Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google’s svp for ads and commerce, will depart after 15 years at the online behemoth to join venture capital fund Greylock Partners with Prabhakar Raghavan, vp of Google cloud apps, poised to head-up its advertising division.
Greylock announced on Monday that Ramaswamy will join the VC fund as a venture partner where he will focus on helping startups that leverage AI, analytics and data to develop next-generation offerings for advertisers and consumers.
“I have always been drawn to earlier stage entrepreneurial projects and becoming a venture partner at Greylock is an exceptional way to explore these types of opportunities,” he said in a statement.
Ramaswamy spent more than 15 years at Google developing its advertising products and during that time he helped build its search, display, analytics and commerce business from a $1.5
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