Views from a Leading Corporate VC Investor: GE's Venture Capital Team Brings Success to Global Businesses - Jeffries Global Clean Technology Conference 2010

Learn how GE Energy Financial Services' Venture Capital team is helping bring success to emerging energy technology businesses – view GE Energy Financial Services' "Views from a Leading Corporate VC Investor."

GE Energy Financial Services' Venture Capital Team Brings Success to Businesses

GE Energy Financial Services' venture capital team invests in late-stage emerging energy companies. Focusing on later-stage growth companies with sustainable business plans, GE offers the strengths of a global corporation. GE formed a joint venture, Energy Technology Ventures, with NRG Energy, Inc. and ConocoPhillips to become the premier investor and commercial collaboration partner for emerging and innovative energy technology companies. The companies have committed $300 million in capital to Energy Technology Ventures to fund approximately 30 venture- and growth-stage companies over the next four years.

GE's venture capital team was already among the most active investors in emerging technology companies. More than two dozen companies have received investments from GE since 2006; three of them have already gone public. With connections to GE's research and development and commercial channels, GE has the skills and capabilities to assist emerging energy companies.

GE and Venture Capital: A Good Fit

GE provides "more than money" to companies in which it invests. Candidates for GE's investments can benefit from:

GE's Supply Chain Partners
GE's Channel Partners
Advanced Technologies that Work With GE's Products
New Market Opportunities Near GE's Positions

How Will Venture Capital Investing Help Make a Positive Impact?

GE's venture capital investing, along with that of its partners ConocoPhillips and NRG Energy, builds on GE's long history of innovation and expands its network of collaborators to speed the invention, development and commercialization of new technologies.

These investments can have a tremendous impact nurturing the most promising clean energy technologies needed to excel in the 21st century green economy. Competitive advantage from innovation, along with capital investments, will drive commercial deployment at scale of the energy technologies developed by entrepreneurial companies. This will benefit energy users, the economy and the environment.

Capital for Innovation

Learn how GE's Venture Capital team is helping bring success to businesses by viewing GE Energy Financial Services' "Views from a Leading Corporate VC Investor."