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u-blox
Semiconductors · Zurich, Switzerland · Founded 1997 · IPO 2007 Unicorn
Investors
1 investor on u-blox's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.
u-blox mafia
Startups founded by u-blox alumni
Former u-blox employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Jakob ManzSwitzerland
Didier Rodrigues LopesUnited States
Elias KardelGermanyGlobal footprint
Where u-blox has talent and traffic
(6 of 1,352 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$66M patent portfolio · 176 active families
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.
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.
6 deals across u-blox's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
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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