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u-blox

Semiconductors · Zurich, Switzerland · Founded 1997 · IPO 2007 Unicorn

GPS, wireless and GNSS software solutions and reference designs

Valuation
$500M–1B
Latest valuation · May/2026
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Revenue
$100–500M
Latest reported FY
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Headcount
1–2k
Current team size
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Investors

1 investor on u-blox's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage
ETH Zurich

Global footprint

Where u-blox has talent and traffic

AI talent share
0.4% of workforce is AI talent
(6 of 1,352 staff)
Core AI40.3%
Other AI20.15%
Non-AI workforce1,34699.56%
Workforce by country
36 countries with
team presence
🇨🇭 Switzerland26%
🇫🇮 Finland12%
🇩🇪 Germany9.1%
🇮🇹 Italy8.9%
🇬🇷 Greece6.6%
Top 5 of 36 shown
Web traffic by country
230K monthly visits
across markets
🇮🇳 India22.6%
🇺🇸 United States9.6%
🏳️ Russian Federation6.2%
🇩🇪 Germany3.7%
🇯🇵 Japan3.3%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$66M patent portfolio · 176 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$66M
7.4% of valuation · 3.8× smaller than top peer Silicon Laboratories ($248M)
176 active patent families
Where u-blox innovates Real-time computingReceiverRemote sensingElectrical and Electronics engineeringMechanical engineering

Where u-blox concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across u-blox and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

u-blox's 6 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where u-blox appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2012–2023. 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

6 deals across u-blox's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where u-blox 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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        02 · Portfolio market map

        u-blox'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”.

        Stage
        Period
        6 of 6 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about u-blox

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about u-blox 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

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