- He has also held positions at Google Ventures and X
- Before joining Google, Conrad was the chief scientific officer at LabCorp
- S32 was founded by Bill Maris, former CEO of Google Ventures
S32 has named Andy Conrad as a general partner.
Previously, Conrad held numerous senior roles at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, having most recently founded and served as CEO and executive chairman of Verily Life Sciences (previously called Google Life Sciences). He has also held positions at GV and X. Before joining Google, Conrad was the chief scientific officer at LabCorp.
“Andy is precisely who we want on our side working on behalf of our entrepreneurs and investors,” S32 CEO and general partner Andy Harrison said in a statement. “He not only dreams big, he’s a world-class founder and business builder. Andy adds tremendous firepower to our firm.”
Conrad will help S32 in its efforts to attract talent to AI start-ups in its portfolio, such as Cohere and BigHat Biosciences, Harrison said in an interview with Bloomberg.
“Now we’re really in the product phase of AI,” Harrison told Bloomberg. For AI start-ups to do business with big companies and generate a return on the investment, “we need to start to build out full teams of product, operational, business and technical people,” he said.
Based in California, S32 targets the technology sector. The venture capital firm was founded in 2017 by Bill Maris, former CEO of Google Ventures.
S32 has raised five funds to date. Its largest, Section 32 Fund 4-US, closed on $740 million in November 2021, according to fundraising data from affiliate Buyouts (registration required). The firm closed on $525 million for its fifth fund in September 2023. LPs in Section 32 Fund 5-US include The Zellerbach Family Foundation, Buyouts reported.
