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Washington state’s life sciences companies shatter records with more than $3B in deals
Google Ventures Shifts Focus to Health Care
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/12/15/google-ventures-shifts-focus-to-healthcare/
Google GOOGL +0.10%’s venture-capital arm is moving strongly into health care and life-sciences startups, mirroring shifts at the Internet giant. More than one-third of the money Google Ventures invested in 2014 went to health care and life-sciences companies, up from 9% each of the prior two years. The venture group plans to continue investing in the area, looking to capitalize on an explosion of health data and new ways to analyze it, said Bill Maris, head of Google Ventures.