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Want Googles money? A sweet spot for Google Ventures managing partner is where
the cloud meets genome sequencing.

**Want Google’s money?** A sweet spot for Google Ventures’ managing partner is
where the cloud meets genome sequencing.

That’s because the search giant’s venture capital arm is looking for
entrepreneurs “who have a big vision, tackling big problems with the potential
to have big, positive impacts on the world,” managing partner Bill Maris told
the San Francisco Chronicle. He thinks genome sequencing is the future of
cancer treatment, sequencing generates massive data, and the cloud is a great
place to store it – “so the intersection of the cloud and sequencing is a
pretty interesting place.”

Not that curing cancer – or helping to cure cancer – is your only option if
you want Google backing: The fund, launched in 2009, also has some gaming
company investments, he noted.

In under three years, the fund has invested in some 75 companies, ranging from
antibody discovery to weather insurance. A sampling: Ngomoco, a creator of
iPhone games (bought by a Japanese social game developer for $400 million in
November 2010); vacation home book service HomeAway, which went public in an
offering …

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