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u-blox

Semiconductors · Zurich, Switzerland · Founded 1997 · IPO 2007

GPS, wireless and GNSS software solutions and reference designs

Valuation $882M
Revenue $299M

Talent graph

u-blox's talent

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Employees mapped 1,351 incl. 6 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 12 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 6 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

1 investor on u-blox's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding and investor records.

Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage
ETH Zurich

Global footprint

Where u-blox has talent and traffic

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
240K monthly visits
across markets
🇮🇳 India21.6%
🇺🇸 United States9.2%
🏳️ Russian Federation5.9%
🇩🇪 Germany3.5%
🇯🇵 Japan3.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$63M patent portfolio · 172 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$63M
7.2% of market cap · 91.5× smaller than top peer Broadcom ($5.8B)
172 active patent families
Where u-blox innovates Electrical and Electronics engineeringEnvironmental geologyMechanical engineeringPositioning systemReal-time computing

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.

        Compare against

        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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