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Joby Aviation
Aviation · Santa Cruz, United States · Founded 2009 Unicorn
Designing and fabrication, aerodynamic analysis, high-performance electric motor development, and cutting-edge battery pack design
Joby Aviation mafia
Startups founded by Joby Aviation alumni
Former Joby Aviation employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Paul LwinUnited States
Michael NorciaUnited States
Luke FischerUnited States
Shivam ChauhanIndia
Sky DaytonUnited States
Apoorv BhargavaUnited States
Reid HoffmanUnited States
Arthur DuboisUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Joby Aviation has talent and traffic
(17 of 1,995 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$139M patent portfolio · 196 active families
Where Joby Aviation concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Joby Aviation 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
Joby Aviation's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Joby Aviation appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2020–2022. 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.
4 deals across Joby Aviation's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Joby Aviation 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
Joby Aviation'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”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Joby Aviation
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Joby Aviation 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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