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Silicon Laboratories
Semiconductors · Austin, United States · Founded 1996 · IPO 2000 Unicorn
Silicon Laboratories mafia
Startups founded by Silicon Laboratories alumni
Former Silicon Laboratories employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
James BatesUnited States
Øivind Aleksander G LoeUnited States
Mads WestergreenNorway
Gavin KipUnited States
Paul WalshUnited Kingdom
Riad S. WahbyUnited States
Øyvind GrotmolNorway
Colin Weltin-WuUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Silicon Laboratories has talent and traffic
(11 of 2,560 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$248M patent portfolio · 1,293 active families
Where Silicon Laboratories concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Silicon Laboratories 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
Silicon Laboratories's 12 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Silicon Laboratories appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2003–2017. 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.
12 deals across Silicon Laboratories's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Silicon Laboratories 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
Silicon Laboratories'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
What the market is saying about Silicon Laboratories
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Silicon Laboratories 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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