It is a DoubleClick invention that Google bought. They then attached "from Google" to the logo and it took off like a rocket.
Not really.
It is the remnants of a failed web startup. They offered a freemium backend as a service, but it didn't take off.
http://web.archive.org/web/20091230110525/http://getangular....
http://web.archive.org/web/20100215054417/http://www.angular...
Then I believe that one of the founders/authors was hired by google, and...
> They then attached "from Google" to the logo and it took off like a rocket.
Yeah.
It's not the first time I hear that he doesn't mention BRAT Tech LLC when he tells the story behind Angular.
In an interview last year one of the founders mentioned that angular was made for creating form based apps. That is its strong suit, which is fine, but it has been stretched so far now.