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Bebop funding, valuation and investors

Stealth enterprise cloud application platform founded by Diane Greene.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Not publicly disclosed

Latest known valuation

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Total disclosed equity funding

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Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

acquired

acquired

Source links not recorded Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

bebop Technologies was a stealth enterprise cloud application platform founded by VMware co-founder Diane Greene and others. Google acquired bebop in November 2015 for approximately $380M — widely viewed as a leadership acquisition to install Greene as SVP of Google Cloud rather than a pure product bet. a16z was among early investors. The bebop product roadmap was absorbed into Google Cloud strategy under Greene's leadership.

Why Bebop is interesting

Google paid ~$380M for bebop in 2015 primarily to install VMware co-founder Diane Greene as head of Google Cloud — less a product bet than leadership acquisition.

Product & use cases

Stealth enterprise app development platform for cloud-native business applications — product details were limited pre-acquisition.

  • Enterprise cloud app development (pre-acquisition)
  • Internal Google Cloud platform strategy post-acquisition

Key facts

  • Acquired by Google/Alphabet (Nov 2015): ~$380M; Diane Greene joined as SVP Google Cloud (TechCrunch SEC filing)
  • Co-investors: no additional institutional investors disclosed in public sources reviewed 2026-07-24
  • Source: https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/04/google-sec-paperwork-reveals-it-paid-over-380-million-for-bebop/

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Andreessen Horowitz

Competitive landscape

Edge: Diane Greene's enterprise credibility — acquisition was as much leadership as product.

bebop's ~$380M Google exit is a case study in acqui-hire for cloud leadership. Product never shipped broadly; Greene ran Google Cloud until 2019.

  • Salesforce Force.com incumbent

    Low-code enterprise app platform incumbent at time of bebop.

  • Heroku adjacent

    PaaS for app deployment; different abstraction layer.

Notable stories

  • Google paid ~$380M per SEC filings — primarily to bring VMware co-founder Diane Greene back as Google Cloud head.

Industries

Enterprise SaaS Infrastructure & Cloud

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Stealth enterprise app development platform for cloud-native business applications — product details were limited pre-acquisition.
Andreessen Horowitz (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) among disclosed investors. See fundraising rounds and investors[] for co-investors in our directory.
We track a16z-backed companies strategically relevant for founders mapping competitors and investors following active theses.
Stage: acquired; status: acquired.
See fundraisingRounds — amounts included only when verified in press or company announcements.
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Tagged: enterprise-saas, infra-cloud.
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