Google has taken a small stake in a biotech company that was co-founded by the wife of one of Google’s founders, Sergey Brin.
23andMe is a privately held company developing new ways to help you make sense of your own genetic information.
According to a United States Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Tuesday, Google said it had invested $3.9 million in the company giving the Mountain View, California-based Google a minority stake in the start-up.
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
I wonder, now that Google has a stake in a genetic information company, can we expect in the future to have access to this information via a Google search?
The initial round of outside funding in 23andMe includes venture capital firms New Enterprise Associates and Mohr Davidow Ventures and Genentech Inc.
Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe, was married earlier this month to Brin, Google’s co-founder and president. Congratulations for Sergey and Anne on their recent nuptials.
