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SolarCity

Energy · San Mateo, United States · Founded 2006 · IPO 2012

Solar energy services to homeowners, businesses, government, and non-profit organizations

Valuation $2.60B
Revenue $730M

Investors

14 investors on SolarCity's cap table

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

Series A 3 investors entered at this stage
Peter Rive
DFJ Growth
Lyndon Rive
Series B+ 11 investors entered at this stage
Generation Investment Management
Shea Ventures
137 Ventures
DBL Partners
JP Morgan
Mayfield
Generation Ventures
Silver Lake Partners
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Valor Equity Partners
First Solar

Global footprint

Where SolarCity has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
22 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States95%
🇮🇳 India0.9%
🇲🇽 Mexico0.5%
🇳🇬 Nigeria0.4%
🇧🇷 Brazil0.4%
Top 5 of 22 shown
Web traffic by country
24K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States92.5%
🇮🇳 India4.6%
🇩🇪 Germany2.5%
🇧🇷 Brazil1.3%
Top 4 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of SolarCity's talent

Dealroom maps SolarCity's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$105M patent portfolio · 186 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$105M
4.0% of market cap · 1.9× smaller than top peer First Solar ($195M)
186 active patent families
Where SolarCity innovates PhotovoltaicsSolar cellSolar energyComputer moduleConductive oxide

Where SolarCity concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across SolarCity 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.

Capital deployed

SolarCity's 5 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where SolarCity appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2010–2014. 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.

Portfolio analysis

5 deals across SolarCity's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where SolarCity 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.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        SolarCity'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”.

        Stage
        Period
        5 of 5 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about SolarCity

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