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u-blox

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GPS, wireless and GNSS software solutions and reference designs

Zurich, SwitzerlandFounded 1997Semiconductors
Valuation $882M Market cap · May/2026
Revenue $299M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
1997
Headquarters
Zurich, Switzerland
Listing
IPO 2007
Sector
Semiconductors
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

Founder mafia, market maps, research and news connected to this company by Dealroom

Investors

1 investor on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series B and later1 investor entered at this stage

  • ETH Zurich

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.

Alumni founders

5 of 6 startups shown

Former u-blox employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

ArchletEst. 2019
Jakob ManzSwitzerland
Signal score84
MotovisEst. 2015
BXBruce Wang, XuehaiChina
Signal score81
ChipmindEst. 2024
HLHarald Kr LlSwitzerland
Signal score70
OpenBBEst. 2021
Didier Rodrigues LopesUnited States
Signal score68
OnocoyEst. 2022
JDJean-Philippe DoyenSwitzerland
Signal score66
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
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

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$63M

172 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where u-blox was the 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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        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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        u-blox's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        6 of 6 deals

        Market sentiment

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        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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