Actually no. Google Ventures runs quite autonomously from the product teams; I speak to them from time-to-time but they make their own decisions and don't influence ours.

We supported the rkt/appc PR because (1) we try hard to be an open community and to not play favorites, and (2) because we think the project has good promise as an open standard and as a lightweight modular runtime.

Please note that we are trying hard not to play favorites. Docker support will continue indefinitely and we will continue to make investments in the Docker community.