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Tesla
Transportation · Austin, United States · Founded 2003 · IPO 2010
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SpaceX | xAI bets $16.8B on Terafab chip plant and a new mobile network
Aug 8, 2026
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Tesla closes secret $1.95B AI hardware deal — booked as an acqui-hire
Jul 24, 2026
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Risk Ledger raises £24M Series B to expand in the US
Jul 15, 2026
Analysis
The Tesla Mafia
May 12, 2026
Market map
Motor and car insurance
Market map
World models, physical AI, robotics general intelligence
Tesla mafia
Startups founded by Tesla alumni
Former Tesla employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Hamish McKenzieUnited States
Adnan EsmailUnited States
Robert RoseUnited States
Drew BaglinoUnited States
Mira MuratiUnited States
Blake ResnickUnited States
Sascha KoppeGermany
Elon MuskUnited States
Tony ZhaoUnited States
Florian JuengermannUnited States
Paril JainUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Tesla has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Tesla's talent
Dealroom maps Tesla'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.
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
$807M patent portfolio · 996 active families
Where Tesla concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Tesla 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
Tesla's 13 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Tesla appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2015–2026. 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.
13 deals across Tesla's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Tesla 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
Tesla'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 Tesla
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Tesla 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
See Tesla on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.