The first funding for Google as a company was secured in August 1998, in the form of a $100,000 contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given to a corporation which did not yet exist.
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Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, was so impressed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin's Google demo that he wrote a $100,000 check to 'Google Inc.' before the company had even been legally incorporated. The founders had to formally incorporate Google later that year in order to cash the check.