"Project Sand Hill: Google’s Unknown Campaign to Track the World’s Hottest Startups"

From Wired:

Google calls it Project Sand Hill.


Since 2012, Suman Prasad and his team have worked with various
Silicon Valley venture capital firms to identify “rocketship” startups
before they really take off, and they help plug them into the Google
machine. They help them build apps for Android phones, hook into Android
Pay, and make use of countless other Google services, from Google