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SolarCity

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

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Valuation

$2.60B

Market cap · 2026

Revenue

$730M

Latest reported FY

Investors

14 investors on SolarCity's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Tap any card for that investor's profile.

Series A 3 investors entered at this stage

Peter Rive

DFJ Growth

Lyndon Rive

Series B+ 11 investors entered at this stage

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Generation Investment Management

Shea Ventures

Silver Lake Partners

Valor Equity Partners

First Solar

Global footprint

Where SolarCity has talent and traffic

Web traffic by country

22K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States85.9%

🇮🇳 India9.1%

🇩🇪 Germany2.3%

🏳️ Pakistan0.9%

Top 4 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$105M patent portfolio · 186 active families

Total estimated portfolio value via Dealroom Patent Intelligence (Patsnap), with quality scores compared against same-sector peers.

Estimated portfolio value

$105M

4.0% of market cap · 6.1× the top peer Sunrun ($17M)

186 active patent families

Where SolarCity innovates Solar energySolar cellPhotovoltaicsMetal gridHeterojunction

Above peer median on Legal, Strategic, Market

Quality vs same-sector peers

SolarCity on the five Patsnap quality dimensions

SolarCity in orange. Same-sector peers are the top filers by total patent value. All scores 0–100; higher is stronger.

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Patent quality scores (0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap

Tech-focus vs peers

Where SolarCity concentrates inside the peer cluster

Axes are the most-shared Patsnap topics across SolarCity and its top peers. Each polygon's reach on an axis = how prominent that topic is in that company's portfolio (#1 topic = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0).

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Top-topic prominence (rank inverted, 0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap top-10 topics per company

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