Rich Miner (born 1964) is an investment partner on the GV team. Miner joined the GV team in March, 2009 and is based out of Cambridge, MA. Before joining GV, Miner was a co-founder of Android, Inc., origin of the Android mobile operating system and was an executive on the Android team after its acquisition by

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

. Miner also co-founded Wildfire Communications, a voice communications startup that was sold to

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in April 2000. He has a

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from the

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. The Richard A. Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences at UMass Lowell was named after Miner in 2022.

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