In 2014, the largest portion of Google Ventures' investment pie was directed toward healthcare, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
This year, 36 percent of Google Ventures' invested capital went toward healthcare and life sciences, up from 9 percent in both 2013 and 2012, according to the report.
And, Google has no plans to stop. "Barring some huge calamity, we'll see more interesting things in life sciences in 2015, said Bill Maris, head of Google Ventures, in the report.
Hints toward what could be coming include hiring at the Life Sciences team at Google X, the company's research lab. In 2013, Andrew Conrad, a genetics expert, joined Google X and is analyzing the genetic and molecular information of thousands of people with the hopes of creating a "more-complete picture of a healthy human being," according to the report. Additionally, Google Ventures invested $130 million in Flatiron Health — an aggregator of patient cancer data — in 2014 at the suggestion of Mr. Conrad, making it the largest healthcare software investment Google Ventures has funded to date, according to the report.
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