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Tesla
A global leading manufacturer of electric cars
At a glance
- Founded
- 2003
- Headquarters
- Austin, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2010
- Sector
- Transportation
- Power Law
- Magnificent 7Power Law dataset 2026Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
News
LEA Renergy buys inverter maker Santerno for $6.8M, restarts production
Sep 18, 2026
Analysis
The Magnificent 7 are in 45% of 2026’s venture dollars
Sep 10, 2026
News
Cybercab ride screenshot points to a potential cost challenge for Uber
Sep 4, 2026
News
Tesla closes secret $1.95B AI hardware deal — booked as an acqui-hire
Jul 24, 2026
Analysis
The Tesla Mafia
May 12, 2026
Market map
The Humanoid Robot Race
Apr 9, 2026
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Tesla.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
- EMElon Musk
Series B and later17 investors entered at this stage
- AIAabar Investments
- LPLarry Page
Valor Equity Partners- VPVantagePoint Capital Partners
- TPTechnology Venture Partners
- TPTechnology Partners
DFJ Growth
JP Morgan- NPNick Pritzker
Threshold Ventures- TGThe Westly Group
- CGCapricorn Investment Group
- SBSergey Brin
Founders Fund- CPCompass Technology Partners
- MGMercedes-Benz Group
- FCFjord Capital
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Tesla employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
XAxAIEst. 2023
SUSubstackEst. 2017
Hamish McKenzieUnited States
PIPhysical IntelligenceEst. 2024
Adnan EsmailUnited States
Robert RoseUnited States
HPHeron PowerEst. 2024
Drew BaglinoUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
996 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 Tesla was the 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.
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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Tesla 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
See Tesla on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.