The Tesla Mafia — Dealroom

264 Tesla alumni startups. $1.2T combined value across 20 countries. Alumni-founded startups ranked by Dealroom enterprise value.

Companies

  1. xAI

    Founder: Ross Nordeen · Valuation: $250B · Founded 2023 · Sector: Enterprise Software · HQ: Palo Alto, United States

  2. Thinking Machines Lab

    Founder: Mira Murati · Valuation: $12B · Founded 2024 · Sector: Enterprise Software · HQ: San Francisco, United States

  3. Aurora

    Founder: Sterling Anderson · Valuation: $11.3B · Founded 2017 · Sector: Mobility, Robotics · HQ: Pittsburgh, United States

  4. Neuralink

    Founder: Elon Musk · Valuation: $9.7B · Founded 2016 · Sector: Semiconductors, Health · HQ: Fremont, United States

  5. Redwood Materials

    Founder: JB Straubel · Valuation: $7B · Founded 2017 · Sector: Energy, Mobility · HQ: Carson City, United States

  6. Lucid Motors

    Founder: Bernard Tse · Valuation: $5.2B · Founded 2007 · Sector: Energy, Mobility · HQ: Newark, United States

  7. Verkor

    Founder: Christophe Mille · Valuation: $4.6B · Founded 2020 · Sector: Mobility, Energy · HQ: Grenoble, France

  8. Tekion

    Founder: Jayaprakash Vijayan · Valuation: $4B · Founded 2016 · Sector: Marketing · HQ: Pleasanton, United States

  9. Modular AI

    Founder: Chris Lattner · Valuation: $4B · Founded 2022 · Sector: Enterprise Software · HQ: Palo Alto, United States

  10. Form Energy

    Founder: Mateo Jaramillo · Valuation: $3B · Founded 2017 · Sector: Energy · HQ: Somerville, United States

  11. 1KOMMA5°

    Founder: Philipp Schröder · Valuation: $2.4B · Founded 2021 · Sector: Energy, Marketplace · HQ: Hamburg, Germany

  12. The Bot Company

    Founder: Paril Jain · Valuation: $2B · Founded 2024 · Sector: Robotics · HQ: San Francisco, United States

  13. Lunar Energy

    Founder: Kevin Fine · Valuation: $1.5B · Founded 2020 · Sector: Energy · HQ: Mountain View, United States

  14. Mariana Minerals

    Founder: Turner Caldwell · Valuation: $1.5B · Founded 2024 · Sector: Energy · HQ: Houston, United States

  15. Enter

    Founder: Henrique Vaz · Valuation: $1.2B · Founded 2023 · Sector: Enterprise Software, Legal · HQ: Brazil

  16. Sila Nanotechnologies

    Founder: Gene Berdichevsky · Valuation: $1.2B · Founded 2011 · Sector: Mobility, Energy · HQ: Alameda, United States

  17. Sunday

    Founder: Tony Zhao · Valuation: $1.1B · Founded 2024 · Sector: Robotics · HQ: Mountain View, United States

  18. Substack

    Founder: Hamish McKenzie · Valuation: $1.1B · Founded 2017 · Sector: Media · HQ: San Francisco, United States

  19. Mainspring

    Founder: Shannon Miller · Valuation: $1B · Founded 2010 · Sector: Energy · HQ: Menlo Park, United States

  20. Electric Hydrogen

    Founder: Dorian W. · Valuation: $1B · Founded 2020 · Sector: Energy · HQ: Natick, United States

  21. Reliable Robotics

    Founder: Robert Rose · Valuation: $1B · Founded 2017 · Sector: Mobility, Robotics · HQ: Mountain View, United States

  22. First Mode

    Founder: Riley Chapin · Valuation: $800M · Founded 2018 · Sector: Energy, Mobility · HQ: Seattle, United States

  23. Span

    Founder: Arch Padmanabhan Rao · Valuation: $653M · Founded 2018 · Sector: Home Living, Energy · HQ: San Francisco, United States

  24. Heron Power

    Founder: Drew Baglino · Valuation: $560M · Founded 2024 · Sector: Semiconductors, Energy · HQ: Scotts Valley, United States

  25. Monarch Tractor

    Founder: Mark Schwager · Valuation: $532M · Founded 2019 · Sector: Robotics, Food · HQ: Livermore, United States

  26. BRINC

    Founder: Blake Resnick · Valuation: $500M · Founded 2019 · Sector: Security, Robotics · HQ: Seattle, United States

  27. Mytra AI

    Founder: Chris Walti · Valuation: $480M · Founded 2022 · Sector: Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment, Robotics · HQ: South San Francisco, United States

  28. Seurat Technologies

    Founder: Erik Toomre · Valuation: $396M · Founded 2015 · Sector: Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment · HQ: Wilmington, United States

  29. Sibros

    Founder: Hemant Sikaria · Valuation: $350M · Founded 2018 · Sector: Mobility · HQ: San Jose, United States

  30. Sublime Systems

    Founder: Leah Ellis · Valuation: $300M · Founded 2020 · Sector: Energy · HQ: Somerville, United States

  31. Poke

    Founder: Marvin von Hagen · Valuation: $300M · Founded 2024 · Sector: Enterprise Software · HQ: Palo Alto, United States

  32. Wallbox

    Founder: Enric Asuncion · Valuation: $290M · Founded 2015 · Sector: Mobility, Energy · HQ: Barcelona, Spain

  33. CoLab Software

    Founder: Jeremy Andrews · Valuation: $288M · Founded 2017 · Sector: Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment, Enterprise Software · HQ: St. John's, Canada

  34. Osmo

    Founder: Rohinton Mehta · Valuation: $280M · Founded 2023 · Sector: Wellness Beauty, Enterprise Software · HQ: Cambridge, United States

  35. Listen

    Founder: Florian Juengermann · Valuation: $276M · Founded 2023 · Sector: Enterprise Software · HQ: San Francisco, United States

  36. Fair

    Founder: Georg Bauer · Valuation: $19M · Founded 2016 · Sector: Mobility · HQ: Santa Monica, United States

Data by Dealroom.co