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The time approaches for the launch of the Google’s wearable Glass, it has already grabbed attention of three prominent venture capital firms of the Silicon Valley.
Google unveiled their Google Glass last year in June at the Google I/O conference, and investors of Silicon Valley have already started to fund the app makers so that they can develop apps that could run on the Google Glass.
The most prominent investors of the Silicon Valley announced to support developers who are making apps to use on the device.
Bill Maris, managing partner at Google Ventures, Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz, and John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins declared on Wednesday that they are all together launching The Glass Collective.
The group venture consist of some of the major technology venture capital firms, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers also the investors in Zynga, Groupon, and Twitter, Andreessen Horowitz investors of Instagram, Foursquare, and Facebook, and Google’s own investment division, Google Ventures.
“I saw a first prototype of Glass at a confidential briefing in September 2011, [and the] experience was, well, eye-opening,” said John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. “It’s early days, but we believe the potential for Glass exceeds what’s possible on today’s platforms. It goes well beyond the world of websites, documents, and mobile apps.”
In fact, Doerr has been on Google’s board of directors since May 1999.
The capital firms are expected to arrange seed funding varying from $250,000 to $2 million that will support the developers in making software and other gear built for Google Glass.
Marc Andreessen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz said about the Glass, “Instead of having a phone in your pocket or a tablet in your briefcase, why not have the Internet in your field of vision when you want it — and why not feed the Internet with live video and audio that matches what you see and hear at any time.”
“Every once in a while, one of these things comes along and you go, `Whoa, that looks like it’s the future,’” Andreessen added.
The Glass Collective is expected to extend the anticipation surrounding Google Glass, the device that Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his team of engineers have been making for the past two years.
Bill Maris, managing partner of Google Ventures, had said when he first saw the Glass that, “It was kind of a cellphone duct taped through a pair of sunglasses.”
“Any entrepreneur working with us is going to get triple the feedback, investment and support,” said Bill Maris of Google Ventures. “This is going to be an unprecedented level of cooperation.”
However, the Google Glass is still not expected to be launched to the mass market until next year.
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