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SolarCity
Energy · San Mateo, United States · Founded 2006 · IPO 2012 Unicorn
SolarCity mafia
Startups founded by SolarCity alumni
Former SolarCity employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Seyed MadaeniUnited States
Jessica MuseUnited States
Frances BellUnited States
Faryar GhazanfariUnited States
Daniel FlaniganUnited States
Ryan HanleyUnited States
Elon MuskUnited States
Ahmed SharifUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where SolarCity has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$105M patent portfolio · 186 active families
Where SolarCity concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across SolarCity 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
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.
5 deals across SolarCity's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
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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