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First Solar
Vertically Integrated Utility-Scale PV Power Solutions Provider
At a glance
- Founded
- 1999
- Headquarters
- Tempe, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2006
- Sector
- Energy
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning First Solar.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former First Solar employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
OUOusterEst. 2015
Mark FrichtlUnited States
SAStation AEst. 2018
VEVelo3DEst. 2014
Erel MilshteinUnited States
DPDEPCOM PowerEst. 2013
Jim TylerUnited States
Adrian PopeUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
Patents
207 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where First Solar was the 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.
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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about First Solar on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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