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Proterra

Transportation · Burlingame, United States · Founded 2004 · Public via SPAC 2021

A leader in the design and manufacture of zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities

Valuation $210M
Revenue $340M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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Proterra's talent

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Employees mapped 427 incl. 1 AI specialist
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 9 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 6 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

29 investors on Proterra's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 15 investors entered at this stage
MK Energy and Infrastructure
Kleiner Perkins
Standard Treasury
Greylock Partners
GM Ventures
Edison Energy
Silicon Valley Bank
Mitsui Global Investment
88 Green Ventures
Tao Capital Partners
Upstate Carolina Angel Network
Constellation Ventures
Vision Ridge Partners
SoftBank Vision Fund
South Carolina Research Authority
Series B+ 14 investors entered at this stage
Cowen Group
Obvious Ventures
Soros Fund Management
Hennessey Capital (acq. by Hitachi)
BloombergNEF
JP Morgan
Broadscale Group
NMT Capital
G2 Venture Partners
BMW i Ventures
Generation Investment Management
Elemental Excelerator
Constellation Technology Ventures
Mercedes-Benz Group

Proterra mafia

Startups founded by Proterra alumni

Former Proterra employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Caban SystemsEst. 2017
BPBrian PevearUnited States
Signal score92
Estes Energy Solutions, Inc.Est. 2024
CYCagkan YildizUnited States
Signal score89
Lightship RVEst. 2020
TKToby KrausUnited States
Signal score85
Bayou EnergyEst. 2022
James GordeyUnited States
Signal score72
IontraEst. 2013
JGJeff GranatoUnited States
Signal score65
SummerBioEst. 2020
Sasha SeletskyUnited States
Signal score63

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Global footprint

Where Proterra has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
9 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States98.2%
🇧🇷 Brazil0.3%
🇮🇳 India0.3%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh0.3%
🇨🇴 Colombia0.3%
Top 5 of 9 shown
Web traffic by country
8.5K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States87.1%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom12.9%
Top 2 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$19M patent portfolio · 43 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$19M
9.0% of market cap · 42.5× smaller than top peer Tesla ($807M)
43 active patent families
Where Proterra innovates Automotive engineeringBattery systemCharging stationControl systemControl theory

Where Proterra concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Proterra and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Proterra

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Proterra 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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