{"id":641505,"date":"2013-02-06T22:15:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T03:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=608297"},"modified":"2013-02-06T22:15:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T03:15:03","slug":"ex-google-and-twitter-product-guys-reportedly-launching-new-vc-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641505","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google and Twitter product guys reportedly launching new VC firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hunter Walk, formerly of Google<\/a> and\u00a0Satya Patel<\/a>, formerly of Twitter, are in the process of fundraising for their new VC firm to be called Homebrew, Fortune’s Dan Primack reported Wednesday<\/a>. Walk wrote in a blog post Wednesday<\/a> that he has left Google for “new adventures,” although he did not specify what those were.<\/p>\n

Fortune has reported that the two are raising $25 million for their fund, which will look to back companies that “enable the people-based economy.” It supposedly would include less than a dozen companies, with half managed as an incubator might and half given seed funding. That’s not a huge fund, or certainly not in comparison to some more established funds, like Greylock’s $1 billion <\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Andreessen\u00a0Horowitz’s $1.5 billion<\/a>, but the two have experience in investing and product experience in the Valley, and it’s certainly larger than blogger Ben Parr’s #DominateFund<\/a>, which was supposedly in the single digits.<\/p>\n

Walk was most recently head of product management<\/a> at YouTube with Google, and is an active angel investor. He was previously a founder with Linden Labs. Patel left Twitter in June 2012 after serving as the company’s VP of product<\/a>. He was previously a partner with Battery Ventures and before that a product manager at Google working on AdSense.<\/p>\n

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