General Motors Ventures

General Motors Ventures is the venture investment arm of General Motors. It puts money into start-ups whose technology fits the carmaker's stated aims of zero emissions, zero crashes and zero congestion. Its attention is on technologies that could be used in GM vehicles, in its factories and across its operating businesses.

Products and services

• Venture investment: funding for start-ups working on transportation technology.
• Technical support: access to GM's engineering knowledge to improve, expand and scale a young company's technology.
• Business support: help from GM's commercial resources to bring products to market.
• Route to a customer: portfolio companies can have GM as a potential buyer of their products.

Clients

Start-ups that want to commercialise their technology in the global transportation industry and that share the parent company's outlook on safer, more sustainable and more accessible mobility.

Key facts

• Parent company: General Motors
• Investment approach: venture funding combined with active use of the parent's technical and business resources
• Focus: technologies usable in GM vehicles, manufacturing sites and operating businesses