Google DeepMind
Part of Google since 2014
Google DeepMind is a Foundation Models company founded in 2010 and based in London, United Kingdom. It has been part of Google since 2014.
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Google DeepMind was co-founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman. The company was acquired by Google on January 26, 2014, for $500 million and continues to operate as a Google subsidiary. Its main products include Gemini, a family of multimodal large language models that handle text, images, audio, video and code and power features across Google Cloud, Android Studio and Google Workspace; AlphaFold, which predicts protein 3D structures from amino acid sequences and whose database covers over 200 million structures; Gemma, a family of lightweight open models for developers and researchers; and SIMA 2, a generalist agent that operates in virtual 3D worlds. Chief Business Officer Colin Murdoch leads commercial work. Its listed total funding is $503.29 million, the bulk of it from the Google acquisition.
Google DeepMind develops the Gemini model family, which is distributed through Google's own products and through third-party developer tools, including GitLab Duo and GitHub Copilot, as reported in October 2026. AlphaFold's database of over 200 million protein structures is used in drug discovery and disease research. Gemma gives developers open-weight models that run on laptops, workstations and Google Cloud. The lab's roughly 1,000 to 5,000 staff and its position inside Google give it a large research and deployment base across frontier AI, science and agent systems.
At a glance
Total raised
$503.3M
Headcount
1k-5k
Headquarters
London
United KingdomFounded
2010
Status
Subsidiary
Subsector
Funding history
Total raised
$503.3M
Rounds tracked
2
Latest stage
Acquired
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2014 | Acquired | $500M | — | |
| Feb 23, 2011 | Seed | $3.3M | — | Founders Fund, Horizons Ventures |
