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Two Google alumni raise $11.3M to back AI startups that enterprises will actually pay for
BAG Ventures, founded by Bonita Stewart, a former Google vice president, and Jackson Georges Jr., a former CapitalG partner, closed the fund after about two years of investing from it as it came together.
During that time, she also served on the board of Gradient Ventures, Google’s early-stage AI fund. She is a limited partner in the Female Founders Fund and the Operator Collective. With Georges, she also co-led the angel syndicate BAG Collective, which has more than 450 members.Georges worked at GE Healthcare and at Google, where he met Stewart.
He later became a partner at CapitalG, Alphabet’s growth fund. He and Stewart were in the first cohort of the Black Venture Institute at Berkeley.The pair say their edge is access.
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