1. 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, Uber, Crowdstrike, Coinbase, 23andMe, Flatiron Health, Foundation Medicine, The Climate Corporation, Vir, and Auris.
Bill Maris is the creator of Google's Calico project, a company created to treat aging as a disease, and cure it.
Bill Maris is the founder of early web hosting pioneer Burlee.
Bill Maris's background includes research at the Duke University Medical Center Department of Neurobiology.
Bill Maris began his career as a biotechnology and healthcare portfolio manager for Swedish investment firm Investor AB.
In 1997, Bill Maris founded one of the first Web hosting companies, Burlee.
Bill Maris founded GV, formerly Google Ventures, in 2008 as the venture capital investment arm of Google.
Bill Maris was responsible for the fund's strategy and management, and oversaw $3.0 billion in investments in technology and the life sciences.
Bill Maris was Google's Vice President of Special Projects and head of Google for Startups and led Google's global startup and private company investment activities, including building a team of 70+ across 13 global offices, eight countries and nine different venture funds.
Bill Maris's investments resulted in more than 20 IPO's, 100+ mergers and acquisitions, and includes more than 40 companies whose valuations have exceeded $1B.
Bill Maris founded Calico, a company whose mission is to understand and influence the genetic basis of aging.
Google funded the company after Bill Maris pitched the board of directors.
Bill Maris was Google's Vice President of Special Projects, which included extensive work with at the earliest stages of Google X, Verily, Waymo and other projects.
In 2017, Maris founded S32, a California-based venture fund with approximately $2 billion under management.
Bill Maris filed for divorce from Prettyman on April 20,2018.