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Proterra

Transportation · Burlingame, United States · Founded 2004 Unicorn

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

Market cap · 2026

Revenue

$309M

Latest reported FY

Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

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

South Carolina Research Authority

Edison Energy

Kleiner Perkins

Tao Capital Partners

Vision Ridge Partners

Standard Treasury

Mitsui Global Investment

88 Green Ventures

GM Ventures

Upstate Carolina Angel Network

Greylock Partners

MK Energy and Infrastructure

Silicon Valley Bank

Constellation Ventures

SoftBank Vision Fund

Series B+ 14 investors entered at this stage

Obvious Ventures

G2 Venture Partners

NMT Capital

Constellation Technology Ventures

JP Morgan

Broadscale Group

Elemental Excelerator

Generation Investment Management

BMW i Ventures

Mercedes-Benz Group

Hennessey Capital (acq. by Hitachi)

Cowen Group

Soros Fund Management

BloombergNEF

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 score88

IontraEst. 2013

JGJeff GranatoUnited States

Signal score79

Bayou EnergyEst. 2022

James GordeyUnited States

Signal score72

SummerBioEst. 2020

Sasha SeletskyUnited States

Signal score64

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Global footprint

Where Proterra has talent and traffic

AI talent share

0.2% of workforce is AI talent
(1 of 424 staff)

Core AI10.24%

Other AI00%

Non-AI workforce42399.76%

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

5.4K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States92.6%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom1.9%

🇹🇷 Turkey1.9%

🇩🇪 Germany1.9%

Top 4 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$21M patent portfolio · 47 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$21M

9.9% of market cap · 126.5× smaller than top peer CATL ($2.6B)

47 active patent families

Where Proterra innovates Mechanical engineeringElectric vehicleAutomotive engineeringElectric carsCharging station

Where Proterra concentrates vs peers

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

Compare against

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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