |
| James Luo | Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-luo-e867 |
| Jesse Wedler | General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jesse-wedler |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hadrian | Hadrian is a precision manufacturing company that manufactures precision components to serve aerospace and defense clients. It builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories that help its customers make rockets, satellites, jets, and eVTOLs. | $1.4B | Series D | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| K2 Space | K2 Space builds and supplies high-power satellite platforms designed for diverse orbital missions using vertically integrated hardware and manufacturing processes. The company focuses on developing large “Mega Class” satellites with enhanced power, payload capacity, and propulsion systems to support communications, sensing, and other spaceapplications. K2 Space offers engineered solutions for factory assembly, launch stacking, and orbital operations that aim to serve Low Earth Orbit, Medium Earth Orbit, and Geostationary missions. Its offerings include resilient spacecraft designs tailored to withstand harsh space environments and support scalable constellation deployments. | $500M | Series D | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| NinjaOne | NinjaOne automates the hardest parts of IT, empowering more than 17,000 IT teams with visibility, security, and control over all endpoints. The NinjaOne platform is proven to increase productivity while reducing risk and IT costs. | $400M | Series C | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| AlphaSense | AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that allows professionals to make critical decisions with confidence and speed. The company has nearly 2,000 enterprise clients, including financial institutions that use the platform to inform their business decisions. AlphaSense is trusted by over 1,800 enterprise customers, including a majority of theS&P 500. | $350M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 03, 2026 |  |
| OpenRouter | OpenRouter is a platform that connects AI applications with large language models and cloud hosting providers, allowing users to optimize for costs, speed, and performance. The platform supports over 180 AI models, offers a unified API, and includes functionalities like private chat and exploratory data capabilities. OpenRouter sets the newbenchmark for large-scale AI inference with its global edge infrastructure, privacy-focused design, real-time accounting, and integrated billing. | $113M | Series B | May 26, 2026 |  |
| OpenRouter | OpenRouter is a platform that connects AI applications with large language models and cloud hosting providers, allowing users to optimize for costs, speed, and performance. The platform supports over 180 AI models, offers a unified API, and includes functionalities like private chat and exploratory data capabilities. OpenRouter sets the newbenchmark for large-scale AI inference with its global edge infrastructure, privacy-focused design, real-time accounting, and integrated billing. | $113M | Series B | May 26, 2026 |  |
| Isomorphic Labs | Isomorphic Labs focuses on drug discovery using artificial intelligence. The company develops innovative platforms that analyze biological data to identify potential drug candidates. It offers tools that assist researchers in understanding complex biological systems and predicting the effects of various compounds. Isomorphic Labs collaborates withpharmaceutical companies to streamline the drug development process, enhancing efficiency and accuracy. The company’s services include data analysis, modeling, and simulation to support research and development efforts. | $2.1B | Series B | May 12, 2026 |  |
| nEye | NEye Systems develops programmable photonic integrated circuits that integrate high-radix optical circuit switching on silicon chips. These optical switches aim to address challenges in AI and machine learning systems by reducing power requirements and facilitating network expansion. The company's technology, based on over a decade of researchfrom Professor Ming Wu's lab at UC Berkeley, utilizes MEMS-based silicon photonics to create wafer-scale optical circuit switches. These switches are designed to provide direct optical connections among GPUs and memory units, potentially enhancing performance and scalability in data centers. NEye Systems has secured funding from investors, including CapitalG, M12, Micron Ventures, and NVIDIA.​ | $80M | Series C | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| Duna | Duna is redefining business identity. It will evolve into a network for shareable identity – making onboarding as simple as one click. | $35.5M | Series A | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| Waymo | Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. it is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.Waymo improves transportation by building software and sensor technology developed in Google’s labs since 2009. In October 2015, they achieved the world’s first fully self-drivingtrip on public roads, in a car without a steering wheel or pedals. They refine Waymo technology through one billion miles of simulation testing each year, and the cars have self-driven over two million miles on public roads across four U.S. cities.It was founded in 2009 and is located in Mountain View, California. | $16B | Series D | Feb 02, 2026 |  |

10 of 171 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does CapitalG invest in?

CapitalG invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Financial Services startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 171 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact CapitalG?

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### Who are the partners at CapitalG?

The team at CapitalG includes Alex Nichols (Vice President on the Investment Team), Derek Zanutto (General Partner) and Gene Frantz (General Partner), among 20 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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