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Sierra Wireless
Wireless connectivity for the Internet of Things
At a glance
- Founded
- 1993
- Headquarters
- Carlsbad, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2014
- Sector
- Telecom
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Sierra Wireless.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
- VCVerdane Capital
- GVGranite Ventures
- TCTera Capital Corporation
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Sierra Wireless employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
MAMatrixSpaceEst. 2021
Greg WatersUnited States
Kevin LloydUnited States
SESevenhugsEst. 2014
Lawrence CheeCanada
Dominique KwongsCanadaGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
117 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 Sierra Wireless was the backer or acquirer, 2003–2021. 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 Sierra Wireless's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Sierra Wireless 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.
Sierra Wireless'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 Sierra Wireless 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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