{"id":17053,"date":"2019-10-04T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-investing-in-u-s-based-electric-scooter-company-136648"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:15:27","slug":"caisse-investing-in-u-s-based-electric-scooter-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/10\/04\/caisse-investing-in-u-s-based-electric-scooter-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Caisse investing in U.S.-based electric scooter company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/113281576_l-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"credit: 123rf_unitysphere\" title=\"Caisse investing in U.S.-based electric scooter company\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 4, 2019 <\/p>\n<p>The Caisse de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec is making a US$50 million equity investment in San Francisco-based electric scooter share firm Bird Rides Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The organization operates electric scooters in more than 100 cities around the world. It\u2019s currently expanding into Canada,&nbsp;with launches in Calgary and Edmonton earlier this year.&nbsp;And it undertook a 10-day pilot in Toronto\u2019s Distillery District in early September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-invests-in-quebec-venture-capital-tech-firm-126153\">Caisse invests in Quebec venture capital tech firm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the Caisse said the investment falls within its strategy of investing in disruptive technology sectors. \u201cThis new partnership also supports our commitment to take part in the transition toward a less carbon-intensive global economy,\u201d said Jeffrey Smith, the Caisse\u2019s senior managing director of digital investment strategy. \u201cWe look forward to continue building a business which provides micromobility solutions in cities around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-investing-in-u-s-based-electric-scooter-company-136648\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 4, 2019 The Caisse de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec is making a US$50 million equity investment in San Francisco-based electric scooter share firm Bird Rides Inc. The organization operates electric scooters in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}