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SolarCity
Solar energy services to homeowners, businesses, government, and non-profit organizations
At a glance
- Founded
- 2006
- Headquarters
- San Mateo, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2012
- Sector
- Energy
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning SolarCity.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
- PRPeter Rive
DFJ Growth- LRLyndon Rive
Series B and later11 investors entered at this stage
- GMGeneration Investment Management
- SVShea Ventures
137 Ventures- DPDBL Partners
JP Morgan
Mayfield- GVGeneration Ventures
Silver Lake Partners- PCPacific Gas and Electric Company
Valor Equity Partners
First Solar
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former SolarCity employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
NENeuralinkEst. 2016
Elon MuskUnited States
VEVerseEst. 2022
Seyed MadaeniUnited States
IHIlant HealthEst. 2022
Jessica MuseUnited States
Justin Frederick SchaferUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
186 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 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.
5 deals across SolarCity's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about SolarCity 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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