GM invests in local solar start-up, commits $200M to VC
Not wanting to miss the innovation boat, GM emerges from bankruptcy to become an aggressive investor in venture capital. Excerpt: With a solar charging station as a backdrop, GM's venture capital unit touts a $7.5 million investment in Sunlogics, at the solar energy system maker's new headquarters in a former auto parts plant in Rochester Hills, Michigan. The investment, announced last month, gives GM Ventures a stake in a company building solar charging equipment. It comes out of a $200 million venture capital budget GM earmarked to spend over three years in response to fears that the world's largest automaker could lose out on the next big thing to start-ups such as electric car maker Tesla Motors Read the rest of the story here.
Not wanting to miss the innovation boat, GM emerges from bankruptcy to become an aggressive investor in venture capital.
Excerpt:
With a solar charging station as a backdrop, GM’s venture capital unit touts a $7.5 million investment in Sunlogics, at the solar energy system maker’s new headquarters in a former auto parts plant in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
The investment, announced last month, gives GM Ventures a stake in a company building solar charging equipment. It comes out of a $200 million venture capital budget GM earmarked to spend over three years in response to fears that the world’s largest automaker could lose out on the next big thing to start-ups such as electric car maker Tesla Motors
Read the rest of the story here.
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