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First Solar
Energy · Tempe, United States · Founded 1999 · IPO 2006
First Solar mafia
Startups founded by First Solar alumni
Former First Solar employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Mark FrichtlUnited States
Erel MilshteinUnited States
Jim TylerUnited States
Adrian PopeUnited States
Nathaniel ManningBermuda
Benoit AllehautUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where First Solar has talent and traffic
team presence
Talent graph
The shape of First Solar's talent
Dealroom maps First Solar's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$195M patent portfolio · 207 active families
Where First Solar concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across First Solar and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
First Solar's 7 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where First Solar appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2008–2023. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
7 deals across First Solar's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where First Solar deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
First Solar's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about First Solar
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about First Solar on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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