Tesla's electric sports car is turning heads already.
Though the car hasn't yet launched, it's attracted the attention of some big names in its latest $40 million round. Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who invested by way of partnership Tao, are among those interested. Perhaps it offers a little more sex appeal than a Prius.
VantagePoint Venture Partners, one of the leaders in so-called CleanTech investments in Silicon Valley, lead the investment. Other notable investors are PayPal founder Elon Musk and institutional investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson and JP Morgan Bay Area Equity Fund.
Tesla will use the funding to unleash the company's first beast: a high-performance electric sports car.
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