[ChuckMcM]

This is a really good question.

Not necessarily Google, they are famous for not investing in other people to do engineering, but it seems like a modest amount of money to get something that should be fairly widely applicable.

Of course if it is widely applicable and this investment gets to company what it needs to take off, well the folks who gave them the money aren't really going to benefit in a leveraged way. (No equity)

Perhaps they were hoping for a 'raspberry pi' like response (which would be hundreds of thousands of units) and be able to do a sort of stealth funding round kinda thing. No idea of course, but it would be a sweet result if it worked out for them right?