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SolarCity

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

San Mateo, United StatesFounded 2006Energy
Valuation $2.60B Market cap · 2026
Revenue $730M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2006
Headquarters
San Mateo, United States
Listing
IPO 2012
Sector
Energy
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom

Investors

14 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A3 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later11 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former SolarCity employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

NeuralinkEst. 2016
Elon MuskUnited States
Signal score95
VerseEst. 2022
Seyed MadaeniUnited States
Signal score94
Ilant HealthEst. 2022
Jessica MuseUnited States
Signal score91
RemiEst. 2022
RMReno MendenhallUnited States
Signal score88
Caspian TradeEst. 2024
Justin Frederick SchaferUnited States
Signal score80
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
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

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$105M

186 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where SolarCity was the 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.

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        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.

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        SolarCity's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        5 of 5 deals

        Market sentiment

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        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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