TORONTO, Ontario – November 29, 2011 – Morgan Solar Inc. announced today it has secured a USD $9.8 million (CAD $10 million) investment from Enbridge Inc., a North American leader in oil and natural gas delivery (more…)
Archive for 2011
Press Release: Morgan Solar Inc. Closes B Round at USD
$28.8 Million, with USD $9.8 Million Investment From
Enbridge Inc.
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Press Release: MSI Announces Turnkey Sun Simba™ CPV
System With Drop-In-Place Savanna™ Solar Tracker
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
TORONTO, Ontario – September 8, 2011 – Morgan Solar Inc. today announced its patent-pending Savanna™ tracker, a lightweight, self-ballasted sun tracking system optimized for the company’s groundbreaking Sun Simba™ Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) module. (more…)
PRESS RELEASE: USPTO Grants Morgan Solar Inc. Second
Patent for High-Concentration Optical Waveguide
Technology
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
TORONTO, August 9, 2011 – The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Morgan Solar (MSI) a second patent for its Sun Simba technology, without objections or revisions to the filed claims. The patent, US 7,991,261, is a continuation of (more…)
MSI in Report on Small Business: CLOSER TO THE SUN
Friday, June 3rd, 2011Early this year, several months after Asif became our full-time CEO, he flew up from California, where he was working on bringing in investments for our Round B, for one photo shoot. The result, a full-length story with full-spread photos in the Globe and Mail‘s Report on Small Business Magazine, giving a snapshot of (more…)
PRESS RELEASE: Morgan Solar Closes $16.5 Million in the
First Tranche of its Series B Funding
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
As released this morning on Canada Newswire; also check our Jennifer Kho’s in-depth article on Venture Beat, “Morgan Solar brings in $16.5 M for lower-cost solar,” which talks more about where we are as a company, and what we plan to do with the funding:
TORONTO, May 26, 2011 /CNW/ - Morgan Solar Inc. has closed USD $16.5 million in the first tranche of its Series B funding round to ramp up manufacturing and deployment of its Sun Simba concentrated photovoltaic module.
Morgan Solar in Maclean’s Magazine: Outsourcing
the Boss
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Morgan Solar was interviewed by Erica Alini, a journalist at Maclean’s Magazine, about our decision to import a CEO to Ontario from California. The article, ‘Outsourcing the Boss: For many Canadian tech start-ups, the only place to find a good chief executive is the United States’, was published in the April 26 print magazine, and posted online, here.
As John Paul, Morgan Solar’s Founder and Acting CEO for three years, says (more…)
Morgan Solar and Aix-en-Provence-Based SolarQuest in
Newspaper La Provence
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Last week, John Paul was in France to meet with SolarQuest, who we are partnering with on a medium-scale demo site in their home city, Aix-en-Provence. The regional newspaper La Provence wrote about the visit in this article, (more…)
Morgan Solar Selected as Biggest Spark in ClimateSpark
Competition
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
On February 2, 2011, Morgan Solar received the Biggest Spark Award in the Toronto Atmospheric Fund’s first ever ClimateSpark competition. Morgan Solar’s Sun Simba Rooftop was judged by the competition’s experts to have the biggest potential impact on worldwide GHG emissions. (more…)